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A43524	Cyprianus anglicus, or, The history of the life and death of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate William, by divine providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... containing also the ecclesiastical history of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from his first rising till his death / by P. Heylyn ...	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1668 (1668)	Wing H1699; ESTC R4332	571,739	552

the holy Table being appointed to be placed where the Altar stood by the Queens Injunctions Anno 1559. and that position justified by an order of Dr. Davenant Bishop of Sarum of which we have already spoken whom the Libellers themselves were not like to accuse for a man that purposed the ushering in or advancing of Popery The setting of a Raile before it or about it howsoever placed was only for avoiding of Prophanation and for that cause justifiable As for the reading of the Second or Communion Service at the holy Table it was no more than what had formerly been used in many places to his own remembrance first altered in those Churches where the Emissaries of that Faction came to preach and therefore the Innovation to be laid on them Secondly That it is not only fit and proper for that part of the Divine Service to be read at the Communion Table but that it is required so to be by the Rules and Rubricks of the Church It being said in the first Rubrick after the Communion that on the Holy Daies if there be no Communion all shall be read which is appointed at the Communion and in the last Rubrick before the Communion that the Minister standing at the North side of the holy Table shall say the Lords Prayer with that which follows And finally as to that of bowing towards it at their first entrance in the Church or approaches to it it is answered that it was agreeable to the Practice of Moses David Hezekiah recorded in the holy Scriptures and that Venite Adoremus O come let us worship and fall down c. was used constantly in the beginning of the Ancient Liturgies and preserved in the beginning of ours in England and therefore that the people may as well refuse to come as at their coming not to Worship he added that by the Statutes of the noble Order of St. George called the Garter the Knights whereof were bound to do their Reverence versus Altare toward the Altar that it had so continued ever since the time of King Henry the fifth that if there were any Idolatry in it neither Queen Elizabeth who drove out Popery nor King Iames who kept out Popery would have suffered it to remain in Practice and in a word that if it were Gods Worship and not Idolatry he ought to do it as well as they but if it were Idolatry and no Worship of God they ought to do it no more than he But the fourteenth and last charge which most concerned him and the rest of the Bishops to make answer to was the forging of a new Article of Religion brought from Rome to justifie their proceedings and Innovations and foysting it to the beginning of the twentieth Article The Clause pretended to be added is That the Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of ●aith because not found say they in the Latine or English Articles of King Edward the sixth or Queen Elizabeth ratified by Parliament adding that if to forge a Will or Writing be censurable in the Star-Chamber though it be but a wrong to a Private man how much more should the forgery of an Article of Religion be censured there which is a wrong to the whole Church And unto this he answered that the Articles made in the time o● King Edward the sixth were not now in force and therefore not material whether that Clause be in or out that in the Articles as they passed in Queen Elizabeths time this Clause was to be found in the English Edition of the year 1612. of the year 1605. of the year 1593. and in Latine in the year 1563. being one of the first Printed Copies after the Articles had been agreed on in the Convocation that it was to be found in the same terms in the Records of Convocation Anno 1562. as he proved by a Certificate under the hand of a publick Notary and therefore finally that no such forgery in adding that Clause unto that Article had been committed by the Prelates to serve their own turns by gaining any power to the Church but that the said Clause had been razed out by some of those men or some of that Faction to weaken the just power of the Church and to serve their own These Innovations thus passed over and discharged he signifies unto their Lordships That some other Charges were remaining in matter of Doctrine that they should presently be answered justo volumine to satisfie all well-minded people and that when Burtons Book was answered his Book he said but not his raylings none of the rest should be answered either by him or by his care leaving that Court to find a way for stopping the mouths of such Libellers or else for him they should raile on as long as they listed And thus beginning to draw toward an end he declares himself to be in the same case with St. Cyprian then Bishop of Carthage bitterly railed upon by a pack of Schismaticks and yet conceiving himself bound which he made his own Resolution also not to answer them with the like Levities or Revilings but to write and speak only as becomes a Priest of God that by Gods grace the Reproaches of such men should not make him faint or start aside either from the right way in matter of Practice or à certa Regula from the certain Rule of Faith Which said and craving pardon of their Lordships for his necessary length he thanks them for their just and honourable censure of those men in their unanimous dislike of them and defence of the Church Makes his excuse from passing any censure of them in regard the business had some reflection on himself and so leaves them to Gods mercy and the Kings Justice Thus have I acted Phocion's part in cutting short the long and well-studied Speech of this grave and Eloquent Demosthenes which I have been the more willing to reduce to so brief an Abstract that the Reader may perceive without the least loss of time and labour on what weak grounds the Puritan Faction raised their outcry against Innovations and what poor trifles many of those Innovations were against which they clamoured and cried out But for the Speech in its full length as it gave great satisfaction unto all that heard it so by his Majesties Command it was afterwards Printed for giving the like satisfaction to all those who should please to read it In obedience unto which Command he caused the said Speech to be Printed and Published although he was not ignorant as he declares in his Epistle to the King that many things while they are spoken and pass by the ears but once give great content which when they come to the eyes of men and their open scanning may lie open to some exceptions And so it proved in the event for though the Speech was highly magnified as it came from his mouth yet it had not been long published in Print when it was encountred with

