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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

Nocents are which he was to have looked better to But for all this he thankes Christ he is quiet within as ever O poor wretch What All this while no remorse no stirring no sting of conscience No awaking of that sleepy Lion No apprehension of Divine Iustice Nothing but a dead slumber or deep Hipocrisie or damnable Atheisme I remember how * Bernard tells us of a bad conscience and quiet which is the most dangerous desperate of all other Among others his Predecessors as he calls them he brings in St. Iohn Baptist as he styles him whose head was danced off by a lewd woman And surely if he had been as faithfull as John Baptist was in reproving Herod and his lewd Woman he might perhaps have been prevented of loosing his head for treason and might have proved a Saint William for it did Saint-ship now a daies goe by vertue ●and not by villany the way that he tooke And why among the rest did he not mention his Predecessor his St. Thomas a Be●ket who thogh not judicially was taken away He sought by depressing the King and State to exalt the libertie of the Church For this the Pope Sainted him but K. Hen. 8. afterward would have him called no longer Saint but Traitor But this man thought himselfe no Traitor because not against the King As if Treason against the State of the Kingdome and Common-weale be not treason also against the King by dividing the one from the other and cutting the knot that should knit them together as Oath Covenant Lawes But it comforts him that his charge lookes somewhat like that of St. Paul Act. 25. being accused for Law and Religion and that of Stephen Act. 6. A poore comfort when well considered and the account cast up And though Paul before his conversion was consenting to Stephens death yet he found Mercy afterward as having done it ignorantly and confessing and repenting of it But this Prelate could not say he persecuted the Saints ignorantly neither would ever confesse those persecuting sins of his nor repent of them and therefore how could he finde or hope for mercy at Gods hand or mans either Here he as impertinently as before hales in another place of Scripture and that most grosly The Romans will come if we let this man ●lone Surely he hath pretty well played his part to bring the Romans in for hath he not been a maine instrument to fill the Land with Papists and prophane ignorant Protestants not only by the publishing of that prophane Booke of Sports lately burned in Cheap-side where with the whole Land hath been poysoned but by stopping the free course of Preaching God● Word cropping off both branch and fruit of all godlinesse and sound knowledge and by placing his prophane and Popishly-affected avaritious and ambitious Priests and the Courts favourites in all the chiefe places of the Kingdome so as no marvaile it is if by the industry of this man that enemy who hath sowed his tares in every field of this Kingdome while men sl●pt the Pope never had such a harvest in England And surely never had the Pope such a desperate power and numerous party in England and that collected out of all Popish Countries round about waging warre against our Lawes and Liberties Religion and Republick and all to reduce by solemn and fast league with Rome England back againe to the Pope as being one of those that are made drunke with the Whoores cup and doe give up their Kingdome unto the Beast who now altogether make warre with the Lamb and those on his side called and chosen and faithfull so that Popery is that grand Sect the Grand●m of all divisions especially of this great one between King and Kingdome Head and Body Husband and Wife Father and Children a right Babylonish division which tends to confusion But his aym was against godly people who separating from his Hierarchy he brands with sects and divisions and therin comprehendeth and condemneth the very body of the Kingdome the which hath cast out both Bishops and their Service book for which he styles us all Sects c. But I trust God will so blesse these Sects that they shall be the Angel with the sharp sickle to cut down the Popes Harvest in this Land never hence-forth to reap any more in England And as for that place of the * Apostle the Hypocrite doth most falsly apply it unto himself as he doth all other Scripture For his honour is dishonour his good report is evill and this deceiver is truely so living and dying Next he tells us what a good Protestant the King is Truely if he be not so good as he would have him the fault is not the Prelates And what good councell he hath given him both his practises and his Epistle Dedicatory before his Relation besides his conscience can tell Here he complaines of the City for that fashion in gathering of hands and going to the Parliament to clamour for Justice as being a disparagement to that great and just Court a way to indanger the innocent and pluck innocent bloud upon their owne and Cities head How