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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

can do it But then thou must look to this as thou doest regard thine imortall soule That thou doest speake-out these words hartily intirely and indeed when thou sayest My God then thou canst say Whom I serve If that followes not no comfort followes But if thou canst say Whom I serve indeed then maist thou say My God indeed else not My God and My service to him must go together He tells us in the next place of the Imaginations which the people are setting up Then the people do as he and such blinde guides taught them the way to worship God after the imaginations of their owne hearts Then he tells us of following the Bleating of Jeroboams Calves An horrible Blasphemy But a very fit Paralel for of no Arch-Bishop it may bee said so truly as of him That hee as Ieroboam set up a Calvish worship and made all Israel to sin In the same page he acknowledgeth himsele a grievous sinner many waies and this he does in all humility All humility There is no humlity at all Where are the Actings of an humble spirit Where are the Breakings of his heart with sorrow Where is he condemning judging loathing himselfe for all his abominations Where are his thirstings after God! Reader beleeve the Word of God and what His Faithfull servants have said touching this which he calls all humility where all humility is there is all this forementioned where there is none of this there is no humility none at all No hee made an acknowledgment of his sins in all the pride of his heart not as a poore penitent as he calles himselfe but as a proud impenitent person who had an heart that could not nay would not repent Reader I speak this for thy profit therfore before I passe on I must bespeak thee again and I do charge thee before the living God and as thou dost tender thine immortall Soul read over those words again which I have said rather the mouth of God saith in Reference to his acknowledgement in all humility And adde thereunto That where humility is there all known sins are Confessed distinctly humbled for and repented of bitterly bitterly Where there is all humility sin will be as bitter hearbes indeed bitter in the mouth and bitter in the soul A man all humbled tastes sin now as the Gall of Aspes which was before as sugar under the tongue and whereas he gloried in his shame before now he loaths himlelfe for that shame What thiukest thou now of the Bishops aknowledgment of his sin in all humility Consider well on it and make answer here as before God and as thou regardest thine immortall Soule Now proceed and heare what he saies I have upon this sad occasion ransackt every Corner of mine heart and yet I thanke God I hawe not found any sins there deserving Death by any knowne lawes of this Kingdome These Lawes are not so well knowne to us But this wee know understanding in our Measure the Law of our God That this man was put to death by as knowne Laaw as all Judah put Mattan Baals Preist to death who was the Queenes Favorite in all probability 〈◊〉 to her Councells and had his hands and his head acting and contriving all her Murthers and severall Practices against the Peeres and Princes of Judah and complotting with her Her at that time how to divolve the Crowne of Judah to Israel that the Light of Judah might be quite extinct All this is more than probable But certaine it was This Priest was heart and Hand for Ahab had his house and the cursed waies thereof and hee had scattered his wayes His horrible Idolatreis as he could from Corner to Corner By the same known Law that this Mattan was put to Death this Archbishop was put to Death And the Law we read Full out Deut. 13. As for the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome we leave it to them that know them better than we do and are preparing to give the World a full and ample Satisfaction It is abundantly sufficiently for us to know the Law of our God toughing that matter Read on in the same Page where he saith though the Sentence lyeth heavy upon me yet I am as quiet within as I ever was in my life I did not beleeve him though yet it might be so For his heart was as Nabals was a Stone And the Devill like a Strong-man held his Habitation there till the last and there we read all things are at peace but it is a cursed peace If he had lifted up his voice and cryed for the Spirit of Christ to come-in unto him to convince him of his finnes to set them in order before his eyes in a way of mercy then there had been trouble and a blessed trouble though no rest had been to his flesh nor quiet to his spirit because of his sinnes Certian it is when Christ by His Spirit commeth into the Soule Trouble will be there as was when he was born King of the Iewes then 〈◊〉 was trubled and all Ierusalem with him The point is The spirit of God conuinceth of fin first and so causeth trouble before He convinceth of Righteousnesse so causing Quiet Rest and Peace I see my papers fill apace I will hasten yet we will examine his comfort in the next words An empty one God knowes That other Bishops were hanged and beheaded too before him That is true enough and yet not half so many suffered that most shamefull death as deserved the same We hope his Brethren in iniquity shall have their deservings anon But he did almost as presumptuoufly as he had done in the choise of his Text to make 〈◊〉 the Baptist and Saint Cyprian no Archbishop and the first Martyr Saint Stephen Saint Iames too Saint Paul also all these paralels now comparing them with himself That he doth not he sayes and God forbid he should so he sayes also he will raise a comfort to himselfe from those great Saints and servants of God who were laid-up in their severall times as he must be that is his comfort But now let the living man know for the time is passed with him That if he look for comfort from these mens sufferings at his death then he must suffer for the same cause the cause makes the Martyr and his life must be as theirs was and that is matter of comfort indeed for they were all for God His House and His Houshold and the Lawes thereof This man was full set and his hand and heart full bent against all these God and Gods House and Houshold and Lawes there In the same Page we may reade his mutterings against the Honourable Assemblies in Parliament now That they will bring-in the Romans i. e. Romish Religion by the same meanes they seek to root it out Well I like the proceedings so much the better because such a man as he the worst of a thousand hath scandalized the proceedings thereof casting