his holy Angels take it 〈…〉 death that I never endeavoured the subversion of Law or Rel●gion and I desire you all to remember this Protest of mine for my in 〈…〉 this and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused 〈…〉 an Enemy to Parliaments No I understood them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I did mislike the 〈◊〉 governments of some Parliaments many waies and I had good Reason for it For Corruptio optimi est Pessima there is no Corruption i● th● World so bad as that which is of the best thing within it self F●r the better the thing is in nature the worse it is corrupted And that being the Highest Court over which no other hath Iurisdiction when it is misinformed or misgoverned the Subject is left without all remedy ●ut I have done I forgive all the the World all and every of these 〈◊〉 Enemies which have persecuted me and humbly desire to be forg●v●n of God first and then of every man whether I have offended him or not if he do but conceive that I have Lord do thou forgive me and I beg forgiveness of him And so I heartily desire you to joyn in Prayer with me Which said with a distinct and audible voice he prayed as followeth O Eternal God and Merciful Father look down upon me in mercy in the Riches and Fulness of all thy mercies look down upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Cross of Christ not till thou hast bathed me in the blood of Christ not till I have hid my self in the wounds of Christs that so the punishment due unto my sins may pass over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the utmost I humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instant full Patience Proportionable Comfort and a heart ready to die for thine Honour the Kings Happiness and this Churches preservation And my Zeal to this far from Arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane Frailty excepted and all the incidents thereunto which is yet known to me 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 those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present Iudgement upon me and when thou hast given me strength to bear it do with me as seems best in thine own Eyes and carry me through death that I may look upon it in what visage soever it shall appear to me Amen And that there may be a stop of this Issue of blood in this more then miserable Kingdom I shall desire that I may pray for the people too as well as for my self O Lord I beseech thee give grace of Repentance to all blood-thirsty people but if they will not Repent O Lord confound all their devices Defeat and frustrate all their designs and endeavours upon them which are or shall be contrary to the Glory of thy Great name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his Posterity after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the Honour and Conservation of Parliaments in their just power the preservation of this poor Church in her truth peace and Patrimony and the settlement of this Distracted and distressed People under their Ancient Laws and in their Native Liberty And when thou hast done all this in meer mercy to them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulness and with Religious Dutiful obedience to thee and thy Commandments all their days Amen Lord Iesu Amen and receive my soul into thy Bosom Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Speech and Prayers being ended ●e gave the Paper which he Read into 〈◊〉 hands o● Sterne his Chaplain permitted to attend him in his last extremity whom he desired to Communicate it to his other Chaplains that they might see in what manner ●e le●t this world and so prayed God to shew his blessings and mercies on them And taking notice that one Hind had imployed himsel● in writing t●e words of his Speech as it came from his mouth he d●sired him not to do him wrong in publishing a false or imperfect Copy This done he next applyed himself to the fatal Block as to the H●ven of his Rest But finding the way full of people who had placed themselves upon the Theatre to behold the Tragedy he desired ●e might have room to die beseeching them to let him have an end of his miseries which he had endured very long All which he did with so Serene and calm a mind as if he rather had been taking Order for a Noble Mans Funeral then making way for his own Being come neer the block he put o● his Doublet and used some words to this 〈◊〉 Gods will be done I am willing to go out of this world none can ●e ●●re willing to send me And seeing through the Chink of the ●oards that some people were got under the Scaffold about the very place where the block was seated he called to the Officer for some dust to stop them or to remove the people thence saying it was ●o part of his desires that his blood should fall upon the heads of the people Never did man put off mortality with a better courage nor look upon his bloody and malicious Enemies with more Christian Charity And thus far he was on his way toward Paradise with such a Primitive Magnanimity as equalled if not exceeded the example of the Ancient Martyrs when he was somewhat interrupted by one of those who had placed himself on the Sca●●old not otherwise worthy to be named but as a Fire-brand brought from Ireland to inflame this Kingdom Who finding that the mockings and revilings of malicious people had no power to move him or sha●pen him into any discontent or shew of passion would needs put in and try what he could do with his Spunge and Vinegar and St●pping to him neer the Block he would needs propound unto him some Impertinent questions not so much out of a desire to learn any thing of him but with the same purpose as was found in the S●ribes and Pharisees in propounding questions to our Saviour t●at is to say either to intrap him in his Answers or otherwise to ●●pose him to some disadvantage with the standers by Two of the qu●stions he made answer to withal Christian meekness The first question was What was the Comfortablest saying which a dying man would have in his mouth to which he meekly made answer Cupio 〈◊〉 esse cum Christo being asked again what was the fittest Speech a man could use to express his Confidence and Assuranc● he answ●●ed with the same Spirit of meekness That such Ass●●anc● was to be found within and that no words were able 〈…〉 But t●is not satisfying this busie man w●o aimed at something else as is probable then such satisfaction unless he gave some Word or

