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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67879	The life and death of VVilliam Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterburie: beheaded on Tower-Hill, Friday the 10. of January. 1644. I. Here is a brief narration of his doings all his life long faithfully given-out, first, that his sayings at his death may not be a snare to the perdition of souls. II. His doings and sayings being compared and weighed together, his sayings are found infinitely too light; yet of weight sufficient to presse every man to make a threefold use from all, of infinite concernment to his eternall soul. By E.W. who was acquainted with his proceedings in Oxford; was an eye and eare witnesse of his doings and sayings in his courts here at London; and other places under his dominion.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687, attributed name.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3496A; ESTC R6515	29,164	53

and discerning unto men to see unto this misgovernment and has made them resolve upon this question That this misgovernment in and over the churches of God shall be no more no more Arch-Bishops and Lord Bishops For God is above them who would hold-up that Misgovernment still Blessed be God for this for ever and ever That this Misgovernment clean opposite to the Government of Christ is taken away Salvation and Glory and Dominion be ascribed to our God for this Amen He has almost done so have I He has one Desire to put up to the Throne of Grace and that is a great one It is That God would forgive him I humbly desire to be forgiven first of God and then of every man a great desire indeed to be for given of God If that Desire be granted then come life come Death nothing comes amisse All that comes whether fire or sword all is welcome Oh this desire must be well thought-on managed and ordered every day early and late there that it may be heard and answered at the last when we are breathing it-forth last of all and with it our soul God knowes who knowes the heart That I joyned with him as I could But to speak the Truth Though my soul went forth affectionably towards him yet my spirit could not go out with one word in his Petition 1 His desire I could not close with that because the Lord has said The Desire of the wicked shall perish 2 To bee forgiven I could not heartily close with that neither for I remembred what we read The great man humbled himself before Wood and Stone therefore forgive him not Oh terrible words Forgive them not Many a man you will say has done so and God has forgiven him for so doing Yes for nothing is so free as Grace And nothing not sin it self can be so multiplied as Gods pardons are to poor humble sinners We must not limit Gods infinite Mercie No we do not But we must take all together Great sinners have been forgiven the very Argument that David useth Forgive my sin for it is great The most 〈◊〉 Idolaters these have been forgiven But they have been indeed poore penitent greatly humbled before the Lord for humbling themselves before the crature the workes of their hands or imaginations of their hearts Wee cannot tell where to read this man a poore penitent indeed We reade him indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forgivenesse of sin but no where do we read or observe him humbly confessing his sin But the contrary we 〈◊〉 And therefore so 〈◊〉 as God hath communicated His minde to His servants touching this mans 〈◊〉 and his prayer at the foot of his Sermon So farre they may declare it That this mans desire and his prayer both the one and the other was an abhomination to the Lord Secret things belong unto the Lord our God But things revealed unto us and to our children His prayer at the foot of his Sermon takes with a world of people as his sermon did Indeed we are very prone to make an Idoll of our last prayer we hope we may flie unto it when we are slaying as Ioab did unto his Sanctuary God will hear our last words think we though we regarded not to hear His words all our life long This is but a conceit a false hope and will deceive us as it did Ioab and as it has deceived all the wicked in the world Who cried but there was none to help even to the Lord but He answered not And when this great confidence in this last prayer was rejected then will follow as then a treading down and a casting forth for ever This gives fair warnings 1 That we do not dare to turn away our eare from hearing Gods Law For then when we would turn to God as at the point of Death certainly we would then will He turn from us And our prayer then will be as for ought we can know this mans prayer was an abhomination 2 Beware of such a prayer which thine hand has formed and thine eye onely prompts unto thee so teaching thee to pray I dare not censure that which learned men do approve But I am perswaded That the soul shall find as little comfort in the time of need from his prayer so formed and so suggested unto him as his pallate findes relish now in the white of an Egge 3 Beware of