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A69662	A full and satisfactorie ansvvere to the Arch-bishop of Canterbvries speech, or, Funerall sermon preached by himselfe on the Tower-hill, on Friday the tenth of Ianuary, 1645, upon Hebr. 12. 1, 2 at which time he was there and then beheaded wherein is a full and plenary discourse to satisfie all those who have been startled with his suttle and Jesuiticall falacies and evasions in the said speech : and other passages and observations of great consequence, to satisfie the expectation of the Kingdome therein.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6162A; ESTC R4327	11,272	23

am sure by his meanes the high Commission was little inferior ti the Spanish Inquisition for bloo● and now as if he had had some Divine Revelation from Heaven her angles upon the City and bids us remember it as it is in Ieremiah 26.15 But to come to his third particular The third particular is this poore Church of England that hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when stormes have driven upon them but alasse now it is in a storme it selfe and God knowes whether or how it shall get out and which is worse then a storme from without it is become like an Oake cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its owne body and that in every cleft prophanesse and irreligion is creeping in apace while as Prosper saith Men that introduce prophanesse are cloaked with a name of Imaginary religion for we have in a manner almost lost the substance and dwell much nay too much a great deale in Opinion and that Church which all the Iesuitical machinations in these parts of Christendome could not ruine is now fallen into a great deale of danger by her owne Answ. We may say so too with sad hearts but from whence came these stormes wee may all know the Prelates and the Prelaticall Clergy raised thereby contribution-mony to invite the King to warre against his owne Subjects at which time the Arch Bishop was very active and none did presse it forward more then he These and the Iesuites and Papists amongst us are those wedges that are driven into the body of this Kingdome to rent and teare it to pieces It was horrible impiety that they dayly committed and still doe commit and suffer to bee committed and sowed pillowes under the Elbowes of of those that live in such prophanenesse and yet these men like the Arch-Bishop will call themselves Protestants But I pray God to blesse the Parliament in their setling of this great Reformation who labour to cast off all that Imaginary Religion which the Prelates imposed upon us and so setled the Church according to that rule which is written in the word of God But in the last place see what he saith of himselfe The last particular for I am not willing to be tedious I shall hasten to goe out of this miserable world is my selfe and I beseech you observe me I was borne and baptized in the bosome of the Church of England as it stands yet established by Law in that profession I have ever since lived and in that profession of the Protestant Religion here established I come now to die this is no time to dissemble with God least of all in matter of Religion and therefore I desire it may be remembred I have alwayes lived in the Protestant Religion estabished in England and in that I come to die What Clamors and Slanders I have endured for labouring to keepe an Uniformitie in the externall service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men knowes and I have-abundantly felt Answ. The Arch-Bishop hath been alwayes very laborious to cause the memory of him to remaine and without all doubt that moved him to write the day of his own life and many other things as particuler this last speech of his which for that purpose he gave a Copy to Doctor Sterne but to take a view of this expression of his where he professeth himselfe a Protestant of the Church of England but what is it to say so hee is not charged for being a Papist himselfe but for labouring to bring in Popery It may be the Pope came not high enough and as some say would have sent another Cardinall from Rome to have overtopt him and so he kept off for the present only held a Correspondencie with his freinds here and so would have both Religions for the present to remaine And in this he rather appeared an Atheist indeed for he was like a Camelian of divers colours sometimes punishing the poore Sect of Romish Preists but the fat ones he protected and cherished such as Father Leader superiour of the Benedicts Master Flanders and Master Price and Master Gascoygne c. and the whole order of the Iesuites and feasted and adored the great ones such as Sir Cellam Digby and others and because hee could not be Pope of Rome intended to bee a Cardinall in these Kingdomes as a Popish Preist Father Browne by name confessed and was put upon the bringing in of Altars Tapers and other superstitions into the Church by Father Leader when he came into England and by the advice of the Court Papists to bee cruell in the high Commission against godly people under the name of Puritans and Separatists c. And the like hee used in his verdict at Lambath In all which the truth of it is that I think he had his Religion to choose but concerning the Treason hee is charged with he saith thus Now at last I am accused of high Treason in Parl. a crime which my soule ever abhorred this Treason was charged upon me to consist of two parts an endeavour to subvert the Law of the Realme and a like endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Relgion established by those Laws Besids my answers which I gave to the several charges I protested my inocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners Protestations at the Barre must not be taken de ipso I can bring no witnesse of my heart and the intentions thereof therfore I must come to my Protestation not at the Barr but to my Protestation at this houre and instant of my death in which as I said before I hope all men will be such charitable Christians as not to thinke I would die and dissemble my Religion I doe therfore here with that caution that I delivered before without all prejudice in the world to my Iudges that are to pr●ceed secundum allegata probata and so to be understood I die in the presence of Almightie God and all his holy and blessed Angels and I take it now on my death That I never endeavoured the subvertion of the Lawes of the Realme nor never any change of the Protestant Religion into Popish superstition and I desire you all to remember this protest of mine for my innocency in these and from all manner of Treasons what soever Answ. You see the Arch-Bishop he shamefully denies to be guilty of the Treason proved against him first in particular and secondly in generall All which as hath beene shewed already was fully proved against him But that he calls God and the holy Angels to witnesse and take it upon his death that hee never indeavoured to subvert the lawes of the Realme nor never any change of the Protestant Religion into Popish superstitions this is most desperate of all the rest For as you shall see by and by hee in part confesseth himselfe guilty of the one in endeavouring to subvert the Parliament the very fountaine of the Lawes of the

