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A69663	The grand impostor vnmasked, or, A detection of the notorious hypocrisie and desperate impiety of the late Archbishop, so styled, of Canterbury cunningly couched in that written copy which he read on the scaffold at his execution, Ian. 10, 1644, alias called by the publisher, his funerall sermon / by Henry Burton.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing B6163; ESTC R6460	22,693	23

authority tradition of the present Church That it is a candle which hath no light till it be lighted which is first by the tradition of the present Church That notwithstanding these and many more most grosse derogations from the selfe-sufficiency authority and light of Scriptures to demonstrate it selfe to be the word of God he saith hee hath given to the Scripture enough and more then enough c. Iust I say was it with God that this wretched Prelate for so vilifying yea annihilating the sufficiency of Scripture-light should bee lost altogether without so much light as to light him to so much as one place of Scripture that might minister unto him some solid comfort at the houre of his death As some Malefactors trusting to their neck-vers when they came before the Iudge were not able to read one word of the booke And though he said to Sir John that that word was the knowledge of Jesus Christ and that alone yet this gracelesse wretch was never acquainted with this knowledge of Iesus Christ For he was a perpetuall enemy to Iesus Christ a cruel persecutor of his Saints a hater of his Word an oppressor of the power of godlinesse where ever hee found it This wretch n●●er knew Iesus Christ in the power of his Resurrection in the fellowship of his afflictions in a conformity to his death He never had Christs spirit and therefore was none of Christs He had not the spirit of grace supplication he had not the spirit of prayer even unto his death as hee had been a quencher of this spirit of prayer in all those in whom he perceived it to be For he was altogether for book-prayers as here he was at his death Such was his last prayer which was in his hand And this prayer if a prayer is to be interpreted as the former all for mercy but wwithout repentance for this Kingdome but in reference to Tyranny to his Protestant Religion to this his Church of England Thus he dyes one that was ever true to his old principles as in his life so at his death and thus hee is as good as his word in his Relation where he tells the King thus In the publishing hereof I have obeyed your Majesty discharged my duty to my power to the Church of England given account of the hope that is in me so testified to the world that faith in which I have lived and by Gods blessing favour purpose to dye Now concerning this faith of his and that of Rome there is no more difference between them then that distinction which himselfe hath put mentioned before to wit Popery properly so called and popery improperly so called I shall conclude with a passage or two in my Reply written in my banishment at Guernsey above foure yeares agoe in Answer to the Prelates Relation towards the end Bethinke your selfe how suddaine the time may be that you must goe and give account as you say to God and Christ of the talent committed to your charge which you cannot so easily answer before that Judge as you could doe in the Star-Chamber And remember what you said to the Iesuit Our reckoning will be heavier if wee thus mislead on either side then theirs that follow us But I see I must looke to my selfe for you are secure And are not you full out as secure as the Iesuit● But in that you p●ay that God for Christs sake would be mercifull to you But is that enough to wipe off all old scores to say God be mercifull to me when the whole course of a mans life hath beene a very enmity and rebellion against Christ When he lyeth spends and squandereth the talent o● of his strenth and wit learning 〈◊〉 and friends to the dishonour of God in oppressing Christs word persecuting his servants and members profaning and polluting the service of God with superstitious inventions of men and Will wo●ship forceing mens consciences to confor●ity using all cru●lty even to blood and the like with Lord have mercy upon me without any more adoe serve the turn to salve all again But where is your hearty repentance for all your Scarlet and Episcopall sins your high Commission sins your Star-chamber sins your Counsell table sins Nay is not your soule conscience still ●eared and stupified is not your heart still hardned O stupid conscience O desperate soule O shamelesse Hypocrite O blasphemous wretch Dost thou thanke God to make him the author of all thy impiety iniquity cruelty craft hypocrisie dissimulation of thy faith●esse ond false heart in thy plotting to bring thy false truth thy turbulent peace with the Whore of Babylon that notorious ene●y of Christ and of his true Spouse his Church to a meeting a blessed meeting yea to a cursed meeting This is that Peace and Truth which you contend for for the procuring and meeting whereof all trueth shall be corrupted and peace perturbed not only in the Churches but in Civill States and Kingdo●●s when for the maintenance of your Truth Peace Princes shall be set against their People and People forced to stand for their Liberties against Prelatticall ●surpation and Tyrannicall Invasion But I conclude if such was his deplored condition then as to ly naked to such language how is the measure thereof now filled up in an obstinate out-facing maintaining all his wickednesses