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lord_n	death_n	sin_n	soul_n	10,824	5	5.0379	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80117	The araignment of hypocrisie or, a looking-glasse for murderers and adulterers; and all others that profes religion, and make show of holiness, yet deny the power and practice thereof in their lives and conversations. Being a fearfull example of Gods judgements on Mr. Barker, minister of Gods word at Pytchley two miles from Ketterin in Northhamptonshire; who for living in adultery with his neer kinswoman, and concealing the murder of her infant; was with his kinswoman and maid-servant executed at Northampton. With the strange manner of the discovery of that horrid murder; and their several speeches immediately before their deaths.	J. C.	1652 (1652)	Wing C52; Thomason E1290_3; ESTC R208987	8,267	16

sinful waies and stumbling at the falls and infirmities of Gods Servants your taking offence at the falls of the Saints will break your necks into Hell as it hath done mine if the Lord be not infinitely mercifull to me for Christs sake And that woe that falls on me will fall on you to your everlasting perdition Oh but I have been the cause of the death of these two already dead of a thousand thousand soules which I fear will take liberty presumptuously to sin by my evill example Oh for Gods sake as you love your precious soules do not I charge you speak evill of the truth of God for my fault Speak as bad as you will of me for you cannot speak bad enough but let me tell you thus much and I speak the truth that all those whom the world calls Puritan-Preachers Puritan-Professors are the best people in the world however the world doth esteem of them and judge them I tell you my grievous fall was for want of true Grace for want of imbracing the Truth for the love of Truth Know therefore thus much That although holiness and holy men be scoft at yet without holiness yee shall never see God you must walk in the Truth and abide in that way that is called Puritanisme or ye shall never come to Heaven but shall certainly be damned therefore do not say in dislike of Religion that it is naught or that Gods wayes be not right do not say the Sacraments Preaching Prayer Meditation Gods Ordinances holy Duties are naught and they are naught that use them and that because I am scandalously fallen do not say they are all such No let it be far from you let the burden lye upon me I codfess I was naught and so are all such Hypocrites as I am but I beseech you speak not evill open not your mouthes against the Gospel or Profession Gods pure Worship and Service for my being a wretch Gods Service is holy his wayes good safe and delightfull and full of Honour and it is better to be his servant then to be servant to the greatest Monarch on earth I pray you then labour to be his Servants and to obey his Will and Commands set down in his Word go you by that Rule I have swerved from Oh that I was assured of being his Servant How would it comfort my heart and cheer up my spirit in the great straight I am now in Oh that the Lord would lift up the light of his countenance that I might have som● little glimpse of his favour Oh that the LORD would open one little crevise to mee that might apprehend his love Oh what is one drop of Christs Blood worth what would I give to have it He was answered He might have it for nothing the Brazen Serpent Jesus is set forth Now whosoever can by faith apprehend his love and apply it to themselves are justified and sanctified before God Oh then said he pray for me as for your own souls you that are in Covenant with God your prayers are prevalent Oh pray that this hard heart of mine may be softned Oh pray that the Lord would bee good unto mee or else I shal be damned presently I am now going whence I shall not returne even into eternity of glory or torment Oh what shall I doe it had bin good for mee I had not bin borne Death is terrible to all out of Christ and the Lord is not reconsiled to me in Christ hides him selfe from mee Then pulling downe his hatt over his eies hee mournfully said Hath God forgotten to be gratious hath he shut up his tender mercies in displeasure will the Lord cast off for ever will hee be gratious no more These his complaints occasioned much mourning and bewailing his estate Then said Mr. Ball Mr. Barker I have told you that you have so much dishonoured God that it may be the Lord will not honour you so far as to manifest his love to you he reserves that till afterward Then said he I have done with the first my foul sin of uncleanness Now for the Murder of which I do here upon my death profess I am not guilty neither in act ●or in consenting to the death of that Infant the Lord forgive and so do I my violent persecutors with all their bitter and malicious intendments and proceedings against me indeed I confess that many murderous thoughts have gone thorow my soule but these although they deserve death by Gods Law yet mans Law takes no hold of them yet for these bloudy thoughts and my lustfull filthy unclean life I have deserved this death and a worse too and herein I desire to magnifie