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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

A Full and Satisfactorie ANSVVERE TO THE ARCH-BISHOP OF CANTERBVRIES Speeh 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 ISAY 14.16 They that see thee shall narrowly looke upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake Kingdomes LONDON Printed by JANE COE 1645. A full and satisfactory Answer to the Arch-Bishop of Canterburies Speech Or Funerall Sermon Good people YOu will pardon my old Memorie and upon so sad occasions as I am come to this place to make use of my Papers I dare not trust my selfe otherwise Answ. The Arch-bishop here you se made a repetition of a lesson hee had writ out by heart whether by the advise of his Counsell or whether he had it from Oxford or did stuit himself it matters not he spake it not you see out of Conscience which was the cause why he dirst not trust his decriped memorie lest his conscience should flye in his face and put him out of his lesson Good people This is a very uncomfortable place to preach in and yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture in the twelfth of the Hebrewes Hebrewes 12.1 2. Let us runne with patience that race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was ser before him endured the Crosse despising the shame and is set downe at the aight hand of the Throne of God Answ. Hee saw how uncomfortable a thing it was to bee brought to publike shame in respect of himselfe but was nothing at all touched in Conscience for that Cruell Tyranny where by hee insulted over others to bring them to publique shame before he speakes nothing nor was at all humbled for that And yet speakes of a place of Scripture you see that no Text in all the whole Bible had hee had grace could have come neerer to his conscience for persecuting imprisoning whipping pillering and drawing the blood of the saints of God in that Tyrannicall manner whiche he hath done I have been long in my race and how I have looked unto Jesus the Author and finisher of my Faith is best known to him I am now come to the end of my race and here I finde the Crosse A death of shame but the shame must be despised or there is no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid but I should despise the shame for him Answ. He lived to an olde Age and enjoyed many great blessings had hee had grace to use them to Gods glo●y but you see hee doth not in all his speech so much as once praise God for the same But rather stand upon his justification by Workes as you shall see by and by Why he calls Iesus to witnesse here and then goes on to apply his Text to himselfe even to his very death to Iustification by workes Even triumphing over that shamefull death in all which he speakes nothing of beleeving but all of doing I am going apace as you see towards the Red-sea and my feet are upon the very brinks of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me to the Land of Promise for that was the way by which of old he led his people But before they came to the Sea he instituted a Passeover for them a Lamb it was but it was to bee eaten with very sower herbs as in the Twelfth of Exodus Answ. He was then indeed as neer the Red Sea as Pharaoh was when his Horses drew him into the deluge as hee was pursuing the people of God and in Iustice cut off whilst he pursued them by bloody persecution No doubt but many of those Saints that died under his Martyrdome are in the Land of promise And though for himself he labours to make us beleeve him to be a Lambe yet was he chiefe amongst the first borne of the Egyptians that so Cruelly insulted over the people of God which was to be smitten before the people of God could expect to be delivered I shall obey and labour to digest the sower herbs as well as the Lamb and I shall remembr that it is the Lords Passeover I shall not thinke of the herbs nor be angry with the hands that gathered them but look up onely to him who instituted the one and governeth the other For men can have no more power over me then that which is given them from above Answ. Now he comes to Workes of superarogation to make himselfe not one Lambe but a Lambe unspotted and the putting of him to death a Passeover nay a Passeover of Gods institution I am not in love with this passage through the red Sea for I have the weaknesse and infirmitie of flesh and blood in me and I have prayed as my Saviour taught me and exampled me Vt transiret Calix ista That this Cup of red Wine might passe away from me but since it is not that my wil may his will be done and I shall most willingly drinke of this Cup as deep as he dleases and enter into this Sea I and passe thorugh it in the way he shall be pleased to leade me Answ. Hee would make himself a Lambe as Christ was expressing himselfe in Christs very words you see so proudly and loftily did he carry himself in all his actions at his death as if he was so pure a Lambe that he would bid defiance to Heaven To charge him with any spot or blemish And yet Good people it would be remembred Th●t when the Servants of God old Israel were in this boystrous Sea and Aron with them the Egiptians which persecuted them and did in a maner drive them into the Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of Blood as he was to deliver the three Children from the furnace Daniel 3. Answ. His speech is the phrase of a Potentate still Good peple The language which Princes use when they speake to their people scorning to call us us brethren who had so much honour from the Pope like the Beast which must be lifted up above his brethren Yet I wonder what should make him dreame of a deliverance whether he looked for a Pardon or a Repreeve from the KING or whether he thought the parliament did but jest with him to try what he would do or that hee hopod for an insurrection about him or what it should be I am altogether Ignorant Surely in that condition hee was now in it had been more consonant