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A04416	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, on the first Sunday in Lent: Martij 1. 1600 With a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession, and penitence, before and at the time of his death. By William Barllow Doctor of Diuinitie. Whereunto is annexed a true copie, in substance, of the behauiour, speache, and prayer of the said Earle at the time of his execution.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1601 (1601)	STC 1454; ESTC S100950	23,845	78

The offence contagiously and generally dispersed 3. His sinne crieng to God for present vengeance 4. A sinne bloudy in execution if effected 5. Great in it selfe the compound and mixture of all rebellions 6. His life a daunger to the Queene Marke that 7. Himselfe a surfet to the realme to bespewed out iustly 8. Articles propounded disputed concluded so long together agaynst the state 9. The court surprised with an 〈◊〉 power and the Queene mu●ed vp with her owne vassalles 10. A Parlament to be summoned 11. The cheife places of the court at the commaund of Papists armed and attended neyther with the welthiest nor the contentedst men 12. The command of the tower as a bridle to you of this citie 13. His hard opinion and censure of your basenesse and vnfaithfulnesse to the Queene And then iudge you with what safetie to the Quéenes person with what peace to the land with what hope of the Gospels continuance could this man haue liued if he had béene remitted and thinke with your selues whether you may not iustlye conclude that it was the most daungerous plotte that euer was hatched within this land What now remaines but to conclude with my text Giue vnto Caesar the things of Caesar our most gracious Soueraigne I meane honour her obey her feare her but aboue all pray for her that shée being the light of this land may shine among vs as long 〈◊〉 the two great lights of heauen the Sunne and the Moone endureth This God grant for his mercie sake Amen Certaine obseruations IN one onely thing Doctor Montford differeth from me viz. where I report that the Earle said this plot was framing when be lay at my Lord Keepers That worde when Doctor Montford thinkes should be not long after I haue great inducements of circumstance and substance to holde my oppinion still but at his earnest intreatie I haue altered it and for thy sake reader no●ed this least he should accuse me of obstinacie ay thu of difference in my report yet it no the w●●akneth the force of that which I owrre vrge namely that it was no late nor sudden deuise but by his owne wordes a yeare olde at least In the rest we i●●pe together 2. The said Doctor Montford presently after my Sermon put me in minde of one thing somewhat materiall arguing what conceit the Earle had of his owne purpose and action For we speaking of the constancie of Martyrs at their death and of that place of Paul Rom. 8.18 The Earle with passion said that they dyed in a good cause but he should dye in ● BAD CAVSE To comfort him I ●●plyed that albeit he dyed not for Christ y●● I doubted not but he should dye in Christ. 3 Another thing I call to minde noted by me but forgotten in my Sermon how the Earle speaking to vs of some his complices apprehended in this action but NOW saith he I am in my soule perswaded they wil proue good subiects Which word Now referred to his death confirmes those wordes of his cited in my Sermon that his life was no safety to the Queene Himselfe being taken 〈◊〉 the Cynosura of their affections The true copy in substance of the late Earle of Essex his behauiour speach and prayer at the time of his execution ON Wednesday the xxv of Februarie An. Domini 1600. called Ashwednesday about eight of the clocke in the morning was the sentence of death executed vpon Robert Deuoreux Earle of Essex within the Tower of London where a scaffold beeing set vp in the court and a forme neare vnto the place whereon sat the Earles of Cumberland and Hertforde the Lord vicecount Bindon the Lord Thomas Haward the Lord Darcie and the Lord Compton The Lieutennant with some sixteene partizans of the guarde was sent for the prisoner who came in a gowne of wrought veluet a black sattē sute a felt hat black a little ruffe about his necke accompanied from his chamber with three Diuines Doctor Montford Doctor Barlow and Maister Ashton his Chapleine● them he had requested not to