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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78025	A narration of the life of Mr. Henry Burton. Wherein is set forth the various and remarkable passages thereof, his sufferings, supports, comforts, and deliverances. Now published for the benefit of all those that either doe or may suffer for the cause of Christ. According to a copy written with his owne hand.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1643 (1643)	Wing B6169; Thomason E94_10; ESTC R20087	50,659	60

causing it to be kept in his Library at S. James After his much lamented decease I was continued in the same place and office to Prince Charles when God stirred up my heart to enter into the Ministry being then above thirty yeares of age but yet too soone as having not yet sufficiently learned to weigh that Text of the Apostle And who is sufficient for these things or yet the right way of a Ministers externall call which the ignorance and sloth of those times had not learned to walk in In that time I writ a Treatise against Simony entituled A Censure of Simony Also another Book entituled Truths triumph over Tront wherein I unfolded that mystery of iniquity packed up in the sixth session of that Councell encountring therein those two Champions of the Councell Andreas Vega and Dominicus Soto These two Books were published Cum Previlegio though with much adoe obtained of the Archbishops Chaplains in those not then full growne ripe evill times Yet they ripened so fast Abbot of Canterbury yet living that I could not obtaine of his Chaplaine the licensing of an answer of mine to a Jesuits Book entituled The converted Jew which he boldly had dedicated to both our Universities And I understood he durst not doe it for two causes first because in that Answer I had upon occasion confuted the Arminian Heresies secondly because therein I proved the Pope to be the Antichrist Which two things began in those dayes to be Noli me tangere and fewell for the H●gh Commission furnace proving afterwards pillary-offences inexpiable never to be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come Which after times being hastened on by the immature death of King Iames have beene the only causes that have made his life desireable as Titus Livius said of Hieronymus of Syracusa Qui solus Patrem desiderabilem fecit Well King Iames being dead whether so or so or otherwise time hath not yet examined and King Charles succeeding I shall now acquaint you with a notable passage of divine Providence in parting the Court and me asunder For I understanding that the Bishop the old Clerk should still continue in that Office and that the King had designed me for some other inferiour Office and observing also that with Neale Lawd also should be continually about the King I saw there would be no abiding for me in Court any longer Yet before I went I thought I was bound in conscience by vertue of my place to informe the King of these men how popishly affected they were simply imagining that the King either did not so well know their qualities or that perhaps he might be put upon second thoughts by considering the dangerous consequences of entertaining such persons so neere about him as I presented to his Majesty in a large letter to that purpose Which letter he read a good part of I standing before him but perceiving the scope of it he gave it me againe and bade me forbeare any more attendance in my Office untill he should send for me Whereupon though for the present my spirits were somewhat appalled and dejected yet going home to my house in London and there entring into a serious meditation of Gods Providence herein how fairely he had now brought me off from the Court when I saw such Lords were like to domineere and how I might doe God and his Church better service in a more retired life as wherein I was in no danger of Court-Preferments thereby to bee cowardized from encountering such Giants as began already to threaten the Hoste of Israel and against whose power I thought Sauls armour would give me small defence but much hinder me rather I hereupon began to recollect my scattered spirits resolving now after almost twice seven yeares service quite to forsake the Court which I did signifie by another letter to a friend of mine of great place neere unto the King so as the King hath said that I put away him and not hee me However it pleased him to say so yet I had abundant cause to blesse God and daily to rejoyce with exceeding joy that I was now freed from the Court which joy hath now continually increased ever since to this very day without intermission Thus having bid the Court farewell I kept me close to the Ministery of the Word and besides my weekly preaching every Lords day twice I answered sundry erroneous and heterodox Bookes set forth by the Prelats and those of the Prelaticall party As 1. Montagues Book styled An Appeale to Caesar the first part whereof defended all the Arminian Heresies and the second was to maintain many grosse points of Popery And Dr. Francis White prefixed his Approbation to both My answer to the first part was published in print but that to the second was by the Aegyptian Task-masters strangled in the birth being upon the breaking up of the Parliament taken tardie in the Presse as it was a printing A second Book to which I made and published an Answer in time of Parliament was Cosens Private Devotions or Houres of Prayer to which his Popish Canonicall Houres I framed a fit Diall A third was a Book of Dr. Hall B. of Exceter wherein he affirmed the Church of Rome to be a true Church Which in a Treatise of mine upon the 7. Vials I occasionally confuting and Mr. Cholmley his Chaplen and Mr. Butterfield another Minister making each of them a severall reply I thereupon made one full answer to them both so as both sate down and replyed no more and Dr. Hall himselfe would salve or rather dawbe up the matter by begging the suffrages of two Bishops and two Doctors who so shuffled together each his own Cards that they easily made one pack And wel might they both shuffle pack cut and deale when no answer was permitted to be published But for all that my Babel no Bethel remains intire and unshaken by any of their breaths saving that some of their black mouths laboured to besmeare me with their proud scorne And for so writing against the Church of Rome as no true Church of Christ and because such kind of Bookes were printed without licence when none could be obtained I was brought the first and second time into the High Commission whence I had not escaped without cindging at least to make me smell of it ever after if not stigmatising either in my name or purse had I not come in time to procure a Prohibition in the Court of Justice before the doore was shut which was not long after the Bishop having a little before my Prohibition threatned in open Court that whosoever after that of Mr. Pryns then tendered should be the next which fell to my lot to dare to bring a Prohibition there he would set him fast by the heeles But instead of setting me by the heeles he hung me up by the head for the next morning after that my Prohibition was tendered in Court whereat the whole

