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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

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 PHIL. 1. 21. Christ is to me to live and dye gaine Dum patior pro Christo potior Christo LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1643. The Preface to the Reader Christian Reader I May say as old Iacob and no lesse truly few and evill have the dayes of the yeares of my pilgrimage been For proofe hereof As it is with a Mariner or traveller who after a long Voyage comming within ken of his native Country begins to recount with himselfe the many hazzards he hath run what by terrible stormes in the midst of Rocks and shelves what by pirates and other perills all which having now waded out of and overcome and arriving at his wished port after thanksgiving to God for bringing him to the haven where he would be he ●…ts him downe and to recreate himselfe and friends begins to discourse of his travells and of the most memorable passages therein So is it now with me Onely I cannot yet say that after so long tedious and perillous a Voyage as I have passed through by Sea and Land every where attended and assailed by fierce tempests and Pyrates I have already arrived at the Port or Haven which I have long wished for to wit my celestiall Countrey and which through the Perspective Glasse of Faith I can as yet in comparison at such a distance but darkly discover For although by his divine providence whose exiled prisoner I have lately been I am now delivered from that otherwise perpetuall prison and exile yet I still carry about with me the manicles and fetters of this mortall and sinfull body which I cannot be freed from untill I have paid my * prison-fees that so my soule may flit out of this her earthly tabernacle to her heavenly mansion Nor is it unusuall for men to set forth a description of their owne lives Moses did so David so Paul so And who fitter then a mans selfe as being best acquainted with and most privy to the many passages of his life Nor had I undertaken this taske but partly to satisfie the importunity of many godly friends and partly to give a just account to Gods people of that divine support and comfort which it pleased the Lord to uphold mee with in all my tryalls To which purpose I may use the Apostles words Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of Mercies and the God of all consolation who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith wee our selves are comforted of God As also the words of David Come and hearken all ye that feare God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soule And these are they especially to whom next unto Iesus Christ the Righteous Iudge as I owe my life so I ought to give an account thereof For the rest I am not ashamed to make my selfe herein a spectacle even to those that are without this being but an anticipation seeing we must all appeare before the Iudgement Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evill Farewell HEN. BURTON 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 64. 1642. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He that once dead unburied lay Three dayes count yeares halfe a day Reviv'd here shews his pilgrimage Now in the last scene of his age The short remainder sharpe or sweet Expect till death shall make complete A Narration of the Life of Mr. Henry Burton MY birth and breeding was at Birdsall an obscure Towne in Yorkshire and the more obscure as having never had a preaching Minister time out of minde long before I was borne nor for ought I know to this very day Notwithstanding my Parents were piously affected they would correct us their children whereof they had many and that severely if we swore an oath or neglected the Church or made a lie Me of all the rest they kept at School my mother encouraging me with often shewing me a new Testament in English which she kept lockt up it having beene my Grandfathers in Queene Maries dayes promising it me when I could read it so as afterwards I was put to read every night two or three Chapters in it to the Family In time they sent me to the University of Cambridge and placed me in the Colledge called St. Johns where I proceeded Master of Arts In which time it was my happinesse to be a constant hearer of Mr. Chatterton and Mr. Perkins on the Lords day For from my first entrance in the Colledge it pleased God to open mine eyes by their ministry so as to put a difference betweene their sound teaching and the University Sermons which savoured more of humane wit then of Gods word Thus I had and for ever have cause to admire and adore the goodnesse of God who thus brought me out of darknesse into his marvellous light Some time after I was in the house of a Noble Knight for the education of his two sonnes in which time with them sojourning a while with a religious * Matron of worthy memory and having often conference with her she took such notice of my spirit then and chiefly of my zeale against the Prelates pride and practices that she said then to some yet surviving of me This young man said she will one day be the overthrow of the Bishops After this I was by the foresaid Knight recommended to the excellent Prince Henry of glorious memory whom I served as sole Officer in his closets during his life only the Bishop who was Clerk of King James his closet envying me the title of Clerk was a meanes to depresse me though my office otherwise was absolute But this was by the speciall providence of my God still who would not suffer me to rise high in Court lest I should have beene corrupted with the preferments of it Nor had I learned the art of ambition to climbe up that ladder in so much as I would often say to a familiar friend in Court that I wondred wherefore I lived in Court considering my naturall indisposition to a Court-life as also how the greatest benefit I found by my office was that it afforded me time for my private studdies which I hoped God would in time bring me forth to make more publicke use of and then I should know why I had so lived thus long in Court And in that time under Prince Henry I writ a Treatise in Latine of Antichrist which in a Manuscript I presented to him with an Epistle Dedicatory and which he graciously accepted