part from him but obserue him and recall him if eyther his eye countenance or speach should bewray any thing which might not beseeme him for that time all the way he desired the spectators to pray for him and so ariuing on the skaffold he vayled his hat and with obeysance vnto the Lords to this effect he spake viz. MY Lordes and you my Christian Brethren who are to be witnesses of this my iust punishment I confesse to the glory of God that I am a most wretched sinner and that my sinnes are more in number then the hayres of my head I confesse that I haue bestowed my youth in wantonnesse lust and vncleannesse that I haue bene puffed vp with pride vanitie and loue of this worlds pleasures And that notwithstanding diuerse good motions inspired into me from the spirit of God The good which I would I haue not done and the euill which I would not that haue I done For all which I humblie beseech my Sauiour Christ to be a Mediatour to the eternall Maiestie for my pardon especially for this my last sinne this great this bloudy this crying this infectious sinne whereby so many haue for loue to me beene drawne to offend God to offend their Soueraigne to offend the world I beseech God to forgiue it vs and to forgiue it me most wretched of all I beseech her Maiestie and the state and ministers thereof to forgiue it vs and I beseech God to send her maiesty a prosperous raigne and a long if it be his will O Lord grant her a wise and vnderstanding heart O Lorde blesse her and the Nobles and the ministers of the church and state And I beseech you and the worlde to hould a charitable opinion of me for my intention toward her Maiestie whose death I protest I neuer meant nor violence to her person I neuer was I thanke God Athist not beleeuing the worde and scriptures neither Papist trusting in my owne merites But hope for saluation from God onely by the mercy and merites of my Sauiour Christ Iesus This faith was I brought vp in and herein I am now ready to die Beseeching you all to ioyne your soules with me in praier that my soule may belifted vp by faith aboue all earthlie things in my praier for now I will giue my selfe to my priuate praier yet for that I beseech you to ioyne with me I will speake that you may heare me And heere as he turned himselfe aside to put of his gowne Doctor Montford requested him to remember to pray to God to forgiue all his enemies if he had any To whom he answered I thanke you for it and so turning himselfe againe to the Lords and the rest he said I desire all the world to forgiue me euen as I do freely and from my hart forgiue all the world Then putting off his Gowne and Ruffe and presenting himselfe before the blocke kneeling downe he was by Doctor

A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse on the first Sunday in Lent Martij 1. 1600. With a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession and penitence before and at the time of his death By William Barlow Doctor of Diuinitie Whereunto is annexed a true copie in substance of the behauiour speache and prayer of the said Earle at the time of his execution AT LONDON Printed for Mathew Law dwelling in Paules Church-yard neere Watling-streete 1601. To the Reader ALthough Thucidides had neuer spoken it yet experience shewes it to be true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that hearing is not liable to any accompt but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whatsoeuer a mā speaketh it laies open to other mens censure both his person and his relation which is eyther good or bad saith Nazianz. not by desert and truth but Secundum praeiudicium allatum or affectionem innatam sayth Seneca as the preiudice of his auditors is which they bring with them or the disposition of their natures bred within thē Neither of these hetherunto haue I eyther feared or fled but as I neuer made sute to preach any where so beeing eyther commaunded or requested I neuer refused the most publike assemblies as beeing diffident of that doctrines veritie which should passe from me or guiltie of any calumniation which might iustly touch me Custome makes some speake ill but wisdome teacheth euen Philosophers to dispise it and religion willeth Christians to forgiue it The rule of Seneca is an oracle for truth a comfort to a guiltlesse minde Vt quisque est contemptissimus ita solutissimae linguae est the basest sorted and the lewdest of life haue the most