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A67879	The life and death of VVilliam Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterburie: beheaded on Tower-Hill, Friday the 10. of January. 1644. I. Here is a brief narration of his doings all his life long faithfully given-out, first, that his sayings at his death may not be a snare to the perdition of souls. II. His doings and sayings being compared and weighed together, his sayings are found infinitely too light; yet of weight sufficient to presse every man to make a threefold use from all, of infinite concernment to his eternall soul. By E.W. who was acquainted with his proceedings in Oxford; was an eye and eare witnesse of his doings and sayings in his courts here at London; and other places under his dominion.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687, attributed name.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3496A; ESTC R6515	29,164	53

know there are many more Adversaries Archones And great Adversaries there are in the hearts of Gods owne people which only hinder and set back the worke of Reformation mightily But yet in the good of the City we must rejoyce and in the fall of this great Adversary at he was an Adversary to God we may leap for joy We hope we shall see the house of our God prophaned no more with lying vanities Nor the worship of our God defiled any more Nor the worshipers of God thrust into 〈◊〉 any more Nor our Lords day blasphemed any more Nor our priviledges taken from us any more Nor the Royalities of our Lords Kingdome trod under by the food of pride any more for we are confident and have full assurance that we shall have Arch-Bishops and Lord-Bishops no more It goes well with the righteous The City must 〈◊〉 must be exceeding glad For when the wicked perish there is shouting i. e There is a skipping like lambs for joy because Gods enemy and the Churches Adversary is taken away An enemy to all Righteousnesse to the Righteonsnesse of faith by an opinion of a Rightcousnesse by workes An enemy to the pure worship and worshippers and to the Lord and His Day An enemy to the Church and State endeavouring and effecting the subversion of the Lawes and change of Religion When the wicked are taken away there is shouting For it is with them as it was with Judah when Athaliah and Mattan her Priest were flain their House and Altars and Images brake in pieces for then all the people of the Land rejoyced and the Citie was quiet It is so now with the Righteous therefore are their mouthes wide open to sing the high praises of their God For He that did lead into Captivitie was lead into Captivitie and he that has kild with the sword was killed with the sword here is the Patience and the Faith of the Saints They must waite a little while in full assurance that as they have seen so it shall be to all their Adversaries Archbishops and Lord Bishops and to all the enemies of God who seek the ruine of Christs Kingdome they whom they see to day they shall see no more for ever And then seeing the salvations of their God they shall say Great and mervailous are thy workes Lord God Almightie lust and true are thy wayes O King of Saints For thy Judgements are made manifest Amen FINIS Published according to Order Rev. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal. 〈◊〉 16. 〈◊〉 Prov. 23. Zeontes Ezech. 〈◊〉 Cor. 9 5 Rom 2. Psal 3.19 Ioh. 5 〈◊〉 Luk. 23.25 Esay 51. 23. Ad hibendo traditones suas ad praecepta mea Trem. Eze. 43.8 Sed male cum recitas incipit essetuus Mart. Amos. p. 7. l. 7. p. 8. l. 8. Act. 27.23 p. 20. l. 12. line 16. line 18. line 24. p. 8. bottome and top of p 9 2 Chron 23.17 p. 9. l. 9. Page 9. P. 10. l. 1 p 10. l 20 p. 10 l 8. p. 11. l 4.5 2. Sam. 23.2 p. 11. l. 6. p. 11. l. 1. 2. Chro. 22 3. ver 4 Ahab did but hearken to his Queene granted her his seal so she murthered Naboth But saith the Lord to Ahab thou hast killed and where Dogs licked the blood of Naboth the Dogs shall lick thy blood even thine 1. Kings 21.19 〈◊〉 17. 11. Psal. 58. 〈◊〉 41. pa. 12. l. 17. p. 12. or last line 2. Chron. 23.16 〈◊〉 p. 13. l. 14. Pag. 14. pag. 14. Esa. 2.9 Manasseh a great sinner but greatly humbled 〈◊〉 King 2. 28.29 〈◊〉 18.41 Iob. 38. 31. 1. 〈◊〉 2. 16. 〈◊〉 42 25 Prov 11. 10. 2 Chro. 23

shall do for two reasons 1 That every man who will may see That his Deeds and his Words do stand at an eternall Distance and can possibly be reconciled no more than Life and Death can 2 That he who has read his Death his Funerall Sermon there A meer mockery of God and good men the Religion of God and Reformation of men a meer scorn to all these And findes it a snare to his Perdition for he blesseth the man and His fare-well to the world May also read his life and consider well on it lest rising early and blessing his friend because of some light expressions which fell from his mouth at his Death it proves a snare to his soul now and it be counted a curse unto him hereafter I know I shall be envied for this I know not of how many Of none but Malignants sure whose envie I would rather have than their favour Some good men may blame me too I cannot believe that They will blame them rather who were so bold To tell all the world what he said at the point of his departure out of the World thereby to argue his piety towards God and his Righteousnesse towards men And hold the world in ignorance of all he did all his life long which argued him a mighty sinner before the Lord as was the unjust Judge who neither feared God nor reverenced man I but I shall be judged very uncharitable now and censorious of a dying mans words A short Apologie for this 1 I appeal to God that I think I looked with as pittifull an eye upon