PETERS. 765 memory, we shall only observe, from other authority, that the two doctors used their utmost endeavours to persuade him to a recantation of his former activity in the cause of the parliament, with promises of pardon from the king if he would comply. Though he was then much afflicted in spirit, he was enabled to resist their insinuations. He told them, " he had not the least cause to repent ofhis adherence to the parliament; but only that, in the prosecution of that cause, he had done no more for God and his people." And thus, with civility, he dismissed his visitants. The day onwhich'he suffered he was carried on a sledge from Newgate to Charing-cross, the place of execution ; where he was made to behold the execution, of Mr. Cook, another of the regicides. Here a person came to him, and upbraided him with the death of the king, bidding him now repent : to whom Mr. Peters said, " Friend, you do not well to trample upon the feelings ofa dying man. You are greatly mistaken. I had nothing to do in the death of the king." When Mr. Cook was cut down, and brought to be quartered, the hangman was commanded to bring Mr. Peters near, that he might behold the mangled remains of his fellow-sufferer. As the hangman approached him, being all overbesmeared with blood, andrubbinghis bloody hands together, he said, " How do you like this, Mr. Peters ? how do you like this work ?" To whom Mr. Peters re- plied, "I thank God, I am not terrified at it. You may do your worst." As he was going to be executed, he-gave a piece of gold to a friend, requesting him to carry.it to his daughter as a token of respect from her dying father; and to let her know, " That his heart was as full of comfort as it could,be ; and that before that piece should come into her hands, he 'should be with God in glory." When he was upon the ladder, he said to the sheriff, " Sir, you have here slainone ofthe servants of God before mine eyes, and have made me behold it, on purpose to terrify and discou- rage me ; but God bath ordered it for my strengthening and encouragement." 64 If Peters said this," a learned doCtorobserves, " it is plain he died as he lived, and went out of the world with a notorious lie in his mouth ;" then insinuates, thathe had taken a large potion; that he behaved. himself like an idiot; that he was stupidly drunk, and there- forewas not in a condition to make sucka reflection. This surely needs no comment. When he was going off, he * Grey's Examination, vol. iii. p. 286..
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