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A49716	The Arch-bishop of Canterburie his speech, or, His funeral sermon preached by himself on the scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday the tenth of January, 1645, upon Hebrews 12, 1, 2 also, the prayers which he used at the same time and place before his execution / all faithfully written by Iohn Hinde, whom the archbishop beseeched that hee would not let any wrong be done him by any phrase in false copies.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L599A; ESTC R41258	7,415	13

might have reason for it for corruptio optimi est pessima There is no corruption in the world so bad as that which is in the best thing it self for the better the thing is in nature the worse it is corrupted And this being the highest and greatest Court over which none other can have the jurisdiction in the Kingdome if any way a mis-government which God forbid should any wayes fall upon it the subjects of this Kingdome are left without all manner of remedy and therefore God preserve them blesse them and direct them that there may be no misconceit much lesse misgovernment amongst them I will not inlarge my self any further I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter enemies or others whatsoever they have been which any wise prosecuted me in this kinde and I humbly desire to be forgiven first of God and then of every man whether I have offended him or no if hee doe but conceive that I have Lord do thou forgive me and I beg forgivenesse of him and so I heartily desire you to joyne with me in prayer The Bishop of Canterburies first Praye● on the Scaffold O Eternall God and most mercifull Father looke downe upon mee in mercie in the riches and fulnesse of all thy mercies look downe upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sinnes to the Crosse of Christ looke upon me but not till thou hast bathed me in the bloud of Christ look upon me but not till I have hid my selfe in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment that is due to my sinnes may passe away and go over mee And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I humblie beseech thee give me now in this great instant ful patience and proportionable comfort a heart readie to die for thine honour and the Kings happines and the Churches preservation and my zeal to these far from arrogancie be it spoken and all the inhumane frailtie excepted and all incidents thereunto which is yet unknowne of mee in this particular for which I now come to suffer I say in this particular of Treason but otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and these especially whatsoever they be which have drawne downe this present judgement upon mee and when thou hast given me strength to beare it then doe with mee as seemes best in thine owne eyes And carrie mee through death that I may looke upon it in what visage soever it shall appeare to mee and that there may bee a stoppe of this issue of bloud in this more than miserable Kingdome I shall desire that I may pray for the people too as well as for my selfe O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance unto all people that have a thirst for bloud but if they will not repent then scatter their devices so and such as are or shall be contrarie to the glorie of thy great Name the Truth and Sinceritie of Religion the establishment of the King and his posteritie after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their ancient and just power the preservation of this poore Church in her truth peace and patrimonie and the settlement of this distracted and distressed people under their ancient laws and in their native Liberties and when thou hast done all this in meere mercie for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfullnesse and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Iesus And I beseech thee receive my Soule to mercie Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen When he had finished his prayer hee gave his paper to Doctor Sterne saying Doctor I give you this that you may show it to your fellow Chaplains that they see how I am gone out of the world and Gods blessing and his mercy be upon them Then turning to Master Hinde hee said Friend I beseech you here mee I cannot say I have spoken every word as it is in my Paper but I have gone very neere it to help my memorie as well as I could but I beseech you let me have no wrong done me Hinde Sir you shall not if I doe any wrong let it fall on my owne head I pray God have mercy upon your soule Cant. I thank you I did not speak with any jealousie as if you would do so but I spake it onely as a poore man going out of the world it is not possible for me to keep to the words of my paper and a phrase may do me wrong I did think here would have been an emptie Scaffold that I might have had roome to die I beseech you let me have an end of this miserie for I have endured it long When roome was made he spake thus I 'le pull off my Doublet and Gods will be done I am willing to goe out of the world no man can be more willing to send me out then I am willing to be gone Sir Iohn Clathworthy What speciall Text of Scripture now is comfortable to a man in his departure Cant. Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo Sir Clothworthy That is a good desire but there must bee a ●●undation for that desire as assurance Cant. No man can expresse it it is to be found within Sir Iohn Clothworthy It is founded upon a word though and that word would be knowne Cant. That word is the knowledge of Jesus Christ and that alone And turning to the Executioner he gave him money saying here honest friend God forgive thee and do thy office upon mee in mercie The Executioner desiring him to give some signe when he should strike he answered Yes I will but let me fit my selfe first Then kneeling down on his knees he prayed thus The Bishop of Canterburies last prayer on the Scaffold LORD I am coming as fast as I can I know I must passe through the shaddow of death before I can come to see thee but it is but umbra mortis a meere shadow of death a little darknesse upon nature but thou by thy merits and passion hast broke through the jawes of death So Lord receiue my soule and have mercy upon me and blesse this Kingdom with peace and plenty and with brotherly loue and charitie that there may not be this effusion of Christian bloud among them for Iesus Christs sake if it be thy will And when he had said Lord receive my Soule which was his signe the Executioner did his office FINIS

him alone all men will believe on him Et veninnt Romani and the Romanes will come and take away both our place and our Nation Here was a causelesse cry against Christ that the Romanes would come and see how just the Judgement of God was they crucified Chriss for feare least the Romanes should come and his death was that that brought in the Romanes upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared and I pray 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 that 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 Some particulars also I thinke not amisse to speak 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 Poperie but upon my conscience of which I am now going to give God a present account I know him to bee 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 affections to Religion and His grounds upon which that affection is built as fully as any man in England The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God blesse here hath been of late a fashion to gather bands and then go to the Honourable and great Court of the Kingdome the Parliament clamour for Justice as if that great wise Court before whom the causes come which are unknown to many could not or would not do Justice but at their call and appointment a way which may endanger many innocent man and pluck innocent bloud upon their own heads and perhaps upon this Citie also which God forbid and this hath been lately practiz'd against my self God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well meaning people are caught by it In S. 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 killed Saint Iames hee would not venture upon S. Peter too till he saw how the people took it and were pleased with it in the 12 of the Acts. But take heed of having your hands full of bloud in the first of Isaiah for there is a time best known to himselfe when God amongst other sinnes makes inquisition for bloud and when inquisition is on foot Psalmest tells us Psal. 9. that God remembers that is not all that God remembers and forgets not saith the Prophet the complaint of the poore and hee tells you what poore they are in the ninth verse the poore whose bloud is shed by such kind of means 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 Hebrews but it is fearfull indeed and then especially when he is making his Inquisition for bloud and therefore with prayer to advert the prophesie from the Citie let me desire that this my cup would remember the Prophesie that is expressed Ier. 26. 15 The third particular is this poore Church of England that hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when stormes have driven on them but alas now it is in a storme it self and God knows 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 cloacked with a name of imaginarie religion for wee 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 Jesuites machinations in these parts of Christendome could not ruine is now fallen into a great deal of danger by her owne The last particular for I am not willing to be tedious I shall hasten to go out of this miserable world is my self and I beseech you as many as are within hearing 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 established in England and in that I come now to die what Clamors and Slanders I have endured labouring to keep an Vniformity in the external service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men knows I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of high Treason in Parliament a crime which my soul 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 to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established by those Lawes Besides my answers which I gave to the severall Charges I protested my innocency 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 therefore I must come to my Protestation not at the Barre but to my Protestation at this houre and instant of 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 therefore here with that caution that I delivered before without all prejudice in the world to my Judges that are to proceed secundum allegata probata and so to be understood I die in the presence of Almighty God and all his holy and blessed Angels and I take it now on my death that I never endeavoured the subversion of the Laws 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 whatsomever I have been accused likewise as an enemie to Parliaments no God forbid I understood them and the benefits that comes by them a great deal too well to bee so but I did indeed dislike some misgovernments as I conceived of some few one or two Parliaments And I did conceive humbly that I