an enmity were a wonder when we have already seene what a wonder-working age it hath been as before hath been touched and certainly shall yet see greater things then these And therefore for poor me to be set in the Front as it were of this battell between Christ and Antichrist and to be shot at as a prime kindler of the coals what wounds I receive from the adversaries I shall weare them as crownes upon me whose weight the greater it is the more sensible thereof is my weaknesse and unworthinesse to bear it Again how I have been reproached and reviled by those two Champions of Canterbury to wit Dr. Heylin and Dr. Dow whom the Prelate imployed in the writing and publishing of their two Bookes in answer to that of mine For God and the King I referre to every judicious ingenuous and Orthodox Reader of my Book and theirs And they writ against me when I was fast close Prisoner in the Fleet beating and wounding me at their pleasure when I was bound hand and foot and when though I had had opportunity which I had not to answer them yet I could not have got my Book licensed for the Presse or yet any man that durst print when they saw the Author to be so used As for their Answers to the Doctrinall points in my said Book not onely the Reverend Ministers of London in their late Remonstrance exhibited unto the Honourable House of Commons and openly debated and proved from point to point have among other things taxed as erroneous but my Doctrines themselves doest and still unshaken intire and orthodox notwithstanding all their proud and bold attempts to batter them downe But where they cannot as all along fasten their envenomed darts against the Doctrines they have sharpned their virulent stile against my person sprinkling it all over with as black disgraces as the Gall and Vinegar of their Inke but much more of their imbittered and galled Spirit could poure forth D. Dow spends his whole second Chapter professedly in going about to grace my whole course and manner of life doing therein as a Declamatory Orator who having a bad Cause to plead falls fowle in the first place upon the Person of his Adversary As the Orator Tertullus whom the High Priests had feed to plead against Paul who after his colloguing Preface to Foelix for a favourable audience he begins thus against Paul saying We have found this man a Pestilent fellow and a mover of Sedition among all the Jewes c. And so this Doctour hath farsed his Chapter with many sore charges upon my Person One is I can devise saith he no better Apologie nor other way to free him from the just imputation of imbittered malice and traiterous intention then to say that discontent at once hath crackt his brain and his conscience To which I answer The Lord rebuke thee But he begins at my breeding in Cambridge for some short time as he saith surely that some short time was six yeares together intire taking my Degree of Mr. of Arts the next yeere Well what then Where he was never observed for any excellency but that he could play well on an Instrument Surely I plead not excellencie in any thing What God hath freely given me I blesse him for Yet this there be some yet living can testifie that I was so observed for a Ciceronean that I was in request for making Orations for Gentlemen in the Colledge which I speake not to glory of but to tell Dr. Dow that H. B. will at this day dispute with Christopher Dow either in Latin or Greek That I could play well on an Instrument I thank God also and the rather because that quality was borne with me and it never was any hindrance but a furtherance to my studies But after he was a Schoole-master in a Noble-mans house saith he hee found the favour to be admitted to a meane place in the Closet of his Majesty that now is then Prince of Wales which sometime he was wont to execute in his hose and dublet with a perfuming pot in one hand and a fire-shovell in the other and as I have heard received for his paines 5. pound per annum and a Livery Now all these particulars he relates as so many disgraces upon my person Why was 't a disgrace for a yong man as I was for a while to teach the two Noble sonnes of a Noble-man in a Noble house And for the favour I found in Court to be admitted to a mean place in the Closet of his Majesty that now is then Prince of Wales our Doctor here is quite out For first the place in the Closet how meanesoever he accounts it which I was admitted into was the whole office of the Princes Closet both the Great and the Privie Closet intirely I had the Charge of all to provide furniture and Books and all requisites for those Closets which came to no small value 'T is true indeed that by the Prelaticall party working in the Kings Court and which ever had a malignant eye upon me I was kept from the Title of Clerke but I had the Office of Clerk So as when the Princes servants were to be allowed two parts of three proportionably to the Kings servants I had for 20. nobles the Clerkes wages of the Kings Closet 5. pound allowed to me For the Livery it was just the same that the Kings Clerke had but for my part I never received it because I never demanded it being a red Jacket and I wot not what else an old obsolete Livery for the Clerke But the Doctor hath I know not through what errour quite omitted the best part of the time that I spent in Court For my first Court service was to that most noble and of ever most glorious memory Prince Henry whom I served upon seven yeares space and which I would have been willing to have served many seven yeers in my dublet and hose even in a far meaner office conditionally it had pleased God to have continued his life so long A gratious Prince and Master he was to me hee was pleased often to admit me to speake with him alone and for any motion I made to him I ever received a most gracious answer I could tell the Doctor how when some Officers had in my absence given way to the Players to bring their bag and baggage into the Closet there to dresse themselves upon my complaint to his Highnesse he did forbid it Another time from an old custome and I being then out of the way some of the Gentlemen dancing in the Great Closet his Highnesse upon my complaint to him quite for bade that also saying being with me alone in his Privie Closet where he used me with the most sweet carriage and communication that even one familiar would use unto another that he would not have any to dance in his Closets and bid me so to tell them from him I could speak much more in this kind but