having an hand or voice in restraining prayer or binding it to Formes Thou art no more able to do this then thou canst restrain the sweet influences of Pleiades or binde the Sun beames But beware of having a minde or purpose in thy heart to do it as this late Archbishop had and these Lords of the World have at this day Remember how it fared with this man how pent-up and restrained his spirit was at his Death He was putting-up a Prayer then which he hoped would pierce the heavens and reach the bosome of his Father there A miserable Deceit he had no help to forme his prayer but his hand nor to suggest or promp or teach him how to pray but his eye Ah Lord A prayer so formed so taught and suggested can no more reach heaven than you can the highest star with the shortest finger And yet the Adversary and Enemy will have his Service-Book brought into the Churches again God shall be served after their manner with formes the hand has framed and with prayers the eye hath taught Well we shall see whose Word shall prevail Mans or Gods and how the Lord will recompence these proud men I have done with the Sermon and the Prayer 〈◊〉 draw to a conclusion This man is faln and the lower the higher his pinacle was The Lord 〈◊〉 this our Brothers fall unto us that it may be for our 〈◊〉 and looking well to our standing when we are up There is matter of infinite Vse in all that we have read hitherto It shall be threefold For here is matter 1 of great feare 2 Of bitter lamentation And yet 3 of exceeding joy with that we will end sure But in order and very briefly giving but the hints of things three words to these three uses 1 Here is matter of great fear to thee and to me we are lost in generalls is there a lust in us and bearing rule there which is not mortified nor by our will shall it be Here is matter of great feare That this lust whether of the flesh or of the eye or of life will undoe us will put us to open shame here or which is worse seal us under wrath for ever It is the manner for an unmortified lust so to do especially where there is no care at all taken about it to mortifie the same I do abound with terrible examples out of Gods Book and the Churches book of dayes all commanding our speedy care and zeal for the mortifying of every lust But this man we have spoken of is sufficient alone

can do it But then thou must look to this as thou doest regard thine imortall soule That thou doest speake-out these words hartily intirely and indeed when thou sayest My God then thou canst say Whom I serve If that followes not no comfort followes But if thou canst say Whom I serve indeed then maist thou say My God indeed else not My God and My service to him must go together He tells us in the next place of the Imaginations which the people are setting up Then the people do as he and such blinde guides taught them the way to worship God after the imaginations of their owne hearts Then he tells us of following the Bleating of Jeroboams Calves An horrible Blasphemy But a very fit Paralel for of no Arch-Bishop it may bee said so truly as of him That hee as Ieroboam set up a Calvish worship and made all Israel to sin In the same page he acknowledgeth himsele a grievous sinner many waies and this he does in all humility All humility There is no humlity at all Where are the Actings of an humble spirit Where are the Breakings of his heart with sorrow Where is he condemning judging loathing himselfe for all his abominations Where are his thirstings after God! Reader beleeve the Word of God and what His Faithfull servants have said touching this which he calls all humility where all humility is there is all this forementioned where there is none of this there is no humility none at all No hee made an acknowledgment of his sins in all the pride of his heart not as a poore penitent as he calles himselfe but as a proud impenitent person who had an heart that could not nay would not repent Reader I speak this for thy profit therfore before I passe on I must bespeak thee again and I do charge thee before the living God and as thou dost tender thine immortall Soul read over those words again which I have said rather the mouth of God saith in Reference to his acknowledgement in all humility And adde thereunto That where humility is there all known sins are Confessed distinctly humbled for and repented of bitterly bitterly Where there is all humility sin will be as bitter hearbes indeed bitter in the mouth and bitter in the soul A man all humbled tastes sin now as the Gall of Aspes which was before as sugar under the tongue and whereas he gloried in his shame before now he loaths himlelfe for that shame What thiukest thou now of the Bishops aknowledgment of his sin in all humility Consider well on it and make answer here as before God and as thou regardest thine immortall Soule Now proceed and heare what he saies I have upon this sad occasion ransackt every Corner of mine heart and yet I thanke God I hawe not found any sins there deserving Death by any knowne lawes of this Kingdome These Lawes are not so well