his departing soul as the best friend he had upon the Scaffold 2 That I shall not judge him or his dying words No I would have the Reader to leave that to God I would help the Reader well to understand what he said at his death by what he did all his life long 3 To undeceive the ignorant at this high point That they may not think to live as he did and so to die without making any confession at all or the least show of Repentance so giving Glory to God and yet die in the Lord the death of the Righteous For these Reasons I have written the History of his Life which I shall pen-up into the narrowest compasse for two reasons also 1 That the common Reader may be at as little cost of time and purse in reading the History of his Life as he he was at for reading his Death 2 Because all the proceedings throughout his whole Arraignment and in Reference to that Crime he pleaded even to his last not Guilty shall be clearly and fully set down to the fullest satisfaction of all the world even those that are the most prejudiced Readers The History of his Life begins from that time 1608. whereof I can write what my eyes saw and what my ears heard concerning him five years after he was Proctor of the Vniversity in Oxford which was in the same year King James came to the Crown of England 1603. Quickly after and to make the more haste he went out Doctor of the Civill Law and was chosen President over the Colledge called Saint Johns I may mistake somewhat in the Account of this time because I was then yong and carelesse to remember it and came my selfe in that year unto the same Vniversitie and to the Colledge at that time next adjoyning to his Colledge I shall note here as an eye and an ear witnesse First 1. That he Doctor Lawd then Arch-Bishop at last and Doctor Howson afterward Bishop of Durham did as their turnes were to preach in Saint Maries Church and Christ-Church there scatter the seeds of evill Doctrines for the suppression whereof and keeping them from taking root Doctor Abbots both and other eminent Divines bestirred themselves and appeared the very next Lords day in opposition to those Doctrines whereunto they would not give place for an hour He went on and declared to all the Christian world 1. His zeale to Formes of Religion and envy to the Power 2. His love and liking to the Shadowes and hatred to the Substance 3. His approbation of Pictures and Images even that abomination the picture of God the Father and furious rage against the Image of God stamped upon and framed in His holy-ones 4. His zeale to builde and beautifie dead Temples made with hands and even mad with rage against the Temples of the Holy Ghost to deface spoile and destroy those living temples 5. His zeale seething hot against the Lord and His Day His pure worship and worshippers His zeale against all these and for all detestable things Crosses Crucifixes and Altars all which the soule of the Lord does hate and yet we know his zeale for all these was notorious all over the Christian world II. All men that know him observed his maner will witnes with me that he labourd to be accepted of greatmen able to lift-him-up in the world as earnestly as Paul laboured to be accepted of the Lord Pauls labour was as his and other his Bishops was to ascend unto the highest Pinacle of honour O with what earnestnesse did he embrace the world And what havock he made of faith and a good conscience all the world knowes But you will say this might not be so he might serve his owne ends and as he said at his death Serve God too seek himselfe first and Gods glory at last No not possible No man can serve two Masters Cardinall Wolsey speakes sadly to this O that I had served God as I served my King then God had not left me as now he has said the Cardinall when he was departing the world This serving the creature more than the Creator If it might be charged upon any man in the world it might be charged upon this Man And this also Minding earthly things Honour from men and Glory from the world We cannot minde earthly things heartily and heavenly things too no more then we can give forth the Male of our flock the strength of our affections to two masters Nor can we beleeve when wee receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from God onely These Scriptures well thought on would stop us in our eager pursuite after the World or tell our selves what we are The Male of our flock the first borne or strength of our Affections can be given but to one Master Love of the present world argues an heart forsaking the Communion of Saints and carelesse of future Glory I proceed His labour was to be accepted of man and of man he was accepted and advanced after some length of time which I must step over his rising by degrees from one 〈◊〉 to another till at length he had Clambered up to the pinnacle hee aspired unto and there sate down in his Throne as one of his flatterers calls it Arch Bishop of Canterbury Then he was supreame Judge in the High-Commission Court

