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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

to presse us to this Christian duty Pride of life was notorous in him and he was so farre from shewing any care to mortifie that lust that he did all to give life and 〈◊〉 unto it And see how that lust served him It was a meanes to put him to open shame and what wrath may lie under to all eternity I have not a tongue to expresse only the thought of the misery an unmortified lust whereof we commonly say is not a little one may bring upon us a matter of great fear and should engage us to the worke of mortification and to speed that work And surely this which has been said is of the same use to me and to thee Reader as it is to him or them in whom the pride of life is so predominant that they will whether God will or no be Arch-Bishops and Lord Bishops still minding their throne and forgetting the Scaffold But fear we every unmortified lust in us and use we in the fear of the Lord all meanes to mortifie the same for mighty men have fallen and shall fall thereby they that made the earth to tremble and did shake Kingdomes We must lead our lust captive throw it down from its dominion casting it-out of our hearts from having place there in our affections else it will throw us downe and expose us to a throwing-out like unsavourie salt Feare we an unmortified lust we little know how far it may carry-us nor to what shame it may expose us to 2 Here is matter of bitter mourning and lamentation certainly if good Bradford had beene alive and had 〈◊〉 what our eyes saw hee would have mourned bitterly over the hardnesse of his heart and then hee would have come home to his owne heart my heart said he as hard as a stone But it was not so for his 〈◊〉 was felt and bitterly mourned over Indeed this hardnesse this rockinesse of heart is matter of bitter mourning The heart is as a stone when it first comes into the world and that is a naturall hardnesse There is an hardnesse which man by severall acts can contract to render his heart like a rock or nether 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 And O what a judgement is this 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Egypt for a rocky heart was one of them and the greatest amongst them all A Rocky heart Nothing makes any more impression upon it than our hand does upon a rock Mercies may be shewred-down upon this heart they run-off againe as waters off a stone Iudgements may be pow ed downe upon this rocky heart The fury of Gods anger and the strength of battle the Lord sets this man on fire round about And what then yet he knowes it not It burned him yet he laid it not to heart i. e Though the 〈◊〉 of Gods wrath was very scorching upon him yet his heart melted not for it is a rock The innocent blood that he has shed is found-out God at present is requiring it The sights and groanes of His poore God has now heard and He is now a foot to avenge his poore servants And this murtherer has received the sentence of Death and yet so rocky is his heart he sayes I le eat and drinke to morrow I shall die Ah Lord has the man a rocky heart He has Then he will set his face like a flint and drive-on furiously against the Lord and His hidden-ones and upon the Drawn Sword in His way more blinde than the Beast he rides upon And while he breaths-forth threatnings against the Lord and is mad with rage aginst those the Lord has set His heart upon hee may thinke that all this while he does the Lord good service A rocky heart All the incomes of pleasures and profits out of all those sweets the world affords he drawes poyson To be brief in so cleare a case Has the man a rocky heart Then hee will workeout his destruction with both hands by all meanes all waies both by his Graces and sinnes He doth cleane contrary to that a man of a soft and melting heart doth doe for he doth worke out his Salvation by all meanes all waies An heart like a rock A man had better be possessed of a Legion of Devills than to have such an heart within him It renders him Spiritually dumbe and deafe It throwes a man into the fire and into the water and yet he knew it not It dasheth him upon this Rocke and that and yet he feels himselfe nor hurt by it he is as a man asleepe upon the top of a Mast the seas work and waters roare round about him but he hears not What shall I say But a word more A rocky heart It renders a man even his graces shall I say uselesse 〈◊〉 Destructive to himselfe and others Of all this this man late Arch Bishop was a very great example Therefore I said as sad an object he was as ever was looked upon For his heart was a rocke and that is matter of bitter mourning 3 It is matter of rejoycing too even to the whole city of God For when it goes ill with the wicked it goes well with the Righteous and then the city rejoyceth That there may bee no mistakes I will briefly