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A67879	The life and death of VVilliam Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterburie: beheaded on Tower-Hill, Friday the 10. of January. 1644. I. Here is a brief narration of his doings all his life long faithfully given-out, first, that his sayings at his death may not be a snare to the perdition of souls. II. His doings and sayings being compared and weighed together, his sayings are found infinitely too light; yet of weight sufficient to presse every man to make a threefold use from all, of infinite concernment to his eternall soul. By E.W. who was acquainted with his proceedings in Oxford; was an eye and eare witnesse of his doings and sayings in his courts here at London; and other places under his dominion.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687, attributed name.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3496A; ESTC R6515	29,164	53

shall do for two reasons 1 That every man who will may see That his Deeds and his Words do stand at an eternall Distance and can possibly be reconciled no more than Life and Death can 2 That he who has read his Death his Funerall Sermon there A meer mockery of God and good men the Religion of God and Reformation of men a meer scorn to all these And findes it a snare to his Perdition for he blesseth the man and His fare-well to the world May also read his life and consider well on it lest rising early and blessing his friend because of some light expressions which fell from his mouth at his Death it proves a snare to his soul now and it be counted a curse unto him hereafter I know I shall be envied for this I know not of how many Of none but Malignants sure whose envie I would rather have than their favour Some good men may blame me too I cannot believe that They will blame them rather who were so bold To tell all the world what he said at the point of his departure out of the World thereby to argue his piety towards God and his Righteousnesse towards men And hold the world in ignorance of all he did all his life long which argued him a mighty sinner before the Lord as was the unjust Judge who neither feared God nor reverenced man I but I shall be judged very uncharitable now and censorious of a dying mans words A short Apologie for this 1 I appeal to God that I think I looked with as pittifull an eye upon his departing soul as the best friend he had upon the Scaffold 2 That I shall not judge him or his dying words No I would have the Reader to leave that to God I would help the Reader well to understand what he said at his death by what he did all his life long 3 To undeceive the ignorant at this high point That they may not think to live as he did and so to die without making any confession at all or the least show of Repentance so giving Glory to God and yet die in the Lord the death of the Righteous For these Reasons I have written the History of his Life which I shall pen-up into the narrowest compasse for two reasons also 1 That the common Reader may be at as little cost of time and purse in reading the History of his Life as he he was at for reading his Death 2 Because all the proceedings throughout his whole Arraignment and in Reference to that Crime he pleaded even to his last not Guilty shall be clearly and fully set down to the fullest satisfaction of all the world even those that are the most prejudiced Readers The History of his Life begins from that time 1608. whereof I can write what my eyes saw and what my ears heard concerning him five years after he was Proctor of the Vniversity in Oxford which was in the same year King James came to the Crown of England 1603. Quickly after and to make the more haste he went out Doctor of the Civill Law and was chosen President over the Colledge called Saint Johns I may mistake somewhat in the Account of this time because I was then yong and carelesse to remember it and came my selfe in that year unto the same Vniversitie and to the Colledge at that time next adjoyning to his Colledge I shall note here as an eye and an ear witnesse First 1. That he Doctor Lawd then Arch-Bishop at last and Doctor Howson afterward Bishop of Durham did as their turnes were to preach in Saint Maries Church and Christ-Church there scatter the seeds of evill Doctrines for the suppression whereof and keeping them from taking root Doctor Abbots both and other eminent Divines bestirred themselves and appeared the very next Lords day in opposition to those Doctrines whereunto they would not give place for an hour He went on and declared to all the Christian world 1. His zeale to Formes of Religion and envy to the Power 2. His love and liking to the Shadowes and hatred to the Substance 3. His approbation of Pictures and Images even that abomination the picture of God the Father and furious rage against the Image of God stamped upon and framed in His holy-ones 4. His zeale to builde and beautifie dead Temples made with hands and even mad with rage against the Temples of the Holy Ghost to deface spoile and destroy those living temples 5. His zeale seething hot against the Lord and His Day His pure worship and worshippers His zeale against all these and for all detestable things Crosses Crucifixes and Altars all which the soule of the Lord does hate and yet we know his zeale for all these was notorious all over the Christian world II. All men that know him observed his maner will witnes with me that he labourd to be accepted of greatmen able to lift-him-up in the world as earnestly as Paul laboured to be accepted