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A true copy of certain passages of the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, his speech spoken on the scaffold on Tower-Hill immediatly before his death Jan. 10, 1644
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Laud, William, 1573-1645.
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A TRVE COPY OF CERTAIN PASSAGES OF THE Lord Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRY HIS SPEECH SPOKEN on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill immediatly before his Death Ian. 10. 1644. OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1644. Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to Preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb 12. 2. Let us runne with Patience that race which is set before us looking unto IESUS the Author and finisher of our Faith who for the Ioy that was set before him endured the Crosse despising the shame and is set downe at the right hand of the throne of God I have been long in my Race and how I have looked to IESUS the Author and finisher of my Faith He best knowes I am now come to the end of my Race and here I find the Crosse a death of shame but the shame must be despised or no comming to the right hand of God IESUS despised the shame for me and God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him I am going apace you see towards the Red-Sea and my feet are now upon the very brink of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me to the Land of Promise for that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it He instituted a Passeover for them a Lambe it was it must be eaten with sowre Hearbs I shall obey and labour to digest the sowre Hearbes as well as the Lambe For I shall remember it is the Lord's Passeover I shall not think of the Herbs nor be angry with the hand that gathereth them but look up onely to Him which instituted that and governes these For men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above I am not in love with this passage through the Red-Sea for I have the weakenesse and infirmities of flesh and bloud in me And I have prayed as my Saviour taught me ut transiret Calix iste that this Cup of Red-wine might passe from me But if not God's will not mine be done and I shall most willingly drinke of this Cup as deep as He pleases and enter into this Sea yea and passe through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods Servants were in this boysterous Sea and Aaron among them the AEgyptians which persecuted them and in a manner drove them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace and I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my Resolution is now as theirs was then They would not worship the Image the King had set up nor I the Imaginations which the People are setting up I will not forsake the Temple and truth of God to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calfe in Dan or in Bethel As for this Peoâ—ple they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their Eyes that they may see the right way for now the Blind doe lead the Blind and if they goe on both will certainly fall into the ditch For my selfe I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many wayes by thought word and deed and I cannot doubt but God hath mercy in store for me a poore Penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my Heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sinn which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdome And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges for if they proceed upon Proofe by valuable witnesses I or any other Innocent may be justly condemned But I thanke God though the weight of the sentence lyes heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Archbishop but the first man that ever dyed by an Ordinance of Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this meanes For Elphegus was hurried away lost his head by the Danes Symon Sudbury was beheaded in the fury of Wat Tyler his fellows long before these St Iohn Baptist had his head danced oft by a lewd woman And St Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to the persecuting Sword 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 which is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not onely that I goe the way of these great men in their severall generations but also that my Charge as fowle as it is made looks like that of the Iewes against St Paul Acts. 25. For he was accused for the Law and the Temple that is the Law and Religion And like that of St Stephen Acts. 6. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave that is Law and Religion the holy place and the Law vers. 13. But you 'l say doe I compare my selfe with the integrity of St Paul and St Stephen No farre be it from me I onely raise a Comfort to my selfe that these great Saints Servants of God were laid at in their severall times as I am now And it is memorable that St Paul who helped on the Accusation against St Stephen did after fall under the very same Accusation himselfe Yea but here 's a great Clamour 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 himselfe If we let him alone all men will beleeve in him Et venient Romani and the Romanes will come and take away both our place and Nation Here was a Causelesse Crye against Christ that the Romanes would come And see how just the Iudgement of God was they crucified Christ for feare the Romanes should come and his death was it which brought in the Romanes upon them God punishing them with that they most feared and I pray God that this Clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them 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 passing through this world 2. Cor. 6.8 Some other particulars I thinke not amisse to speake of And first for His Sacred Majestie the King our gracious Soveraigne He also hath bin much traduced for bringinâ— in of Popery but on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present account 〈…〉 ow Him to be as free from this Charge as any