propose two Questions and answer them as briefly 1. What is the force and emphasis of this word Rej yceth It is the lifting-up or rather a leaping of the heart for ioy 2. Why is this leaping for Joy Not because the blood of a man is spilt not because a man made in Gods Image and beautified with graces where of he had great store but wanted the chief Grace vvhich teacheth to make use of all is taken avvay not for this The city rejoceth at no mans 〈◊〉 or misery It is a matter of sorrovv to the City to see a person vvhich God has made or the graces vvhich God has given all destroyed in a moment of time This is matter of sorrovv But this of joy of leaping for ioy that that head is chopped off which plotted and contrived the 〈◊〉 of Christs Kingdom That those lights are both put out in darknesse that would have put out the light of Israel That that tongue is Silent in darknesse which silenced or would so have done all the faithfull ministers in all three Kingdomes Cause of leaping for ioy That his day is past and his night come who darkned the Lords Day more than any day and vvould have it prophaned by a law Cause to leap for joy that we saw his head drunke in his owne blood who burned against Iacob the Church of God like a flame which devoureth round about and powred out his fury like fire upon three Kingdomes that they might burne together in the fire of their owne rage and wallow in their owne blood Cause to leap for joy that we saw this mans head lie drunke in his owne blood and himselfe consumed in the fire hee had kindled It goes well with the Righteous the City rejoyceth I

such shame thereupon They go a clean crosse way to him I hope Blessed be God for that As he to root-in Popery so they to root-it-out And veniant Romani let all the Papists in the world joyn hearts and hands as now they do to set up Popery again they shall not prevail so long as all the Assemblies do go as we hope they do clean crosse to this mans way all his life long For that is to go strait and levell to the Glory of God and advancing His Truths and Ordinances in their purity I must not passe over that which he deferred till afterwards I but perhaps a great clamour there is that I would have brought-in Poperie Perhaps It was as sure as he came-upon the 〈◊〉 to be cut a sunder And yet sayes he ye know that the Pharisees said against Christ himself If ye let him alone the Romans will come c. And so he makes application as was pointed at before So as indeed every word there is pointed with a blasphemie But for that which he said was clamoured against him that he would have brought in Popery hereto he said I shall answer more fully by and by He should have answered to that at that point of time he should have cleared himself of that Crime before he spake so largely of the King That upon his conseience he is as free from labouring to bring in Poperie as any man living And as sound a Protestant he held him to be as 〈◊〉 man in his Kingdome and would venture his life as farre and as freely for the Religion he calles Protestant Thus dishonourably he spake of his Lord and Master I say again dishonourably It is a mighty dishonour to his Master for 3. Reasons 1 Because as it is an honour indeed to be honoured by a person that is honourable indeed So is it a dishonour indeed to be honoured by a person infamous indeed 2 Because it will be so judged by all men That he who justifieth himself and his own wicked way will not condemn another 〈◊〉 on in the same way but commend it rather 3 And this will argue That he has spoken dishonourably indeed Because hitherto all the miscarriages or misgovernments in the Kingdome have been charged upon the Kings Counsellors not upon the King God forbid it He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God They are his Counsellors who have counselled the King to do wickedly to his own destruction To bring in Poperie To fight against the Holy Citie The Counsellors have perswaded all this and what is done against the very minde and end wherefore God made him King they have done it And so we blessed our selves and our King a good King but his Counsellors are all naught But now the chief of his Counsellors quits himself here before God Angels and men and affirmeth so may all his other Counsellors as truly even the worst of them all under the ear and eye of heaven That he had never a thought or Will to bring in 〈◊〉 and then he would never perswade the King unto it What shall we say to this As sure as the Daughter of a strange god is brought into the Land so sure Poperie is brought-in As sure as the Irish are brought into the Land so sure Poperie is brought-in As sure as Romish Priests are in Oxford so sure Poperie is there As sure as the Lord Christ is in Heaven so sure the Cannons-mouth is levelled against the very place where His Heart dwels on earth and the sword is pointed against the very