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A58293	The recantation of the prelate of Canterbury being his last advice to his brethren the bishops of England : to consider his fall, observe the times, forsake their wayes, and to joyne in this good work of reformation.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1641 (1641)	Wing R613; ESTC R10287	21,554	48

with so strong a Passion as if I had been sent into the world for no other purpose or as if the glory of God had been interessed the honor of the King wounded and all Religion had consisted in Episcopacy This I thought to effectuate two manner of wayes especially first by establishing my self at home in England in the power of Sole and universall Jurisdiction and that I might attain to be a Patriarch for which ye know I have not stuck to plead contentiously 2. By bringing the neighbour Nations of His Majesties Dominions but most particularly that Kingdom of Scotland to me so fatall under my verge and to the obedience of these novations and alternations wherein my Grandeur and this change did essentially consist With what excrbitancy of overdaring pride and what insolency I have swayed all in the Church of England How impudently I laid by the pastorall duty and a care to approve my self to the eternall and secular Powers how I have neglected all fear of Laws of censure and shame since I obtained the chair of Canterbury and begun my Antichristian raign imposing absolute Tyranny on the souls and wils of people shall the after-age be hardly induced to beleeve O b●t behold your poor Primitive mother the distressed Church of this Iland if you be the children concerned in her bleeding miseries and look how wofully she is torn how we have opened her tender sides pulled her Crown from her head and trode her under foot Nay she lyes breathlesses all covered with wounds with sores all defiled And those glorious twins Religion and Peace who loved to triumph here sweetly kissing each other spreading over us the beauty of their halcyonian dayes how have we alas so shreudly so undeservedly banished and given place to the unquiet furies of ugly error and bloudy warre so that whiles she lyes labouring like a disgraced Virgin under the throwes of her thick coming sorrows in all the corners of the land may it justly be complained Postquam interna furor discerpere viscera caepit Omnia membra labant soluto defecta vigore Tabescunt tota penitus compage soluta A capite ad calcem vestigia nulla salutis Quippe ubi cor languct vitalia cuncta laborant Quis miserae queat Ecclesiae memorare dolores Vulnera deflere lachrimis mala dicere verbis Nec mihi si centum linguae totidem ora sonarent Nec si Mconii Vatis torrente redundem Nec si mell●fl●i contingat Musa Maronis Haec satis enumerem subsint aut verba volenti But now her cryes have peirced the Clouds and he that said he would come does come full of vengeance with phials of wrath in his hand to poure upon those who have so sore oppressed her I did voluntary forego her wo and Sacrificing to the lusts of my own minde I lul'd the world a sleep that the throne which I was building for the greatnesse of my name might rise more safely I had erected a kinde of Inquisition through the whole Land and none dared so much to look stern upon the face of Episcopacy though they had been most eminent in all the graces of the Spirit but presently behoved to be crushed I had so cunningly interlaced the Image of the Beast with His Majesties Pourtrait that none durst inveyagainst the one but presently behoved to injure the other thus caught within the compasse of Treason by a strange Divinity assuring the world that the Crown could not flourish on the Kings head without the Fellowship of a Miter All my pretentions were deeply guilded with the Beams of Authority which through Inadvertencie and fashion of Times I made Usher in such strangers as deflored the Church abused the State and dishonoured the whole Dominion When the seeds of Arminianisme Superstition and Popery by my Episcopall law more tendering the honour of Hierarchy then the Gospels integritie simplicity had been very Luxuriant and over-run the whole Vineyard I knew that as Rome was now filled with joy for the fair hopes of our return to her so was England and all the Churches reformed choakt with fear and sorrow For alas even as the Earth looks sad and sullen at the Sunnes departure and every Tree every flower puts forth a tear when he renews his comfort Why do not we conceive the lovers of the Spirit of truth must be dismayed wounded in heart and cloathed in sorrow when truth is banisht from out the face of the Earth Yet would I never make scruple out of zeal to that Spirituall Monarchy to tread down all those who were bold to speak against the calamities of Times iniquities of the Times and the injuiries done to the Gospel though we must all confesse the Spirit of Truth did powerfully dwell in them I suppressed them removed them and send them in banishment beyond Sea thereby depriving Church and Common-wealth of their Christian help both in Religion and Policy But my own Creatures willing Instruments to promote my Counsells and Projects were most solemnly advanced to the places in Church and State Thus We went on kept our correspondence and ordored our game by such a strange cunning and violence that there remains a black History for our deeds which will hardly meet with belief in other Churches By the whole Current of my carriage by my practises wayes motions and intelligence ye knew alas that I was about that great work of the Whore of Rome in such sort that some of the Pasquils of the time have Charactered me Her laborious Pander to make the possession of World Hers and derogate from the glory of the Gospel and honour of Kings O be ashamed for so miserably prostituting your selves and your souls to the domineering pride of my humor in fomenting my Popish intentions constantly followed by you as if we had joyntly conspired to the overthrow of Truth and Religion And because the Printers Presse did often speake the times and tell the world the mystery of my Episcopising therefore did I arrogate to my selfe the keys thereof and making the power of Printing depend on me did shut and open the same at my pleasure Neither durst any booke though never so richly embellisht with the treasures of piety and wisdome once appeare untill by a supercillious license my Canonicke Secretaries had first found it relish deeply of the Romish and Arminian poyson And as I was the rule of doctrine intending and remitting the qualities of Sermons as the conditions of times required So were many Pulpits prophaned with Heresies Revilings and Scurrilous reproches Nay wherein have I restrained my insolent and unbridled minde in the pursuit of my superstitious follies What Statute Civill or Ecclesiasticall cannot rise up against mee and argue guilty To shew how I have framed new Constitutions Ceremonies without number which infest the world daily more and more Canons and Articles and Oaths printed published and forced upon the people How wee have dared to grant Licenses and make presumptuous Dispensations