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A69662	A full and satisfactorie ansvvere to the Arch-bishop of Canterbvries speech, or, Funerall sermon preached by himselfe on the Tower-hill, on Friday the tenth of Ianuary, 1645, upon Hebr. 12. 1, 2 at which time he was there and then beheaded wherein is a full and plenary discourse to satisfie all those who have been startled with his suttle and Jesuiticall falacies and evasions in the said speech : and other passages and observations of great consequence, to satisfie the expectation of the Kingdome therein.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6162A; ESTC R4327	11,272	23

to a gratious spirit to humble himself before God seeing how he was overwhelmed with those waues into which he had driven the people of God and in which himselfe was now so neer drowning And I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my resolution is now as theirs was then their Resolution was They would not worship the Image which the KING had set up nor shall I the Imagination which the PEOPLE are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of GOD to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calves in Dan and in Bethel Answ. He still goes on as if there had been some hopes of his deliverance and set downe you see his resolutions if he should have lived and that full of pride that hee would never submit to the Parliaments and their Lawes which he sets in oposition to the Temple and truth of God Nay hee is so farre from Charity that hee seemes to invite the people to mutinie And I pray God blesse all this People and open their eyes that they may see the right way for if it fall out that the blinde leade the blinde doubtlesse they will both into the ditch Answ. Are not these wicked Tares for a dying Man to sowe between the Parliament and the People For my selfe I am and I acknoledge it in all humillity a most greivous sinner many wayes by thought word and deed and therfore I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poore penitent as well as other sinnes Answ. This speech hath something like grace in it when it is spoken from a sincere Coonscience but whether this was onely a complement with God or to blind many or how cordiall it was spoken none can judge and therefore I shall wave that to come to those particulars which follow in which we shall better understand this I have upon this sad occasion ransack●d every corner of my heart and yet I thanke God I have not found any of my sins that are there any sins now deserving death by any known Law of this Kingdom Answ. Had he ransack'd every corner of his heart as hee here saith he did and dealt ingeniously with us and layd the poore fellowes blood that he caused to be hanged drawne and quartered to fulfill his humour close to his Conscience that had there bene nothing else would have given him the lye in this particular But that is but one thing there were many crimes proved against him as to give the King a wrong oath at his Coronation to keepe that Plot so private which he knew of when an Indian nut had bin prepared to be given to the King with poyson his labouring to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of the Land his correspondency with the Pope and knowne Iesuits Priests and Papists in England which is treason by Law his causing of new Canons to be made against law and mens houses to be pulled downe over their heads to please his humour his causing of severall Parliaments to be broaken up c. Why should a dying man this dissemble at his death But then he daubs up the matter and saith And yet thereby I charge nothing upon my Iudges I humbly beseech you I may rightly be understood I charge nothing in the least degree upon my Iudges for they are to proceed by proof by valuable Witnesses and in that way I or any Innocent in the world may justly be condemned And I thank God though the weight of the Sentence lye very heavie upon me yet I am as quiet within as I thank Christ for it I ever was in my life Ans. The Witnesses are hundreds of honest godly men that came against him some of them are honourable Members in Parliament some of them reverend Divines some Gentlemen and other godly honest Christians and of as good repute as any amongst those where they live that came to witnesse against him from all parts of the Kingdome And though I am not onely the first Archbishop but the first man that ever dyed in this way yet some of my Predecessours have gone this way though not by this meanes for Elfegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes and Simon Sudbury in the fury of VVat Tyler and his fellowes And long before these Saint Iohn Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd woman and Saint Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting Sword Ans. The Archbishop here you see lookes upon Iohn Baptist as his Predecessor but the Archbishops case was rather like that of Thomas a Becket or Cardinall Woolsey's or Bishop Bonners but his stomack will not downe he cannot bow no hee talkes of greatnesse and his comfort is that he goes the way of great men But nothing in all his speech can be more observable then this that here hee bringe in not onely Cyprian a moderate Popish Father but Elfegus a most notorious Popish Priest of the Danes and with him also Symon Sudbury another as notable a Iesuited Prelate in King Richard the seconds dayes and these are the men from whose example he saith to his great comfort he is taught patience 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 that is put upon it here upon earth and some comfort it is to me not onely that I goe the way of those great men in their severall Generations Ans. Indeed it was a great favour to grant him leave to dye such a honourable death But this you see is not all for hee lookes upon his death as meritorious and that so the very act will appeare in heaven is his hope But also that my charge if I may not be partiall looks somewhat like that against Saint Paul in the 25. of the Acts for hee was accused for the Law and the Temple that is the Law and Religion and like that of Saint Stephen in the 6. of the Acts for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave us which Ordinances were Law and Religion but you 'l say doe I then compare my selfe with the integrity of Saint Paul and Saint Steven Answ. Yes and here he shewed a great deale of Arrogancie in it too his cause and theirs being quite contrary Yet he saith No God forbid farre be it from me I onely raise a comfort to my selfe that these great Saints and servants of God were thus layd up in their severall times And it is very memorable that Saint Paul who was one of them and a great one that helped on the accusation against Saint Steven fell afterwards into the selfe-same accusation himselfe yet both of them great Saints and servants of God Answ. This seemes verily to rise from the pride of his heart and we may all see how justly God hath requi●ed him for the evill he hath done to these Kingdomes which he was too proud to a●ply to himselfe in that particular concerning Pauls fall who before helped forward

