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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

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 PHIL. 1. 21. Christ is to me to live and dye gaine Dum patior pro Christo potior Christo LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1643. The Preface to the Reader Christian Reader I May say as old Iacob and no lesse truly few and evill have the dayes of the yeares of my pilgrimage been For proofe hereof As it is with a Mariner or traveller who after a long Voyage comming within ken of his native Country begins to recount with himselfe the many hazzards he hath run what by terrible stormes in the midst of Rocks and shelves what by pirates and other perills all which having now waded out of and overcome and arriving at his wished port after thanksgiving to God for bringing him to the haven where he would be he ●…ts him downe and to recreate himselfe and friends begins to discourse of his travells and of the most memorable passages therein So is it now with me Onely I cannot yet say that after so long tedious and perillous a Voyage as I have passed through by Sea and Land every where attended and assailed by fierce tempests and Pyrates I have already arrived at the Port or Haven which I have long wished for to wit my celestiall Countrey and which through the Perspective Glasse of Faith I can as yet in comparison at such a distance but darkly discover For although by his divine providence whose exiled prisoner I have lately been I am now delivered from that otherwise perpetuall prison and exile yet I still carry about with me the manicles and fetters of this mortall and sinfull body which I cannot be freed from untill I have paid my * prison-fees that so my soule may flit out of this her earthly tabernacle to her heavenly mansion Nor is it unusuall for men to set forth a description of their owne lives Moses did so David so Paul so And who fitter then a mans selfe as being best acquainted with and most privy to the many passages of his life Nor had I undertaken this taske but partly to satisfie the importunity of many godly friends and partly to give a just account to Gods people of that divine support and comfort which it pleased the Lord to uphold mee with in all my tryalls To which purpose I may use the Apostles words Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of Mercies and the God of all consolation who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith wee our selves are comforted of God As also the words of David Come and hearken all ye that feare God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soule And these are they especially to whom next unto Iesus Christ the Righteous Iudge as I owe my life so I ought to give an account thereof For the rest I am not ashamed to make my selfe herein a spectacle even to those that are without this being but an anticipation seeing we must all appeare before the Iudgement Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evill Farewell HEN. BURTON 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 64. 1642. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He that once dead unburied lay Three dayes count yeares halfe a day Reviv'd here shews his pilgrimage Now in the last scene of his age The short remainder sharpe or sweet Expect till death shall make complete A Narration of the Life of Mr. Henry Burton MY birth and breeding was at Birdsall an obscure Towne in Yorkshire and the more obscure as having never had a preaching Minister time out of minde long before I was borne nor for ought I know to this very day Notwithstanding my Parents were piously affected they would correct us their children whereof they had many and that severely if we swore an oath or neglected the Church or made a lie Me of all the rest they kept at School my mother encouraging me with often shewing me a new Testament in English which she kept lockt up it having beene my Grandfathers in Queene Maries dayes promising it me when I could read it so as afterwards I was put to read every night two or three Chapters in it to the Family In time they sent me to the University of Cambridge and placed me in the Colledge called St. Johns where I proceeded Master of Arts In which time it was my happinesse to be a constant hearer of Mr. Chatterton and Mr. Perkins on the Lords day For from my first entrance in the Colledge it pleased God to open mine eyes by their ministry so as to put a difference betweene their sound teaching and the University Sermons which savoured more of humane wit then of Gods word Thus I had and for ever have cause to admire and adore the goodnesse of God who thus brought me out of darknesse into his marvellous light Some time after I was in the house of a Noble Knight for the education of his two sonnes in which time with them sojourning a while with a religious * Matron of worthy memory and having often conference with her she took such notice of my spirit then and chiefly of my zeale against the Prelates pride and practices that she said then to some yet surviving of me This young man said she will one day be the overthrow of the Bishops After this I was by the foresaid Knight recommended to the excellent Prince Henry of glorious memory whom I served as sole Officer in his closets during his life only the Bishop who was Clerk of King James his closet