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Canterburie[s] pilgrimage [i]n the testimony of an accused conscjenc[e] for the bloud of Mr. Burton. Mr. Prynne. and Doctor Bastwicke. [A]nd the just deserved sufferings he lyes under : shewing the glory of Refo[r]mation, above prelaticall tyranny. [W]herein is laid open, the reallity of the Scottish nation with the kingdome of England.
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CANTERBVRIES PILGRIMAGE 〈◊〉 the Testimony of an accused CONSCJENCâ— For the Bloud of Mr. Burton Mr. Prynne AND Doctor Bastwicke … ed the just deserved Sufferings he lyes under Shewing the Glory of Refoâ—mation above Prelaticall Tyranny … erein is laid open the reallity of the Scottish Nation with the Kingdome of England REDE AND CONSIDAR LONDON Printed for H. Walker 1641. CANTERBVRIES PILGRIMAGE THE just God of Heaven being provoked by Sin beyond the Bounds of Grace Pardon though he be the Fountaine of Mercy it self yet will he manifest his Power when he is so provoked which makes him to suffer Monsters to Tyrannize Scillaes Mariuses Neroes Dioclesians c. which brought little Laud to our displeased Affections such ravening Wolvet like cruell Beares are fittest to associate the hungry starved Monsters beyond the Alpes high Hils and not to mixe themselves into our mercifull government for the King of Israel is a mercifull King out Lawes are full of pitty and which is above all we professe the worship of a gratious and mercifull God and thus we learn that when a people are opprest with Tyranny let them call upon the Lord and returne from all their evill wayes and then the Lord will set them free and give them victory over those Tyrants that so cruelly oppresse them as blessed be his holy name he hath now done for us covering their faces with shame amongst us so that we may say with the Poet O simple fooles what mean you hence to runne You evill chuse your wonted will to shun Turne backe for shame turne back and doe not flye To live with shame and let your Honours dye Why are you gone are you afraid to dye Is no hope left a fortune here to try Shall one vild Pagan boast another day His cause alone hath driv'n you all away When the Lord made England first a Protestant church he bestowed upon her a great Blessing he made her the spouse of Iesus Christ whose Members are his Saints on earth this was a happy marriage for our Nation and herein have we bin happy ever since Onely what hath bin Eclipsed since by Popery makes us miserable most of all though by many other wayes we sin yet this hath bin our greatest misery God was provoked by our sins when he did threaten us with Famine Plague Warres we have often felt his gentle Chastisements but we did not repent and turn unto the Lord enter into Covenant with him we cryed like wanton Children whilst we felt the smart but hated not the Cause God sent us good Ministers to gather his people unto him but the envious mans tares sprang up faster in our rotten hearts then Gods good seed and Satan raised up opposers even of those godly Preachers themselves to stop their mouthes Then the Lord permitted blind unpreaching Prelates Ministers to be thrust into our Churches who whilst they allured us with the beauty of the Temple walls drew our affections to behold the huge Cedars of the church Mountaines but fed us not with the Word of God they fed us with Leaves and Acorns like the Beast of Rome and with-held from us the truth of Scriptures the savory venson for our soules and O how blind we were to sit still as if we had enough But oh the sad groans and heave sighes that passed from the Soules of Gods holy people the zealous Professors amongst us When Bishop Laud was made Arch-bishop of Canterbury his disaffection to the Truth of Protestant Religion caused his designs to be expected as Tyrannous in his Metropolitan See and to be as terrible to the Church Children of God as the fierce winds and stormes to the halfe-drowned Passengers in the turmoyling waves of the troubled sea many were our prophets to foretel this sad disaster And if we looke upon this Monster we shall see how high in pride he soar'd whilst all Opposers of his will were indangered thereby to incurre his great displeasure whose prosecution was without pitty This Ork directed his course like a Canterbury Tyrant against the faithfull godly Religious Protestants labouring to suppresse Purity yet being zealously affected with Romish superstition and blind Popery roaring in a blind devotion yet was his sent so sharpe that it was hard for any sincere godly Professor to shun his pawes either in himself or his Agents So was his power also great in so much that few could escape him so that alwayes his Prisoners had little hope either to fight or flye Amongst the rest look upon Reverend Mr. Burton a grave and worthy Religious Divine how he suffered under him and that for no just cause that I could ever heare but because he was so pure so holy that tyrants will grew so great that neither piety nor pity wife nor Children would work upon him No he must have bloud his eares must be cut that in vild disgrace upon the Pillory when