lauish tongues Yet I confesse that the addressing my selfe to this sermon containing in it matter rather of state then diuinitie and beeing like vnto the preamble of the Pharisees in my text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 subiect to offence one way eyther to them of authoritie if I should renounce this dutie or the auditorie if I should speake of vncertaintie was as the Apostle speaketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with much feare and trembling and therefore as it is well knowne from the time of this purpose for the Crosse but three dayes in all till the Saboth for the Sermon I was not one day from the Court still labouring to informe my selfe of euery thing which I doubted that I might in these calumnious times keep my selfe for any thing I would there deliuer from the controlment either of ill tongues or mine owne conscience to which purpose I both framed a short preface personall before I entered the discourse which might essuier and rubbe out all opinion fore stalled and abstayned from all bitternesse agaynst the person and action of the late Earle least thereby I should exasperate mindes not resolued and compared euery speach of his vttered by me both with his confession to the Lords whose witnesse therein I humbly request appealing thereunto and with that conference he had with vs let my associates be iudges which might satisfie any but euen indifferently affected Notwithstanding all this my care and paines the malignitie of the meany is such that as if I had either with Ananias lied vnto the holy Ghost and had preached mine owne damnation as it pleased some to blaspheme it was giuen out that I was stroken if not with madnesse yet with a dreadfull sicknesse or as if I had spoken treason that I was the next day committed close prisoner to the Tower or at least I had highly offended her maiestie and receiued a great check from the Councell The two first my body can answere which hath beene I thanke God euer sithence In latitudine sanitatis et libertatis both in health and at libertie the two last cannot be throughly confuted by me without some opinion of vanity and selfe glory vnlesse that be checking which Euripides calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honourable words aboue my desertes Other with more virulence though with lesse violence for penall charge frame matter of hard iudgement out of the discourse it selfe first generall that I haue broken the Canon both of religion and law in reuealing a penitents confession which was with remorse and priuate The cases wherein a Confessor may publish what he heares are too many for this short preface the learned and iudicious knowe them to the peeueshly affected it is but lost labour to name them First his confession was not auricular but in the audience of three or foure Secondly the crimes he confessed were notorious by his conuiction and vnder his hand by subscription Thirdly they were repeated and diuulged not ad scandalum nec animo damnificandi as the scholemen speake to scandalize or annoy him but to satisfie them who desired resolution and to glorifie God whose spirite had wrought this conuersion and as Doctor Montford knowes it was promised by me in both our names that we would as occasion serued giue publike and open testimonie of that his penitence and detestation of his offence Secondly in particular because in one parte of my preface I said I was not a penny the richer nor a steppe the higher for him albeit I celebrated his glory at the crosse for Caliz victory therefore hence they conclude that I now spake of the spleane and preach for rewardes Malice marres logike and charitie both this inference hath no coherence with my wordes if eyther the precedentes were obserued which I made in answere to a slanderous obloquy That I was a time seruer or the consequents That I neuer moued him to preferre me nor yet left to loue him and honour him one iot the lesse for it But this makes that speach of Seneca true Nec deerunt qui te etiam per ornamenta ferient there are some so full of rancour who will turne a mans glory into his shame reproue him for things he should be commended did I at that time labour for the place yea rather as M. Doctor Stanhop knowes I vsed all the meanes I could to auoide it alleaging both the shortnesse of the time but three dayes full my late beeing in that place scarce two monethes before