An alarme for sinners containing the confession, prayers, letters, and last words of Robert Foulkes, late minister of Stanton-Lacy in the County of Salop, who was tryed, convicted and sentenced at the sessions in the Old Bayly, London, January 16th, 1678/9, and executed the 31st following : with an account of his life / published from the original written with his own hand, during his reprieve, and sent by him at his death to Doctor Lloyd ...
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- An alarme for sinners containing the confession, prayers, letters, and last words of Robert Foulkes, late minister of Stanton-Lacy in the County of Salop, who was tryed, convicted and sentenced at the sessions in the Old Bayly, London, January 16th, 1678/9, and executed the 31st following : with an account of his life / published from the original written with his own hand, during his reprieve, and sent by him at his death to Doctor Lloyd ...
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- Foulkes, Robert, d. 1679.
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- 1679.
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"An alarme for sinners containing the confession, prayers, letters, and last words of Robert Foulkes, late minister of Stanton-Lacy in the County of Salop, who was tryed, convicted and sentenced at the sessions in the Old Bayly, London, January 16th, 1678/9, and executed the 31st following : with an account of his life / published from the original written with his own hand, during his reprieve, and sent by him at his death to Doctor Lloyd ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40042.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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TO THE Right Reverend and Honourable MY LORD BISHOP of LONDON.
May it please your Lordship,
AS it was an Act of the Highest Charity and Conde∣scention in your Lordship, (upon Dr. Lloyd's Motion) so speedily and effectually to Address your self to his Majesty for a Reprieve of my Bo∣dy from Death, for some small time, in order to the Prepa∣ration of my Soul for that Eternity I am ready to enter on; so that I think my self in Duty and Gratitude obliged, not only to give some Account to the World how that time is Em∣ployed, but also to submit this Account to be Ordered and Disposed of as shall seem best to your Lordships great Wis∣dom. If it be thought useful, (as I hope it may be a loud Caveat against bold and daring Impiety) I humbly desire it may not steal abroad, but take along with it the Honour as well as authority of your Lordship's Imprimatur. That Learned and Charitable Person which Presents it to your Lordship, has promised to Order and Dispose of the confusion of these loose Papers, so as shall be least troublesome to your Lordship in the Perusal; and to make my Apology for Pre∣senting them to such an Honourable Hand, in such a Rude and Disorderly Form. The Circumstances of my present
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Condition will not suffer me to put them in any better: But what I have now Presented to your Honour is sincerely the Truth, and there is not a Tittle here but what is the Exact Transcript of those Impressions I find upon my Conscience. I hope they may in some measure contribute to the Advance∣ment of His Glory, whom I have so beyond all Example dis∣honoured; and convince all that are not willing to catch at irrational Inferences to support themselves in their Atheisme and Debauchery, That our Excellent Religion, and this Sa∣cred and Honourable Profession, are not to be Judged and disparaged for the Miscarriages of such unsound Mem∣bers as I have been. This gives me also some Ground to hope, that I shall obtain▪ your Lordships Pardon and Prayers, together with that of the numerous Clergy under your Lordship's Government, in this great and populous Ci∣ty; which I most humbly and heartily begg. God continue your Honour to be what you are, as great an Ornament to the Protestant Profession, as I have been a Scandal to it. In a deep Sense of your abundant Charity, I shall not cease to improve that Breath you have borrowed for me, as for my Own, so for
Your Lordship's Eternal Happiness. Robert Foulkes.