knowne to us But this wee know understanding in our Measure the Law of our God That this man was put to death by as knowne Laaw as all Judah put Mattan Baals Preist to death who was the Queenes Favorite in all probability 〈◊〉 to her Councells and had his hands and his head acting and contriving all her Murthers and severall Practices against the Peeres and Princes of Judah and complotting with her Her at that time how to divolve the Crowne of Judah to Israel that the Light of Judah might be quite extinct All this is more than probable But certaine it was This Priest was heart and Hand for Ahab had his house and the cursed waies thereof and hee had scattered his wayes His horrible Idolatreis as he could from Corner to Corner By the same known Law that this Mattan was put to Death this Archbishop was put to Death And the Law we read Full out Deut. 13. As for the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome we leave it to them that know them better than we do and are preparing to give the World a full and ample Satisfaction It is abundantly sufficiently for us to know the Law of our God toughing that matter Read on in the same Page where he saith though the Sentence lyeth heavy upon me yet I am as quiet within as I ever was in my life I did not beleeve him though yet it might be so For his heart was as Nabals was a Stone And the Devill like a Strong-man held his Habitation there till the last and there we read all things are at peace but it is a cursed peace If he had lifted up his voice and cryed for the Spirit of Christ to come-in unto him to convince him of his finnes to set them in order before his eyes in a way of mercy then there had been trouble and a blessed trouble though no rest had been to his flesh nor quiet to his spirit because of his sinnes Certian it is when Christ by His Spirit commeth into the Soule Trouble will be there as was when he was born King of the Iewes then 〈◊〉 was trubled and all Ierusalem with him The point is The spirit of God conuinceth of fin first and so causeth trouble before He convinceth of Righteousnesse so causing Quiet Rest and Peace I see my papers fill apace I will hasten yet we will examine his comfort in the next words An empty one God knowes That other Bishops were hanged and beheaded too before him That is true enough and yet not half so many suffered that most shamefull death as deserved the same We hope his Brethren in iniquity shall have their deservings anon But he did almost as presumptuoufly as he had done in the choise of his Text to make 〈◊〉 the Baptist and Saint Cyprian no Archbishop and the first Martyr Saint Stephen Saint Iames too Saint Paul also all these paralels now comparing them with himself That he doth not he sayes and God forbid he should so he sayes also he will raise a comfort to himselfe from those great Saints and servants of God who were laid-up in their severall times as he must be that is his comfort But now let the living man know for the time is passed with him That if he look for comfort from these mens sufferings at his death then he must suffer for the same cause the cause makes the Martyr and his life must be as theirs was and that is matter of comfort indeed for they were all for God His House and His Houshold and the Lawes thereof This man was full set and his hand and heart full bent against all these God and Gods House and Houshold and Lawes there In the same Page we may reade his mutterings against the Honourable Assemblies in Parliament now That they will bring-in the Romans i. e. Romish Religion by the same meanes they seek to root it out Well I like the proceedings so much the better because such a man as he the worst of a thousand hath scandalized the proceedings thereof casting

to presse us to this Christian duty Pride of life was notorous in him and he was so farre from shewing any care to mortifie that lust that he did all to give life and 〈◊〉 unto it And see how that lust served him It was a meanes to put him to open shame and what wrath may lie under to all eternity I have not a tongue to expresse only the thought of the misery an unmortified lust whereof we commonly say is not a little one may bring upon us a matter of great fear and should engage us to the worke of mortification and to speed that work And surely this which has been said is of the same use to me and to thee Reader as it is to him or them in whom the pride of life is so predominant that they will whether God will or no be Arch-Bishops and Lord Bishops still minding their throne and forgetting the Scaffold But fear we every unmortified lust in us and use we in the fear of the Lord all meanes to mortifie the same for mighty men have fallen and shall fall thereby they that made the earth to tremble and did shake Kingdomes We must lead our lust captive throw it down from its dominion casting it-out of our hearts from having place there in our affections else it will throw us downe and expose us to a throwing-out like unsavourie salt Feare we an unmortified lust we little know how far it may carry-us