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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69663	The grand impostor vnmasked, or, A detection of the notorious hypocrisie and desperate impiety of the late Archbishop, so styled, of Canterbury cunningly couched in that written copy which he read on the scaffold at his execution, Ian. 10, 1644, alias called by the publisher, his funerall sermon / by Henry Burton.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing B6163; ESTC R6460	22,693	23

sentence of condemnation execution especially when now God is making his inquisition for bloud So he And surely in this good season of Gods inquisition for bloud it hath pleased him to find out this Achan who hath cunningly even to the last houre not as Achan glorifying God by confession as before hid all his stollen goods the wedge of gold the Babylonish garment the two hundred shekels of silver all his under-hand dealings for the undoing of this Kingdome in the hollow of his false heart and had not both Parliament and People bestirred themselves in the discoveries he had been too nimble for us all But God I say was pleased to use the industry of his people to find out this foxes holes But besides all this O the impudencie of this wretched man in commending to this Citie the consideration of that Prophecie Ier. 26.15 they are the words of the Prophet Ieremiah to the Princes of Iudah and Jerusalem The words are these though they are not set forth in the Sermon but only the pl●ce quoted with a speciall recommendation to this City and whether he spake them on the scaffold I know not for I was not there As for mee behold I am in your hand doe with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know it for certaine that if yee put me to death yee shall surely bring innocent bloud upon your selves and upon this Citie and upon the Inhabitants thereof for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speake all these words in your eares Now could this man possibly beleeve that any in this Citie should be so simple as to beleeve him Or could he beleeve that this Scripture should perswade the Citie or Parliament Princes and People to doe as the word● follow declare vers. 16. Then said the Princes and all the People unto the Priests and to the Prophets This man is not worthy to dye for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God Here this Porcupine strikes himselfe thorow with his owne quils Hee complaines for the poore Church of England and that is his Hierarchy that that once flourished as once the Abbeyes and Monasteris did and was a shelter to other neighbouring Churches What To the Church of Scotland witnesse his reformed service-Service-booke and his animating the King with his Army against them for casting out such merchants and merchandice Or that of Ireland which he had filled with his Arminian and superstitious Priests and helped to make that land a field of bloud a shambles to butcher those hundred thousands of innocent Protestant Subjects as good a Protestant as himselfe is or his confederates In everie cle●t of this selfe-divided Kingdome profanenesse he saith and irreligion hath crept in Now truly himselfe was the prime wood-cleaver that drave in the first wedges and thereby brought in by the head and eares all profanenesse and irreligion which leaking yea flowing in so fast have well nigh drowned the ship But stay what meanes this profanenesse and irreligion which the Prelate here tels us of he shall be his owne interpreter In his Relation in the Epistle Dedicatorie he tels the King saying Though J cannot prophesie yet I feare that Atheisme and irreligion gather strength while the truth is thus weakened by an unworthy way of contending And p. 19. The externall worship of God in his Church is the great witnesse to the world that our hearts stand right in the service of God Take this away or bring it into contempt and what light is there left to shine before men that they may see our devotion and glorifie our Father which is in Heaven The result is as the Replyer cleareth that the neglect or contempt of his externall worship is that which bringeth in profanenesse and irreligion that is Not to set the face in a right posture towards the East in our devotion not to bow to an Altar not to kneele at the Sacrament not to use a faire white Surplice and black hood in Administration not to baptize with the signe of the Crosse not to say second service c. all this shewes that our hearts stand not right in the service of God that without these no light is left to shine before men that they may see our Devotion and glorifie our Father which is in heaven O notorious hypocrisie O egregious impietie thus to abuse Scripture and all true religion so as Prospers speech here alleaged by him hits him full home Men that introduce profanenesse which is done by a false Religion and Devotion of mans devising are cloaked with a name of imaginary Religion And what is Imagerie in worship but an imaginarie Religion And if wee have in a manner almost lost the substance we may thank his Ceremonies for it and for the danger the land is now in threatening ruine the Lord prevent it by the just ruine of this man that hath been a maine instrumentall cause of it He comes * here to his last particular which is himself He makes a solemne Protestation of his Religion to be Protestant but with this limitation in reference to the Church of England only not to other Protestant Churches for no Protestant Churches are Episcopall but this This therefore he sticks to in this profession he was born lived and will now dye He disclaimes the bringing in of Popery into this Land Now what should be the meaning of this Mystery considering all his indeavours and practises have tended and contended to reduce this his Church to as near a conformity with Rome as possibly may be For excepting the differences in Doctrine take the whole Hierarchy Government Discipline Officers Services Ceremonies Vestments and all other implements we find the Church of England to be one and the some with that of Rome as the Prelate affirmeth for which see my Reply from pag. 63. to 69 How then is it true that he is no setter up or bringer in of Popery as he protesteth surely two wayes * First because he found some old Reliques of Rome in the Kings Chappells and some Cathedralls as an Altar Jmages Adorations Organ-Service Copes and the like Therefore he makes a shift by piecing it out with some forced interpretations of the Queens Injunctions and with improvement of the Service Booke and other viis modis to bring in a generall conformity to those paterns and that under a specious colour of vniformity a very Laudable thing in a Kingdom especially Regis ad Exemplum that all should be of the Kings Religion or the Religion of his Chappell every Daughter-Church to conform to the Mother the Cathedrall and thus all being raised up to one conformity it came to passe that both Iesuits on the one side boasted that the Church of England was turned Roman and some bold Ministers began to tell tales in the Pulpit and at last to write and publish Bookes of it though to their cost This is the Golden lea●e wherewith