envying me the title of Clerk was a meanes to depresse me though my office otherwise was absolute But this was by the speciall providence of my God still who would not suffer me to rise high in Court lest I should have beene corrupted with the preferments of it Nor had I learned the art of ambition to climbe up that ladder in so much as I would often say to a familiar friend in Court that I wondred wherefore I lived in Court considering my naturall indisposition to a Court-life as also how the greatest benefit I found by my office was that it afforded me time for my private studdies which I hoped God would in time bring me forth to make more publicke use of and then I should know why I had so lived thus long in Court And in that time under Prince Henry I writ a Treatise in Latine of Antichrist which in a Manuscript I presented to him with an Epistle Dedicatory and which he graciously accepted

hundred many went out of Egham not without their branches of Rosemary and Bayes as Ensignes of the wedding insomuch as all the way as wee rode the poore people brought forth whole baskets of Rosemary and Bayes to furnish every one in the traine which continually was encreased by the way At every Towne the Bells were rung as we passed through the streets being strowed with people to see our faces But by the way I observed the Sunne rising with an extraordinary brightnesse by reason of the clearnesse of the ayre the whole skie notwithstanding being covered over from side to side round about with one entire cloud as it were a seamlesse mantle or vaile upon the whole hemispheare only the Sunne unclouded But still as the Sunne mounted higher and higher this mantle or clould did by degrees draw back and give way to the Sunne and so passed before it untill the cloud did by degrees wholly vanish as driven away by the Sunnes brightnesse without the least breath of wind to cause it so to passe away This was observed also by many in the company so as though it were the end of November yet after the Sunne had chased away the cloud which fled before it never was there a day in Somer more cleare more bright more sweet and comfortable then that was And it was the more to be observed because all the dayes in our journey from our first landing were much clouded and thickned with mists or fogs only beginning to cleare up as we approached to Egham where our friends met us So as the extraordinarinesse of this dayes brightnesse and beauty so cleared up as before made some impression in my minde of a sweet and glorious day or time which the Sun of righteousnesse arising over England with healing under his wings was now about to procure for us after once that black cloud which hanged over the Land was by degrees chased away But this by the way Nor did the cloud faster wane before the Sun then the faces of our friends from London began more and more to shine being now multiplied as it were into so many constellations of bright starres by the reflection whereof our way towards London seemed to be another via lactea or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the Philosopher calls it that milkie-white brightnesse which we see in the heavens in a cleare starty night But now in the midst of all this glory and favour cast upon us and shining forth from the faces and affections of Gods people I began to fee and to be sensible of a farre greater danger then I had beene in during all the time of my imprisonment and exile For then and there I displayed all my sailes to be filled with the gentle gales of comforts breathing from heaven upon me but now I saw a necessity of taking in my sailes lest the wind of Gods favour and of his peoples affections blowing so strongly yet sweetly upon me might overturne and sink my brittle Bark now in the very bosome of the haven For I began now to feele some stirrings within me Satan now labouring to overthrow me as he did Adam in this my seeming Paradise which he could not doe while I lay on Jobs dunghill Therefore as the Mariner seeing an Herican approaching presently takes in his sailes so did I now I descried in this calme a storme abrewing hereupon I did retire my thoughts inward and did earnestly pray to the Lord that he would no lesse strongly support me with his hand now in this prosperous condition then he had done formerly in all my sufferings And the Lord heard me for both for the present he answered me My grace is sufficient for thee my heart all the way as I rode putting it selfe in a posture of defence against Satans fiery darts and couching so low that his bullets flew all over my head and afterwards lest I should be exalted with abundance of salutations in London streets and abroad a messenger of Satan was sent to buffet me as we shall heare anon Thus we are in our way to London we dine at Brainford where not only all the Innes but streets were filled the company flowing in as a maine springtide not only filling the high way but overflowing the banks all along They were multiplied at Brainford to many thousands horses and coatches filling the Road from thence to London which no lesse filled the Adversaries hearts with envy and madnesse who for so long time before had rejoyced and made merry during our durance A little before I came to Charing Crosse as before is touched a woman being on foot in the midst of the horse called to me and said O Sir this is a glorious