perpetrated since that till now and th●t before the high bar of the Kinhdome the very Tribunall of God and at last upon the very Scaffold powring out his blood in a most obdurate desperate and finall impenitency O that this might be an example to all that tread in his steps It is very observable by common experience in the●e dayes that a malignant and godlesse life hath an impenitent and desperate death This is that Ca●terburian Arch-Prelate in his life time heire-apparant to the Pope-dome subtile false treacherous cruel carrying two faces under one hood Sathans second childe who ever is the first as hard to speake truth as to do good or to repent of any evill as his Father the Devill an inveterate adversary to Christ and all true Christians an underminer of the Civill State a Traitor to his Countrey wilfully damning his owne soule to save the credite of his cursed cause sealing with his blood the Kings part with Romes to be righteous the Parliaments odious that so he might be as unlike to Sampson as possible to do as much if not more mischiefe to his native countrey at his death as he had done in his life and therefore worthy to have dyed the ancient death of parricides or Traytors to their Countrey which the ancient Romans used to be sowed up in a Culle●s or leather sacke and cast into the warer and there to perish as unworthy to touch either earth or water or ayre as Natures out-cast FINIS Clericus absquc libro He begins Job 31.33 Josh. 7. Mat. 27.3 Psal. 74.14 Psal. 80.13 * Being not long before degraded Act. 9. * Reply Pag. 166 to 170 173. Exod. 1. Act. 7.19 Act * Esa. 10. Col. 2. Page 5. * Esa. 44.19 20. Hab. 2. ●8 * Esa. 44.19 20. Hab. 2. ●8 Ibid. Reply p. 19. p. 252.225 See the Reply p. 205.202.275 p. 211. Reply p. 19. p. 252.225 See the Reply p. 205.202.275 p. 211. Reply p. 19. p. 252.225 See the Reply p. 205.202.275 p. 211. As Mr. Rud Mr. Bernard and many others Aug. Non remititur peccatanisi resti●ua●ur abla●um Ier 2.34 * Consci●ntiae mala tranquilla {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Mat· 13.25 * 2 Cor. 6 7. Luk. 18.7 * V. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Pag. 18 19. See Reply p. 37 38. * pag. 13 * Relation Epistle Ded. pag. 16. Amos 7.13 See my book for God and the king * See his Speech Starcham●ber * P. 171 See Reply p. 263 264 Ier. 2.3 4 Deut. 15.21 Exod. 30 2 Tim. 4.2 ●o● 4.23 Deut. 5. Reply p. 74.405.86.87 Printed 1640. Relation p. 80. p. 83.84.85 See Redly Phil. 3.10 Rom. 8. Epist. dead. page 22. Page 402. Relation page 116.

were in the furnace Why those were there for not obeying the Kings commandement to bow to his new golden god but was this Bishop now on the Scaffold for any such disobedience Nay was it not for his too much officiousnesse and obedience So that might he not have said as Cardinall Wolsey Had I said he been as carefull to serve God as I have been to serve the King I had never come to this death And for Gods power to deliver it is not questioned But his glory was seen in delivering those three innocent children from the hot fiery furnace not so that he should have delivered such a traitor from the blocke when as his Glory called for execution of justice upon such a Malefactor yea such a notorious hypocrite such a desperate obdurate impenitent remorselesse shamelesse monster of men Here he prosecutes his comparison between himself and the three children They would not Worship the Kings golden Image Nor will I saith he the Imaginations which the People are setting up Nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Jeroboams Calves in Dan and in Bethell By People here in Capitall Letters he must needs mean the Parliament the People of the Land representative and so by Jeroboams Calves whereby he means a revolting from Iuda and from true Religion and that the Religion now to be set up is in comparison of that under the Prelacy no better then Ieroboams Calves worshipped in Bethell and Dan and the Prelaticall Government as the Temple of Jerusalem and the Truth of God Thus he holds to his old Principles which he suckt in with his Mothers milke and was Nursed up in Oxford and which grew up with him in Court to a full stature But stay shall he run away with it thus in a darke mist leaving the People to grope at noon day as in the Aegiptian darknesse * I most humbly thank my Saviour for it saith he my resolution is now c. What Not to forsake the Temple and Truth of God O Hypocrisie O Blasphemy Will he interest and ingage Christ in all his Idolatrous Crucifixes Crosses Altars Superstitious Worship Ceremonies and Reliques of Rome set up every where in his Idoll Temples and Chappells calling all this his Temple and Truth of God Will he call his Images the Truth of God which the Truth of God the Scripture calls a * Lye and a teacher of Lyes O abomination And doth this devout Votary to Images humbly thank Christ that his resolution lay not to lye down till he lay down his head upon the Block not to part with his Antichristian Hierarchy the Grand enemy of Christs Kingdom and grievous Tyranny over the Soules and Bodies of Christs Saints whose Redemption cost him his dearest Blood O the Rocky cruelty of this wretched man Who as he shewed no mercy to others whom he most wickedly oppressed in his life so now at his death he can shew no mercy to himself by considering the justice of that Saviour whereof his whole life had been a most high provocation now sealed up at his death with a desperate resolution to be the same man still should his life be prolonged an hundred yeares So as no marvell it is if wicked