Apple of His eye and yet the King is as sound a Protestant as any in the Kingdome and will venture his life for Christ and His Cause as farre and as freely as any man whosoever Well I wish heartily That any man but an Arch-Traitour or Rebell like himself had spoken this But sith an Arch-Bishop hath spoken thus putting all off from himself the Kings chief Counsellor and freeing the King also upon 〈◊〉 conscience of which he was going to give God a present Account and this heavie Charge must be charged somewhere either upon the King or his Counsellor For Popery is brought-in that is certain And there is a generation of men Risen-up in the Sun light who fight with God now as if they had an Arm like Him This is cleer also as the Sun when it shineth in his strength But the Kings Counsellor clears himselfe and the King his Master of all this And we have none else to charge but the Pope who is all one with all the Papists in the world which joyn themselves with the Kings councell now And though they may differ in many things yet they are faithfull to the Divell and made friends amongst themselves in the main the carying-on the designe against the Lord Christ and His Holy ones But do we well consider what a piece of Scripture we have read here from the mouth or pen of this dying man Surely the Debths and Wiles the Devices of Satan were in this man and vented themselves at his tongues ende Now his Memorie serves him very well to do by the helpe of the Devill such a peece of service for his Side and Partie as a greater has not been done since the Warre began nor is it Imaginable how a greater service Can be done to encourage the contrary party in their Cursed way and to advance their Cursed work For Gods sake and his Churches cause observe what he sayes 1. Popery is brought into the Land so we say and God Angels and men will witnesse to what we say But what saies he That neither the King nor his Counsel have ever endeavoured the bringing in of Popery 2 The Religion of God which we without any mentall reservations Call Protestant is protested against and persecuted with fire sword in both hands as God knows and all His most faithfull servants see and feele And yet the King and his Counsellers are all every one as Sound Protestants as any men in the Kingdome 3. The Bullet and the Speare are pointed now against the very Appel of Christs eye as every man sees that will see And yet The King and his Counsellours do beare so 〈◊〉 affection to Religion by Law established that they will venture their lives as farre and as freely for it as any men in all three Kingdomes Where then shall these impieties and horrible iniquities be charged There is no remedy upon the parliament sure 1. That they have brought in Popery By throwing down Jdolatrie and 〈◊〉 out those Idol services which the Bishops had brought-in and so have given the Pope fair hopes of an harvest in England shortly 2. That they are unsound Protestants Why Truly I cannot tell unlesse because they have avouched the Lord this Day to be their God and to walke in His waies and to heare his voice And the Lord hath avouched them to be His peculiar people therefore

unsound protestants they and there is all the reason that I can give or the adversary either 3. They will not venter their lives so far and so freely for Gods Cause as the King and his Counsellours will Now the Lord God of gods be judge here and shew whether of these two parties He hath chosen to fight his Battels Amen But these words shall not passe so Though I may not handle them as I would I will handle them as I may after this manner Sith the Counseller has discharged the King in all the three particulars fore mentioned I will charge the Counsellor with them all three And because the chief among them is gone to his owne place the burden of the Charge shall lie still upon those of the same Conspiracy with him who will say as much for them-selves as he did against the peace of their King and the Lords Kingdomes The first charge is That this late Archbishop sought by all meanes to bring in Popery And brougt it in what was not in before Our Allegations and prooss are upon everlasting record there let them remaine I will alleage onely that which was in every mans eye He has thrust at those and thrustthem-out of their places and out of the Kingdome who set themselves against the bringing in of 〈◊〉 Therefore thrusting-out these 〈◊〉 of the Lord he en-deauoured to bring-Poperie-in Nay he did not onely indeavour but brought in Poperie A strang-worship into the Church Therefore plain poperie in 〈◊〉 Hee brought altars into the church plaine Poperie That also He bended and cringed before Wood and stone The grosest Popery that And yet he said perhaps men have clamoured against me That I would have brought in Popery They do not clamour they will affirm it till they dye And which must needs follow 2. That he