What a disparagement doth he finely cast upon that great and wise Court as if any such clamour should extort from them any act of injustice as thereby to condemne the innocent Indeed if that Honourable Court were as those Pharisies in Stephens case and as Herod in Peters having killed Iames to whom this man compares our Parliament as not daring to do any thing in this kind till they saw how the pe●ple were affected it were some thing But here this Serpent sli●y stings both People and Parliament But was there not a cause And for his bidd●ng take heed of having our hands full of bloud surely this is the ready way to f●ee both land and hand from the guilt of innocent bloud when justice is hastened upon the heads of those who have shed it T is tru● God hath his owne time but we must serve his divine paovidence by doing our dutie and using the meanes Therein is our discharge and safetie And he might as well blame Gods Elect for crying day and night to the great Iudge to avenge their cause Surely if Gods wisdome and carefull providence over his people were hereby eclipsed hee would not animate them thus to cry and importune him continually and * not to faint but sharply reprove them and forbid them so to doe as here the Prelate doth Therefore certainly in calling for justice not only of God but of man who sits in Gods throne for that end is the peoples dutie who ought to obey God rather than a Prelate who is so unreasonably partiall in his owne cause Those places Psal. 9. and Heb. 12. he miserably applyes he would now in that impenitent and desperate condition be that poore man whose complaint God remembers and those fearfully to fall into the hands of the living God who have passed or procured the

the Prelate hath Gilded over his Protestation for currant for which he flies and layes hold on the Hornes of the Altar in the Kings Chappell his most sacred Sanctuary His * other is a word of Equivocation which is Popery He distinguisheth Popery into Proper and Improper or lesse proper Popery taken properly is that whereof the Pope is sole Head and Master And this is that Popery which he here protesteth he never intended or endeavoured to set up in the Church of England to wit the universall Headship of the Pope which the Logitians call proprium quarto modo that is such as is proper to the Pope and onely to the Pope and alwayes to the Pope as laughing is said to be proper to man alone at all times The Prelate then would not have such a Popery set up in the Propriety of it as should exalt the P. over the See of Canterbury to over-top the Metropolitan of all England What then He would have no other Popery set up in England then that only which is lesse proper or improperly called Popery or rather a thing that is Popery but must not be called Popery And that is That the Pope shall be Head or Bishop of the Church of Rome and the Arch-bishop of Canterbury shall be an Independent Primate and Metropolitan of all England and the Pope to have nothing to doe here but himselfe alone to be Dominus fac totum Onely with this Reserve that this Primate become Pope when time serves And it seemes he takes it as a deed if gift from the Pope which he gave to the Prelat● Predecessor Anselm to whom the Pope gave this Title stiling him Patrarcha alterius orbis the Patriarch or Pope of the other world meaning England of which the Roman Poet writ of old Et penitus toto divis●s or be Britannos And thus it seemes it descended upon the Successors of Canterbury by an hereditary right from the Pope And therefore not without cause doth the Prelate make mention hereof in his * Relation telling us that a Patriarch is above a Prelate so expert was he in the learning of Ecclesiasticall Heraldry for Titles and Degrees And thus we come to understand what he means by making profession of the Protestant Religion of the Church of England namely that this Religion is not Popery properly taken but only improperly as hath been said So as herein we may give credit to his words in some sense both for himselfe and his friends whom he so highly magnifies for good Protestants of the Church of England This is that true Protestant Religion which they so much profest by hooke or crooke to maintaine Touching his Treason in subverting the Laws and perverting of Religion it matters not for all his protestations that he never intended but ever abhorred it for all things were clearely and fully proved in Court against him His Protestations of his innocency have been too well knowne as well as others what credit they deserve A man commits many Murthers and pleades he abhorres to be a murtherer He kills slayes slaughters innocent Protestant Subiects and protests he intends the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion Will this hold good in Law or yet in the Court of Conscience For his contempt of Parliaments this was also proved against him and he here in part confesseth it And in the close he forgives all the world He cryes Thiefe first calling all his Persecutors