men be punisht eternally in hell when if they should live eternally in this world they would hold firm their Resolution never to cease to be the same men in sinning But he bestows his Episcopall blessing upon the People for the opening of their eyes to see the right way Himself being so blind as not to see any other right way out of his own way then which none is more contrary and opposite to Christ and his way But he acknowledgeth himself in all humility a most grieveous sinner many wayes by thought word and deed and therefore I doubt not saith he but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as well as for other sinners But wherein What sign What thought What word What deed Did he confesse those thoughts whereby he resolved and indeavoured to reconcile Rome and England together which he expressed in his Relation of a conference with the Iesuit Did he confess the sinfull words of that Reconciling Book That there he cunningly incites the King against godly Ministers That there hee blames and bewayles with a bleeding heart the separation between Protestants and Papists both for the causing and continuing of it That he hath there in many passages abused and vilified the Scriptures all along his Booke That he hath fathered his grosse lyes upon God the Father upon Christ upon the Holy Ghost and infinite other bold and wicked expressions there And for his Deeds did he ever confesse elswhere or on the Scaffold all his Prelaticall pranckes and practises in oppressing suppressing supplanting the Truth of God both in Pulpit and Presse silencing suspending fining confining outing godly painfull Preachers with wives childern and other christians Did hee ever confesse his being the chief cause of cropping of Eares Pillorying Imprisoning Whipping Branding Banishing those against whom no crime could be layde by any Law Or did he to shew the truth of conversion come forth to offer restitution to all that he had wronged oppressed and spoiled of their goods and livelyhoods No such thing here is nothing but a generall confession of I wot not what grievous sins But being put to it he would not confesse one particular sin as we noted before when some came to him for restitution of their wrongs And yet doth hee hope for pardon Aug. saith The sin is not pardoned where the wrong is not satisfied for Nay when many such things were witnessed against him before the Honourable House of Lords as of his violent dealing with many Preachers and others hee justified himself saying that he did but discharge the office of a good Diocesan and the like And what doth this desperate Hypocrite tell us of ransacking every corner of his heart What have we to doe with his selfe-deceiving heart known only to God We looke upon his Actions we judge of the tree by the fruits He finds not in his false heart any true cause of death But we find it in his hands we finde the blood of the soules yea and the bodies too of the poore Innocents upon his skirts and this is found not by secret search but upon all these His notorious practises proclaim it so as he that runs may read And doth not the Law of this Kingdom punish Theeves and Robbers and Murtherers and Traytors But however he chargeth nothing upon his Iudges That 's well for never had Traytor fairer play and they proceeded secundum allegata et probata And this is the Law of the Land Let that suffice But whom else he layes his charge upon it matters not his charge is no burthen nor his tongue a slander And though in a legall course an Innocent may be condemned yet more

such a bulke as whereof to hew out and erect a Scaffold on the Tower-Hill where himself should loose his head for others ears perhaps one of the fruits of that dry Tree so that if the innocent cause and conscience of one made the Pillory such a comfortable Pulpit sure it must be the contrary cause and conscience that makes the Scaffold such an uncomfortable place for the Prelate to preach upon Well he takes his Text Heb. 12.1 2. Let us run c. Looking unto Iesus c. Miserable man Never was a holy Text so unhallowed so miserably abused so corruptly glossed upon so shamefully perverted as this Text And doth he call about him that cloud of witnesses ver. 1. those holy Patriarchs and believers of the Old Testament to witnesse the suffering of a lying Traitor as if a dying Martyr Surely this man in his race had often an eye unto Iesus that is to the Name JESVS whereof he was a very devout Adorer and so zealous that he suspended me once from preaching against the superstitious bowing at the nameing of that Name So as however he looked unto Iesus yet he never shewed such a favourable aspect upon Christ whom in his swift footed zeale untill in the Tower the sinew of his leg without any violence had a terrible crack that he could not now run so fast in his race as before he so cruelly persecuted in his servants and members So as by this time himself knows sufficiently with what eye he looked unto Iesus as whom he findes a just Iudge and punisher of that faith of his which was none other but that of Babylon as the Reader may see at large in my * Reply to his Relation of a conference c. That he is now come to the end of his race though long we blesse God But here he findes the Crosse a death of shame And why so shamefull the Crosse which he so honoured and adored in his life witnesse the goodly Crucifix over his Altar at Lambeth White-hall and else where which he was not wont to passe by unsaluted But the same must be despised or there is no coming to the right hand of God How must that shame