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A40056	Four queries resolved for the satisfaction of all men, who are not willingly ignorant, touching the late arch-bishop I. What his religion was, he so coloured over at his death?, II. What his church was, he so bemoaned at that time?, III. What his confessions was?, IV. And prayer, which his brethren, in iniquity, do approve of at this day : concluded that all those four are so many abominations before the Lord God, and all good men.	E. W.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687. Life and death of William Lawd.; Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1645 (1645)	Wing F1666; Wing C6822A_CANCELLED; ESTC R10954	9,467	13

FOUR QVERIES RESOLVED FOR The Satisfaction of all men who are not willingly ignorant Touching the late ARCH-BISHOP I. What his Religion was he so coloured-over at his Death II. What His Church was he so bemoaned at that time III. What his Confession was IV. And Prayer which his brethren in iniquity do so approve-of at this day Concluded that all those four are so many abominations before the Lord God and all Good men Imprimatur JAMES CRANFORD PSAL. 58. 12. Do ye indeed speak Righteousnesse do ye Iudge uprightly O ye sons of men JOB 11. 13. Should a man hold his peace at thy lyes LVKE 16. 15. That which is Highly esteemed amongst men is an abomination in the sight of God Qui valde cum stultis congruit ipse suspectus esse potest Justitia etsi vitia tollere non possit tamen hoc efficit ut non laedant Co Ver Published according to Order LONDON Printed for JOHN HANCOCK in Popes-head Ally 1645. Foure Queries Resolved Toching the late ARCH-BISHOP READER TO Preface a little I have set forth to the World a Breviate of the late Arch-Bishops doings in his life and made a faitfull comment on his sayings at his death So much haste was desired in it and such Brevity in all That truly some lines were omitted which were prepared And as his expressions were darke and involved touching his Religion so I was not so clear and full at that point to the Readers satisfaction as now I shall be And at one great point about the Church of England I mistooke the Preacher Blasphemer rather altogether for running over that point hastily I understood not the incoherence of his words as now I do so I took the word Church in our sence for the Church indeed when as he meant the Bishops the church in name or of Rome for under that notion Church has been meant these three hundred yeers and more It shall be called by that name no more unlesse with this addition the Malignant Church I took but halfe his confession neither And for that the Malignants may say I have done him wrong I le make them amends now in clearing before their eyes if they would see but some will not see and other-some cannot see now having shut-out light so long 1. What his Religion was 2. What is the church he so bemoanes 3. What his confession 4. And prayer And that these foure are four abominations before the Lord God and all good men And shall be acknowledged by Malignants themselves so to be an abomination all foure if their eyes be not quite shut up Their hearts void of all grace and their consciences past all feeling It will be said Why do I trouble the dead raking as it were in his ashes he is now lanched forth into the Ocean of Eternity entred into his unchangeable condititon Whether at rest there or restlesse is not to be disputed his judgement is from the Lord let the tongues of men and their pens suffer him to rest now from all uncharitable Sensures whereever he is I answer 1. I have not formerly I do not now meddle with the dead But for the sake of the living ever-living Soules I deale in those matters which live and spread eat and consume like a canker to the utter destruction of the unwise and ignorant viz. The conceit vain men have they are no other of this late and last Arch-Bishops Religon Church Repentance Prayer of high esteem with vain men but abominations all foure as we said before the Lord God and his faitfull servants This was one mighty motive with me to do as I have done not censuring the dead but condemning a Dead Religion A false Church An unsound Repentance A Confession of sin and prayer forgivenes more abominable then any of the former That these may not be received approved to the condemnation destruction of the living 2. Because the late Arch. B. Sermon as Malignants will call it though as cunning a piece of Blasphemie as by the helpe of the Devill was contrived this hundred yeers all the reason why the Devils first-borne sonnes the Malignants like it so well is posted over the Seas there to speak Dutch and French Italian it speaks already pretty treatably so to perswade all who meet with it That what ever this late Arch-Bishop was all his life long yet he was an angell at his death which vain opinion may amuse and abuse the simple reader infinitely it may make him beleev that he may be the Devills servant doe the Devills worke all his life long and die as a servant of the Lord dies the death of the Righteous That I may prevent