causing it to be kept in his Library at S. James After his much lamented decease I was continued in the same place and office to Prince Charles when God stirred up my heart to enter into the Ministry being then above thirty yeares of age but yet too soone as having not yet sufficiently learned to weigh that Text of the Apostle And who is sufficient for these things or yet the right way of a Ministers externall call which the ignorance and sloth of those times had not learned to walk in In that time I writ a Treatise against Simony entituled A Censure of Simony Also another Book entituled Truths triumph over Tront wherein I unfolded that mystery of iniquity packed up in the sixth session of that Councell encountring therein those two Champions of the Councell Andreas Vega and Dominicus Soto These two Books were published Cum Previlegio though with much adoe obtained of the Archbishops Chaplains in those not then full growne ripe evill times Yet they ripened so fast Abbot of Canterbury yet living that I could not obtaine of his Chaplaine the licensing of an answer of mine to a Jesuits Book entituled The converted Jew which he boldly had dedicated to both our Universities And I understood he durst not doe it for two causes first because in that Answer I had upon occasion confuted the Arminian Heresies secondly because therein I proved the Pope to be the Antichrist Which two things began in those dayes to be Noli me tangere and fewell for the H●gh Commission furnace proving afterwards pillary-offences inexpiable never to be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come Which after times being hastened on by the immature death of King Iames have beene the only causes that have made his life desireable as Titus Livius said of Hieronymus of Syracusa Qui solus Patrem desiderabilem fecit Well King Iames being dead whether so or so or otherwise time hath not yet examined and King Charles succeeding I shall now acquaint you with a notable passage of divine Providence in parting the Court and me asunder For I understanding that the Bishop the old Clerk should still continue in that Office and that the King had designed me for some other inferiour Office and observing also that with Neale Lawd also should be continually about the King I saw there would be no abiding for me in Court any longer Yet before I went I thought I was bound in conscience by vertue of my place to informe the King of these men how popishly affected they were simply imagining that the King either did not so well know their qualities or that perhaps he might be put upon second thoughts by considering the dangerous consequences of entertaining such persons so neere about him as I presented to his Majesty in a large letter to that purpose Which letter he read a good part of I standing before him but perceiving the scope of it he gave it me againe and bade me forbeare any more attendance in my Office untill he should send for me Whereupon though for the present my spirits were somewhat appalled and dejected yet going home to my house in London and there entring into a serious meditation of Gods Providence herein how fairely he had now brought me off from the Court when I saw such Lords were like to domineere and how I might doe God and his Church better service in a more retired life as wherein I was in no danger of Court-Preferments thereby to bee cowardized from encountering such Giants as began already to threaten the Hoste of Israel and against whose power I thought Sauls armour would give me small defence but much hinder me rather I hereupon began to recollect my scattered spirits resolving now after almost twice seven yeares service quite to forsake the Court which I did signifie by another letter to a friend of mine of great place neere unto the King so as the King hath said that I put away him and not hee me However it pleased him to say so yet I had abundant cause to blesse God and daily to rejoyce with exceeding joy that I was now freed from the Court which joy hath now continually increased ever since to this very day without intermission Thus having bid the Court farewell I kept me close to the Ministery of the Word and besides my weekly preaching every Lords day twice I answered sundry erroneous and heterodox Bookes set forth by the Prelats and those of the Prelaticall party As 1. Montagues Book styled An Appeale to Caesar the first part whereof defended all the Arminian Heresies and the second was to maintain many grosse points of Popery And Dr. Francis White prefixed his Approbation to both My answer to the first part was published in print but that to the second was by the Aegyptian Task-masters strangled in the birth being upon the breaking up of the Parliament taken tardie in the Presse as it was a printing A second Book to which I made and published an Answer in time of Parliament was Cosens Private Devotions or Houres of Prayer to which his Popish Canonicall Houres I framed a fit Diall A third was a Book of Dr. Hall B. of Exceter wherein he affirmed the Church of Rome to be a true Church Which in a Treatise of mine upon the 7. Vials I occasionally confuting and Mr. Cholmley his Chaplen and Mr. Butterfield another Minister making each of them a severall reply I thereupon made one full answer to them both so as both sate down and replyed no more and Dr. Hall himselfe would salve or rather dawbe up the matter by begging the suffrages of two Bishops and two Doctors who so shuffled together each his own Cards that they easily made one pack And wel might they both shuffle pack cut and deale when no answer was permitted to be published But for all that my Babel no Bethel remains intire and unshaken by any of their breaths saving that some of their black mouths laboured to besmeare me with their proud scorne And for so writing against the Church of Rome as no true Church of Christ and because such kind of Bookes were printed without licence when none could be obtained I was brought the first and second time into the High Commission whence I had not escaped without cindging at least to make me smell of it ever after if not stigmatising either in my name or purse had I not come in time to procure a Prohibition in the Court of Justice before the doore was shut which was not long after the Bishop having a little before my Prohibition threatned in open Court that whosoever after that of Mr. Pryns then tendered should be the next which fell to my lot to dare to bring a Prohibition there he would set him fast by the heeles But instead of setting me by the heeles he hung me up by the head for the next morning after that my Prohibition was tendered in Court whereat the whole