of the Lord Pauls labour was as his and other his Bishops was to ascend unto the highest Pinacle of honour O with what earnestnesse did he embrace the world And what havock he made of faith and a good conscience all the world knowes But you will say this might not be so he might serve his owne ends and as he said at his death Serve God too seek himselfe first and Gods glory at last No not possible No man can serve two Masters Cardinall Wolsey speakes sadly to this O that I had served God as I served my King then God had not left me as now he has said the Cardinall when he was departing the world This serving the creature more than the Creator If it might be charged upon any man in the world it might be charged upon this Man And this also Minding earthly things Honour from men and Glory from the world We cannot minde earthly things heartily and heavenly things too no more then we can give forth the Male of our flock the strength of our affections to two masters Nor can we beleeve when wee receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from God onely These Scriptures well thought on would stop us in our eager pursuite after the World or tell our selves what we are The Male of our flock the first borne or strength of our Affections can be given but to one Master Love of the present world argues an heart forsaking the Communion of Saints and carelesse of future Glory I proceed His labour was to be accepted of man and of man he was accepted and advanced after some length of time which I must step over his rising by degrees from one 〈◊〉 to another till at length he had Clambered up to the pinnacle hee aspired unto and there sate down in his Throne as one of his flatterers calls it Arch Bishop of Canterbury Then he was supreame Judge in the High-Commission Court

was falling into the pit himself had digged to the height of arrogancie impudencie c He laid the shame upon the Worthies of the Lord whom he calls the people that he might call them Egyptians and might be believed That the people hurried him into the Red Sea of bloud as once the Egiptians did the Israel of God But I prevent my self I have concluded too briefly the History of his Life what his Doings were all along Now I come to his sayings at the houre of his Death which every man has heard or read and some are 〈◊〉 by it to the perdition of their soule Simple men indeed and very ignorant who can be taken with such sayings which argue nothing but impudencie and arrogancie with eyes and eares and an heart shut-up and a conscience scared all which will appear presently through-out his whole Speech when wee have pondered it in our own hearts But I must tell you as my eares told me what the simple and ignorant people said at the hearing of his words and satisfie them if I can They say A. 1 They will believe a Dying man addressing himselfe to give-up his Account to God He will be serious now and lay-open his conscience before the world which he must open presently before the Lord God Almighty B. 1 Probable so and but probable for certain it is some men not serious have died as he died with an horrible lye on his tongue It is a serious thing to die for then the soul lancheth forth into the Ocean of Eternity and if the thread of life be cut off in wrath life runnes forth into an everlasting bottome there to abide under Wrath for ever And yet all men are not serious at the point of death Nor could this man be so who all his life long was serious in this how he might cast dishonors upon God and good men And secondly 2 For his conscience we heard what that was pastfeeling But let this be remembred too 1 That it is the manner of a stout and proud sinner such was he so to tender his honour with men and his name that it may not Rot and be left to posteritie for a curse as to justifie himself to the death that men may not say he died as a foole dies Though now so they will say indeed And so I could retort his own words he spake to another purpose veniunt Romani for that which he feared and would have prevented is come upon him 2 That it is the glory of the Divell to hold fast and full possession of a man to the last period of his time and render his faithfull servant as he can himselfe a seeming Angell of light at his Death Such like proud sinners were Becket an Arch-Bishop or rather as this was an Arch-Traitor And Garnet an Arch-Traitor too against God and His King for he was a Iesuit A. 2 It is said The man is faln now to his own Master let the Dead alone and his words die with him B. It were more than injustice so to do it were impiety To let such words die which fret and corrupt like a Gangrene Besides it is impossible for as our doings are as seeds cast into the ground which dye not there but to live again and we must look upon them and these look us in the face in after time So our Actions or doings and so our words or sayings also these cannot dye specially not the words of a Dying man his Death gives them life so as they have the quickest touch upon the Ear and the more quickening power in the heart because he that now speakes shall speak no more for ever And this the Dying man knew very well and accordingly had prepared himself probably more at that time to preach after his manner than to die I was an eare witnesse how effectually That dying mans Sermon as we call it wrought upon the hearers who counted themselves Discreet men But sure I am in such a concourse of people the greatest number are not so discreet And for their sakes as I have set down his Doings so shall I his sayings that the Reader with