be despised which the righteous hand of God brought him unto Why did he not acknowledge it a shame most due unto him for all the dishonour he had done to God in his life time Or why did he petition the Lords that he might not dye the more shamefull death of the halter but rather of the hatchet as more sutable for one who had sat so long and oft at those late Honorable boards as also in the prsent Parliament Nay had he had any one sparke of true Grace over and above that of Canterbury considering the numberlesse shamefull acts that were perpetrated by him with a shamelesse forehead and remorslesse conscience he would with Origen for but once offering incense to the Idol have said to all the people Calcate me insipidum salem trample upon me as unsavoury salt and he would have Petitioned that he might have the most shamefull death yea hanging drawing and quartering that head and limbes might be set up for everlasting monuments of such an enemy of Religion and State This had been the way to come at length to Christs right hand to have found him his Iesus and not to his left to finde him his Judge But for Gods right hand that is proper to Christ alone But he is so far from this shame that he adds God forbid I should despise the shame for him What A shame suffered for Christ A shame despised being a most condigne punishment Christ is said to despise the shame by a voluntary undergoing it in our steads but this man despiseth the shame by a desperate contempt in suffering it perforce against his will But he tells us his feet are now upon the brinke of the Red-sea an argument he hopes that God was bringing him to the land of promise for that was the way by which of old he led his people O poore man Did he not remember that Pharaoh and his Egyptians comming into the Red-sea were drowned And did not his Old memory yet call to mind that not many years ago he had been a prime Task-master under Pharaoh yea even the Pope himself to the intolerable oppression of Gods people even to the cutting off of the masculine spirits of Israel and therefore no good argument for him to hope to passe that way to Canaan that Israel went he having gone the cleane contrary way and therefore now lyes drowned in the Red-sea of his own blood as a just revenge upon him for causing so much blood to be shed more especially of that poor soule who was hanged drawn and quartered about the busines of Lambeth house so as that speech of Queen Thomyris the Amazon when she cut off King Cyrus his head and cast it into a vessell of blood may be wel applyed to this blood-sucker of poor innocents Now satiate thy self with blood which living thou didest so much thirst after No lesse doth he abuse and misapply the Lords Passeover the Lambes the Soure herbes the gatherers whereof how little angry he is with will appeare anon He saith Men can have no more power over him then that which is given them from above Innocent Christ spake those words and onely he might properly speak them and not any such malefactor as this on whom the just lawes of the land had immediate power thus to punish him whereas Pilate had no such legall power over innocent Christ to put him to death but only from an extraordinary divine dispensation But thus this man hath taken a lawlesse liberty to himselfe all along thus intolerably to abuse the Sacred Scriptures beating this gold by force of his hammer so thin that he may therewith guild over his rotten cause thereby to deceive the simple at his death as he had done in his life who are apt to take all for gold that glittereth Here he compares himself with Aaron as before with Christ but he must remember he is no longer the Canterburian High Priest But who be those Egyptians that drove this Aaron into the Red-sea and must be drowned in the same waters O full of subtilty What the Parliament O child of the Devil But who is that God whom he had served Though our God hath served himself of this Prelate as he doth of Satan and other wicked men using them as his * rods to scourge his own deare children surely in no other sence could he be said to serve God truly For all his other service what was it but superstitious Idolatrous after the inventions of men a will-worship after the rudiments of the word and not after Christ And here he compares himself with those three children in the fornace whence God delivered them and so can he him Miserable Prelate Is he now upon the scaffold for such a cause as those

and Christians whom his bloody cruelty caused to fly into the Deserts of Ameries as Mr. Cotton Mr. Hooker Mr. Davenport Mr. Peter with many thousands more He should have called for all those Congregations whose soules he had famished by taking away their godly teachers the blood of whose soules were found to be upon his skirts and under ●is wings He should have called for all those whom he had most cruelly and against all justice caused to be imprisoned pillaryed eare-cropped branded whipped fined confined to perpetuall close imprisonment and that in perpetuall banishment from their native country from society of wives children freinds a●quaintance common light and ayre and what not As Mr. William Pryn Doctor Bastwick Henry Burton Doctor Leighton Mr. Iohn Lilburne Nathani●ll Wickins all which with many more indured intollerable inhumane and most barbarous usage in their prisons and persons These these should he have called for to have made his peace with them by a● least acknowledging his extreame wronging of them as having beene the prime instrumentall cause thereof though otherwise he could