nor to what shame it may expose us to 2 Here is matter of bitter mourning and lamentation certainly if good Bradford had beene alive and had 〈◊〉 what our eyes saw hee would have mourned bitterly over the hardnesse of his heart and then hee would have come home to his owne heart my heart said he as hard as a stone But it was not so for his 〈◊〉 was felt and bitterly mourned over Indeed this hardnesse this rockinesse of heart is matter of bitter mourning The heart is as a stone when it first comes into the world and that is a naturall hardnesse There is an hardnesse which man by severall acts can contract to render his heart like a rock or nether 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 And O what a judgement is this 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Egypt for a rocky heart was one of them and the greatest amongst them all A Rocky heart Nothing makes any more impression upon it than our hand does upon a rock Mercies may be shewred-down upon this heart they run-off againe as waters off a stone Iudgements may be pow ed downe upon this rocky heart The fury of Gods anger and the strength of battle the Lord sets this man on fire round about And what then yet he knowes it not It burned him yet he laid it not to heart i. e Though the 〈◊〉 of Gods wrath was very scorching upon him yet his heart melted not for it is a rock The innocent blood that he has shed is found-out God at present is requiring it The sights and groanes of His poore God has now heard and He is now a foot to avenge his poore servants And this murtherer has received the sentence of Death and yet so rocky is his heart he sayes I le eat and drinke to morrow I shall die Ah Lord has the man a rocky heart He has Then he will set his face like a flint and drive-on furiously against the Lord and His hidden-ones and upon the Drawn Sword in His way more blinde than the Beast he rides upon And while he breaths-forth threatnings against the Lord and is mad with rage aginst those the Lord has set His heart upon hee may thinke that all this while he does the Lord good service A rocky heart All the incomes of pleasures and profits out of all those sweets the world affords he drawes poyson To be brief in so cleare a case Has the man a rocky heart Then hee will workeout his destruction with both hands by all meanes all waies both by his Graces and sinnes He doth cleane contrary to that a man of a soft and melting heart doth doe for he doth worke out his Salvation by all meanes all waies An heart like a rock A man had better be possessed of a Legion of Devills than to have such an heart within him It renders him Spiritually dumbe and deafe It throwes a man into the fire and into the water and yet he knew it not It dasheth him upon this Rocke and that and yet he feels himselfe nor hurt by it he is as a man asleepe upon the top of a Mast the seas work and waters roare round about him but he hears not What shall I say But a word more A rocky heart It renders a man even his graces shall I say uselesse 〈◊〉 Destructive to himselfe and others Of all this this man late Arch Bishop was a very great example Therefore I said as sad an object he was as ever was looked upon For his heart was a rocke and that is matter of bitter mourning 3 It is matter of rejoycing too even to the whole city of God For when it goes ill with the wicked it goes well with the Righteous and then the city rejoyceth That there may bee no mistakes I will briefly propose two Questions and answer them as briefly 1. What is the force and emphasis of this word Rej yceth It is the lifting-up or rather a leaping of the heart for ioy 2. Why is this leaping for Joy Not because the blood of a man is spilt not because a man made in Gods Image and beautified with graces where of he had great store but wanted the chief Grace vvhich teacheth to make use of all is taken avvay not for this The city rejoceth at no mans 〈◊〉 or misery It is a matter of sorrovv to the City to see a person vvhich God has made or the graces vvhich God has given all destroyed in a moment of time This is matter of sorrovv But this of joy of leaping for ioy that that head is chopped off which plotted and contrived the 〈◊〉 of Christs Kingdom That those lights are both put out in darknesse that would have put out the light of Israel That that tongue is Silent in darknesse which silenced or would so have done all the faithfull ministers in all three Kingdomes Cause of leaping for ioy That his day is past and his night come who darkned the Lords Day more than any day and vvould have it prophaned by a law Cause to leap for joy that we saw his head drunke in his owne blood who burned against Iacob the Church of God like a flame which devoureth round about and powred out his fury like fire upon three Kingdomes that they might burne together in the fire of their owne rage and wallow in their owne blood Cause to leap for joy that we saw this mans head lie drunke in his owne blood and himselfe consumed in the fire hee had kindled It goes well with the Righteous the City rejoyceth I