me may ponder them together and may not be deceived in a matter of so high concernment relating to an eternall condition either of happinesse or woe forever I know some looked upon upon him as the saddest object that ever they beheld And truly I think my selfe was one And some looked him as an humble penitent for no other reason but because he said so and so they were infinitely mistaken as will appear by and by These things premised I come to his speech which some mis-call a sermon Call it so if they will a Bishops sermon Such as I have ordinarily heard at the Court not a word to the Text but after the old manner turning head upon the Scriptures of God This strikes terrour to the hearts of Court-Parasites Preachers I must not call them whose manner is to chuse a Text and then abuse it fearefully as this Arch-Bishop did at Court I know not how often But looke upon his Text now it is his Text and his Pulpit and the Preacher too and with all these Remember O thou Amaziah thou living man who hast taught thy mouth to flatter and Blaspheme so did this Arch-Bishop at the Court And so he did upon the Scaffold taking this Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 1 2. And making it a Paralel that the standers-by might beleeve that hee had the same ground of comfort his Lord-Christ had in induring the Crosse and might as his Lord did despise the shame for the joy was set before him An horrible presuption The like cannot be paraleld in any story Proceeded to the context Iesus despised the shame for me God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him For him Reade his life he was put to that open shame and yet not shame enough for his horrible sinnes impieties and iniquities and Blasphemies against God and good men Notwithstanding read his confidence My God whom I serve It was Pauls confidence upon the great waters that the mighty flood should not hurt him It was this mans confidence also in appearance That he should be delivered from this sea of blood whrerinto he hurried himselfe for God is his God and Him he served saies he Reader that you may not be mistaken read his life now and how he served God Then enquire of every man you meet whether he can tell you any piece of good service which he did to God or his Church all his life time What discervices he did every man can tell Reader though I passeon yet stay thou upon these words My God whom I serve These will be thy Stay and thy Staffe when thou art falling into thy grave and addressing thy self to make thy appearance before the judge of all the world These words will bear up thy Fainting spirit then as upon the wings of an Eagle else nothing

William Laud Arch-B of Canterbury Prymat of England was beheaded on Tower hill Ian 10th 1644 W. AL Sculp The Life and Death OF VVILLIAM LAWD late Archbishop of CANTERBURIE Beheaded on Tower-Hill Friday the 10. of January 1644. I. Here is a brief Narration of his Doings all his life long faithfully given-out First That his sayings at his Death may not be a snare to the perdition of souls II. His Doings and Sayings being compared and weighed together his Sayings are found infinitely too light Yet of weight sufficient to presse every man to make a Threefold use from All of infinite concernment to his eternall soul By E.W. who was acquainted with his Proceedings in Oxford was an eye and eare witnesse of his Doings and Sayings in his Courts here at London and other places under his dominion REVEL. 9. 20 21. Yet they repented not of the works of their hands neither of their murthers nor of their sorceries nor of their fornication nor of their Thefts PROVERBS 28. 15. As a roaring Lion and a ranging Bear So is a wicked Ruler over the poor people Audacia est stuper quidam sensus cum malitia voluntatis Verul. Non saepius Phebotomiae necessariae sunt in curationibus quam caedes in Civilibus Ibid. LONDON Printed for Iohn Hancock dwelling in Popes-head Ally 1645. To the Reader IT is the manner to adresse a few words to thee at the entrance to a Discourse which are these I was an eye witnesse of this mans Doings in his life an 〈◊〉 ear-witnesse of his sayings at his Death yet had I not a thought for I thought it needlesse to tell the world what his Doings were no not then when I saw his 〈◊〉 boldly published to the world to make gaine of money thereby though with the hazard of souls till the 〈◊〉 fornight after he suffered Death for the 〈◊〉 On that Day a worthy Minister my dear friend came to me told me that they who were thought the fittest men for the worke had no purpose to doe it there was a mistake for the fittest of Many hath done it then moved me about it by such arguments as might have commanded me and so did though not at that time yet some hours after Then I girded my self to the service To give a Breviate of his Doings first The Reader could expect no other in such scantnesse of time and roome different from that is extant as I thought also the time and place did require Of his saying after that his Doings and sayings being laid together the one may interpret and explaine the other And the scriptures of God may warrant the Reader to be judge of both I have made hast here as I was desired to do and as a man hasteneth to take an Anti-dote to expell the poison he hath unadvisedly drunk down Yet this 〈◊〉 is not of that Nature as to cause Repentance But er ours it may have caused not a few which the Author and the Printer may lovingly divide 〈◊〉 them and be at no losse For the Reader must take all in good part for these reasons 1 Because he may make a great gain by