the tender eyes of all spectators could not refraine weeping to behold so sad a spectacle Looke upon D. Bastwicke a meek courteous affable Gentleman yet to please the fancy of the bloud-thirsty Monster must suffer his eares also to be cropt And how hath Master Pryme that admired Lawyer whose Pious and Godly Conversation is transcendent above most yet had his eares twice clipt his Cheekes burnt with an hot Iron his Bookes burnt before His Face each of them constrain'd to live in exile from wives Children families flock friends O monstrous cruelty thus to trample on the blond of holy Christians what shall I say of D. Laiton M. Lilborn Nathaniel Wickins and many others who have bin cruelly imprisoned censured whipt fined beyond the bonds of charity or Christian ty who have bin afflicted with the vast Cave of his illegall and unjust proceeding Courts and his large family of Rotchet Prelates which comely Matrons have curbed the mouthes of faithfull Ministers whilst this great Goat keeper himself hath destroyed the grasse upon the Mountaines prepared to fâ—ed the sheepe What lamentation was there then amongst the Saints and godly people how did they mourn to see the Church silled with popery and superstition and Popist Innovations and instead of the Ministers of God in many places were set the Priests of Baal The good people of the land prayed for Reformation but rested almost despairing of release The Scots they rise and tell our Kingdome that the Orcke of Canterbury that great Monster and his Agents have kept away their sister the Church of England from Christ her spouse and have polluted her with Popery that themselves also are in danger of the same sad disaster and protested that they would lose their lives before they would permit that their Doctrine should be corrupted Hereupon a Parliament was called which gave both us and them hope of Reformation we poore soules were so taken with the Parliament that we thought our selves in Heaven at a trance as if all was then done but yet neglected the chiefest thing on our part Repentance and Conversion to God we forgot the Lord and thought our deliverance past some few dayes passed sweetly but politike Canterbury was so diligent and Catulous of his owne Inventions he laboured in the day and contrived in the night to hinder our Designes and to obscure the bright day starres then appearing though not for his Sect whose intents were wicked but being provoked by our sins God thwarted our hopes in that Parliament by a dissolution therof This gave his gracelesse Laud great satisfaction his heart began to sore againe as high as ever but this bred sad thoughts upon the hearts of good people but they were constrain'd to patience waiting Gods appointed time The Scots were counted Rebels and traytors Souldiers were banded warres were begun bloud was shed on both sides and oh how beyond all admiration was the sword so soone sheathed againe had they gone or O the lamentable spectacles that our eyes would have seene ere this our Chanâ—els might have flowed with bloud and husband wife Child c. have parisht before each others eyes yet none able to helpe the sword spareth neither the gray haire nor the tender babe old age nor virginity But ever blessed be our God who hath preserved us The Tyrant of Canterbury provided a sorrowfull cup for the Saints he drove his flock and called his Goates together themselves constituted ungodly Oaths sinfull Canons to confirme their Designes and their silken Doctors labour to establish them whose readinesse and diligence was as if they soar'd on Eagles wings to perfect the same whilst good and godly men wept bewailed the Calamities we then groned under The great Monster still inflamed with cruell Rage would have all power and all Lawes subject to him and his Courts nay he would have mens meanes forced from them and like a cruell Ork in his owne quarrell drawes the 3. Kingdomes to a Controversie to make them swimme in bloud but O our God Deliver us we beseech thee from cruell bloud-thirsty Tyrants And ever blessed be our good God who in our greatest need in the midst of this distresse haeh set us free againe by an happy Parliament from that forlorne and wofull Condition in which we were under so great Perills O let us therefore praise our good God enter into Covenant with him of new Obedience and write the memory thereof to our unborne Posterity for ever Let us looke upon this cruell Ork as he is a Traytor convicted by the High Court of Parliament and lying under the heavy sentence of death by whom we have so long bin plagued and groaned under yet now by Gods providence we shall find the troubled State set free Let us againe cast our eyes upon Gods most ample blessings in the testimony of his favours that we enjoy a mercifull King that loveth his people and as carefull of our peace and profit Let us I say magnifie the felicity of our Realme of England for the gratious and mild government of our Royall Soveraigne and the calling sitting and confirming of that great Assembly of wise Senators in Parliament whose proceedings appeare like the Balme of Gilead to our diseased Nation Laus Deo FINIS