Place of Scripture whereupon such Assurance might be truly founded He used some words to this effect That it was the Word of God concerning Christ and his dying for us But then finding that there was like to be no end of the troublesome Gentleman he turned away from him applying himself directly to the Executioner as the gentler and discreeter person Putting some mony into his hand he said unto him without the least distemper or change of countenance Here honest friend God forgive thee and I do and do thy Office upon me with mercy and having given him a sign when the blow should come he kneeled down upon his knees and prayed as followeth viz. Lord I am coming as fast I can I know I must pass thorough the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but Umbra Mortis a meer shadow of death a little darkness upon nature but thou by thy Merits and Passion hast broke thorough the jaws of death the Lord receive my Soul and have mercy upon me and bless this Kingdom with peace and plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them for Iesus Christ his sake if it be thy will Then laying his head upon the Block and Praying silently to himself he said aloud Lord receive my Soul which was the Signal given to the Executioner who very dexterously did his Office and took of his head at a blow his Soul ascending on the wings of Angels into Abrahams bosom and leaving his body on the Scaffold to the care of men This blow thus given his life-less body remained a spectacle so unpleasing unto most of them who had desired his death with much heat and passion that many who came with greedy eyes to see him suffer went back with weeping eyes when they saw him dead their own Consciences perhaps bearing witness to them God knows whose did that they had sinned in being guilty of such Innocent blood Of those whom only Curiosity and desire of Novelty brought thither to behold that unusual sight many had not the Patience to attend the Issue but went away assoon as the Speech was ended others returned much altered in the opinion which before they had of him and bettered in their Resolutions toward the King and the Church whose Honour and Religious Purposes they saw so clearly vindicated in his dying but never dying words And for the Rest the most considerable though perhaps the smallest part of that Great Assembly as they came thither with no other intention then to assist him with their Prayers to embalm his body with their tears and to lay up his last Speeches in their hearts and memories so when they had performed those Offices of Christian duty they comforted themselves with this that as his life was honourable so his death was glorious the pains whereof were short and momentary to himself the benefit like to be perpetual unto them and others who were resolved to live and die in the Communion of the Church of England And if the Bodies o● us men be capable of any happiness in the Grave he had as great a share therein as he could desire his Body being accompanied to the Earth with great multitudes of People whom love or curiosity or remorse of Conscience had drawn together purposely to perform that Office and decently interred in the Church of Alhallows Barking a Church of his own Patronage and Jurisdiction according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England In which it may be noted as a thing remarkable That being whilst he lived the greatest Champion of the Common-Prayer-Book●ere ●ere by Law establi●●ed he had the honour being dead to be buried in the form therein prescribed after it had been long disused and almost reprobated in most Churches of London Nor need Posterity take care to provide his Monument he built one for himself whilst he was alive It b●eing well observed by Deering one of his most malicious Enemies and he that threw the first stone at him in the beginning of this Parliament that St. Paul's Church will be his perpetual Monument and his own Book against the Iesuite his lasting Epitaph Thus ●ell Laud and St. Pauls●ell ●ell with him The yearly Contribution toward whose Repair Anno 1641. when he was plunged into his Troubles fell from the sum of 15000 l. and upward to somewhat less than 1500. and afterwards by degrees to nothing No less than 17138 l. 13 s. 4 d. ob q. which remained in the Chamber of London toward the carrying on of the Work is seised on by an Order of both Houses of Parliament for the beginning of their War against the King that so they might not only encounter him with his own Arms and Ammunition which he had bought with his own Money but with that Money too which he alone had raised by his own Care and Piety Most of the Materials intended for finishing the Work were turned into Money and the rest bestowed on the Parish of St. Gregories for the Rebuilding of that Church And all the Scaffolding of the Tower or Steeple allotted to the payment of Iephson's Regiment who challenged an Arrear of 1746 l. 15 s. 8 d. for their Service in that cruel and unnatural War The Pa●ement of the Church digged up and sold to the wealthier Citizens for beautifying their Country-Houses The Floor converted into Saw-pits in many places for cutting out such Timber as was turned into Money The Lead torn off in some places also the Timber and Arches of the Roof being thereby exposed to Wind and Weather Part of the Stone-work which supported the Tower or Steeple fallen down and threatning the like Ruine unto all the rest The gallant Portico at the West-end thereof obscured first by 〈◊〉 House looking towards Ludgate and afterward turned into an Exchange for Haberdashers of small Wares Hosiers and such Petit Chapmen And finally the whole Body of it converted to a Stable or Horse-Garrison for the better awing of that City whose Pride and Faction raised the Fire and whose Purse added Fewel to it for the enflaming of the Kingdom Thus Laud fell and the Church fell with him The Liturgy whereof was Voted down about the same time in which the Ordinance was pass'd for his Condemnation The Presbyterian Directory authorised for the Press by Ordinance of March 13. next following Episcopacy Root and Branch which had before been precondemned suppressed by Ordinance in like manner on October 9. 1646. The Lands of all Cathedrals sold to the exposing of those stately and magnificent Fabricks to an inevitable Ruine The Bishops dispossest of their Lands and Rents without the Charity of a small Annual Pension toward their Support The Regular and Conformable Clergy sequestred ejected and turned out of all to the utter undoing of themselves their Wives and Children A wide gap opened for letting in of all Sects and Heresies many of which had been exploded and