to presse us to this Christian duty Pride of life was notorous in him and he was so farre from shewing any care to mortifie that lust that he did all to give life and 〈◊〉 unto it And see how that lust served him It was a meanes to put him to open shame and what wrath may lie under to all eternity I have not a tongue to expresse only the thought of the misery an unmortified lust whereof we commonly say is not a little one may bring upon us a matter of great fear and should engage us to the worke of mortification and to speed that work And surely this which has been said is of the same use to me and to thee Reader as it is to him or them in whom the pride of life is so predominant that they will whether God will or no be Arch-Bishops and Lord Bishops still minding their throne and forgetting the Scaffold But fear we every unmortified lust in us and use we in the fear of the Lord all meanes to mortifie the same for mighty men have fallen and shall fall thereby they that made the earth to tremble and did shake Kingdomes We must lead our lust captive throw it down from its dominion casting it-out of our hearts from having place there in our affections else it will throw us downe and expose us to a throwing-out like unsavourie salt Feare we an unmortified lust we little know how far it may carry-us nor to what shame it may expose us to 2 Here is matter of bitter mourning and lamentation certainly if good Bradford had beene alive and had 〈◊〉 what our eyes saw hee would have mourned bitterly over the hardnesse of his heart and then hee would have come home to his owne heart my heart said he as hard as a stone But it was not so for his 〈◊〉 was felt and bitterly mourned over Indeed this hardnesse this rockinesse of heart is matter of bitter mourning The heart is as a stone when it first comes into the world and that is a naturall hardnesse There is an hardnesse which man by severall acts can contract to render his heart like a rock or nether 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 And O what a judgement is this 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Egypt for a rocky heart was one of them and the greatest amongst them all A Rocky heart Nothing makes any more impression upon it than our hand does upon a rock Mercies may be shewred-down upon this heart they run-off againe as waters off a stone Iudgements may be pow ed downe upon this rocky heart The fury of Gods anger and the strength of battle the Lord sets this man on fire round about And what then yet he knowes it not It burned him yet he laid it not to heart i. e Though the 〈◊〉 of Gods wrath was very scorching upon him yet his heart melted not for it is a rock The innocent blood that he has shed is found-out God at present is requiring it The sights and groanes of His poore God has now heard and He is now a foot to avenge his poore servants And this murtherer has received the sentence of Death and yet so rocky is his heart he sayes I le eat and drinke to morrow I shall die Ah Lord has the man a rocky heart He has Then he will set his face like a flint and drive-on furiously against the Lord and His hidden-ones and upon the Drawn Sword in His way more blinde than the Beast he rides upon And while he breaths-forth threatnings against the Lord and is mad with rage aginst those the Lord has set His heart upon hee may thinke that all this while he does the Lord good service A rocky heart All the incomes of pleasures and profits out of all those sweets the world affords he drawes poyson To be brief in so cleare a case Has the man a rocky heart Then hee will workeout his destruction with both hands by all meanes all waies both by his Graces and sinnes He doth cleane contrary to that a man of a soft and melting heart doth doe for he doth worke out his Salvation by all meanes all waies An heart like a rock A man had better be possessed of a Legion of Devills than to have such an heart within him It renders him Spiritually dumbe and deafe It throwes a man into the fire and into the water and yet he knew it not It dasheth him upon this Rocke and that and yet he feels himselfe nor hurt by it he is as a man asleepe upon the top of a Mast the seas work and waters roare round about him but he hears not What shall I say But a word more A rocky heart It renders a man even his graces shall I say uselesse 〈◊〉 Destructive to himselfe and others Of all this this man late Arch Bishop was a very great example Therefore I said as sad an object he was as ever was looked upon For his heart was a rocke and that is matter of bitter mourning 3 It is matter of rejoycing too even to the whole city of God For when it goes ill with the wicked it goes well with the Righteous and then the city rejoyceth That there may bee no mistakes I will briefly propose two Questions and answer them as briefly 1. What is the force and emphasis of this word Rej yceth It is the lifting-up or rather a leaping of the heart for ioy 2. Why is this leaping for Joy Not because the blood of a man is spilt not because a man made in Gods Image and beautified with graces where of he had great store but wanted the chief Grace vvhich teacheth to make use of all is taken avvay not for this The city rejoceth at no mans 〈◊〉 or misery It is a matter of sorrovv to the City to see a person vvhich God has made or the graces vvhich God has given all destroyed in a moment of time This is matter of sorrovv But this of joy of leaping for ioy that that head is chopped off which plotted and contrived the 〈◊〉 of Christs Kingdom That those lights are both put out in darknesse that would have put out the light of Israel That that tongue is Silent in darknesse which silenced or would so have done all the faithfull ministers in all three Kingdomes Cause of leaping for ioy That his day is past and his night come who darkned the Lords Day more than any day and vvould have it prophaned by a law Cause to leap for joy that we saw his head drunke in his owne blood who burned against Iacob the Church of God like a flame which devoureth round about and powred out his fury like fire upon three Kingdomes that they might burne together in the fire of their owne rage and wallow in their owne blood Cause to leap for joy that we saw this mans head lie drunke in his owne blood and himselfe consumed in the fire hee had kindled It goes well with the Righteous the City rejoyceth I