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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

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

confession he confesseth his sin without any if there and he makes Restitution also This man cannot tell whether he has offended or not I conclude That he did not humbly desire forgivenesse for he did not humbly ask forgivenesse of sins But the contrary he did as the proudest of sinners Irish Rebels brethren in iniquity whose rage the Lord God has cursed and now by his Judges on earth commanded to be cut asunder and then hanged-up before the Sun So did he confesse as such sinners use to do c. Pag. 33. last line but one Touching his prayer I have spoken already briefly what the sacred Scripture gave me warrant to speak I have not space to enlarge now I adde this onely That his prayer is the highest provocation of all that went before and the greatest abhomination He prayes for an heart to dye 1 for Gods honour whom he had dishonoured all his life long and now most presumptuously at his death giving no glory to Him at all 2 For the Kings happinesse Whom by his wicked counsels he hath helpt to make the most unhappie and unglorious King that now lives upon the face of the earth 3 And this Churches preservation I grant This in his meaning not in his intent and purpose but by Gods gracious dispensation preserving His Churches by ruining This Church the Bishops and this Archbishop Gods and His Churches Arch-Adversary the Head of the same So let all Thine Enemies perish O Lord But let them that love Him be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might To conclude we understand now what this mans Religion was 2 What his Church is 3 And we have read his Confession and Prayer full out There is not one truly wise man in the world but sayes all these four are so many abominations Yet there be some who would passe for wise men but so they cannot do And would not be accounted Malignants neither that cannot be who praise his doings and sayings specially all he did and said at his death Is it possible that men will not remember themselves and shew themselves men If they will not I will resolve what they are also They are of the Bishops Religion of his Church and they verily think that such 2 Confession of sinne and such a Prayer for forgivenesse the late Archbishop made at his death will serve their turn too at that dreadfull time If they think so and that be their hopes then they may hope well of Iudas in reference to his Confession for it is full and free and no if there And if this mans acknowledgement of his Doings may be thought free and ingenuous they may say as much and more of the Divels acknowledgement of his wayes before the Lord Whence commest thou Satan said the Lord The great Peripatetick of the world acknowledgeth saying sroin going to and fro in the Earth seeking whom to seduce and to destroy there The Divell is summoned again and he is before the Throne of the Lord and the Lord said Who shall perswade the King that he may go up to warre and fall there I will layes the Divell And the Lord said unto him wherewith With a lye sayes he which I will put into the mouth of all the Kings Prophets give me but power I have will enough and the King has Prophets enough who will speak what I will I will perswade them and they will perswade the King to his destruction A very ingenious acknowledgment of what he had a will to do he was before the Lord and then alwayes he speaks the Truth he is as he is no Angell of light then He was a lying-Spirit from the beginning he is the same still and if he might have power to his will so and so he would do power was given him and so he did perswade to his will This man was before the Lord too as he said himselfe before all His holy Angels and men but whether his acknowledgement of his wayes before the Lord be full and ingenuous as the Devills was let the Reader Judge I could make these words very paralell with the Bishops doings But I will forbear there and to make any conclusion from thence Nor shall I so much as look towards Gods decree The quickest sight therein is but blindnesse Nor dare I thrust him into the pit of hell whom I saw Sometimes walking on the brinke thereof Nor set limits to infinite Grace and Mercy which may intervene and come-in inter pontem fontem as we use to say But this I have cleare warrant from the Sacred scripture to say 1 That JUDAS his Confession was more full and free than this mans was And that the Devils acknowledgment of his waies before the Lord exceeded this mans acknowledgement also 2 And that we have not a word no not one word in the Sacred Scripture wherefrom to conclude the salvation of this man so Confessing his sin and praying forgivenesse of the same And yet I deragate nothig at all from the Height Depth Length Breadth of free mercy through the Lord Jesus Christ And let him that reads this consider on it if he will and tremble if he can Tremble he shall one day if he be perswaded in his heart to die in that perswasion That such a Religion this late and last Arch-Bishop was of such a CHVRCH such a CONFESSION of sin such a PRAYER for forgivenesse will serve the turne at that dreadfull time It is spoken with a deare respect to thy dying rather dead body the body is dead because of sin and never dying Soul An Ende Pag. 4. l. 19. I. Act. 14. Pag. 12. line 7. lob 41 16 Pag. 33. line 29. * Quicquid hominis vitam ex necessitate tolerat Deut 24. 6 Gen. 4 13. IV. Judg. 5 21 Iob 17. 1 King 22.

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