this to his 〈◊〉 He may learn by this how to live order all his doings all his life long How As the righteous Gods faithfull servants do and then he may be sure his 〈◊〉 shall bee like theirs and the comfort of his sayings then answerable to his doings I have through 〈◊〉 Grace strengthening me done all Thy wills Lord I have kept Thy word Come Lord Jesus Come quickly I commend my soul unto Thee For thou hast 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 God of Truth 2. The Reader may be informed hereby touching the Religion we without mentall Reservations call 〈◊〉 That it is not like our garments still 〈◊〉 after the fashion of the Times nor like the 〈◊〉 neither now 〈◊〉 and then waining as shee 〈◊〉 to us But Religion is as the Sun a perpetuall and 〈◊〉 Ordinance in heaven 3. Touching the warre about Religion who they are who so venter far and freely in this warre who fight indeed the Battells of the Lamb Truly Reader The old Serpent the Devill speaking through a Dying man as audibly in the eares of a great People as once he spake in the eares of our Grand-mother Eve would have beguiled all the Christian world touching this matter It was my great Care to undeceive thee at this great Point to Discover that Grand 〈◊〉 to thee which I have done but not indeed so fully as I would 〈◊〉 could but yet faithfully not daring for my life to doe otherwise in a matter which did so highly concerne The High God His Christ His Church and His Parliament now fighting the Lords Battells against the 〈◊〉 and His Angells Indeed the Scripture calls the Adversary and enemy row not the Dragon but the Beast And hee would seem the tamest of Beasts a Lamb and make the world beleive he would That 〈◊〉 fights the Lords Battels venters as farre and as freely for the Religion and Faith of Christ as any in all the world Now what see wee For wee may behold now as 〈◊〉 Iohn did in a vision A Beast like a Lamb But how 〈◊〉 he he spake as a Dragon How 〈◊〉 hee As a Dragon wee may be sure And it is as 〈◊〉 before our eyes by his 〈◊〉 and Sayings That though he be a 〈◊〉 in shew he is a Dragon indeed for Dragons 〈◊〉 are never 〈◊〉 then are his words And hence Reader Thou art taught a great Lesson Not To trust the Dragon though in 〈◊〉 like a Lamb and may speak like a Lamb So he 〈◊〉 speak for advantage that hee may Act anon 〈◊〉 a Dragon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as all the faithfull servants in the world 〈◊〉 now They send their Embassadour to heaven their prayers thither through the Mediation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and only Friend to make peace that is the peace they breath-after Peace and Holinesse Peace and Righteousnesse Truth and Peace They hearken not what the Dragon saith nor what the Beast saith nor what the Lamb saith which is but like a Lamb they hearken what their Lord saith for He speakes Peace A Peace of their Freinds making and their Gods giving Surely their expectation is from God a peace of his speaking giving And in the world they expect trouble and with the Dragon War while he and the Saints are together in the world These things the Lord hath spoken That which makes amends for all the Dragon can doe or say in Mee yee might have Peace In the world ye shall have Tribulation But bee of good cheer I have overcome the world So saith the faithfull and true witnesse The Amen The Life and Death of VVilliam Lawd late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Briefly related I Will begin in order with his Life first and his Death after I le set down faithfully and as narrowly as I can his Doings all his life long and his Sayings at his death And this I

can do it But then thou must look to this as thou doest regard thine imortall soule That thou doest speake-out these words hartily intirely and indeed when thou sayest My God then thou canst say Whom I serve If that followes not no comfort followes But if thou canst say Whom I serve indeed then maist thou say My God indeed else not My God and My service to him must go together He tells us in the next place of the Imaginations which the people are setting up Then the people do as he and such blinde guides taught them the way to worship God after the imaginations of their owne hearts Then he tells us of following the Bleating of Jeroboams Calves An horrible Blasphemy But a very fit Paralel for of no Arch-Bishop it may bee said so truly as of him That hee as Ieroboam set up a Calvish worship and made all Israel to sin In the same page he acknowledgeth himsele a grievous sinner many waies and this he does in all humility All humility There is no humlity at all Where are the Actings of an humble spirit Where are the Breakings of his heart with sorrow Where is he condemning judging loathing himselfe for all his abominations Where are his thirstings after God! Reader beleeve the Word of God and what His Faithfull servants have said touching this which he calls all humility where all humility is there is all this forementioned where there is none of this there is no humility none at all No hee made an acknowledgment of his sins in all the pride of his heart not as a poore penitent as he calles himselfe but as a proud impenitent person who had an heart that could not nay would not repent Reader I speak this for thy profit therfore before I passe on I must bespeak thee again and I do charge thee before the living God and as thou dost tender thine immortall Soul read over those words again which I have said rather the mouth of God saith in Reference to his acknowledgement in all humility And adde