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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67879	The life and death of VVilliam Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterburie: beheaded on Tower-Hill, Friday the 10. of January. 1644. I. Here is a brief narration of his doings all his life long faithfully given-out, first, that his sayings at his death may not be a snare to the perdition of souls. II. His doings and sayings being compared and weighed together, his sayings are found infinitely too light; yet of weight sufficient to presse every man to make a threefold use from all, of infinite concernment to his eternall soul. By E.W. who was acquainted with his proceedings in Oxford; was an eye and eare witnesse of his doings and sayings in his courts here at London; and other places under his dominion.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687, attributed name.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3496A; ESTC R6515	29,164	53

and discerning unto men to see unto this misgovernment and has made them resolve upon this question That this misgovernment in and over the churches of God shall be no more no more Arch-Bishops and Lord Bishops For God is above them who would hold-up that Misgovernment still Blessed be God for this for ever and ever That this Misgovernment clean opposite to the Government of Christ is taken away Salvation and Glory and Dominion be ascribed to our God for this Amen He has almost done so have I He has one Desire to put up to the Throne of Grace and that is a great one It is That God would forgive him I humbly desire to be forgiven first of God and then of every man a great desire indeed to be for given of God If that Desire be granted then come life come Death nothing comes amisse All that comes whether fire or sword all is welcome Oh this desire must be well thought-on managed and ordered every day early and late there that it may be heard and answered at the last when we are breathing it-forth last of all and with it our soul God knowes who knowes the heart That I joyned with him as I could But to speak the Truth Though my soul went forth affectionably towards him yet my spirit could not go out with one word in his Petition 1 His desire I could not close with that because the Lord has said The Desire of the wicked shall perish 2 To bee forgiven I could not heartily close with that neither for I remembred what we read The great man humbled himself before Wood and Stone therefore forgive him not Oh terrible words Forgive them not Many a man you will say has done so and God has forgiven him for so doing Yes for nothing is so free as Grace And nothing not sin it self can be so multiplied as Gods pardons are to poor humble sinners We must not limit Gods infinite Mercie No we do not But we must take all together Great sinners have been forgiven the very Argument that David useth Forgive my sin for it is great The most 〈◊〉 Idolaters these have been forgiven But they have been indeed poore penitent greatly humbled before the Lord for humbling themselves before the crature the workes of their hands or imaginations of their hearts Wee cannot tell where to read this man a poore penitent indeed We reade him indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forgivenesse of sin but no where do we read or observe him humbly confessing his sin But the contrary we 〈◊〉 And therefore so 〈◊〉 as God hath communicated His minde to His servants touching this mans 〈◊〉 and his prayer at the foot of his Sermon So farre they may declare it That this mans desire and his prayer both the one and the other was an abhomination to the Lord Secret things belong unto the Lord our God But things revealed unto us and to our children His prayer at the foot of his Sermon takes with a world of people as his sermon did Indeed we are very prone to make an Idoll of our last prayer we hope we may flie unto it when we are slaying as Ioab did unto his Sanctuary God will hear our last words think we though we regarded not to hear His words all our life long This is but a conceit a false hope and will deceive us as it did Ioab and as it has deceived all the wicked in the world Who cried but there was none to help even to the Lord but He answered not And when this great confidence in this last prayer was rejected then will follow as then a treading down and a casting forth for ever This gives fair warnings 1 That we do not dare to turn away our eare from hearing Gods Law For then when we would turn to God as at the point of Death certainly we would then will He turn from us And our prayer then will be as for ought we can know this mans prayer was an abhomination 2 Beware of such a prayer which thine hand has formed and thine eye onely prompts unto thee so teaching thee to pray I dare not censure that which learned men do approve But I am perswaded That the soul shall find as little comfort in the time of need from his prayer so formed and so suggested unto him as his pallate findes relish now in the white of an Egge 3 Beware of having an hand or voice in restraining prayer or binding it to Formes Thou art no more able to do this then thou canst restrain the sweet influences of Pleiades or binde the Sun beames But beware of having a minde or purpose in thy heart to do it as this late Archbishop had and these Lords of the World have at this day Remember how it fared with this man how pent-up and restrained his spirit was at his Death He was putting-up a Prayer then which he hoped would pierce the heavens and reach the bosome of his Father there A miserable Deceit he had no help to forme his prayer but his hand nor to suggest or promp or teach him how to pray but his eye Ah Lord A prayer so formed so taught and suggested can no more reach heaven than you can the highest star with the shortest finger And yet the Adversary and Enemy will have his service-Service-Book brought into the Churches again God shall be served after their manner with formes the hand has framed and with prayers the eye hath taught Well we shall see whose Word shall prevail Mans or Gods and how the Lord will recompence these proud men I have done with the Sermon and the Prayer 〈◊〉 draw to a conclusion This man is faln and the lower the higher his pinacle was The Lord 〈◊〉 this our Brothers fall unto us that it may be for our 〈◊〉 and looking well to our standing when we are up There is matter of infinite Vse in all that we have read hitherto It shall be threefold For here is matter 1 of great feare 2 Of bitter lamentation And yet 3 of exceeding joy with that we will end sure But in order and very briefly giving but the hints of things three words to these three uses 1 Here is matter of great fear to thee and to me we are lost in generalls is there a lust in us and bearing rule there which is not mortified nor by our will shall it be Here is matter of great feare That this lust whether of the flesh or of the eye or of life will undoe us will put us to open shame here or which is worse seal us under wrath for ever It is the manner for an unmortified lust so to do especially where there is no care at all taken about it to mortifie the same I do abound with terrible examples out of Gods Book and the Churches book of dayes all commanding our speedy care and zeal for the mortifying of every lust But this man we have spoken of is sufficient alone