the just hand of the Lord in bringing to light my shamefull foul offences and I desire to magnifie all his holy Attributes his Mercy Justice wisdome Power Truth Goodness and the rest of them in that he hath now let me have experience of them all that in as much as I have dishonoured him he most justly hath dishonoured me and brought me out and made me visible by such a Correction as this for other Chastisements that were more gentle would not serve nor stay me from my greedy pursuit and going on in this vile course of life exceeding vicious I that taught others did not learn my self for which I earnestly crave pardon of Almighty God which he did very fervently and I hope effectually Then he sung the 31. Psalm some of all the three Parts as much as was convenient for that occasion When that was ended it was demanded of him that if he had no hand in the Murther but were guiltless why and for what end he made the Grave He answered when he made the hole it was his Maids and Kinswomans opportunity for they told me said he it was to receive such things as modest men and women may easily conceive what Then he was asked why he did not diligently inquire further having such a just cause of suspition He answered I confess my self too blame and faulty herein Then he was asked Why he had a hand in procuring Savin for his Kinswoman whom he loved so well and from whom he had received so much good and to wbom he endeavoured to do so much good He answered therein he did but as he was requested and intreated and for it he was but a Messenger for both of them his Kinswoman and Maid told him that if she had some of that to take it would bring down those things which used to come monethly the stopping whereof made her so ill as she said But said he here is the just hand of the Lord that hath not and will not spare sin in any no not in his own but will severely punish it in all first or last as here you may see I am brought to an end unbeseeming a Minister I blame not the Judge nor the Jury nor the Prosecutors but my self and therefore good People do not think the worse of God or of

his faithfull Ministers for my sin I pray you again and again for if you should you may condemn the generation of the Just for my wretched life and errors do not say they are all such Remember you have been told by them that are now dead and by my self You may as well say that because there was one Judas a Thief a Traitor among the Apostles that therefore they were all Theeves and Traitors and so you may utterly undo your souls and bodies by affirming such an untruth such a false conclusion Blame me a sinfull wicked man and lay the fault of this scandall and offence upon mee Oh that I could do that good as I have done hurt and that my life and blood would stop the mouthes of the enemies of the truth who will say I know when I am gone and dead I knew and saw one hang'd as precize as you Oh how it cuts my heart that I have been such an offence to my own calling and Profession You of the Ministery I pray you forgive me and pardon my offensive life You that profess the glorious Gospel forgive me for I have made all your hearts sad I have been a great cause of grief to all of you and an occasion for you to have in your dish when I am dead Alas good Sirs what shall I doe I am presently to appear before the great Judge of all the World Oh how bitter are the thoughts of death to mee How shall I do to encounter with Death Then hee was told that JESUS CHRIST had pulled out the Sting of Death which is sin for all that live godly and righteously in this present World Yea but said hee I am ungodly and unrighteous What shall I doe Hee was answered That CHRIST came not to call the Rsghteous but Sinners to repentance Oh said he that Repentance and godly sorrow is that which I want He was then advised to have 〈◊〉 course to him that giveth liberally unto all and respecteth none Then said he Mine end is reproachfull He was answered It was not so bad nor so bitter as Christs upon the Crosse and yet he submitted to his Fathers Will and further That it was better to goe from the Callowes to heaven then from a Down-bed to hell God corrects every Son whom he receiveth Then he said How am I pressed with my sinnes How doth the burden of them oppress me He then was wished to accept of that Invitation Matth. 11.28 Now your poor wounded soul is laden and weary come unto me and I will ease you Then said he direct me and I will be ruled by you then he was told That all those who are saved from hell are justified freely by the grace of God through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ The Ministers told him That now it was not how many or how foul his offences were if he had faith to come to Jesus Christ and to lay hold on him He that cometh to me I will in no case cast off I said he but may I believe you may I ground upon your words He was answered He might take Gods Word who hath commanded you to believe the Prophets and you shall prosper and hath said that Christ loveth to the uttermost them that come to him Then said he upon this Foundation will I build ●ere will I build here will I rely and repose my ●elf though he kill me yet will I trust in him And yet ●e said Oh that I might see your faces in Heaven ●nd were as sure to be there as you are Hee was told They hoped he should though he went before them Oh said he what a merry and joyfull meeting should we have He was then told that this was a good Argument that he was translated from death to life because he loved the Brethren and wished their salvation Oh said he I do love you and am loath to part with you that love and fear the Lord. Then was he told That the Church triumphant and the Church militant are such as doe belong one to another the Saints there and the godly here are all of a company Why then said he you say I must rest only on Christ for Salvation and upon his free grace and mercy Yea said the Ministers for God is faithfull that hath promised and to them that truely Beleeve and Repent the sinfulnesse of the sinner doth not make the grace of God of none effect You know Mr. Barker what your Wife said That if she had a House full of Gold shee would give it with all her Heart to save your Life Why then Mr. Barker said they argue thus for your eternall comfort from the lesser to the greater The love of the Creature is finite but the love of the Creator is infinite If your Wife whom you have wronged so much doth so love you The love of the LORD passeth the Love of Women Then said he I will throw away all my other Foundations all my Latine Greeke and Hebrew it will doe me no good all my Labours and Duties I cast them all away and close with JESUS CHRIST I come LORD JESVS CHRIST Oh plead thou for me bequeath thy Righteousnes unto wee And this must you do all that hear me this day You must goe out of your selves and out of your best Dueties as Reading Hearing Receiving the Sacraments Workes of Charitie Fasting Prayer Singing of Psalmes and the like you must not think to be saved by them nor for them fly you to CHRIST alone who hath left unto us the Words of Eternall Life Be continually using holy Duties and abound in them but trust not to them rest not in them I but this new Worke is but lately wrought in me it is but since yesterday for before I had a hard stony heart that could not repent I deferred to seek God in trueth flattering my self with vain hopes of life Surely I had never this Worke of Grace in trueth but since yesterday Oh Mr. Rogers the Son of a godly Father you were an Instrument of breaking my hard heart it is not two daies since To this answer was made this was but the seed-time this was but the earnest the full Vintage and fruition of grace in glory Oh Sirs what think you of me They answered very well seeing the LORD hath so broken your heart and brought you out of your self Why I thank God said he I have some Peace Conscience is a little quieter it doth not smite nor check me now whilst I hasten to that full fruition of glory which the LORD hath prepared for them that love him for my time is at an end and my strength is spent I now take my leave of every one of you shaking many by the hands I leave you to him that is able to preserve you blameless till his appearing And you of the Ministry and ●●●●ers that Pr●●●● the Gospel I beseech you to walke honestly and circumspectly you had need so to do amongst a froward People with whom you dwell Love the Faithfull Ministers reverence them for these are the Mosesses that stand in the gapp these are the Lots that defer Fire and Brimstone from Sodom these hold up the hands else Amaleck would prevaile Make much of these Bushes that stop the Gapps for if these were taken away the dropps of Gods angry displeasure would with their fearfull effects be more seen among us then they are Have a care hereof Once again I take my leave of you said he and so giving his Executioner a Piece of money he commended his Soul and Body into the hand of the Lord saying LORD into thy hands I commend my spirit AND Lord JESUS receive my Soul And so was Executed The 2 young Womens Speeches that suffered with him consisted of these Three Heads 1 ALl Persons whatsoeuer were exhorted by their examples to take heed of all Sin whatsoever as Swearing Cursing Pilfering Cozening Sabbath-breaking Covetousnesse Pride Formality Slighting of Gods Servants Hypocricy but Lying both of them did bewail in speciall manner the Maid-servant said It was her bane the other said She played the beast in Lying to the Judge thinking to save her life hereby and it did oppresse her very sore and said shee I perswade my self it hath eclipsed the light of Gods Countenance from me for I lyed against my knowledge 2. That all that have the charge in Childrens Education would be admonished to place them in Religious Families and let none say So were you placed and we see what is befallen you for said they it is the want of true Religion in our hearts that hath undone us 3. They acknowledged themselves guilty of that for which they dyed and they cleared Mr. Barker from having any hand in the Murder and they did advise all People to take heed of trusting to any mortall Creature and of relying too much upon any friends or any thing here below but to cast their care upon the Lord alone forever FINIS