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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

holy Angels and Saints should rejoyce and sing Halelujahs to him that sits upon the Throne And this I told them should most certainly come to passe and that shortly so as they should live to see it And so being to goe to London that morning I took my leave thereupon saying Well what ever come on it I must to my work And this work proved to be that aforesaid Nov. 5. When having preached those Sermons I was not long after summoned by a Pursuivant into the English Inquisition Court the High Commission from which I presently appealed to the King And because I foresaw that this would prove a publick cause and putting no confidence either in my Appeale or in the equity and innocency of my cause or in the just lawes of the Kingdome being fallen into such times wherein nor law nor conscience nor innocency nor justice nor clemency nor humanity could take place but that some unjust odious censure must stigmatize both the cause and the person therefore I shut my selfe up in my house as in my prison and there did compile my two said Sermons with my Appeale in one Book to the end it might be published in print as it was sheet by sheet as I writ it the while the Prelates Pursuivants those barking Beagles ceased not night nor day to watch and rap and ring at my doores to have surprised me in that my Castle nor yet to search and hunt all the Printing houses about London to have prevented the comming forth of my Book which they heard to be at the Presse But God by his good providence so prevented them as neither they could touch my person before I had finished my Book nor yet prevent the publishing thereof for all their unwearied search And here I may not omit to magnifie the great Name of God especially for two things First for his admirable strengthning and supporting presence in so carrying up my spirit all the while of my writing that Book entituled For God and the King together with the Appeale c. that not all the incessant roarings and ballings of those beagles could either interrupt my work or distract my thoughts or discourage my resolution by any the least apprehension or feare of danger but that with all cheerfulnesse and invinciblenesse of spirit the work was finished Secondly the Lords wonderfull Providence is here to be admired in that the Pursuivants had no power either to apprehend my person or to prevent the publishing of my Book but just that night when I had received some dozens of Copies bound up and the Books for the King and Councell were a binding up and nor sooner nor later having also newly concluded the Family-duties for that night came the Serjeant at Armes with his Mace in the Bishop of Londons name accompanied with divers Pursuivants and other Officers yea with the Sheriffe of London with swords and halberds and with pick-axes fell a breaking up my doores which being strong and I making no resistance held them work till eleven of the Clock They break in surprise my person ransack my study carry away what Books they pleased and carry me away prisoner to a Constables house for that night and the next day at night being Febr. 2. they had got a new warrant from the Councell Board to carry me to prison in the Fleet where I was kept close prisoner from wife or friend and so remained for halfe a yeare till I was removed to another prison as you shall heare anon During my abode in the Fleet I was served with a Writ into the Starre Chamber to answer an information there against me drawn up by the Kings Atturney in the Name of the King notwithstanding my said Appeale not yet repealed But all is one for that With much difficulty being all along close prisoner I get my Answer drawne up by Counsell and the same by speciall Order of Starre-Chamber admitted in Court upon my Oath to be a true Answer Above a week after I heare that the two Chiefe Justices by appointment of the Court have quite expunged my Answer and defence contained in 80 sheets leaving only the negative part and that also of their owne patching together contained in some halfe a dozen lines Thus my Answer in Court is left no Answer of mine After this comes the Examiner for my Answer to his interrogatories which was to be reckoned part of my Answer in Court But I answered him that my Answer in Court being wholly expunged and so made no Answer of mine I was not bound to answer the interrogatories Hereupon I was brought into the Starre-Chamber to be censured by all those terrible ones pro confesso as having refused to put in my Answer when indeed themselves had put it our What I then spake for my selfe by leave of the Court which had already the day before set downe my Censure in black and white and what the Censure was and by whom I referre to the Relation of all the passages of our three sufferings set forth at large in Print 1641. Only thus much when I saw that they would proceed to censure notwithstanding they did not nor could object the least crime in all my Book For God and the King but that they said I was too sharp against the Prelates having obtained leave to speak I said My Lords I perceive I am brought into a great strait that of necessity I must either desert my cause and my conscience or undergoe the Censure of this Honourable Court and therefore I doe without any further deliberation choose rather to abide the Censure of this Honourable Court then to desert my Cause my conscience Here at the Audience gave a great humme But when they came to the censure it was so terrible especially the perpetuall close imprisonment in a desolate goale that lest my spirits should faint within me I did there earnestly in my heart entreat the Lord that he would strengthen me and hold up my spirits that I might not any way dishonour the cause or give those terrible ones cause to triumph And at that very instant the Lord heard me he put such strength in me as neither my selfe nor my two Brethren did once change countenance before those terrible ones so as some of them afterwards said that they never saw three such men who instead of being daunted so stood before the Court as if they had sit in the Judges place And forasmuch as the night before a friend came to me in the Fleet and told me he saw my Censure set down in their Book as standing on the Pillory c. I did therefore that night * redouble my prayer to God that he would strengthen me at my Censure so as I might not dishonour him and his Cause the next day before that great Court And immediately upon my prayer I was filled with a mighty spirit of courage and resolution wherewith I was carried up farre above my selfe even as it were upon

