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A80117	The araignment of hypocrisie or, a looking-glasse for murderers and adulterers; and all others that profes religion, and make show of holiness, yet deny the power and practice thereof in their lives and conversations. Being a fearfull example of Gods judgements on Mr. Barker, minister of Gods word at Pytchley two miles from Ketterin in Northhamptonshire; who for living in adultery with his neer kinswoman, and concealing the murder of her infant; was with his kinswoman and maid-servant executed at Northampton. With the strange manner of the discovery of that horrid murder; and their several speeches immediately before their deaths.	J. C.	1652 (1652)	Wing C52; Thomason E1290_3; ESTC R208987	8,267	16

THE ARAIGNMENT OF HYPOCRISIE OR A Looking-glasse for Murderers and Adulterers And all others That Profes Religion and make show of Holiness yet deny the Power and Practice thereof in their Lives and Conversations Being a fearfull EXAMPLE of Gods Judgements on Mr. Barker Minister of Gods Word at Pytchley two miles from Ketterin in Norhamptonshire Who For living in Adultery with his neer Kinswoman and concealing the Murder of her Infant was with his Kinswoman and Maid-servant executed at Northampton With the strange manner of the Discovery of that horrid Murder And their severall SPEECHES immediately before their Deaths Printed at London by John Crowch and T.W. 1652. To the Reader IT is not unknown to many in Northamtonshire and else-where how strict a Professor and how much followed this Minister was by many People who were termed Puritanes for his Person and Profession I shall have that Charity as to passe by But for his crime which was Adultery and Murder being the reigning sins of these Times he having already suffered for the same I shall only give you the brief Relation thereof and referr you to his own Speech at his Death He having a neer Kinsman who at his death committed his only Daughter to his care and Tuition who growing to maturity he tempted to his Lust and got her with Chide and the closer to hide his sinne and the shame thereof from the eye of the World and his wronged Wife procured Savin and gave it her to destroy her Childe but that failing he juggl'd so with his Maid-servant that with the help of the Mother they barbarously and inhumanly mudered the same But God that will not let Murder goe unpunished discovered the same by a little Boy who being in an Apple-tree gathering Apples saw Mr. Barker digge the Hole in the Orchard and the Maid-servant bring the Childe and put it therein Vale Thine J. C. THE Arraignment of Hypocrisie Mr. Barker's SPEECH DEar Friends I ought rather to fall a weeping over you then to begin to speak to you but I can do neither as I would for indeed my strength is spent as wel as my time but yet as well as I may God enabling me I will endeavour to give the world satisfaction in clearing my conscience speaking the truth in the discovery of mine offences You know and I think here is none ignorant that two things have brought me to this sad fatal dismal place Murder and Adultery and for the latter of the two I confess my self exceeding faulty I am fouly guilty of Incontinency and I think that in this kind there is not any like me in the world so gross an offendor have I been very unclean wonderfull vile that way although those that knew me did not think I had bin such a wretch It is my fault I confess that brought these two already dead of my family to their end so that I may say I have sinned I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done Let thy hand be against me and my fathers house for I have a long time continued in this gross vile sin of uncleaness and have many times exprest it by wanton words thoughts and actions and that to her who was neer to me neer ally'd to me dear to me that was committed to my care by her dearest friends who hoped better then what hath befallen This odious sin I committed with her that profest Religion that had excellent parts that was well proportioned that was beautifull that had good gifts one that had received much illumination by me and I received much good by her Oh that I might have died to have preserved their lives But oh such a vile wretch I have bin that although I preached against that sin yet I lived in it though I had many checks of conscience and many reproofs by others Sermons that I heard in divers places yet I lived in it and continued so to do and so I am perswaded I should have done till I had dy'd in that sin and been damn'd for that sin if God had not taken this course to bereave me of this great sin my Master-sin my bosom-sin this abominable sin for which I now abhor my self Oh that I could lament and mourn for this sin all other mine offences with tears of blood yea as many as I have done water since my sinning and that against such light and knowledge O that I should live in and love such a sin so long that was a Minister a Preacher one that was noted and followed all the Country over such a man as I in an eminent Calling but my Hypocrisie was very great to live in such a sin such an odious sin such a base course of life under a Cloak of Religion a meer form of Godliness so that it may be justly said of me What hast thou to do to take my Word into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed Yet was I taken for a sincere and as the World counts them a Puritan-Minister I was taken for a strict godly man but alas there was no such matter in me Beloved I fell into this grievous sin and all other my offences for want of Religion for want of holiness that was the cause of my dangerous falling for had Religion been in me in truth had a good foundation of holines been grounded and setled in my soule I had never so fouly miscarried as I have and been such an offence and offender as I am I have been I confess a great offence to true Religion to the faithfull Ministry and to the holy profession of the Gospel it is true that offences shall come but wo to them by whom the offence commeth and that heavy wo hath overtaken me and falls very sore upon me that I should be a great meanes and cause of scandalizing the truth Oh how is my mind distracted Oh that I could do God some service some honor now at the last Oh that I could convert all you that hear me Oh that the words of a dying man might take impression upon you to work in you a hatred of all sinfull wayes Oh that I could be an instrument of good to you to turn you from your sinful wayes But I know to my grief my fall is that which som do rejoyce in that they may hereby take occasion to jeer sing and rime of it on the Ale-bench Well take it from me and they are the words of a dying man that the falls of the faithfull are the destruction of the wicked Christ himself was set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel But by one miscarriage they will take occasion and liberty to sinne although they destroy themselves Now will such say Come man do not you know how such and such and such strict dissembling Puritans have lived themselves Thus will they encourage themselves and others in all sorts of voluptuous wayes But consider this I beseech you that this your resolv'd plodding on in