thereunto That where humility is there all known sins are Confessed distinctly humbled for and repented of bitterly bitterly Where there is all humility sin will be as bitter hearbes indeed bitter in the mouth and bitter in the soul A man all humbled tastes sin now as the Gall of Aspes which was before as sugar under the tongue and whereas he gloried in his shame before now he loaths himlelfe for that shame What thiukest thou now of the Bishops aknowledgment of his sin in all humility Consider well on it and make answer here as before God and as thou regardest thine immortall Soule Now proceed and heare what he saies I have upon this sad occasion ransackt every Corner of mine heart and yet I thanke God I hawe not found any sins there deserving Death by any knowne lawes of this Kingdome These Lawes are not so well knowne to us But this wee know understanding in our Measure the Law of our God That this man was put to death by as knowne Laaw as all Judah put Mattan Baals Preist to death who was the Queenes Favorite in all probability 〈◊〉 to her Councells and had his hands and his head acting and contriving all her Murthers and severall Practices against the Peeres and Princes of Judah and complotting with her Her at that time how to divolve the Crowne of Judah to Israel that the Light of Judah might be quite extinct All this is more than probable But certaine it was This Priest was heart and Hand for Ahab had his house and the cursed waies thereof and hee had scattered his wayes His horrible Idolatreis as he could from Corner to Corner By the same known Law that this Mattan was put to Death this Archbishop was put to Death And the Law we read Full out Deut. 13. As for the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome we leave it to them that know them better than we do and are preparing to give the World a full and ample Satisfaction It is abundantly sufficiently for us to know the Law of our God toughing that matter Read on in the same Page where he saith though the Sentence lyeth heavy upon me yet I am as quiet within as I ever was in my life I did not beleeve him though yet it might be so For his heart was as Nabals was a Stone And the Devill like a Strong-man held his Habitation there till the last and there we read all things are at peace but it is a cursed peace If he had lifted up his voice and cryed for the Spirit of Christ to come-in unto him to convince him of his finnes to set them in order before his eyes in a way of mercy then there had been trouble and a blessed trouble though no rest had been to his flesh nor quiet to his spirit because of his sinnes Certian it is when Christ by His Spirit commeth into the Soule Trouble will be there as was when he was born King of the Iewes then 〈◊〉 was trubled and all Ierusalem with him The point is The spirit of God conuinceth of fin first and so causeth trouble before He convinceth of Righteousnesse so causing Quiet Rest and Peace I see my papers fill apace I will hasten yet we will examine his comfort in the next words An empty one God knowes That other Bishops were hanged and beheaded too before him That is true enough and yet not half so many suffered that most shamefull death as deserved the same We hope his Brethren in iniquity shall have their deservings anon But he did almost as presumptuoufly as he had done in the choise of his Text to make 〈◊〉 the Baptist and Saint Cyprian no Archbishop and the first Martyr Saint Stephen Saint Iames too Saint Paul also all these paralels now comparing them with himself That he doth not he sayes and God forbid he should so he sayes also he will raise a comfort to himselfe from those great Saints and servants of God who were laid-up in their severall times as he must be that is his comfort But now let the living man know for the time is passed with him That if he look for comfort from these mens sufferings at his death then he must suffer for the same cause the cause makes the Martyr and his life must be as theirs was and that is matter of comfort indeed for they were all for God His House and His Houshold and the Lawes thereof This man was full set and his hand and heart full bent against all these God and Gods House and Houshold and Lawes there In the same Page we may reade his mutterings against the Honourable Assemblies in Parliament now That they will bring-in the Romans i. e. Romish Religion by the same meanes they seek to root it out Well I like the proceedings so much the better because such a man as he the worst of a thousand hath scandalized the proceedings thereof casting

their abominable Doctrines and practises they divided the King from his God and the people from God and their King that they should be no more the Lords People And now the great house of the Kingdome was cleft as with wedges to shivers for where there is a dividing from God there will be divisions among men And where sinne is especially the sinne of Idolatry there will be a storme and prophanenesse and irreligion will come-in like a flood And so has the Church of England been dealt with by her own i. e Arch-Bishops and Bishops pandars for their own lusts procters for their owne Rome subtill Brokers for their Babylon And yet see the impudency of these Arch-Bishops and Bishops Though they are all cast forth as dung out of two Kingdomes and one of them hanged-up for his villanies in Ireland And their Arch-Bishop is cut-asunder here because he did cleave Kingdomes to shivers as with wedges yet they will bee Arch Bishops and Bishops still That they will though God tells them they shall