BAREBONE. 399 Lord, it is indeed. His friend adding, " The Lordmake your passage easy ;" he said, I trust he will. Being asked if he had any thing to say to the sheriff, he said, No, but only to thank himfor his civility. The hangman then preparing him for death, and drawing away the cart, Mr. James cried aloud, with his hands lifted up towards heaven, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. The sheriffand hangman were so civil to him in the execu- tion, that they suffered him to be dead before his body was cut down. The hangman then took out his heart and bowels, and burned them in a fire prepared for the purpose. He then cut off his head, and cut his body into four quarters ; and, by the appointment of the king, the quarters were fixed upon the gates of the city, and his head first upon London- bridge, then upon a pole opposite the meeting-house in Bulstake-alley.. This tragic and brutal scene was transacted upon the remains of this humble and holy man, November 26, 1661. But if there were any undue combination against him ; and if he suffered for some reason of state, rather than for any crime that he was guilty of, his blood will God require, at the hands of his enemies. Several remarkable judgments befell those who were -active instruments in promoting his suffer- ings, or expressed their delight in them.t PRAISE-GOD BAREBONE was of the baptist persuasion, and pastor to a church of that denomination,meeting in Fleet- street, London. This church was originally part of that under the pastoral care of Mr.,Stephen More; which, upon his death, divided by mutual consent, just one half choosing Mr. Henry Jessey for its pastor, the other half Mr. Barebone. He was by trade a leather-seller afterwards a very popular preacher, and at last a member Of parliament, and a man of so much celebrity, that one of Cromwell's parliaments was, out of contempt, called Barebone's parliament. In a pamphlet entitled, " New Preachers, New," is the following scurrilous, but amusing account of him'and several others:- " Greene, the felt-maker ; , Spencer, the horse-rubber ; Quay- termine, the brewer's clerk; and some few others, who are mighty sticklers in this new kind of talking trade, which many ignorant coxcombs call preaching. Whereunto is added the last tumult in ,Fleet-street, raised by the disorderly preach- , Narrative, p. 46. t Ibid. p. 47.
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