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A69662	A full and satisfactorie ansvvere to the Arch-bishop of Canterbvries speech, or, Funerall sermon preached by himselfe on the Tower-hill, on Friday the tenth of Ianuary, 1645, upon Hebr. 12. 1, 2 at which time he was there and then beheaded wherein is a full and plenary discourse to satisfie all those who have been startled with his suttle and Jesuiticall falacies and evasions in the said speech : and other passages and observations of great consequence, to satisfie the expectation of the Kingdome therein.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6162A; ESTC R4327	11,272	23

am sure by his meanes the high Commission was little inferior ti the Spanish Inquisition for bloo● and now as if he had had some Divine Revelation from Heaven her angles upon the City and bids us remember it as it is in Ieremiah 26.15 But to come to his third particular The third particular is this poore Church of England that hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when stormes have driven upon them but alasse now it is in a storme it selfe and God knowes whether or how it shall get out and which is worse then a storme from without it is become like an Oake cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its owne body and that in every cleft prophanesse and irreligion is creeping in apace while as Prosper saith Men that introduce prophanesse are cloaked with a name of Imaginary religion for we have in a manner almost lost the substance and dwell much nay too much a great deale in Opinion and that Church which all the Iesuitical machinations in these parts of Christendome could not ruine is now fallen into a great deale of danger by her owne Answ. We may say so too with sad hearts but from whence came these stormes wee may all know the Prelates and the Prelaticall Clergy raised thereby contribution-mony to invite the King to warre against his owne Subjects at which time the Arch Bishop was very active and none did presse it forward more then he These and the Iesuites and Papists amongst us are those wedges that are driven into the body of this Kingdome to rent and teare it to pieces It was horrible impiety that they dayly committed and still doe commit and suffer to bee committed and sowed pillowes under the Elbowes of of those that live in such prophanenesse and yet these men like the Arch-Bishop will call themselves Protestants But I pray God to blesse the Parliament in their setling of this great Reformation who labour to cast off all that Imaginary Religion which the Prelates imposed upon us and so setled the Church according to that rule which is written in the word of God But in the last place see what he saith of himselfe The last particular for I am not willing to be tedious I shall hasten to goe out of this miserable world is my selfe and I beseech you observe me I was borne and baptized in the bosome of the Church of England as it stands yet established by Law in that profession I have ever since lived and in that profession of the Protestant Religion here established I come now to die this is no time to dissemble with God least of all in matter of Religion and therefore I desire it may be remembred I have alwayes lived in the Protestant Religion estabished in England and in that I come to die What Clamors and Slanders I have endured for labouring to keepe an Uniformitie in the externall service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men knowes and I have-abundantly felt Answ. The Arch-Bishop hath been alwayes very laborious to cause the memory of him to remaine and without all doubt that moved him to write the day of his own life and many other things as particuler this last speech of his which for that purpose he gave a Copy to Doctor Sterne but to take a view of this expression of his where he professeth himselfe a Protestant of the Church of England but what is it to say so hee is not charged for being a Papist himselfe but for labouring to bring in Popery It may be the Pope came not high enough and as some say would have sent another Cardinall from Rome to have overtopt him and so he kept off for the present only held a Correspondencie with his freinds here and so would have both Religions for the present to remaine And in this he rather appeared an Atheist indeed for he was like a Camelian of divers colours sometimes punishing the poore Sect of Romish Preists but the fat ones he protected and cherished such as Father Leader superiour of the Benedicts Master Flanders and Master Price and Master Gascoygne c. and the whole order of the Iesuites and feasted and adored the great ones such as Sir Cellam Digby and others and because hee could not be Pope of Rome intended to bee a Cardinall in these Kingdomes as a Popish Preist Father Browne by name confessed and was put upon the bringing in of Altars Tapers and other superstitions into the Church by Father Leader when he came into England and by the advice of the Court Papists to bee cruell in the high Commission against godly people under the name of Puritans and Separatists c. And the like hee used in his verdict at Lambath In all which the truth of it is that I think he had his Religion to choose but concerning the Treason hee is charged with he saith thus Now at last I am accused of high Treason in Parl. a crime which my soule ever abhorred this Treason was charged upon me to consist of two parts an endeavour to subvert the Law of the Realme and a like endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Relgion established by those Laws Besids my answers which I gave to the several charges I protested my inocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners Protestations at the Barre must not be taken de ipso I can bring no witnesse of my heart and the intentions thereof therfore I must come to my Protestation not at the Barr but to my Protestation at this houre and instant of my death in which as I said before I hope all men will be such charitable Christians as not to thinke I would die and dissemble my Religion I doe therfore here with that caution that I delivered before without all prejudice in the world to my Iudges that are to pr●ceed secundum allegata probata and so to be understood I die in the presence of Almightie God and all his holy and blessed Angels and I take it now on my death That I never endeavoured the subvertion of the Lawes of the Realme nor never any change of the Protestant Religion into Popish superstition and I desire you all to remember this protest of mine for my innocency in these and from all manner of Treasons what soever Answ. You see the Arch-Bishop he shamefully denies to be guilty of the Treason proved against him first in particular and secondly in generall All which as hath beene shewed already was fully proved against him But that he calls God and the holy Angels to witnesse and take it upon his death that hee never indeavoured to subvert the lawes of the Realme nor never any change of the Protestant Religion into Popish superstitions this is most desperate of all the rest For as you shall see by and by hee in part confesseth himselfe guilty of the one in endeavouring to subvert the Parliament the very fountaine of the Lawes of the