this dreadfull mistake I assure thee readed I le set downe these matters omitted before through too much haste faithfully as the Truth is So helpe me God the God of Truth and leader into all Truth And when I have so done I le post it over beyond sea also as fast as I can in full assurance that if this paper happen into a wise mans hand who hath read the said Sermon he will finde truth here and there a Bishops Sermon indeed if not as full of Blasphemies as of leaves Yet as full of falshods as of lines One word more before I come to the Resolves I must in duty ought in manners forbear as before to set down how he quits his Judges he chargheth nothing in the least degree upon them he said not considering what he said for if there be any guilt in his Condemnation it must ly upon his Judges But he doth indeed in a full and cleer expression acquit his Judges saying They proceeded by the clearest proofe He cleared his witnesses too saying They were valuable witnesses Yet most unwillingly did hee doe all this as a man who could not give Glory to God nor Honour to men But his Judges and witnesses all are now acquitted indeed as before in their owne Consciences and in the Court of Heaven so also before all the world who will be at the cost and paines to read their equitable proceedings throughout his whole Arainment And they that cannot bee at that charges as few can for our sins and the Bishops warres have emptied our purses very much will be so gracious I hope as to conclude That the Iudge of all the world whose Almighny Arme brought this mighty adversarie to the block will do Right and so charitable they will be I hope as to conclude also That all the gods the Lords under judges here on earth whom He hath called together so unexpectedly preserved to this time so wonderfully delivered so miraculously as fire Brands out of the fire That these Judges the highest one Earth will do right also So I proced to the Resolves in Order but beginning brokenly because of the Reference it makes to the Printed Coppie The first of the foure queries Resolved Honour Adde H would crouch downe to the foot of that great Lord Kisse his hande

licke the spittle from his mouth the manner of all Lord Bishops would-bee who had power to lift-him up towards that Pinacle and to shew him the Glory of the world there Hee was this great mans Gregorie indeed as the complement was a Servant of Servants to his Lord and Masters Lusts he was this Lords Vassall his willing Slave his any thing that his great Lord was or would have him to be I must here resolve a question which some make Touching this mans Religion and other such like Lord-wouldbees as was hee I. What Religion was he of What Faith did be professe What Law did he hold to What Gospel did he preach or cause to be preached What was his opinion touching Peace with those against whom the Lord God hath sworne He will have warre for ever Or what was his opinion of War against those with whom the Lord hath sworne and will not repent That He will have peace for ever ever What was his opinion touching this Warre and this Pease All these questions were resolved in the breast of his Great Lord and Master one earth As this Little-man yet could resolve what his great Lord thought so thought he for what his great Lord was such was he of his Lords Religion of the same Faith with him held fast to the same Law for liberty of Sports on the Lords-Day though a law of Sin and death and the Same Gospel also was of the same Iudgement his great Lord was of both as touching Peace and War Indeed and all the Christian world knowes it to he so This man moulded Religion Faith Law Gospel Warre Peace all to the fashion of the times as his great Lord did so did hee and it was his glory so to doe he could step out of one way into another no matter what way though the way of Death so it was the way of preferment and lay in a direct line to the pinacle he aspired unto For further confirmation hereof and clearersatisfaction to the foregoing questions let us resolve our selves 1. What his Court-Chaplaines were 2. What his Civilians were I meane his Doctors Proctors c. in the Civill Law 3. And all the Schollers in both Universities I mean all and none other but those all Bishop-would-bees all that gaped after preferment by his meanes and to come through his hands 1. What were these Court-chaplaines The same this late Arch-Bishop was when he was a Court-Chaplaine himself of the very same Religion Faith Gospel Iudgement also touching the law for Warre and Peace God Angels and men will witnesse with mee That Such they were as he was These Chaplaines moulded their Sacred Texts so they doe now like a nose of Waxe to the minde of their Lord and fashion of the times and then forced themselves to speake scarce not more words than blasphemies against God and His Holy Ones Which Chaplaines and Doctrines this man had opposed with the same zeale as Paul and Barnabas shewed at the hearing of the like I had he had the least sparke of love or heat of that in his breast wee call true zeal for God His Religion His Faith His Law