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A49716	The Arch-bishop of Canterburie his speech, or, His funeral sermon preached by himself on the scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday the tenth of January, 1645, upon Hebrews 12, 1, 2 also, the prayers which he used at the same time and place before his execution / all faithfully written by Iohn Hinde, whom the archbishop beseeched that hee would not let any wrong be done him by any phrase in false copies.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L599A; ESTC R41258	7,415	13

might have reason for it for corruptio optimi est pessima There is no corruption in the world so bad as that which is in the best thing it self for the better the thing is in nature the worse it is corrupted And this being the highest and greatest Court over which none other can have the jurisdiction in the Kingdome if any way a mis-government which God forbid should any wayes fall upon it the subjects of this Kingdome are left without all manner of remedy and therefore God preserve them blesse them and direct them that there may be no misconceit much lesse misgovernment amongst them I will not inlarge my self any further I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter enemies or others whatsoever they have been which any wise prosecuted me in this kinde and I humbly desire to be forgiven first of God and then of every man whether I have offended him or no if hee doe but conceive that I have Lord do thou forgive me and I beg forgivenesse of him and so I heartily desire you to joyne with me in prayer The Bishop of Canterburies first Praye● on the Scaffold O Eternall God and most mercifull Father looke downe upon mee in mercie in the riches and fulnesse of all thy mercies look downe upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sinnes to the Crosse of Christ looke upon me but not till thou hast bathed me in the bloud of Christ look upon me but not till I have hid my selfe in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment that is due to my sinnes may passe away and go over mee And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I humblie beseech thee give me now in this great instant ful patience and proportionable comfort a heart readie to die for thine honour and the Kings happines and the Churches preservation and my zeal to these far from arrogancie be it spoken and all the inhumane frailtie excepted and all incidents thereunto which is yet unknowne of mee in this particular for which I now come to suffer I say in this particular of Treason but otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and these especially whatsoever they be which have drawne downe this present judgement upon mee and when thou hast given me strength to beare it then doe with mee as seemes best in thine owne eyes And carrie mee through death that I may looke upon it in what visage soever it shall appeare to mee and that there may bee a stoppe of this issue of bloud in this more than miserable Kingdome I shall desire that I may pray for the people too as well as for my selfe O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance unto all people that have a thirst for bloud but if they will not repent then scatter their devices so and such as are or shall be contrarie to the glorie of thy great Name the Truth and Sinceritie of Religion the establishment of the King and his posteritie after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their ancient and just power the preservation of this poore Church in her truth peace and patrimonie and the settlement of this distracted and distressed people under their ancient laws and in their native Liberties and when thou hast done all this in meere mercie for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfullnesse and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Iesus And I beseech thee receive my Soule to mercie Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen When he had finished his prayer hee gave his paper to Doctor Sterne saying Doctor I give you this that you may show it to your fellow Chaplains that they see how I am gone out of the world and Gods blessing and his mercy be upon them Then turning to Master Hinde hee said Friend I beseech you here mee I cannot say I have spoken every word as it is in my Paper but I have gone very neere it to help my memorie as well as I could but I beseech you let me have no wrong done me Hinde Sir you shall not if I doe any wrong let it fall on my owne head I pray God have mercy upon your soule Cant. I thank you I did not speak with any jealousie as if you would do so but I spake it onely as a poore man going out of the world it is not possible for me to keep to the words of my paper and a phrase may do me wrong I did think here would have been an emptie Scaffold that I might have had roome to die I beseech you let me have an end of this miserie for I have endured it long When roome was made he spake thus I 'le pull off my Doublet and Gods will be done I am willing to goe out of the world no man can be more willing to send me out then I am willing to be gone Sir Iohn Clathworthy What speciall Text of Scripture now is comfortable to a man in his departure Cant. Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo Sir Clothworthy That is a good desire but there must bee a ●●undation for that desire as assurance Cant. No man can expresse it it is to be found within Sir Iohn Clothworthy It is founded upon a word though and that word would be knowne Cant. That word is the knowledge of Jesus Christ and that alone And turning to the Executioner he gave him money saying here honest friend God forgive thee and do thy office upon mee in mercie The Executioner desiring him to give some signe when he should strike he answered Yes I will but let me fit my selfe first Then kneeling down on his knees he prayed thus The Bishop of Canterburies last prayer on the Scaffold LORD I am coming as fast as I can I know I must passe through the shaddow 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 receiue my soule and have mercy upon me and blesse this Kingdom with peace and plenty and with brotherly loue and charitie that there may not be this effusion of Christian bloud among them for Iesus Christs sake if it be thy will And when he had said Lord receive my Soule which was his signe the Executioner did his office FINIS

