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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

reasoneth Dauid refuseth to come to Saul when he sent for him Ergo I might lawfully refuse to come to Queene Elizabeth Héere a diuine cannot be patient to sée Gods worde alleadged in despight of Gods ordinance thus the deuil delt with Christ Math. 4. in quoting a place of Scripture to iustifie the breaking of his neck And Clement the Frier who killed Henry the third the French king reasoned thus with himselfe to his bloudy murther out of Gods booke Ehud killed kinge Eglon therefore I may kill Henry Eglon was a king so is Henry What then Eglon signifieth a Calue and Henry is a Caluenist Ergo I may kill him by authoritie of Scripture It is recorded by Mercurius Gallobelgicus in his first booke Let Papists lay these grounds and make these proofes I am sory that any who carries the name of a Protestant should argue thus It is the speach of S●lomon he that wrings his nose fetcheth out blond which Gregory fitly applies that he which wresteth the scripture from the true sence bringeth foorth either an herisie or a phrensie it is that which the learned call Glossa 〈◊〉 when an interpretation like a Uiper eates out the bowels of the text For God be thanked there is no semblance of this example makes for his refusall Because 〈◊〉 was reiected by God but Queene Elizabeth is the chosen and the beloued of God which from heauen by his prouidence ouer her as in shielding her from many so from this Presumptuous attempt he hath demonstratiuely shewed Dauid by a Prophet at Gods appointment was anoynted king so was not he But I vrge this no further because it is not within his confession verball or written to which I promised to stand yet to shew you how farre he was gone that way the word he vsed to vs of Leprosie makes that good which he spake in a passion to the Deane If you knew how many motions haue beene made to me to do my best to remooue such euills as the common wealth is burthened with you would greatly wounder It séemes the contagion is spred To which the Deane replying that extraordinary attempts must haue extraordinary warrants and willed him to shew his authority his answer was that He was Earle Marshall of England and needed no other warrant Yet that was not so because he was sequestred from it long before But his conclusion peremptory what should I saith he reason with you vpon this point seeing we holde not one principle which was that hee might remooue euils from the land for that was it which from the beginning to the end he held as by complaint to vs of some things to be reformed he insinuated Indéede the wise man saith Prou. 25. Remooue the wicked from the King and his throne shall be established in iudgement but who must remooue them and by what meanes he there sheweth by similitude as the drosse must be taken from the ●●luer The Gold-finer must do it by the fire so iust authority and lawfull meanes the first ouer Kings is Gods alone as before I proued otherwise as S Augustine speaketh of impatient worldlings Nisi homini Deus placiterit Deus non erit vnlesse God please men he shall be no God so in this case of discontented subiects except the prince please them she shall be no prince and all shall be accompted wicked who satisfie not their humors Belooued sée here what it is when it pleaseth God to leaue a man to himselfe or as the Earle sayd of himselfe to be carried away and puffed vp with vanitie and wordly loue in his first speach vppon the scaffolde This stifnesse of his both at the barre and with the Deane my associate and my selfe hearing not vnderstanding of his repentance we agréeed betwéene vs fearing he would so haue dealt with vs to haue beate him downe and to haue wounded his ha●t with the dreadfull iudgementes of God yet afterwarde to haue raysed him againe with the comfortable promises of the Gospell but when we came vnto him we found him more open to reueale then beca●e vs to inquire and more resolute himselfe then we vpon the suddaine could haue made him and we more welcome a great deale then we expected for he most hartely desired God so to blesse vs as our comming did comfort him and so fell into expressing the memory of this his purposed mischiefe with such detestation and remorse that I fearing as the Apostle speaketh of that Corinthian 2 Cor. 2 7. that he should be ouercome with ouermuch heauinesse layd before him the comfortable speach of S Paul that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners though a man were peccatorum maximus 1. Tim. 1.17 but saith Doctor Montford vnto him who had béen at his araignement I wounder your Lordshippe thus guiltie to your selfe could be so confident at the barre it offended many of your very good friends yea but now saith the late Earle I am become another man the cause thereof he ascribed to the worke of Gods spirite within him and the meanes to his chaplain Maister Ashton who was there present with vs for he as he said to the honourable the Lord Kéeper and the rest hath plowed vp my hart as he said to vs hath brought me down and humbled me And then he tolde vs he had satisfied the Councell with his voluntary confession vnder his owne hand subscribed with his name wherin though I haue said he detected many already apprehended yet I hold it my duty to God and the Realme to cleare my conscience For some thrée or foure dayes before his execution he made meanes by maister Warbarton one of her Maisties gentlemen Pencioners to haue some conference with three or foure of the Lordes of her Maiesties Counsell wishing also if it pleased her Maiestie that maister Secretary Cecill might be sent with them wherevpon the Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral taking Maister Secretary with them came vnto him to whome he clearely laide open the whole proiect and purpose penitently cōfessed it expressed his harty sorrow for his confidence at his araignment asked forgiuenes of the Lord Keeper by him of the rest whom he caused in his house to be imprisoned particulerly and vehemently in christian charitie desired Maister Secretary to forgiue him that great iniury which at the Barre in his passion by vniust calumniatiō he had cast vpon him and of them also he requested forgiuenes whom he had challenged for his enimies had charged with such great but false imputation All which in grosse and general he confessed to vs forgiuing and asking forgiuenes so after an entire reconciliation with teares on both sides shed he moued two requestes the one very earnest the other most necessarye the first was it would please them to moue her maiestie that he might die pr●uately within the Tower the reason thereof he expressed vnto vs in the morning of his execution of which anone The second