the accusation against S●ephen seeing he was the man that helped forward the accusation against the Scots to cause them to be proclaimed Traytors and Bendfield to be hanged drawne and quartered as a Traytor it was just with God to caase him to dye under the condemnation of a Traytor though hee was too lofty to stoppe downe before the throne of Gods justice and lay it home to his Conscience I but perhaps a great clamour there is 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 himself in the eleventh of Iohn If we let him alone all men will beleeve on him Et veniunt Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causlesse cry against Christ that the Romans would come and see how just the Iudgement of God was they crucified Christ for feare least the Romans should come and his death was that that brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared and I prey God this clamour of veniunt Romani of which I have given to my knowledge no just cause helpe not to bring him in for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and divisions rhat 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 now passing out of this world Answ. To passe by this caution for indeed we may already say veniunt Romani and indeed the Pope never had such an Harvest in England but who may we thanke for this did not the Archbishop act his part in this yea verily and both countenanced and encouraged the Queene and told her that with a good Conscience shee might goe on according to those Principles which occationed all this which gave opportunity to such Armyes of Papists in the three Kingdomes but let us see what it is hee saith further of this in the insuing discourse first taking a view of that hee saith concerning the King Some particulars also I thinke not amisse to speake of and first this I shall be bold to speake of the King our gracious Soveraigne He hath been much traduced by some for labouring to bring in Popery but upon my Conscience of which I am now going to give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge I thinke as any man living and I hold him to be as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in this Kingdome and that He will venter His Life as farre and as freely for it and I thinke I doe or should know both His affection to Religion and His grounds upon which that affection is built as fully as any man in England Ans. Jt is rather conceived that by the labours and endeavours of the Queene and the Iesuits and Priests and Fryers that by the Archbishops means have been suffered at Court the King hath been brought to doe what he doth And till now the Archbishop never once talkes of Conscience and now he speakes his Conscience you see what it is that he saith J know him I thinke him I hold him to bee a Protestant and I thinke I know his affection and the grounds upon which upon which that affection is built Is this an expression for such a man as he that is an Arch-Bishop to bring his Conscience too that gives no satisfaction at all he had been better to have said nothing at all of him But let us see what he saith of the City of London for that is the next particuler he speaks of The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God blesse here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Honourable and great Court of the Kingdome the Parliament and clamour for Iustice as if that great and wise Court before whom the causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not doe Iustice but at their call and appoyntment a way which may endanger many an innocent man and pluck innocent bloud upon their owne heads and perhaps upon this City also which God forbid and this hath beene lately practiz●d against my selfe God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I begge it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In Saint Stephens case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Acts 6. and Herod went just the selfe-same way for when he had kill'd Saint Iames he would not venture upon Saint Peter too till he saw how the people tooke it and were pleased with it in the 12 of the Act. But take heed of having your hands full of bloud in the first of Isai. for there is a time best known to himselfe Ans. Here you see he seemes to looke back to the Earle of Strafford whom he compares to Stephen and seemes to charge the Parliament that the City comming with Petitions against him to them and finding that Straffords death pleased the people therefore they put him to death also and from thence charges the City with bloud wherein he now flies quite from what he said before and most enviously goes about to doe what he can to blemish the Parliament and the City of London when he said before that he charged nothing upon his Iudges and whereas he speakes as if the way that hath been taken with him may endanger an innocent man it is notoriously knowne that in this he lyes against his own Conscience well knowing that never any Subject in England had a fayrer tryall and more liberty and priviledge and favour all along than he the like was never shown to any man in his case if hee could have defended himselfe and that his Counsell knew right well When God among other sinnes makes inquisition for bloud and when inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psalme 9. that God remembers that is not all tha● God remembers and forgets not saith the Prophet the complaint of the poore and he tells you what poore they are in the ninth verse the poore whose bloud is shed by such kind of meanes Take heed of this It is a fearfull thing at any time to fall into the hands of the living God in the 12. of the Hebrewes but it is fearefull indeed and then especially when he is making his Inquisition for b●oud and therefore with my Prayers to avert the Prophesie from the City let mee desire that this City would remember the Prophesie that is expressed Ieremiah 16.15 Ans. He should have taken this into serious Consideration when he pesecuted the poore saints of God from place to place never suffering them to be at quiet but going a thirsting for their bloud from day to day for whereas he talks of Inquisition for bloud J