wedding day To whom I replied It is indeed good woman blessed be God Yea said she againe but your wedding day upon the pillary was more glorious I admiring this speech of the woman answered indeed it is true And truly so it was for my suffering on the pilary was made glorious by an inward spirituall power and hand of heaven upon my soule makeing it to ride as it were in triumph in that charret but this my returne from captivity was attended with an externall glory shining forth from humane favour although all was the effect and fruit of Gods mercy and providence causing the same who in all is to be blessed for ever And when I was newly past Charing Crosse over against the Mewes Sr Peter Osburne Governor of Guernsey where I was prisoner was staying in his Coatch with the boot downe no doubt as he was appointed to receive me into his coatch and so to carry me to his house at Chelsey which he tendering unto me I desired his honour to excuse me seeing I was all in a sweat and fit to goe no where but to my owne house lest my health might be endangered He pressed me againe and againe I answered still as before Then said he take notice that I have required you to goe with me I replyed And I pray you Sir take notice of the answer and reason I give you why I dare not goe with you So he dismissed me and we rid on the streets all along on each side thronged with people and all the houses and windowes from the Mewes to my house in Alderman-bury full of beholders of all sexes and ages of all sorts we were three long houres in passing from the Mewes to Alderman-bury Against my comming home that night some friends waiting in my house for my comming one of them espied there a strange man in a scarlet cloake musled about his face and being demanded what he was and not giving a cleare answer they wished him to be gone whereupon he went his way So I comming safely home enjoyed naturall rest in mine own house and the next day being the Lords Sabbath spirituall and corporall rest from all my labours past On the monday following my brother Prin and I went to attend the House of Commons

I forbeare Now if ever I waited in my hose and doublet it was to that Noble Prince Henry But be it knowne to Dr. Dow that for all such offices as of perfuming and the like I kept a servant to doe them as the Kings Clerke did I ever carried my selfe sutably to my degree as a Scholler though living in Court where I studied no lesse then if I had been in the University Yet I remember that one time my man being out of the way and the Prince comming suddenly to Chappell before we were aware I not having my Cloake or Gowne on snatcht up the perfuming Pan to sweeten the roome where the Prince was to passe as the manner was And this is all that sometime that I did so it being also a solemne time when a great Prince as I remember the Palatine came along with him But saith he upon the Prince Charles his going into Spaine H. B. whether his indiscretion did minister cause of suspition or what ever the cause were certain it is he was put out of the list for that voyage and that when his goods were a Ship-board Here the Dr. againe is wide for my goods were not a Ship-board hereof he cannot say Certain it is but certaine it is I confesse that I was put out of the List and that also when my goods were truncked But inter pontem fontem misericordia Domini Between the City and the Ship was Gods mercy seene which yet he imputes to some suspition of my indiscretion Indeed if my plaine dealing against Popery be indiscretion I can hardly to this day as old as I am and as bitten as I have been so avoid the suspition as not to make manifestation thereof yea although it had been in Spaine it selfe as Paul did in Athens when he disputed with the Philosophers in Areopagus And therefore I have cause to blesse God to this day that I was unlisted for that Spanish Voyage where perhaps some such indiscretion might have left me in the lurch of the Inquisition where our Country-man Mr. Bedle had been for so many yeeres immured whence no more redemption then from the Infernall Prison And why should I have escaped in Spaine that Babylonish prison when I could not escape the like in England But what ever other cause it was on mans part Certaine it is that Gods good providence prevented that that so this should not be prevented But this he calls a little after His hoped Voyage into Spaine Indeed if Dr. Dow had been the man well might he have called it His hoped Voyage into Spaine and so of his desired preferment thereby a Bishoprick at least and I blesse God that both I escaped the Voyage and the Preferment too But His Majesty upon his misbehaviour dismissed him the Court whence being cashiered and all his hopes of preferment dasht c. These malicious misconceits of the Doctor are detected of wicked falshood before And so I will follow him in his Wild-goose Chase no further And now that he hath spit all his spite what is all this heap of disgraces being summed up together All doth not amount to this that Mr. H. B. is either a drunkard or a whore-master or any such vitious person or an idle droane in his Ministry or one that was ever or would be a double beneficed man or one that favours Arminianisme or Popery or one that suffers his wife had he such a one to be his master or his Curate hers And now should I as diligently trace the steps of this Doctor