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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43512	A briefe relation of the death and sufferings of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate, the L. Archbishop of Canterbury with a more perfect copy of his speech, and other passages on the scaffold, than hath beene hitherto imprinted.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1685; ESTC R212372	21,500	34

revilings of malicious people had no power to move him or sharpen him into any discontent or shew of passion would needes put in and try what he could do with his spunge and vinegar and stepping to him neare the block asked him with such a purpose as the Scribes and Pharisees used to propose questions to our Lord and Saviour not to learne by him but to tempt him or to expose him to some disadvantage with the standers by what was the comfortablest saying which a dying man could have in his mouth To which he meekely made this answer Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo i. e. I desire to bee dissolv'd and to bee with Christ Being asked againe what was the fittest speech a man could use to expresse his confidence and assurance he answered with the same spirit of meeknesse that such assurance was to be found within and that no words were able to expresse it rightly Which when it would not satisfie the troublesome and impertinent man who aimed at something else then such satisfaction unlesse hee gave some word or place of Scripture whereupon such assurance might bee truely founded hee used some words to this effect that it was the Word of God concerning CHRIST and his dying for us And so without expecting any further questions for hee perceived by the manner of Sir Iohn's proceedings that there would bee no end of his interruptions if he hearkned any longer to him he turned towards his Executioner the gentler and discreeter man of the two and gave him mony saying without the least distemper or change of countenance here honest freind God forgive thee and doe thy office upon mee with mercy and having given a signe when the blow should come he kneeled down upon his knees and prayed as followeth The Lord Arch-bishops Prayer as hee kneeled by the Blocke Lord I am comming as fast as I can I know I must passe through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but umbra mortis a meere shadow of death a little darknesse upon nature but thou by thy merits and passion hast broke through the jawes of death So Lord receive my Soule and have mercy upon mee and blesse this Kingdome with Peace and Plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not bee this effusion of Christian blood amongst them for JESUS CHRIST'S sake if it bee thy will Then laying his head upon the Blocke and praying silently to himselfe he said aloud Lord receive my Soule which was the signall given to the Executioner who very dextrously did his office and tooke it off at a blow his soule ascending on the wings of Angels into Abrahams bosome and leaving his Body on the Scaffold to the care of men A spectacle so unpleasing unto most of those who had desired his death with much heat and passion that many who came with greedy eyes to see him suffer went backe with weeping eyes when they saw him dead their consciences perhaps bearing witnesse to them as you know whose did that they had sinned in being guilty of such innocent blood Of those whom onely curiosity and desire of novelty brought thither to behold that unusuall sight many had not the patience to attend the issue but went away assoon as the speech was ended others returned much altered in the opinion which before they had of him and bettered in their resolutions towards the King and the Church whose honour and religious purposes they saw so clearely vindicated by this glorious Martyr And for the rest the most considerable though perhaps the smallest part of that great assembly as they came thither with no other intentiō then to assist him with their prayers to imbalme his body with their teares and to lay up his dying speeches in their hearts and memories so when they had performed those offices of Christian duty they comforted themselves with this that as his life was honourable so his death was glorious the pains whereof were short and momentany to himselfe the benefit like to be perpetuall unto them and others who were resolved to live and dye in the Communion of the Church of England But to proceed for I have some few things to note it was observed that whereas other men when they come to the Blocke use to looke pale and wan and ghastly and are even dead before the blow he on the contrary seemed more fresh and cheerfull then he had done any part of the day before a cleare and gallant spirit being like the Sunne which shews greatest alwayes at the setting And as the Scripture telleth us of Saint Stephen the Proto Martyr that whilst he spake his last Oration before the chiefe Priests and Elders of the Iewes they of the Counsell looking stedfastly upon him saw his face as it had beene the face of an Angell so was it generally observed not without astonishment that all the while our Martyr prayed upon the Blocke the Sunne which had not showne it selfe all the day till then did shine directly on his face which made him looke most comfortably that I say not gloriously but presently as soone as the Blow was given withdrew behinde a cloud againe and appeared no more as we are credibly advertised by good hands from London though it be otherwise reported in their weekly Pamphlets And if the bodies of us men be capable of any happinesse in the grave he had as great a share therein as he could desire or any of his friends expect his body being accompanied to the earth with great multitudes of people whom love or curiosity or remorse of conscience had drawne together purposely to performe that office and decently interred in the Church of All hallowes Barking a Church of his owne Patronage and Jurisdiction according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England In which it may be noted as a thing remarkable that being whilst he lived the greatest Champion of the Common-Prayer-Booke here by Law established he had the honour being dead to be buried in the forme therein prescribed after it had beene long disused and reprobated in most Churches of London Nor need posterity take care to provide his Monument Hee built one for himselfe whilst he was alive it being well observed by Sir Edw. Dering one of his most malicious enemies and hee who threw the first stone at him in the beginning of this Parliament that Saint Pauls Church will be his perpetuall Monument and his owne Booke against the Iesuite his lasting Epitaph Thus dyed this most Reverend Renowned and Religiour Prelate when he had lived 71 yeares 13 weekes 4 dayes if at the least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue alwaies not only in the mindes of men but in the Annals of succeeding Ages with Renowne and Fame But how he lived what excellent parts he was composed of and how industriously he imployed those parts for the advancement of Gods