not He has troubled their seas and He will trouble them their sea shall work so high that they shall not be able to weather out the storme which lyeth upon them Yet they are as Ambitious to rise againe to their throne as their Arch-Bishop was unwillingly to fall upon a Scaffold but thus an hardned heart will doe rise-up against the Lord God not observing The Lords sword is in His Hand to ease himselfe of such Adversaries To destroy their Lordships utterly and to take away that blasphemous name Arch-Bishop from un der the heavens of God that it may not be once named any more in the Churches of God The last particular is for now he said he was hastning out of this miserable world and my trembling pen hastens after he bespeakes the peoples good opinion of him whom even now he called calves and persecutors all by his owne name notwithstanding he would have them conceive well of him and take knowledge that however he lived yet he was borne and died a sound Protestant a lover of that Religion from his youth up and stood firme and fast thereunto till his Death and now would die in it And this is the sum of his full answer to that he said perhaps was 〈◊〉 against him that he would have brought in Popery If you would have replyed here that he brought false worship into the Church Crucifixes Crosses Altars in thither he would have answered you fully that so indeed he did but that was to keep an uniformity in the externall service of God And if you 〈◊〉 have asked him as indeed I was about to do to explaine the word Protestant because Athiests and Papists use ths same words in their sense too so also what he meant by Religion established by law because there may be a great ambiguity in that word there being a Religion established in England by law which ws down-right Popery And this word Law is ambiguous too for there is a law in our members which fighteth against God and there is a Law of 〈◊〉 ordinances which stands opposite to Gods Law also If I say he had been asked to explaine himselfe I know not what hee could have said more than he said I was borne and Baptised in the bosome of the Church of England So were Arch-Rebels and Arch-Traitors also there as it stands yet established by Law I cannot understand him there He should have said I profes that Religion and in that I come now to die which stands established by the Word of God And had he said so I had not beleeved him For though Saul before he was Paul I mean before he was converted would have said almost as much that if hee had died at that time he had died in the Religion of his Fathers but he would not have said in the Religion and Faith of Christ for Him ignorantly he persecuted though he would not have thought himselfe a Persecutor as he calls himsefe afterward But not till after his conversion I confesse I stood at amaze here If any other stand so now reading this his following Protestation let us take the thread of his life and so go through all his Doings and sayings all his life long and then we cannot be so credulous as to beleeve his Protestation at his death which was That he never endeavoured to altar the Lawes of the Church or State never endeavoured the subversion of the Lawes of the Realmes nor change of Religion Never endeavoured He ever endeavoured it witnesse High Commission and Starre Chamber Courts God Angels and men are all witnesses there That he more than endeavoured it he affected it he subverted the Lawes and changed the everlasting Ordinances as he could And wee are confident that though the light which was in him was darknes and great was that Darknesse yet he could not but have so much light remaining as to clear unto himselfe his falacy about this word Protestant and those words also Religion established by Law wherewith he would deceive the people and his impudencie also denying that hee ever endeavoured the subversion of the Kingdome For could he do as he did to the pure worship of God and His Worshippers To the day of his Wrship could hee keep in the Popery which he found a great 〈◊〉 in Chappels and cathedrals could hee keep all this-in And could he bring in by maine force into our Churches what he found not there Pictures and Jmages and set-up Altars in all churches his hand could reach-unto and yet no endeavour to Altar Religion could he set his foot so 〈◊〉 upon the lawes of the Realme and never endeavour the subversion of those lawes This is as incredible as for a Frier So the old tale goes to have the Liver of a Goose and the heart of a Pig and yet to have nothig killed for him Surely as he went crosse to the light of God all his life long So did he to his owne light at the hower of his death Truly I cannot thinke otherwise For the light of nature cannot be quite extinct in this world I have told but my conceit here but me thinkes it is more than a conceit That his Protest for his innocencie hightens his crimes makes him more detestable and the man more nocent In the last place That he was no enemie to Parliaments Beleeve him we may with his reservation So long as they appeared for Episcopacy and were fast friends to Gods enemies Arch-Bishops and Bishops But one Parliament there was and blesssed be God there is he said two and these indeed he disliked for some misgovernment there Saies he We understood him very well This Parliament are enemies to that misgovernment by Arch Bishops and Bishops All Sober men in the world like the Parliament for this and blesse them day and night and God for them And for all the good Hee has wrought by them Oh Blessed be God who has given wisdome