as he hath hunted mine O Doctor I will say no more but draw a vaile over the rest Nolo in hoc ulcere esse unguis And so I leave both the Doctors to the righteous Judge of quick and dead And what shall I say to the grand master of these two Doctors who for their so good service hath so richly rewarded them But God reward both him and them according to their deeds And now it is time for me to shut up my discourse of the course of my life it now drawing on apace to its finall period As for the reproaches I have undergone by false brethren about my suffering as that it was just I will bundle them all up either to burne them as Constantine did or to leave them in the hands of the righteous Judge of all the world who will doe right And here let me close with a story concerning my suffering wherein it will appeare that the righteous Judge from heaven hath set to his hand to the House of Commons in the vindication of my Cause Since my returne from exile a certaine Atturney at Law being then in the house of one Mrs Monday then dwelling a little within Aldersgate in Little Brittaine Febr. 17. 1640. and mention being made of my name and sufferings and Mrs Monday saying that England had never thriven since he suffered and that though she had never seene him yet she had shed many a teare for him the said Atturney replied Could so many wise men and Judges be deceived for he suffered no more then he deserved nor so much neither and therefore what a pox such was his language should you be sorry for such a man as he No sooner had these words passed from him but his right eare suddenly and strangely fell a bleeding at the lower tip of it and so long it bled as it wet a whole handkercher so as it might have beene wrung out whereat his heart so fainted that he sent for halfe a pint of Sack and drunk it up himselfe alone Whereat his brother then present with sundry more said unto him You may see brother what it is to speak against Mr Burton Yet such was this mans spirit that in stead of taking notice of the hand of God herein he continued cursing saying what a pox had I not spoken a word against Burton my eare would have bled though he could not at that time shew any reason or naturall cause why his eare should then bleed it being whole and sound so as upon the ceasing of the blood Mrs Mondays maid wiping the blood off his eare and looking wistfully upon it could not discerne whence the blood should issue but only a small pore or hole no more then a pins point could goe into there being neither scratch nor scab nor scarre upon his eare The persons then present that saw this were these the Atturneys brother and his wife Mrs Adcock Mrs Anne Roe Mrs Ioan Monday and Ellin Hutton her servant All this Mrs Monday and her maid testified before sundry Christians of good credit my selfe and wife being present Yet after this within some few dayes the said Atturney had found out a flamme to make Mrs Monday and others beleeve that the cause of that bleeding of his eare was by a razor which he had borrowed two or three dayes before wherewith he having cut his eare and at that time rubbing it it fell a bleeding But neither was this put off ready at hand when his eare so fell a bleeding nor did the maid discerne any such thing save only one little hole no larger then a pins point which could not possibly be made with a round razor But after this for all this shavers device he forbore any more to come to Mrs Mondays house who asking him at her doore why he was grown such a stranger and praying him to come in he refused saying No I will come no more to your house to work miracles But I pray God he may sinne no more lest a worse thing happen unto him And now to stoppe the mouthes of this and all other reproachers of my sufferings as just I will only referre the Reader to those votes of the Honourable House of Commons whereby he shall finde in the Book entituled A New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny pag. 139. c. my innocency is cleared to all the world by that representative Body of this Kingdome FINIS Gen. 47. 9. Psa. 107 30 1 Cor. 13. ● * To wit Death 2 Cor. 5. Ioh. 14 2. Exodus Psalmes Act 2. 2 Cor. 11. c. 2 Cor. 1. 3 ● Psal. 66. 16 2 Cor. 9. 10. * Mrs B●w at Aske neer Richmond in the North 2 Cor. 2. 16 M. Montague after B of Chichester then of Norwich London Lawd * Dr. Lawd then Bishop of London Ier. 11. 21. 〈…〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Exod. 19 4 Mr. Price in Coleman Pre●t L●ndon 1 Pet. 4. 14. 2 Cor. 12. Iul. Caesa Comment. * Act. 19. 35 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Siccis oculis ad Christi vexillum vol● Hier. A strange and miraculous Rainbow Gen. 9. 12 13. Exod. 15. 1● Exod. 15. 9. Isa. 26. 11. Revel. 11. bee my book entit●led The sounding of the sixt Trumpet Rev. 16. 16. Revel. 2 7 8. Rev. 17. 14. Rev. 20. 9. As 2 Sam. 11. 11. Esa. 8. 18. Greck {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Thou hast set riders upon our heads {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Phil. 1. 29. Acts 20. 20 26 27. Psal. 41. 12. Rev. 14. 4. 2 Cor. 12. 9 Mat. 21. 16 A paralell betweene Pauls sufferings and the Authors Psal. 55. 12. 13. 14. Acts 24. 23 28. 30. 31 2 Thess 2● Act. 25 16. Psal. 2● ● 1 Cor. 12. 9 Esa. 51. 12 13. Iob. 16 19. 1 Kings 18 17 18. Iosh. 6. 26. Rev. 18. 13. L●● 13. 24. Gen. 3. 15. Revel. 16. 14 16. A●… 2● Acts 17.

