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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

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. Aliâs called by the publisher his funerall Sermon By Henry Burton Rom. 2.5 But thou after thy hardnes and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God Who will render to every man according to his deeds Psal. 50.21 These things hast thou done and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes O consider this ye that forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver When the Fox preacheth let the Geese beware Published according to Order London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls The Preface to the READER READER THE old saying is Of the dead speak nothing but wel so shal I speak nothing but truth of this mans falshood both while he lived when he died And let me deprecate thee the least suspition of malice in me towards the man or his memory the which I was so far and free from in his life time that a little before his death my selfe with two other godly reverend brethren went to his lodging in the Tower to tender our Christian duty of charity to him for Counsell and comfort if it would be accepted in that his condition But by his Secretary he returning Court-thanks said some had been with him that day and now he was otherwise imployed in his private businesse Whereupon we returned And that morning Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower having been with him and taking his leave with these words I pray God open your eyes he returned him thankes Saying And I pray God open your eyes and I hope there is no harme in that By which he would cunningly insinuate that Master Lieutenants eyes were blinded rather then his But more of this legierdemain anon and for this task I was first earnestly importuned by two reverend godly Ministers to under take it which I took as a call from God Now for his Funerall Sermon how it could be truely said to be preacht when he read it verbatim as also how he could properly be said to pray what he read in his paper for without his book he could neither preach nor pray I leave it to thy right judgement Finally that such a poysonfull peece as this should be so licentiously published in Print before some Antidote were prepared either to correct its Malignancy or to corroborate the simple hearted people apt to drink in such a sugared potion from the mouth of such a bold dying man though a Traitor if understanding men do not wonder I shall confesse my selfe the only foole to marvaile But I hope this Antidote will not come altogether too late to recover such as whose weaker stomacks have not been able to overcome the poyson Farewell The grand Impostor unmasked GOOD People You 'l pardon my old Memory and upon so sad occasions as I am come to this place to make use of my Papers I dare not trust my self ●therwise HOw ever the good People may Pardon his old memory for reading instead of preaching yet how the righteous God should pardon such an old memory as could not remember one of all those grosse sins wherein he had lived so as to confesse them and to crave pardon of God for them I cannot see I dare not say He did with Adam hide his transgressions in his bosome he would not with Achan confesse his sinne that troubled Israel to give glory to God nor with the Traitor Judas repent of his Treason nor restore the price of innocent blood which he had shed nor confesse at all his sin of treason Yea when Mr. Weld Mrs. Jones and others came to him in the Tower to demand of him recompense for all the wrongs he had done them in their persons credits and estates he could never be brought to acknowledge the least saying he remembred no such thing thus laying all the burthen upon his old memory living and dying And yet in his next words he addes And upon so sad occasions as I am come to this place A sad occasion sure had he been so sensible of it as he should have been Wherein though his old memory failed him yet his old Conscience surer to keep then a thousand memories might have helped him But it seems that not only his long habituated wickednesse had feared and brought his Conscience into a deep Lethargy or dead sleep but surely some compounded Cordiall by the Apothecaries Art had so wrought with him that not only it caused him to have a ruddy fresh countenance but also did so prop up his spirits that he might seem as Agag to have already swallowed down the bitter cup of death and that the world might take him to die as some innocent Martyr as all his Sermon would set him forth and for which end it was penned if not also Printed But how sad soever the occasion of his death was to him or no sure we are the occasions thereof which was in sum high Treason in the belly whereof as in that Trojan horse were so many cruell practises and crafty conveyances closely couched the very s●ed and spawne of those locusts out of the bottomlesse Pit as horses prepared to battell with their King Abaddon over then Revel. 9. have made sad not only many thousand particular persons and families of godly people undone by him but even three whole kingdoms two whereof lie weltering in their blood as at this very day Only blessed be God our sadnesse is at length somewhat refreshed with the broken head of this Leviathan in our desolate land almost turned into a wildernesse by this Romish wilde Bore He calls the Scaffold an uncomfortable place to preach in But sure if his cause had been good and his conscience innocent he needed not have complained of the uncomfortablenesse of the place The Martyrs did not so who coming to the Stake cheerfully saluted it with a kisse And could his Old memory have remembred that Pillory-suffering not much above seven years standing which his Conscience at least might have suggested unto him how a certain * quondam Preacher standing in the Pillory pleasantly said I never preacht in such a Pulpit before saying also to the people and that with a Repetition for their remembrance little do you know what fruit God is able to produce out of this dry Tree making the Pillory all the while his triumphall Chariot while that Canterburian Prelate together with Con the Popes Nuntio and other Compeers was a triumphant spectator out of the Star-Chamber he little dreamed then that such a Pillory could in the space of seven years grow to

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.

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