needed to receive that blow which could not but be welcome because long expected For so well was he studied in the art of dying especially in the last and strictest part of his imprisonment that by continuall fasting watching prayers and such like acts of Christian humiliation his flesh was rarified into spirit and the whole man so fitted for eternall glories that he was more then halfe in heaven before death brought his bloudy but triumphant chariot to convey him thither He that had so long been a Confessour could not but thinke it a release of miseriea to be made a Martyr And as is recorded of Alexander the Great that the night before his best and greatest battaile with Darius the Persian he fell into so sound a sleepe that his Princes hardly could awake him when the morning came so is it certified of this great Prelate that on the evening before his Passover the night before the dismall combat betwixt him and death after he had refreshed his spirits with a moderate supper he betooke himselfe unto his rest and slept very soundly till the time came in which his servants were appointed to attend his rising A most assured signe of a soule prepared The fatall morning being come he first applyed himselfe to his private prayers and so continued till Pennington and other of their publique Officers came to conduct him to the Scaffold which he ascended with so brave a courage such a chearfull countenance as if he had mounted rather to behold a triumph then to made a sacrifice and came not there to die but to be translated And to say truth it was no Scaffold but a Throne a Throne whereon he shortly was to receive a Crowne even the most glorious Crowne of Martyrdome And though some rude uncivill people reviled him as he passed along with opprobrious language as loth to let him goe to the Grave in peace it never discomposed his thoughts nor disturbed his patience For he had profited so well in the Schoole of Christ that when he was reviled he reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed his cause to him that judgeth righteously And as he did not feare the frownes so neither did he covet the applause of the vulgar herd and therefore rather chose to read what he had to speake unto the people then to affect the ostentation either of memory or wit in that dreadfull Agony whether with greater magnanimity or prudence I can hardly say As for the matter of his Speech besides what did concerne himselfe and his owne purgation his great care was to cleare His Majestie and the Church of England from any inclination unto Popery with a perswasion of the which the Authors of our present miseries had abused the people and made them take up Armes against their Soveraigne A faithfull servant to the last By meanes whereof as it is said of Sampson in the booke of Iudges that the men which he slew at his death were more then they which he slew in his life so may it be affirmed of this famous Prelate that he gave a greater blow unto the enemies of God and the King at the houre of his death than he had given them in his whole life before of which I doubt not but the King and the Church will find speedy fruits But this you will more clearely see by the Speech it selfe 〈◊〉 followeth here according to the best and most 〈◊〉 Copies A Speech of the L. Archbishop of Canterbury spoken at his death upon the Scaffold on the Tower-hill Ianuary 10. 1644. Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to Preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12.2 Let us run with Patience that race which is set before us Looking unto JESVS the Author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Crosse despising the shame is set down at the right hand of the throne of God I have beene long in my Race and how I have looked to JESVS the Author and finisher of my Faith He best knowes 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 no comming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are now upon the very brinke of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of promise for that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it He instituted a Passeover for them a Lambe it was but it must be eaten with sowre Hearbs I shall obey and labour to digest the sower Hearbs as well as the Lambe And I shall remember it is the Lord's Passeover I shall not thinke of the Herbs nor be angry with the hand which gathereth them but looke up only to Him who instituted that and governes these For men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakenesse and infirmities of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour ut transiret Calixiste that this Cup of Red wine might passe from me But if not God's will not mine be done and I shall most willingly drinke of this Cup as deepe as He pleases and enter into this Sea yea and passe through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods Servants were in this boysterous Sea and Aaron among them the Aegyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that 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 Bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace and I most humbly thanke my Saviour for it my Resolution is now as theirs was then They would not worship the Image the King had set up nor will I 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 Calfe in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their Eyes that they may see the right way for at this day the Blind lead the Blind and if they goe on both will certainely into the ditch For my selfe I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most greivous Sinner many waies by thought word and deed and I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poore Penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my