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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

the accusation against S●ephen seeing he was the man that helped forward the accusation against the Scots to cause them to be proclaimed Traytors and Bendfield to be hanged drawne and quartered as a Traytor it was just with God to caase him to dye under the condemnation of a Traytor though hee was too lofty to stoppe downe before the throne of Gods justice and lay it home to his Conscience I but perhaps a great clamour there is that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by in the meane time you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himself in the eleventh of Iohn If we let him alone all men will beleeve on him Et veniunt Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causlesse cry against Christ that the Romans would come and see how just the Iudgement of God was they crucified Christ for feare least the Romans should come and his death was that that brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared and I prey God this clamour of veniunt Romani of which I have given to my knowledge no just cause helpe not to bring him in for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and divisions rhat are amongst us in the meane time by honour and dishonour by good report and evill report as a deceiver and yet true am I now passing out of this world Answ. To passe by this caution for indeed we may already say veniunt Romani and indeed the Pope never had such an Harvest in England but who may we thanke for this did not the Archbishop act his part in this yea verily and both countenanced and encouraged the Queene and told her that with a good Conscience shee might goe on according to those Principles which occationed all this which gave opportunity to such Armyes of Papists in the three Kingdomes but let us see what it is hee saith further of this in the insuing discourse first taking a view of that hee saith concerning the King Some particulars also I thinke not amisse to speake of and first this I shall be bold to speake of the King our gracious Soveraigne He hath been much traduced by some for labouring to bring in Popery but upon my Conscience of which I am now going to give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge I thinke as any man living and I hold him to be as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in this Kingdome and that He will venter His Life as farre and as freely for it and I thinke I doe or should know both His affection to Religion and His grounds upon which that affection is built as fully as any man in England Ans. Jt is rather conceived that by the labours and endeavours of the Queene and the Iesuits and Priests and Fryers that by the Archbishops means have been suffered at Court the King hath been brought to doe what he doth And till now the Archbishop never once talkes of Conscience and now he speakes his Conscience you see what it is that he saith J know him I thinke him I hold him to bee a Protestant and I thinke I know his affection and the grounds upon which upon which that affection is built Is this an expression for such a man as he that is an Arch-Bishop to bring his Conscience too that gives no satisfaction at all he had been better to have said nothing at all of him But let us see what he saith of the City of London for that is the next particuler he speaks of The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God blesse here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Honourable and great Court of the Kingdome the Parliament and clamour for Iustice as if that great and wise Court before whom the causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not doe Iustice but at their call and appoyntment a way which may endanger many an innocent man and pluck innocent bloud upon their owne heads and perhaps upon this City also which God forbid and this hath beene lately practiz●d against my selfe God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I begge it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In Saint Stephens case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Acts 6. and Herod went just the selfe-same way for when he had kill'd Saint Iames he would not venture upon Saint Peter too till he saw how the people tooke it and were pleased with it in the 12 of the Act. But take heed of having your hands full of bloud in the first of Isai. for there is a time best known to himselfe Ans. Here you see he seemes to looke back to the Earle of Strafford whom he compares to Stephen and seemes to charge the Parliament that the City comming with Petitions against him to them and finding that Straffords death pleased the people therefore they put him to death also and from thence charges the City with bloud wherein he now flies quite from what he said before and most enviously goes about to doe what he can to blemish the Parliament and the City of London when he said before that he charged nothing upon his Iudges and whereas he speakes as if the way that hath been taken with him may endanger an innocent man it is notoriously knowne that in this he lyes against his own Conscience well knowing that never any Subject in England had a fayrer tryall and more liberty and priviledge and favour all along than he the like was never shown to any man in his case if hee could have defended himselfe and that his Counsell knew right well When God among other sinnes makes inquisition for bloud and when inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psalme 9. that God remembers that is not all tha● God remembers and forgets not saith the Prophet the complaint of the poore and he tells you what poore they are in the ninth verse the poore whose bloud is shed by such kind of meanes Take heed of this It is a fearfull thing at any time to fall into the hands of the living God in the 12. of the Hebrewes but it is fearefull indeed and then especially when he is making his Inquisition for b●oud and therefore with my Prayers to avert the Prophesie from the City let mee desire that this City would remember the Prophesie that is expressed Ieremiah 16.15 Ans. He should have taken this into serious Consideration when he pesecuted the poore saints of God from place to place never suffering them to be at quiet but going a thirsting for their bloud from day to day for whereas he talks of Inquisition for bloud J