my brother Bastwick being not yet returned from Sillie We presented our persons with our petitions to the House for the hearing of our cause It was granted a speciall Committe was appointed for the examination of our cause and in the same Order of the House to the same Committe a thing wherein the hand of divine Providence is not a little seene it was ordered that after the examination of our causes the Courts and proceedings both of the High Commission and starre chamber should be examined and the issue was our cause was declared and voted first by the Committee and after by the whole House to be innocent and all the proceedings of those Courts against us illegall against the lawes of the land and the liberties of the subject and on the other side both those Courts were alike voted to bee illegall and thereupon an Act was drawne up and passed and stands now in force for the utter abolishing of both those Courts So they are brought downe and fallen and we are risen and stand upright And blessed be the Lord that both those Courts fell under such a Cause as gives them no just cause to complaine But for our cause although the honourable House of Commons have voted it so farre for the clearing of us as it can yet goe yet the Transmission thereof to the House of Lords is not hitherto passed for a recompence of our wrongs sustained But herein we are patients with the whole land which lyes a bleeding while the cause of innocent blood cannot find redresse Yet blessed be God that by vertue of that vote I have liberty to preach although I have suffered not a little for that first Sermon I preached after my liberty obtained as my first-fruits paid to the Parliament at Westminster Clamors were raised by some malignant spirits and received too credulously by some of the better minded who had not heard the Sermon which the more grieved me But how justly fame did censure me the Sermon it selfe if once it may obtaine licence to be printed which it hath a long time waited for will clearly show Many other wrongs have I suffered both by false reports and by bookes published under the name of Mr. Burton in generall which the simple hearted people took to be mine being only counterfeited to get away their farthings But the righteous judge will one day cleare all When the next day after that Sermon I was taken with a fit of the stone the first sensible fruit of my long close imprisonment fame gave it out that it was for griefe and shame of my said Sermon Though after this I have had sundry fits of the stone I might mention many other reproaches cast upon me since my enlargement which I have learned the more easily to digest and contemne saving only that I take them as messengers of Satan sent to buffet me by my experience in my greater sufferings He that hath stood an innocent upon the pillary and the●e had his eares cut off which he endured with not only patience but alacrity and triumph cannot he trow you brook to be unjustly branded for an Infamous person and that by such as were the prime authors of such bloody and barbarous cruelty but he must needs be sick for sorrow of that which he accounts his glory and crowne Or shall such a one be ashamed to beare in his body such glorio is marks of the Lord Jesus Or he that chose rather to be deprived of all liberty livelyhood eares credit with the malignant world degrees in schooles yea his sweet native country wife children friends all outward comforts rather then betray the cause of Christ and basely yeild to unreasonable and absurd men after the suffering of all these is it so easie a matter thinke you to overthrow such a one with the impotent breath of a man that shall dye or of the son of man that shall be made as grasse should I now at last so forget the Lord my maker as to feare continnually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy of whom the Prophet saith And where is the fury of the Oppressor Behold my witnesse is in Heaven and my Record is on high And certainly if witnessing the Truth against Falshood and openly detecting the machinations of Apostats if ever they were other then dissembling Hypocrites before their vizards were pulld off deserve the brand of An infamous disturber of the peace of this Church and State I will weare it as a badge of the greatest honour of my service to Christ in this World And I blesse my Lord who accounted me faithfull and put me in this service and enabled me so therein as to deserve to be reproached no otherwise then the Prophet Eliah was by the grand disturber and troubler of Israel to whom the Prophet replyed I have not troubled Israel but thou and thy fathers house in that ye have forsaken the Commandements of the Lord and have followed Baalim And if by This Church be understood the Prelaticall or Hierarchicall and by State a Tyrannicall and lawlesse Government I heartily thank God that I have bin a disturber of these so as never since that time they could peacably go on as before they did in their rebuilding of Babel the end wherof wil be confusion or in reedifying of Jerico the curse wherof was the rooting out of the whole race and posterity of the Rebuilder What should I speake of the many reproaches and infamies which I have undergone since the cleering of my Cause in the honorable House of Commons ever to be honoured of all posterity But this was my comfort all along even the clearnesse of my Conscience being not guilty to my selfe of any just cause by me given why any unlesse Prelaticall and Iesuiticall spirits or such as are through ignorance seduced by them should fall so fowle upon me saving that the more any man endeavors to come neerest to Christ and so to shake off the shackles of sinne and yoake of Antichristian usurpation over the soules of men the more necessarily and unavoidably he must passe the pikes of all those whose conversation in the world cannot find elbow-room enough to walke in Christs narrow way which leadeth unto life Nor need this be made a wonder in our dayes which hath bin the perpetuall practise of the world in all ages since Christ had a Church upon earth since the Lord himselfe put that enmity between the Serpent and the Woman and between her seed and his yea in this Age of ours wherein Satans wrath is so great because he knoweth that he hath but a short time and wherein the ten horned Beast and his limmes are fighting their last battell in Harmageddon whither the Almighty himself brings them that he might shew himselfe to be the Almighty in giving the last and most terrible defeat to all their power and plots not to see such