never make them re●●itution for their eares nor satisfaction for their losses But he should have done to the uttermost what lay in his power before he should go on so desperatly to offer his Sacrifice of Prayer at Gods Altar He should have put it past If and And w●●ther he had offended any or no as if any did but conceive so But so far was he from shewing the least ingenuity or from having the lest dramme of grace as that he refused to be spoken withall by any whom hee had wronged much lesse would he acknowledge the least offence done to any either in his lif● or now at his death But as a man beref●of his common senses stript of his understanding benumb'd with a lethargy senselesse brutish blinde obdurate he persists in his Diabolicall impenitencie acknowledging not the least offence to Man in all his Life of which to repent hoping thereby after his Death to merit his Inscription upon his Tombe Here lies the most Innocent Archbishop of Cantyrbury But now can he not be content to die in his owne sins but he must heartily d●sire the people to ioy●e with him in his most hypocriticall dead ●●me blind Prayer that he brought with him in his hand as a price in the fooles hand but he wants a heart Had he not sufficiently ca●tivated the people to such blind devotion by his Servi●-book Prayers And had not this old Arch-prelate in all the time he lived got one Prayer at least by heart though he wanted grace in his hear● Christs Spirit ●ven the Spirit of Grace and Supplication which for any evidence he hath given he never had in all his life to powre forth one 〈◊〉 sigh of godly sorrow now at his death Here be may goodly words indeed compiled together but all will not make up one prayer of Faith being but as a dumbe Image without life and breath or like Caesars Sacrifice without a heart which was taken for a presage of death as proved true the same day Againe should the people become accessory to all the hypocrisie dissimulation and impenitencie of this wretched man who would wrappe up all his villanies committed in against the State of this Kingdome all Gods faithfull people therein by ioyning with him in such a godlesse spirit-lesse Prayer even the dead carkasse of a prayer a blind and lame sacrifice which the Lord abhorreth and forbids to be offered Besides as the whole prayer for the frame of it is not an Incense according to Christs spirit but patched and made up of sundrie ingredients of a most hypocriticall spirit which makes the whole prayer to be a very packe of lies and so abominable before God so there are some passages in it so grosse and palpable as any one that hath the least sparke of Gods spirit may discover plainly to be monstrous false As 1. That he hath a heart ready to dy for Gods honour and yet he will not confesse any one particular wickednesse that he might with Achan give glory to God 2. For the Kings happinesse when yf either he counselled the King to all those courses so destructive both to himselfe and kingdome or yf hee by obeying the Kings command in being an active instrument of all those cruell oppressions perpetrated by him upon the innocent subjects and exorbitant illegall violent tyrannicall invasions upon the just lawes of the kingdome and naturall liberties of the subiect be thus by the lawes of the kingdome and a due proceeding therein brought to this just penall death surely this can little make for the Kings happinesse unl●sse the cutting off of such limbes as these and so of this active instrument of mischiefe in patticula● may be a meanes to procure the Kings happinesse in case such Heads so cut off prove not the heads of the Roman Hydra which upon the cutting off of one head puts forth two untill the whole Lerna-Lake shall be quite drained and dried up otherwise he whose life hath but a little advanced the Kings happin●sse can give but little hope of raising it by such a death the just reward of a traitour Thirdly for this Churches preservation by which he alway●● understands his Hierarchy or the protestant Religion of the Church of England as before there cannot be a more sure Omen of the utter ruine of that as whose Primate is so cut off by the hatches of Justice in the Hangmans hand Againe he boldly tells God that his zeale to these three is all the sin which he knowes is yet knowne of him in this particular of Treason Did his zeale then so far transport him as to wade so deepe through so many acts of treason to the State as to play the Traitour for the honour of God surely God will not be honoured with any such service And as for his zeale to the Kings happinesse no m●rvaile if i● were so fiery as to become an Incendiary to the State and all for the prservation of this his Church which could not be preserved but with the extreame hazz●rd if not utter ruine of three kingdomes so as such a preservation purchased at so deare a rate could be a● little for the Kings honour as for his happinesse when three kingdomes should rather welter in their owne blood then the Prelaticall kingdome should not wallow in all its pompe and pleasure and indeed the zeale hereof in all Ages hath beene that which hath set the kingdomes of the Earth in such horrible combustions as at length it hath growne to be a Proverbe of the Prelates owne making No Bishop no King and so No Bishopprick or Bishopdome no Kingdome He prayes also that there may be a stop of that issue of blood in this more then miserable Kingdome Here it may be questioned what he meanes by this issue of blood If he meane the stopping of the course of Iustice in cutting off such Trayt●rs as