was not so sound a Protestant as any man living for some protestants there are who are Sound indeed and understand the word as it is generally understood without any mentall reservations as we thinke he did not And have better evidence for their Religion than that they were borne and baptized in the Church of England which was all the evidence the man brought that he was a Protestant in his sence and so he might be a papist in ours A sound What Truly I cannot tell Not Protestant sure not as the Lutherans understand protestant much lesse as we understand the word but as unsound according to the Religion by Gods Law established as any man in this Kingdom I do not except any now of the Kings Councell now the stinke of whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are engaged in a warre against the Lord 〈◊〉 is come up even to their owne Nostrils and hath 〈◊〉 a filthy savour over all the Churches of God spread over the face of the whole Earth Sound Protestants they No sound Athiests and Papists they enemies and Adversaries to all Righteousnesse It will be manifest thorowoat the next particular of the charge 3. Doubtlesse he would make the world beleeve that he also would venture his Life as farre and as freely for the Protestant Religion as the King would doe We may beleeve him with some Reservation what they were I guess and may in part examine anon who 〈◊〉 the King into a warre against the Kingdomes of Christ that hee might sheath his sword in his Subjects bowels Hee and and his fellow Counsellours venter their lives as far and as freely for Religion It is for the Pagan or Popish Religion then an Abominable Religion for under the heavens of God never were there found such enemies such fighters against God and Religion by Gods Law established as these Counsellours are who have adventured farre and freely indeed their honours their Estates their lives their soules I and the life of their lives their God His favour His protection they venter farre and freely indeed their God and all for a Religion by their own law established And yet sayes he he and his fellowes will venter as farre and as freely for Religion he would make us beleeve by Gods Law established as any men in this Kingdome So he sayes And so they doe And so the Devill and his Angels will say and doe too and so they did just as they doe now the Dragon and his Angels fought with Michael and His Angels Revelation 12. So farre and as freely these Counsellours venter themselves Here is now the third particuliar of the charge charged as indeed it ought to be upon the wicked Counsellors who are at this Day to the King their Master as Athaliah and the house of Ahab were to that unhappy King Ahaziah she his Counsellour to do wickedly They his Counsellours to his destruction And yet let my soul abhor to deal unfaithfully with God and His King against the good word and minde of God and the knowledge He has beene pleased to communicate unto His poor servant therein which is this That the Lord God chargeth all the Bloodshed in a Kingdom that which is openly shed with both hands or with an high Hand before all Israel and before the Sunne all this the Lord chargeth upon the King He has set over that Kingdome So doth he all Abominable Idolatries committed before the eyes of His Holinesse and under the looke of the King all these that Bloodshed and these Idolatries The Lord of lords and God of gods chargeth upon the King though wicked men were his Counsellers to doe wickedly against God and His poore People Now I proceed in the same Page and to Page following where first we read his blessing upon this great and Populous City God blesse it said he Amen And blessed be His name He doth Blesse it in all the Peoples sight And His Blessings are the more conspicuously visible upon the City the more Audible the Adversaries curses are against the Prosperity of the same For indeed all that this Bishop did in the time of his reigne and all his fellow Counsellours do now was and is to bring down a curse upon the City certainly their zeal is so fiery against the prosperity of it that they doe call downe for fire from from Heaven to consume it as Sodom was consumed O how gratious a God is our God! our fins call for a curse our enemies call for a curse Free-grace with holds it it shall not come while the City keeps close to God and to his cause and cannot beare them which are evil and for Christ and His Names-sake and His Churches sake hath laboured and hath not fainted The adversary and Enemy to all Righteousnesse calls for a curse upon the City day and night and had he an Arme like God he would raine-downe fire and Brimstone upon it God will not suffer it so to be He hath blessed it and it must be blessed Blessed be his Name Blesse it still Lord blesse it still even because thy adversaries do curse blesse Thou and let thy Friends see an encrease of thy