my youth and vnexperience in those state matters and such other delayes till as he knoweth it was inioyned by a commaundement peremptory did I after it presse the court solicite the Earle affect any aduancement by him God knowes that I lye not he neuer saw me till halfe yeere after his returne from Caliz he sent for me about a matter of difference in some pointes of religion betweene a Popish priest my selfe to take knowledge of me at which time he promised me honourably and I thinke if I had vsed his meanes his promise had beene payment Now then my argument holdes thus if I neglected to obserue so great a personage so fauoured so able to preferre me so willing by promise to do it I was no time seruer nor preacher for rewardes

Barlowe encouraged against the feare of death To whom he answered That hauing beene diuerse times in places of daunger where death was neither so present nor yet so certaine he had felt the weakenesse of the flesh and therefore now in this great conflict desired God to assist and strengthen him and so with eyes fixed on Heauen after some passionate pauses and breathings he began his prayer in effect following O GOD Creator of all things and iudge of all men thou hast let me knowe by warrant out of thy worde that Sathan is then most busie when our end is neerest and that Sathan being resisted will flee I humbly beseech thee to assist me in this my last combat and seeing thou acceptest euen of our desires as of our actes accept I beseech thee of my desires to resist him as of true resistance and perfect by thy grace what thou seest in my flesh to be fraile and weake giue me patience to beare as becommeth me this iust punishment inflicted vpon me by so Honorable a triall Graunt me the inward comfort of thy spirit let thy spirit scale vnto my soule an assurance of thy mercies lift my soule aboue all earthly cogitations and when my life and body shall part send thy blessed Angels which may receiue my soule and conuaye it to thy ioyes in heauen Then concluding his prayer for all Estates of the Realme he shut vp all with the Lords prayer reiterating this petition Lord Iesus forgiue vs our trespasses Lord Iesus receiue my soule Then desiring to be informed what was fit for him to doe for disposing himselfe fitly for the blocke the Executioner on his knees presented himselfe asking him forgiuenesse to whom the Earle said I forgiue thee thou art welcome vnto me thou art the minister of iustice At which time Doctor Montford requested him to rehearse the Creed which he did repeating euery article after the Diuines So opening and putting off his doublet he was in a Scarlet Wastecoate and then ready to lye downe he said he would onely stretch foorth his Armes and spread them abroade for then he was ready So bowing towards the blocke the Doctors requested him to say the two first verses of the 51. Psalme which he did and then inclining his bodie he sayd In humilitie and obedience to thy commaundement in obedience to thy ordinance to thy good pleasure O God I prostrate my selfe to my deserued punishment Lord be mercifull to thy prostrate seruant so lyeng flatte along on the bordes and laying downe his head and fitting it vpon the blocke stretched out his armes with these last wordes which he was requested to say Lord into thy hands I commend my spirite His head was seuered from his bodie by the axe at three stroakes But the first deadly and absolutely depriuing all sence and motion Thomas Montford William Barlow Lib. 1. Apologer Senec. Epist. Quòd in Sap non cadit iniuria 1. Cor. 2. Eurip●d Senec. de benef Wright Esa. 65.5 De vita Mos. lib. 3. Acts. 8. 1. Sam. 15.21 2. Cor. 13. Gen. 10 Iob. 1 Philip. 3. ● 2. Tim. 2. ● Mar 12. Psal. 22.16 Psal. 140 5 1. Tim. 6. ● Psal. 140.9 Luk. 4 6. Ver. 36. Ver. 24. Prou. 1.17 Colos. 2. Eccles. 4 1● Iud. 16.9 Psal. 129 4 Prou. 21 30 Esay 8 9 Luke 23. Deut. 7 Psal. 20 9 Rom. 13. Luk. 6. Rom 13.7 2 Cor. 9.3 Rom. 12. 2. Reg. 4. 1. Cor. 9.6 Psal 58. Lactantius Aquin. 15. 2. Cor. 8. 1. Pet. 5. ● Colo. 3. Eph. 6.5 Rom. 13.4 Reg. 10 Eccle. 10 17 Deut. 17 Nehe. 9 37 Iudg 9 7 Esop Rom. 13 1. Pet. 2 13 1. Sam. 24 2. Sam. 20 1 1. Reg. 12 Luk. 10. Rom. 13 Exod. 21. Eccle. 10. Dan 2 21 Prou. 30. Psal. 8. Psal. 21. Psal. 45 Rom. 13 1. Reg. 4 1. Tim. 2. Iob. 32. Gala. 1. 2. Sam. 3.38 Act. 8. Math. 4. Iudge 3. Merc. Gallobel Prou. 25. 2. Cor. 2.7 2. Tim. 1.17 1. Sam. 13. Basill Nom. 33. Esa. 37.66