sinful waies and stumbling at the falls and infirmities of Gods Servants your taking offence at the falls of the Saints will break your necks into Hell as it hath done mine if the Lord be not infinitely mercifull to me for Christs sake And that woe that falls on me will fall on you to your everlasting perdition Oh but I have been the cause of the death of these two already dead of a thousand thousand soules which I fear will take liberty presumptuously to sin by my evill example Oh for Gods sake as you love your precious soules do not I charge you speak evill of the truth of God for my fault Speak as bad as you will of me for you cannot speak bad enough but let me tell you thus much and I speak the truth that all those whom the world calls Puritan-Preachers Puritan-Professors are the best people in the world however the world doth esteem of them and judge them I tell you my grievous fall was for want of true Grace for want of imbracing the Truth for the love of Truth Know therefore thus much That although holiness and holy men be scoft at yet without holiness yee shall never see God you must walk in the Truth and abide in that way that is called Puritanisme or ye shall never come to Heaven but shall certainly be damned therefore do not say in dislike of Religion that it is naught or that Gods wayes be not right do not say the Sacraments Preaching Prayer Meditation Gods Ordinances holy Duties are naught and they are naught that use them and that because I am scandalously fallen do not say they are all such No let it be far from you let the burden lye upon me I codfess I was naught and so are all such Hypocrites as I am but I beseech you speak not evill open not your mouthes against the Gospel or Profession Gods pure Worship and Service for my being a wretch Gods Service is holy his wayes good safe and delightfull and full of Honour and it is better to be his servant then to be servant to the greatest Monarch on earth I pray you then labour to be his Servants and to obey his Will and Commands set down in his Word go you by that Rule I have swerved from Oh that I was assured of being his Servant How would it comfort my heart and cheer up my spirit in the great straight I am now in Oh that the Lord would lift up the light of his countenance that I might have som● little glimpse of his favour Oh that the LORD would open one little crevise to mee that might apprehend his love Oh what is one drop of Christs Blood worth what would I give to have it He was answered He might have it for nothing the Brazen Serpent Jesus is set forth Now whosoever can by faith apprehend his love and apply it to themselves are justified and sanctified before God Oh then said he pray for me as for your own souls you that are in Covenant with God your prayers are prevalent Oh pray that this hard heart of mine may be softned Oh pray that the Lord would bee good unto mee or else I shal be damned presently I am now going whence I shall not returne even into eternity of glory or torment Oh what shall I doe it had bin good for mee I had not bin borne Death is terrible to all out of Christ and the Lord is not reconsiled to me in Christ hides him selfe from mee Then pulling downe his hatt over his eies hee mournfully said Hath God forgotten to be gratious hath he shut up his tender mercies in displeasure will the Lord cast off for ever will hee be gratious no more These his complaints occasioned much mourning and bewailing his estate Then said Mr. Ball Mr. Barker I have told you that you have so much dishonoured God that it may be the Lord will not honour you so far as to manifest his love to you he reserves that till afterward Then said he I have done with the first my foul sin of uncleanness Now for the Murder of which I do here upon my death profess I am not guilty neither in act ●or in consenting to the death of that Infant the Lord forgive and so do I my violent persecutors with all their bitter and malicious intendments and proceedings against me indeed I confess that many murderous thoughts have gone thorow my soule but these although they deserve death by Gods Law yet mans Law takes no hold of them yet for these bloudy thoughts and my lustfull filthy unclean life I have deserved this death and a worse too and herein I desire to magnifie the just hand of the Lord in bringing to light my shamefull foul offences and I desire to magnifie all his holy Attributes his Mercy Justice wisdome Power Truth Goodness and the rest of them in that he hath now let me have experience of them all that in as much as I have dishonoured him he most justly hath dishonoured me and brought me out and made me visible by such a Correction as this for other Chastisements that were more gentle would not serve nor stay me from my greedy pursuit and going on in this vile course of life exceeding vicious I that taught others did not learn my self for which I earnestly crave pardon of Almighty God which he did very fervently and I hope effectually Then he sung the 31. Psalm some of all the three Parts as much as was convenient for that occasion When that was ended it was demanded of him that if he had no hand in the Murther but were guiltless why and for what end he made the Grave He answered when he made the hole it was his Maids and Kinswomans opportunity for they told me said he it was to receive such things as modest men and women may easily conceive what Then he was asked why he did not diligently inquire further having such a just cause of suspition He answered I confess my self too blame and faulty herein Then he was asked Why he had a hand in procuring Savin for his Kinswoman whom he loved so well and from whom he had received so much good and to wbom he endeavoured to do so much good He answered therein he did but as he was requested and intreated and for it he was but a Messenger for both of them his Kinswoman and Maid told him that if she had some of that to take it would bring down those things which used to come monethly the stopping whereof made her so ill as she said But said he here is the just hand of the Lord that hath not and will not spare sin in any no not in his own but will severely punish it in all first or last as here you may see I am brought to an end unbeseeming a Minister I blame not the Judge nor the Jury nor the Prosecutors but my self and therefore good People do not think the worse of God or of