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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

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

and next to the Supreame in the Star-Chamber I speak now as an eye and ear witnesse But what am I or my witnesse God Angels and men I know not how many thousands to whom he directed his dying words will witnesse with me That now having the power in his hand he did execute it to the largest extent thereof turning judgement into wormewood and Righteousnesse into gall grinding the faces of the Righteous perverting the wholesome lawes of the Kingdome forcing the Judges they should rather have suffered the extreamest injuries from Great men that to be so injurious to mean men as to suffer themselves to do as he commanded and would have done to pervert Judgement and Justice which being kept-unto and executed according to Gods commands sets the crowne fast upon the Kings head and establisheth the Throne in Righteousnesse Indeed now hee was strong his heart was lifted up and his minde hardened in pride whome he would he slew whom he would he kept alive whom he would he set up and whom he would he put down His will stood for a Law and his will was to breake through the Lawes of God and man and such power he had he could do it as easily as through a spiders Webbe So he brake through the Lawes of God The law of his worship The Law of His 〈◊〉 there he began with the House of God profaning that House Then with His Worship defiling that Then with his day setting his foot thereon It is not utterable how he marred the Lords Day more than any day In brief He offered violence to the Law and Gospell and was mad with rage against those that used the Law 〈◊〉 and preached the Gospel as the Gospell of Christ c. For I forbeare in matters so notoriously knowne how he oppressed the Gospellers i.e. The true worshippers of God Indeed had hee had an Arme like God he thought he had he had not left one Faithfull Minister in in all three Kingdomes But the Lord had him as he has the Devill in Chaines Thus he dealt with the Lawes and ordinances of God and those that were zealous for them I need not say how Imperiously hee dealt with the Lawes of men yet sith I have undertaken to tell what his doings were I must proceede with the same brevity saying this onely and conncluding all in it That his will was Law What he had a Will to do he did if God restrained him not Oh how favourable was he to evill men How fierce against the Good These men good men I mean The evill men the Blasphemers who had pierced and torne the Name of God by execrable Oathes And vile Treacherous Priests who by their lewdnesse made the Sacrifices of the Lord to be abhored these men I have seen tried before his Court and quitted But the good and pretious these were delivered as their Lord and Master was to their Will So these To his Will not to the Justice of the Law but to the 〈◊〉 and Rigour of his Will And how his wil was to deale with them is notorious through all the Christian World For aske from one end of his Courts to the other of all the Standers-by there whether he has suffered any Sentence to passe which crossed his Will though never so agreeable to Gods Will mans Law and right Reason Time would faile me to tell what he did and spake against the soules of the Righteous to whom he said Bow downe that we may goe over And by the Power in his hand he bowed down the Bodies of the Saints and laid them as the ground and as the street to them them that went over All this and much more his hand and tongue have made so legible That he who runnes may read it what havock he made in the Churches of God how he breathed-forth threatnings reached-forth the hand of Violence against those who protested against his mateing of Gods Worship with his Follies setting up his Thresholds by the Lords Threshold as the Lord himselfe is pleased to expresse that horrible impiety of joyning mans Traditions with His Worship whereby the place of My Throne saith the Lord and the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of my people for ever and My Name have been Defiled And Because of which abominations I have consumed my people in my Anger as it is at this Day To summe-up all in two words he set his foot upon the Lawes of God and Mans Lawes These were in his hand like 〈◊〉 knots fast or loose at his pleasure He exalted and magnified himselfe above every god and according to his Will so things must be And he thought he might adventure upon the Holy lawes too for hee spake marvellous things against the God of gods magnifying himselfe aboue all and prospering till the time of indignation was almost accomplished He polluted the Sanctuary of strenghth and almost took away that which was called the daily Sacrifice wee call Praying and preaching And in the place thereof he placed the Abomination that maketh Desolate These were his Actings or Doings in the Kingdomes of God against the Gospell of God The Name of God The House and Houshold of God The Lawes of God there and all the known Lawes of all three Kingdomes How he walked in his own House how crosse to his Rule after the manner of Bishops but most unlike a Bishop indeed and to their course whose praise is in the Gospell All this had been fully declared unto him by one who in former time lived in the house with him two dayes before his Death But that servant of the Lord with two more who in a dear affection to his departing soul went to visit him could not bee admitted Dr. Heywood Dr. Martin and Dr. Stern were the men with whom he craved leave to advise For they would absolve him after their manner and like to like he would admit of no other But had the three the faithfull of the Lord been admitted to his presence he had been then told in meeknesse of spirit how he starved his houshold commanded prayers for the Dead had the picture of God the Father in his House Indeed his horrible impieties iniquities blasphemies might have been in part sweetly opened before him by those who thirsted after his Repentings but he would not be troubled And indeed it seemed to be a trouble in vain for he had gone against his light so long that now he was as a man in a Dungeon And he had forced his conscience so often that surely now he had no conscience at all Or if any in his sense then seared and past feeling in ours All this appeared at the hour of his suffering for his horrible sins which he should have confessed there before all the people so giving Glory to God and taking shame to himself But he did contrary he took Glory to himself even of Martyrdome which turned to his greater shame and rising now when he

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