Board was husht he sent his Pursuivant for me and anew quarrelled with me for my late preaching against bowing at the Name Jesus and though I told him that it was first injoyned by the Pope and shewed by Scripture it had no ground there yet he proceeded to suspend me from preaching But I appealing from him to the Arches of Canterbury which afterwards I came to see was no better then to goe from the black Witches inchantment to be healed with the Spell of the White Witch and held him so to it that he was glad to loose me againe from my suspension Another Book of my writing styled Israels Fast being published at a generall Fast brought me again into their High Commission extraordinarily called for that purpose onely where they examined me what or whom I meant by Achan I answered the Jesuiticall Faction and no more could they squease from me so as not knowing what to do with me they let me goe Another Book I wrote and published and that by license too casually intituled The baiting of the Popes Bull for Pope Vrban the 8. had sent forth his roaring Bull among his Roman Catholikes in England to incite them to be in a readinesse whensoever occasion was ministred for the promoting of the Catholike Cause as they usually call it This was an Alarme or preparative to arme them for that plot which was then a contriving and which we see now marching forth into the field expecting some desperate issue This Bull passed up and down City and Countrey without controule untill so soon as it came to my hands I fastned upon it Well hereupon the Bull roared so lowd that the bellowing was heard to the Counsell board This baiting was made a heinous offence against the State as being done without acquainting the board which gives leave both to Bear-baiting and Bull-baiting Thither I was summoned where I found fix of the Councell sitting of purpose to examine me about it whereof two were Neale of Durham and Lawd of London By these I was soundly baited for 2. or 3. houres together They would have made my Book against that Bull a Libell God put into my mouth an answer to all their questions though some were very captious and insnaring For it was ever my care to observe my Master Christ his Counsell being called before Counsels Mark 11. 13 15. not to premeditate what or how to answer and accordingly I found his promise most true for it was given me that houre what to answer even when I was so put to it sometimes that I knew not what to answer till darting up a prayer I had such an answer put in my mouth as put to silence the opposer And in fine I was sent home without any Censure Only let me here take occasion to relate a pretty passage that fell out upon this Booke In the Frontispiece was a picture of K. Charles on the one side with a sword putting off the Popes Triple Crown over against it Which when I shewed to a little Daughter I then had of 3. yeares old in her mothers hands telling her the meaning of those two pictures she presently replyed O Father our King shall cut off the Popes head it must be so it must be so Which words she uttered with that vigour of spirit and vehemency of speech that we exceedingly wondered at it saying It was not impossible And I do now the more look after the full accomplishment of her words as of a prophecy put into a Babes mouth When of late we have seen one of those It must be so fulfilled in Scotland so as we may hope to see the other It must be so fulfilled in England when God shall put the like necessity of It must be so and that redoubled in cutting off the Popes head in the English Hierarchy by the Regall Sword But this by the way Another time after that when the Duke of Buckingham was at the I le of Re● the while the poore Rochellers and the bravest Chevalry of England were betrayed unto the French was I summoned to the Counsell Board but for what cause I could not come to know for between the Summons and day of appearance came the Duke home So as I having waited all the afternoon at the Counsell Chamber doore I was not so much as called in nor sent for any more but once for a show without examination Now I had a little before in a Sermon on the 5. of November spoken of sundry fore-running signes of the ruine of a State which upon that return of the Duke would not it seemes indure the Examination Nor was my time yet come I was to wait for another 5. of November all these troubles hitherto being but as it were so many velitations or light skirmishes in comparison before the main Battell my Captain training me up by degrees so many yeeres to fit me the better for the great incounter which he had fore appointed me unto Which great incounter because all circumstances weighed it wants example it will not I hope be more tedious to posterity to read or heare then it was for me to undergoe it And I have the rather published these things at this time because it may commend the credit thereof to after-ages by those who have been eye-witnesses of all Notwithstanding all these troubles and vexations hitherto which the Prelates and their confederates whose Captaine was * London continually pursued and exercised me withall yet my spirit was carried on with a mighty and undaunted courage which my God put into me and so much the more as these men grew the more audacious and outragious both in opposing and oppressing the Gospel it selfe in the Ministery and Ministers thereof and in erecting and imposing Romes rotten Reliques in all the High places of the Land I could not be silent nor patient to see such things Nor could all their terrours though armed with the greatest power on earth deterre me Yea I was never fuller of spirit nor freer of speech then when I encountred London face to face Insomuch as on a time being summoned by a Pursuivant to London-house and waiting there all alone without till the Bishop accompanied with his Chancellour and Register should send for me in the while my thoughts were busied in searching what the cause might be which was my weaknesse then I was at length no sooner called in but seeing the Bishop in his Chaire with his said Officers about him ready to examine me there came upon me as it were the spirit of a Lyon all the while I was before them so as they were amazed with my Answers And another time in the same place when the Bishop in his Chaire was proudly insulting over me standing at the other end of the Table and a friend of mine standing by I thinking thus with my selfe What doe I standing here to heare such language did thereupon without replying turn my back and goe towards the doore to be gone and looking

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