THE ARCH-BISHOP OF CANTERBVRIE HIS SPEECH OR His Funerall Sermon Preached by himself on the Scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday the tenth of January 1645. Upon Hebrews 12. 1 2. Also the Prayers which he used at the same time and place before his Execution All Faithfully written by Iohn Hinde whom the Arch-bishop beseeched that hee would not let any wrong be done him by any phrase in false Copies LONDON Printed with License and entred according to Order THE ARCH-BISHOP OF CANTERBURIE HIS Funerall Sermon Preached by himself on the Scaffold on Tower-hill Upon Heb. 12. 1 2. Let us run with patience that race that is set before us looking unto Iesus the Author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Crosse despiside the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God Good people YOu 'l pardon my old Memorie and upon so sad occasions as I am come to this place to make use of my Papers I dare not trust my self otherwise Good people This is a very uncomfortable place to preach in and yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture in the twelfth of the Hebrews Let us runne with patience that race that is set before us looking unto Iesus the Author and finisher of our fait● c. I have been long in my race and how I have looked unto Jesus the Author and finisher of my faith is best knowne to him 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 there is no comming to the right hand of God Jesus despis'd the shame for me and God-forebid but I should despise the shame for him I am going apace as you see towards the Red-sea and my feet are upon the very brinks of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me to the Land of promise for that was the way by which of old he led his people But before they came to the Sea he instituted a passover for them a Lamb it was to bee eaten with very sowre Herbs as in the twelfe of Exodus I shall obey and labour to digest the sowre Herbs as well as the Lamb and I shall remember that it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the Herbs nor be angry with the hands which gathered them but look up onely to him who instituted the one and governeth the other For men can have no more power over me then that which is given them from above I am not in love with this passage through the Red-sea for I have the weaknesse and infirmity of flesh and blood in mee and I have prayed as my Saviour taught me and exampled me Vt tansiret calix ista That this Cup of red Wine might passe away from me but since it is not that my will may his will be done and I shall most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea I and passe through it in the way that he shall bee pleased to leade me And yet Good people it would be remembred That when the servants of God old Israel were in this boistrous Sea and Aaron with them the Egyptians 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 blood as hee was to deliver the three Children from the fornace Daniel 3. And I must humbly thank my Saviour for it my Resolution is now as theirs was then their Resolution was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor shall 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 Ieroboams Calves in Dan and in Bethel And I pray God blesse all this people and open their eyes that they may see the right way For if it fall out that the blinde lead the blinde doubtlesse they will both into the ditch For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many wayes by thought word and deed and therefore I cannot doubt but that God hath mercie in store for mee a poore penitent as well as for other sinners I have upon this sad occation ransack'd every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found any of my sinnes that are there any sins now deserving death by any known law of this Kingdome and yet thereby I charge nothing upon my Judges I humbly beseech you I may be rightly understood I charge nothing in the least degree upon my Judges for they are to proceed by proof by valuable Witnesses and in that way I or any innocent in the world may justly be condemned And I thank God though the weight of the Sentence Iye verie heavie upon me yet I am as quiet within as I thank Christ for it I ever was in my life And though I am not onely the first Archbishop but the first man that dyed in this way yet some of my predecessors have gone this way though not by this meanes For Elfegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Dans and Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellowes And long before these Saint Iohn Baptist had his head danced of by a lewd woman and Saint Cyprian Arch-bishop of Carthage submitting his head to a persecuting sword Many examples great and good and they teach me patience for I hope my cause in Heaven will looke of another dye then the colours that is put upon it here upon earth and some comfort it is to me not onely that I goe the way of these great men in their severall generations but also that my charge if I may not be partiall looks somewhat like that against S. Paul in the 25. of the Acts for he was accused for the Law and the Temple that is the Law and Religion and like that of S. Stephen in the sixth of the Acts for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave us which Ordinances were Law and Religion but you 'l say do I then compare my self with the integritie of Saint Paul and Saint Stephen no God forbid farre be it from mee I onely raise a comfort to my selfe that these great Saints and servants of God were thus laid up in their severall times And it is very memorable that Saint Paul who was one of them and a great one that helped on the accusation against Saint Stephen fell afterwards into the selfe same accusation himselfe yet both of them great Saints and servants of God I but perhaps a great clamour there is that I would have brought in Poperie I shall answer that more fully by and by in the meane time you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himselfe in the eleventh of Iohn If yee let