his speach to the Lordes or in both vpon the Scaffolde desiring God to forgiue him his great sinne his bloudy sinne his crying sinne his infectious sinne why these wordes for none of them is as Basil speaketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idle worde First great in comparison of his other sinnes which he on the Scaffold laide out in odious termes against himselfe his delicta juuentutis not that they were little sinnes 〈◊〉 vnto vs in his Chamber he confessed that sometimes in the Fielde encountring the enemye beeing in any daunger the weight of his ●●nnes lying heauie vpon his conscience being not reconciled to God quelled his spirits and made him the most timorous and fearefull man that might be But this sinne excéeded them a●l euen that which we obiected to him in his chamber and he acknowledged which the Schoolemen call Vactans conscientiam so wasting and spoiling his conscience as that not one good thought was left in his hart That sinne which Moses calleth the sinne with an high hand Nomb. 33. himselfe called it a Presumptuous sinne Secondly great in it selfe because as the Nabis in Egipt is a beast shaped of many beasts and Hannibals armie in Liui● was colluui●s omnium gentium the miscellan of all nations so this his offence and treason the compound of all the famous rebellions eyther in Gods booke or our owne land which himselfe in other words scatteringly expressed consisting of Abners discontment of Corahs enuie of Absalons popularity of Shebas defection of Abimelechs faction and banding his familie and allyes of Hamans pride and ambition in pretence finall all one with that of Henrie Duke of Lancaster against Richard the second remoouing certaine which missed the King In pretence originall that of Kettes and Tylers 〈◊〉 the King as they in your citty cryed in that insurrection for the Queene for the Queene The second worde was his bloudy sinne It should haue béene no drye rebellion for how could it be in that he who could hardly represse the rage of his owne people from murthering ●●● honourable counsellers in his owne house they béeing the men not aym●● at in shew of their reformation should not be able to stay their armed fury at the place designed for the execution of their intent But here you of the 〈◊〉 will say it should not haue béene bloudy to vs he loued vs well be it so yet I will tell you his opinion vttered of you the very myght of his apprehension and his béeing in Lambeth house in the hearing of the Lord Archbishop of the Lord Admirall of the Lord of Effingham and diuers other and my selfe among the rest That you were a very base people that he trampled vp and downe your city without any resistance that he would vndertake with foure hundreth men of his choise to haue ouerrunne your citie that he passed many of your lanes and chaines baraccadoed it was his worde without one blow offered at him in his returne from Ludgate to Queenchith Againe what his conceipt was of your loue to him his owne spéeches shall testifie wherby he argued that you were both a daunger to his body and his soule in the first I telling him that his relieng vpon the peoples plausibilitie spurred him on but now they had deceiued him True sayth he a mans friendes will fayle him and addes to that a very diuine spéech All popularitie and trust in men is vayne whereof my selfe haue had late experience Thus he accompted your loue at the best to be but vanitie or as he sayd i● the prophet an Aegiptian réede which eyther breaketh fayleth him that leaneth on it or pearceth his hand to his hurt in-sinuating hereby that ha● he not trusted vpon you he would not haue ventured so farre and thus you séemed by his wordes to haue indaungered his body as béeing a remote motiue to that his action Then the request which he so earnestly made vnto the Lordes for his priuate death within the tower was principally because of you for in the morning he conf●●●sed himselfe much bound to God and her maiestie that he should die thus priuately because he feared least if it had beene publike your acclamations should haue houen him vp for this 〈◊〉 much doubted in himselfe euen in 〈◊〉 small companie which was there 〈◊〉 therefore desired God still to graunt him an humbled spirite and requested vs if we eyther see his countenance eye or tongue wander that we would interrupt him and so haue withdrawne his minde from God and haue b●ene a temptation vnto him and thus he tooke your loue to him but as a danger to his soule but thinke you it had not béen vnto you a bloudy day if it had béene effected what they purposed now heare and tremble béeing asked what he meant by taking the tower of London sithence his principall proiect was for the court● he answered that he meant it should haue beene a bridle to your citie mark● that worde a bridle hath raines and a bit so that if you had made an head for him agaynst the Quéene which I hope you wou●d not he would haue giuen you the raines you should haue gone on without any restraint to haue béene rebels to your prince and country but if you had vnited your force against him as good subiects and as I am fully perswaded you would they are his owne wordes if happely the Citie should haue misliked his other attempt then you should taste of the Bit. They call it the playeng of the Bit in the horse mouth but I beléeue the playing of the Ordinance from the Tower would haue fetcht both you● houses downe and your bloud out The third word his crying sinne● which word is borrowed from Gen. 19. Where the sinnes of Sodom are said to cry vp to heauen namely to fetch downe vengeance from God so intollerable they were and one of those sinnes was pride which I wel bold to tell him was the ground of all this action and he tooke it very well This also argued that there was bloud in this sinne for the first crying sinne we read of was Caines murther Gen. 4. The last word was his infectious sinne the meaning thereof he explaned to vs in our conference with him which I named before that it was a leaprosie which had infected far and neare Which vnfoldeth both the greatnesse of the danger and ●●gueth that the contagiō of the sinne is not gone with him Doctor Montfo●d asked him if there were not an oth taken by them for secrecie and resolusion He vtterly denied that how durst you trust each other being so many said we His answere was that they were firmly perswaded each of others faithfulnesse mutually as any one of them could be of his owne hart to himselfe Now then the time béeing more then spent conferre these points together all out of his owne wordes and beginne with the last first they are thirtéene in all 1. THis conspiracie thus banded 2.