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"6. To be stript of my clothes.

7. To have all my blood entirely shed by quartering.

"8. With a public declaring my death to be necessary for the people.

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"9. The multitude shouting, Crucify, crucify.'

"10. The people rejoicing at the sentence and death.

"11. Occasioned by false witnesses.

"12. The witnesses induced by malice and rewards."

PRAYER OF RICHARD LANGHORN (IN PART.) "On Thee, O my Jesus, I profess wholly and solely

To rely, and to hope in Thee, and in thy blood,

With so much love shed for me, by which I
Firmly confide, that Thou wilt save me.
Though most unworthy, I love Thee, O my

Jesus,

For thyself, and beg that Thou wilt increase That love in me; I am sorry, 0 my God

from my

Heart and soul, that I have at

sinned

any time,

Against Thee; and this, as I hope by thy grace, for The love of Thee.

"Several acts of my soul, upon the last Words of our blessed Jesus.

"I do, from my heart, O my Jesus, pardon all my Enemies, and particularly those upon whose false And untrue testimonies, I am adjudged to die for Crimes of which Thou, my Jesus knowest, and

their

Consciences at the dreadful hour of judgment Must testify, that I am wholly innocent; Father Forgive them, they know not what they do.

"Behold, O my Jesus, I am now coming unto Thee,

Confirm it unto my soul by thy holy spirit, that This day I shall be with Thee in Paradise.

"O, Lamb of God, who upon the cross didst adopt me,

In the person of St. John, to be the son of thy Blessed mother, and before whose throne thy holy

Saints now offer the incense of prayer for thy Servants upon earth, mercifully receive those Prayers which are addressed to Thee, from

me the most

Unworthy of thy creatures.

"O, blessed Jesus, who upon thy cross wert pleased

To suffer an abandonment, to the end I might Not be abandoned by thy Father at my death. Blessed be thy name, that Thou art pleased to be now

With me by thy holy Spirit, and not to forsake Me in this great time of trial.

"O, my dearest Jesus! who upon thy cross didst suffer

Thirst, for the perfecting the works of my redemption,

Behold, I now thirst to be with Thee; blessed be Thy name that Thou art pleased to give me this thirst.

"O, my Jesus, who upon thy Cross didst con

summate

Thy life for the love of me, blessed be thy
Name, that Thou permittest me to consummate
My life for Thee in thy service.

O, my dearest Jesus, into thy hands I
Commend my spirit."

EARL OF MONTROSE.

James Grahame, Marquis of Montrose, was born at Auld Montrose, 1612, and was hanged at Edinburgh, May 21, 1651. He was an earnest defender of the Covenanters in his early life, but espoused the cause of the Stuarts, and was defeated by the Scottish clans.

He evidently believed in the justice of his political course, and was governed in his private life by the highest religious principle.

But though regarded as a hero and martyr by the Royalists, he was looked upon as an enemy to the Scottish faith and uation by the Presbyterians of Scotland.

The following account of his execution, from

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