to a gratious spirit to humble himself before God seeing how he was overwhelmed with those waues into which he had driven the people of God and in which himselfe was now so neer drowning And I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my resolution is now as theirs was then their Resolution was They would not worship the Image which the KING had set up nor shall I the Imagination which the PEOPLE are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of GOD to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calves in Dan and in Bethel Answ. He still goes on as if there had been some hopes of his deliverance and set downe you see his resolutions if he should have lived and that full of pride that hee would never submit to the Parliaments and their Lawes which he sets in oposition to the Temple and truth of God Nay hee is so farre from Charity that hee seemes to invite the people to mutinie And I pray God blesse all this People and open their eyes that they may see the right way for if it fall out that the blinde leade the blinde doubtlesse they will both into the ditch Answ. Are not these wicked Tares for a dying Man to sowe between the Parliament and the People For my selfe I am and I acknoledge it in all humillity a most greivous sinner many wayes by thought word and deed and therfore I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poore penitent as well as other sinnes Answ. This speech hath something like grace in it when it is spoken from a sincere Coonscience but whether this was onely a complement with God or to blind many or how cordiall it was spoken none can judge and therefore I shall wave that to come to those particulars which follow in which we shall better understand this I have upon this sad occasion ransack●d every corner of my heart and yet I thanke God I have not found any of my sins that are there any sins now deserving death by any known Law of this Kingdom Answ. Had he ransack'd every corner of his heart as hee here saith he did and dealt ingeniously with us and layd the poore fellowes blood that he caused to be hanged drawne and quartered to fulfill his humour close to his Conscience that had there bene nothing else would have given him the lye in this particular But that is but one thing there were many crimes proved against him as to give the King a wrong oath at his Coronation to keepe that Plot so private which he knew of when an Indian nut had bin prepared to be given to the King with poyson his labouring to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of the Land his correspondency with the Pope and knowne Iesuits Priests and Papists in England which is treason by Law his causing of new Canons to be made against law and mens houses to be pulled downe over their heads to please his humour his causing of severall Parliaments to be broaken up c. Why should a dying man this dissemble at his death But then he daubs up the matter and saith And yet thereby I charge nothing upon my Iudges I humbly beseech you I may rightly be understood I charge nothing in the least degree upon my Iudges for they are to proceed by proof by valuable Witnesses and in that way I or any Innocent in the world may justly be condemned And I thank God though the weight of the Sentence lye very heavie upon me yet I am as quiet within as I thank Christ for it I ever was in my life Ans. The Witnesses are hundreds of honest godly men that came against him some of them are honourable Members in Parliament some of them reverend Divines some Gentlemen and other godly honest Christians and of as good repute as any amongst those where they live that came to witnesse against him from all parts of the Kingdome And though I am not onely the first Archbishop but the first man that ever dyed in this way yet some of my Predecessours have gone this way though not by this meanes for Elfegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes and Simon Sudbury in the fury of VVat Tyler and his fellowes And long before these Saint Iohn Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd woman and Saint Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting Sword Ans. The Archbishop here you see lookes upon Iohn Baptist as his Predecessor but the Archbishops case was rather like that of Thomas a Becket or Cardinall Woolsey's or Bishop Bonners but his stomack will not downe he cannot bow no hee talkes of greatnesse and his comfort is that he goes the way of great men But nothing in all his speech can be more observable then this that here hee bringe in not onely Cyprian a moderate Popish Father but Elfegus a most notorious Popish Priest of the Danes and with him also Symon Sudbury another as notable a Iesuited Prelate in King Richard the seconds dayes and these are the men from whose example he saith to his great comfort he is taught patience Many examples great and good and they teach me patience for I hope my cause in Heaven will looke of another dye then the colour that is put upon it here upon earth and some comfort it is to me not onely that I goe the way of those great men in their severall Generations Ans. Indeed it was a great favour to grant him leave to dye such a honourable death But this you see is not all for hee lookes upon his death as meritorious and that so the very act will appeare in heaven is his hope But also that my charge if I may not be partiall looks somewhat like that against Saint Paul in the 25. of the Acts for hee was accused for the Law and the Temple that is the Law and Religion and like that of Saint Stephen in the 6. of the Acts for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave us which Ordinances were Law and Religion but you 'l say doe I then compare my selfe with the integrity of Saint Paul and Saint Steven Answ. Yes and here he shewed a great deale of Arrogancie in it too his cause and theirs being quite contrary Yet he saith No God forbid farre be it from me I onely raise a comfort to my selfe that these great Saints and servants of God were thus layd up in their severall times And it is very memorable that Saint Paul who was one of them and a great one that helped on the accusation against Saint Steven fell afterwards into the selfe-same accusation himselfe yet both of them great Saints and servants of God Answ. This seemes verily to rise from the pride of his heart and we may all see how justly God hath requi●ed him for the evill he hath done to these Kingdomes which he was too proud to a●ply to himselfe in that particular concerning Pauls fall who before helped forward