His Gospel 2 And for his Civilians those that served his lusts as I thinke the most did What they are now I cannot tell for I know not where they are But all the Kingdomes knowes what they were as arrand I le say no more touching persons so notoriously knowne all over the land burdens of the earth plagues and pests there 3. And for the Doctors Proctors and Schollers all I meane all who loved the wages of iniquity hunted after preferment Ah Lord how did these mould and fashion themselves to the formes and fashions of this great-man Very Apes they were they would imitate him as they could What he speak they would speak What he did in point of service to the Church they whould doe his religion was theirs his faith theirs his law theirs his Gospel theirs his gods theirs of the very same zize and making And as stout and stiffe in maintenance of those gods and service to them Divels I should say such they are in Gods sight as he their Lord was Indeed these all were and still are as firme and fast to this late Arch-Bishop as if I might compare persons so contrary Ruth was to Naomie as fast to his Formes to the Lawes of his house to his gods to his services They were fast friends and walked together being of the same minde and Judgement in all matters till the last onely there they differed For where hee died they would not die nor would they there be buried which had been with the Buriall of an Asse had he had the buriall his life deserved I had spoken more to this but that the present state and face of things speake the fullest answers to the forgoing questions yet for the satisfaction of all that are not willingly ignorant so much I have said I proceed now to a conclusion of what I was saying and all that knew him will conclude with mee That hee breathed after Preferment moulded and fashioned himselfe words and Actions Religion Faith Gospel all to the Times and most compendious waies bearing-up towads that Pinacle He did as a man that Loveth the world and deifies makes a god of its Glory And what havocke he made of Faith and a good conscience all wise men know You will say c. p. 4. l. 21. Died with a Iest in their mouthes other some with an Oath there others with a Blasphemie there And other died as he died with an c. l. 2. l. 21. All wise men will The Seconnd Quere Resolved II. The Church of England is now in a Storme her selfe and God knowes whether or how it shall get out This must have a twofold answer for Church has a twofold acceptation the one in the Bishops sence the other in ours Church in the Bishops acceptation is themselves Arch-Bishops and Lord Bishops are the Church the poor Church of England indeed Doubtlesse that was his meaning and thus he bemoaned themselves The Poore Charch of England is now in a Storme Indeed it is and not one man that is a member of the true Church can be sorry for that And God knowes whether or how it shall get out He knowes indeed and He hath assured His faithfull servants that the Bishops shall never weather it out Their Seas shall work so High and the Storme shall lie so long upon them till their Lordships shall be able to bear-up no longer but sink they must like a Milstone into the great waters The men may finde mercy and God grant they may but their Lordships none at all And this Poore Church the Bishops is now fallen into a great deal of danger by her own We grant this also The Arch-Bishops and Bishops have more than endangered themselves they have done that which the Parliament and all the Faithfull servants in all the world could not doe

against that cursed Hierarchy for the casting of it forth what the faithfull could not do they have done against themselves ruined themselves they have with their own hands Their villanies Their out-Rages their Horrable Impieties iniquities Blasphemies against God and man by all these they have ruined themselves They Intraduced such prophanenesse and irreligion cloked all this While with the name of imaginary Religion They dwelt so much upon shadowes that they have quite lost the substance These are his words and they must be understood of his Church and no other so he betrayed himselfe with his owne Tokens and beat himself with his own staff for as it followes They were so fixed upon their opinion a conceit only so fixed I say and so fully perswaded That they the Malignant Church Should abide Queen for ever Their mountain was so strong and they so strong upon it That they thought they should never be moved Then they advanced their throne above the Stars of God and so ruined themselves and their thrones for ever He must mean themselues under this notion Church for his words are inconsistent with any other Church but their own Only these words cleft as under as With wedges cannot agree with their Church Indeed on heed of that monstrous Church which has two is cleft asunder from the body by the Death-mans Axe as was Goliahs head by the sword in Davids hand But the Bulkly body of that Church and members of the same are intire and platted together they are all like thornes in a fast confederacy with the King of the