his bitter enemies He forgives them he saith but he giveth them a cruell dash calling them bitter enemies who did but in a legall way and just cause prosecute him as a grand enemy both to Religion and to the Republicke Therefore what kind of forgivenesse this is God knowes when it so ends in a most bitter calumniation But he askes forgivenesse of God and then of every man whether I have saith he offended him or no if he but conceive that I have Alas what a pittifull shu●●ing i● here Here i● a generall asking of forgivenesse but for what here is no acknowledgment of any sin against God o● of any one offence or injury to any man And tha● all may plainly see how this Hypocrite and Impostor playes mock-holi-day he askes forgivenesse of every man whether he hath offended him or no Why what needs forgivenes when no offence given or taken But 〈◊〉 he if he do but conceive that I have Oh ●ender heart But here lie would make the world beleeve that none can challenge him for wrong unlesse in conceit only t is but a conceit that men have only that the good Bishop of Canterbury should do the least wrong to any man living For what say you to that Speech of his in his Relation to the King God forbids I should ever offer to perswade a persecution in any kinde or practic● it in the least T is but a conceit then that the Prelate of Canterbury should be either a persecutour or a perswader thereunto A conceit that he should perswade that the terrible censure in the Star-Chamber against those his three bitter men as he calls them should be executed to the uttermost although he left them to the Kings Justice A conceite that he should use the least meanes to promerit the Judges a little before the censure though he made a great feast at Lambeth conceite that he should be an instrument of persecu●ion to whom poore petitioners to the King about the booke of sports were referred for mercie where none could be had or hoped for And thus he concludes Lord doe thou forgive me and I begge forgivenesse of him Of whom Of one whether I have offended him or no if he doe but conceive that I have What juggling is here No sparke of ingenuity or truth in all this nor all along Well but what then So saith he I heartily desire you to ioyne with me in prayer Nay stay He should have remembred that saying of Christ Matth. 5. 23 24. If thou bring thy gift before the Altar and there re●embrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leave there thy gift before the Altar and goe thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer t●y gi●t Agree with thine Adversary quickly c. Now the Prelate here brings his gift to the Altar he hath a Prayer in his hand in stead of his heart to offer but he should remember that not one brother but many have great and grievous things against him Therefore before he read his Prayer he should have rubb'd up his old rusty memory and called for those who had many things against him and have made his peace with them He should have called for all thos● Preachers whom he had wickedly Prelatically Suspended Silenced Deprived thrust out of their Means with their wives children exposed to beggery misery among many others Mr. Rudd of Abington Mr. Bar●ard Mr. Forbis Mr. Ward c. He should have called for all those godly Preachers

sentence of condemnation execution especially when now God is making his inquisition for bloud So he And surely in this good season of Gods inquisition for bloud it hath pleased him to find out this Achan who hath cunningly even to the last houre not as Achan glorifying God by confession as before hid all his stollen goods the wedge of gold the Babylonish garment the two hundred shekels of silver all his under-hand dealings for the undoing of this Kingdome in the hollow of his false heart and had not both Parliament and People bestirred themselves in the discoveries he had been too nimble for us all But God I say was pleased to use the industry of his people to find out this foxes holes But besides all this O the impudencie of this wretched man in commending to this Citie the consideration of that Prophecie Ier. 26.15 they are the words of the Prophet Ieremiah to the Princes of Iudah and Jerusalem The words are these though they are not set forth in the Sermon but only the pl●ce quoted with a speciall recommendation to this City and whether he spake them on the scaffold I know not for I was not there As for mee behold I am in your hand doe with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know it for certaine that if yee put me to death yee shall surely bring innocent bloud upon your selves and upon this Citie and upon the Inhabitants thereof for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speake all these words in your eares Now could this man possibly beleeve that any in this Citie should be so simple as to beleeve him Or could he beleeve that this Scripture should perswade the Citie or Parliament Princes and People to doe as the word● follow declare vers. 16. Then said the