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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

such a bulke as whereof to hew out and erect a Scaffold on the Tower-Hill where himself should loose his head for others ears perhaps one of the fruits of that dry Tree so that if the innocent cause and conscience of one made the Pillory such a comfortable Pulpit sure it must be the contrary cause and conscience that makes the Scaffold such an uncomfortable place for the Prelate to preach upon Well he takes his Text Heb. 12.1 2. Let us run c. Looking unto Iesus c. Miserable man Never was a holy Text so unhallowed so miserably abused so corruptly glossed upon so shamefully perverted as this Text And doth he call about him that cloud of witnesses ver. 1. those holy Patriarchs and believers of the Old Testament to witnesse the suffering of a lying Traitor as if a dying Martyr Surely this man in his race had often an eye unto Iesus that is to the Name JESVS whereof he was a very devout Adorer and so zealous that he suspended me once from preaching against the superstitious bowing at the nameing of that Name So as however he looked unto Iesus yet he never shewed such a favourable aspect upon Christ whom in his swift footed zeale untill in the Tower the sinew of his leg without any violence had a terrible crack that he could not now run so fast in his race as before he so cruelly persecuted in his servants and members So as by this time himself knows sufficiently with what eye he looked unto Iesus as whom he findes a just Iudge and punisher of that faith of his which was none other but that of Babylon as the Reader may see at large in my * Reply to his Relation of a conference c. That he is now come to the end of his race though long we blesse God But here he findes the Crosse a death of shame And why so shamefull the Crosse which he so honoured and adored in his life witnesse the goodly Crucifix over his Altar at Lambeth White-hall and else where which he was not wont to passe by unsaluted But the same must be despised or there is no coming to the right hand of God How must that shame be despised which the righteous hand of God brought him unto Why did he not acknowledge it a shame most due unto him for all the dishonour he had done to God in his life time Or why did he petition the Lords that he might not dye the more shamefull death of the halter but rather of the hatchet as more sutable for one who had sat so long and oft at those late Honorable boards as also in the prsent Parliament Nay had he had any one sparke of true Grace over and above that of Canterbury considering the numberlesse shamefull acts that were perpetrated by him with a shamelesse forehead and remorslesse conscience he would with Origen for but once offering incense to the Idol have said to all the people Calcate me insipidum salem trample upon me as unsavoury salt and he would have Petitioned that he might have the most shamefull death yea hanging drawing and quartering that head and limbes might be set up for everlasting monuments of such an enemy of Religion and State This had been the way to come at length to Christs right hand to have found him his Iesus and not to his left to finde him his Judge But for Gods right hand that is proper to Christ alone But he is so far from this shame that he adds God forbid I should despise the shame for him What A shame suffered for Christ A shame despised being a most condigne punishment Christ is said to despise the shame by a voluntary undergoing it in our steads but this man despiseth the shame by a desperate contempt in suffering it perforce against his will But he tells us his feet are now upon the brinke of the Red-sea an argument he hopes that God was bringing him to the land of promise for that was the way by which of old he led his people O poore man Did he not remember that Pharaoh and his Egyptians comming into the Red-sea were drowned And did not his Old memory yet call to mind that not many years ago he had been a prime Task-master under Pharaoh yea even the Pope himself to the intolerable oppression of Gods people even to the cutting off of the masculine spirits of Israel and therefore no good argument for him to hope to passe that way to Canaan that Israel went he having gone the cleane contrary way and therefore now lyes drowned in the Red-sea of his own blood as a just revenge upon him for causing so much blood to be shed more especially of that poor soule who was hanged drawn and quartered about the busines of Lambeth house so as that speech of Queen Thomyris the Amazon when she cut off King Cyrus his head and cast it into a vessell of blood may be wel applyed to this blood-sucker of poor innocents Now satiate thy self with blood which living thou didest so much thirst after No lesse doth he abuse and misapply the Lords Passeover the Lambes the Soure herbes the gatherers whereof how little angry he is with will appeare anon He saith Men can have no more power over him then that which is given them from above Innocent Christ spake those words and onely he might properly speak them and not any such malefactor as this on whom the just lawes of the land had immediate power thus to punish him whereas Pilate had no such legall power over innocent Christ to put him to death but only from an extraordinary divine dispensation But thus this man hath taken a lawlesse liberty to himselfe all along thus intolerably to abuse the Sacred Scriptures beating this gold by force of his hammer so thin that he may therewith guild over his rotten cause thereby to deceive the simple at his death as he had done in his life who are apt to take all for gold that glittereth Here he compares himself with Aaron as before with Christ but he must remember he is no longer the Canterburian High Priest But who be those Egyptians that drove this Aaron into the Red-sea and must be drowned in the same waters O full of subtilty What the Parliament O child of the Devil But who is that God whom he had served Though our God hath served himself of this Prelate as he doth of Satan and other wicked men using them as his * rods to scourge his own deare children surely in no other sence could he be said to serve God truly For all his other service what was it but superstitious Idolatrous after the inventions of men a will-worship after the rudiments of the word and not after Christ And here he compares himself with those three children in the fornace whence God delivered them and so can he him Miserable Prelate Is he now upon the scaffold for such a cause as those

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