bottomles pit These Adversaries are as is said of the Leviathans scales shut up together as with a close seal one so near to another that no Ayre-can come between them They are joyned one to another they stick together that they can not be sundred so here his old memory failed him But though here are the turnings and windings of the crooked Serpent though hee Doubles here loving as some Beasts do confus a vestigia that we might not track him or finde him out yet we understood him very well That he could bemoane none other Church but his own hee could not bemoane the True Church at his death whom he persecuted heartily with his tongue and hand all his life long He bemoaned his own Church whereof he was head for thereunto his own words all along do agree congruous and consistent with that Church and no other the enemies themselves being Judges or if not they we indite them before the Iudge of all the word in their ArchB words 1 That they the Bishops have introduced irreligion and prophanenesse cloked under the guise or name of Imaginary religion 2 That they and only they have quite lost the substance while they dwelt too much a great deal upon shadowes in opinion so that God would be served against this command and expresse will touching the way of His worship And so it was of the Lord That their Church is in a storme indeed and fallen into a great deal of danger by her own nay ruined now by their own hands that sureiy the Prince of Devills sate in councell with them when time was else they could not have consulted such shame to their own house nor have taken such a ready way to ruine themselves and their thrones I will conclude this mighty ruine of these mighty Adversaries once the Lords of the world as Ioshua doth the ruine of those mighty Kings For it was of the Lord to hearden their heart that they should come against Israel in battle and that they might hawe no favour Iosh. 11. 20. So much to his first acceptation of this word church in the Bishops construction themselves a poore church indeed 3. Now as we understand the Church andin true construction the True church he would seeme to bemoane it thus The poore church of England is now in a storme her self And God knowes whether or how it shall get out God knowes indeed But yet blessed be his great Name He has not left the case doubtfull much lesse desperate or hopelesse The Church hath a promise page 27. line 13. Confessing his sinne Adde He acknowledgeth his sinnes great and many in the lumpe but for his transgressions in perticular hee confesseth nothing at all but that all he did was for the honour of God If he did worry any of the sheep of Gods pasture almost to death he did in his zeal to bring the sheep home unto his fold And all the detestable things hee kept-in or brought-in to his Churches hee did all to keep as uniformity in the externall service of God there This an humble confession The Lord knowes it is a proud confession and which His soul abominates But that is his confession to God no marvaile he confesseth not any wrong he has done to man But if any mandoes but conceive that I have offended him I beg forgivenesse of him So he saith If the faithfulest servants of the Lord thrust-out of Gods house by this Arch-Bishops roughest hand because they would not blaspheme God and His name and His day in that very house If they did but conceive he had offended them in this roughest and most violent dealing with them then he begs forgivenesse of them 2. If these servants of the Lord thrust-out of their house with their wives and children and turned into a wildernesse to seeke their bread there amongst wilde beasts and salvages whom the servants of the Lord found more gentle than was his Lord-ship if he had offended them by this hard dealing than he begs forgiueuesse of them 3. If by taking away that the Scripture meanes by the * milstone mens livelihoods be an offence to any he begs forgivenesse of them 4 If his dealing with the most faithfull servants of the Lord as with the vilest persons on earth If degrading defacing c. if dealing with the pretious and honourable of the Lord if dealing with these as a mastiffe with swine if this be an offence then he asketh forgivenesse if an offence But I forbear that I may conclude his confession If he had offended any by ungodly deeds which he had ungodly committed or by hard speeches which he a most ungodly sinner had spoken against the Righteous then he asked them forgivenes if they did but conceive he had so done Reader this is the proudest acknowledgement that ever was heard of in the world Cain A truer penitent by farre and and a more free acknowledgment he makes though but of his punishment It is greater then I can bear This man sayes though the weight of the sentence lieth very heavie upon me yet I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life A cursed peace and that was but of an hours lasting Through the efficacious and high working of a cordiall potion he dranke they say immediately before he went forth to the Scaffold after the manner of the Divels Martyrs But read Iudas his