Princes and all the People unto the Priests and to the Prophets This man is not worthy to dye for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God Here this Porcupine strikes himselfe thorow with his owne quils Hee complaines for the poore Church of England and that is his Hierarchy that that once flourished as once the Abbeyes and Monasteris did and was a shelter to other neighbouring Churches What To the Church of Scotland witnesse his reformed Service-booke and his animating the King with his Army against them for casting out such merchants and merchandice Or that of Ireland which he had filled with his Arminian and superstitious Priests and helped to make that land a field of bloud a shambles to butcher those hundred thousands of innocent Protestant Subjects as good a Protestant as himselfe is or his confederates In everie cle●t of this selfe-divided Kingdome profanenesse he saith and irreligion hath crept in Now truly himselfe was the prime wood-cleaver that drave in the first wedges and thereby brought in by the head and eares all profanenesse and irreligion which leaking yea flowing in so fast have well nigh drowned the ship But stay what meanes this profanenesse and irreligion which the Prelate here tels us of he shall be his owne interpreter In his Relation in the Epistle Dedicatorie he tels the King saying Though J cannot prophesie yet I feare that Atheisme and irreligion gather strength while the truth is thus weakened by an unworthy way of contending And p. 19. The externall worship of God in his Church is the great witnesse to the world that our hearts stand right in the service of God Take this away or bring it into contempt and what light is there left to shine before men that they may see our devotion and glorifie our Father which is in Heaven The result is as the Replyer cleareth that the neglect or contempt of his externall worship is that which bringeth in profanenesse and irreligion that is Not to set the face in a right posture towards the East in our devotion not to bow to an Altar not to kneele at the Sacrament not to use a faire white Surplice and black hood in Administration not to baptize with the signe of the Crosse not to say second service c. all this shewes that our hearts stand not right in the service of God that without these no light is left to shine before men that they may see our Devotion and glorifie our Father which is in heaven O notorious hypocrisie O egregious impietie thus to abuse Scripture and all true religion so as Prospers speech here alleaged by him hits him full home Men that introduce profanenesse which is done by a false Religion and Devotion of mans devising are cloaked with a name of imaginary Religion And what is Imagerie in worship but an imaginarie Religion And if wee have in a manner almost lost the substance we may thank his Ceremonies for it and for the danger the land is now in threatening ruine the Lord prevent it by the just ruine of this man that hath been a maine instrumentall cause of it He comes * here to his last particular which is himself He makes a solemne Protestation of his Religion to be Protestant but with this limitation in reference to the Church of England only not to other Protestant Churches for no Protestant Churches are Episcopall but this This therefore he sticks to in this profession he was born lived and will now dye He disclaimes the bringing in of Popery into this Land Now what should be the meaning of this Mystery considering all his indeavours and practises have tended and contended to reduce this his Church to as near a conformity with Rome as possibly may be For excepting the differences in Doctrine take the whole Hierarchy Government Discipline Officers Services Ceremonies Vestments and all other implements we find the Church of England to be one and the some with that of Rome as the Prelate affirmeth for which see my Reply from pag. 63. to 69 How then is it true that he is no setter up or bringer in of Popery as he protesteth surely two wayes * First because he found some old Reliques of Rome in the Kings Chappells and some Cathedralls as an Altar Jmages Adorations Organ-Service Copes and the like Therefore he makes a shift by piecing it out with some forced interpretations of the Queens Injunctions and with improvement of the Service Booke and other viis modis to bring in a generall conformity to those paterns and that under a specious colour of vniformity a very Laudable thing in a Kingdom especially Regis ad Exemplum that all should be of the Kings Religion or the Religion of his Chappell every Daughter-Church to conform to the Mother the Cathedrall and thus all being raised up to one conformity it came to passe that both Iesuits on the one side boasted that the Church of England was turned Roman and some bold Ministers began to tell tales in the Pulpit and at last to write and publish Bookes of it though to their cost This is the Golden lea●e wherewith

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.