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A78025	A narration of the life of Mr. Henry Burton. Wherein is set forth the various and remarkable passages thereof, his sufferings, supports, comforts, and deliverances. Now published for the benefit of all those that either doe or may suffer for the cause of Christ. According to a copy written with his owne hand.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1643 (1643)	Wing B6169; Thomason E94_10; ESTC R20087	50,659	60

hundred many went out of Egham not without their branches of Rosemary and Bayes as Ensignes of the wedding insomuch as all the way as wee rode the poore people brought forth whole baskets of Rosemary and Bayes to furnish every one in the traine which continually was encreased by the way At every Towne the Bells were rung as we passed through the streets being strowed with people to see our faces But by the way I observed the Sunne rising with an extraordinary brightnesse by reason of the clearnesse of the ayre the whole skie notwithstanding being covered over from side to side round about with one entire cloud as it were a seamlesse mantle or vaile upon the whole hemispheare only the Sunne unclouded But still as the Sunne mounted higher and higher this mantle or clould did by degrees draw back and give way to the Sunne and so passed before it untill the cloud did by degrees wholly vanish as driven away by the Sunnes brightnesse without the least breath of wind to cause it so to passe away This was observed also by many in the company so as though it were the end of November yet after the Sunne had chased away the cloud which fled before it never was there a day in Somer more cleare more bright more sweet and comfortable then that was And it was the more to be observed because all the dayes in our journey from our first landing were much clouded and thickned with mists or fogs only beginning to cleare up as we approached to Egham where our friends met us So as the extraordinarinesse of this dayes brightnesse and beauty so cleared up as before made some impression in my minde of a sweet and glorious day or time which the Sun of righteousnesse arising over England with healing under his wings was now about to procure for us after once that black cloud which hanged over the Land was by degrees chased away But this by the way Nor did the cloud faster wane before the Sun then the faces of our friends from London began more and more to shine being now multiplied as it were into so many constellations of bright starres by the reflection whereof our way towards London seemed to be another via lactea or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the Philosopher calls it that milkie-white brightnesse which we see in the heavens in a cleare starty night But now in the midst of all this glory and favour cast upon us and shining forth from the faces and affections of Gods people I began to fee and to be sensible of a farre greater danger then I had beene in during all the time of my imprisonment and exile For then and there I displayed all my sailes to be filled with the gentle gales of comforts breathing from heaven upon me but now I saw a necessity of taking in my sailes lest the wind of Gods favour and of his peoples affections blowing so strongly yet sweetly upon me might overturne and sink my brittle Bark now in the very bosome of the haven For I began now to feele some stirrings within me Satan now labouring to overthrow me as he did Adam in this my seeming Paradise which he could not doe while I lay on Jobs dunghill Therefore as the Mariner seeing an Herican approaching presently takes in his sailes so did I now I descried in this calme a storme abrewing hereupon I did retire my thoughts inward and did earnestly pray to the Lord that he would no lesse strongly support me with his hand now in this prosperous condition then he had done formerly in all my sufferings And the Lord heard me for both for the present he answered me My grace is sufficient for thee my heart all the way as I rode putting it selfe in a posture of defence against Satans fiery darts and couching so low that his bullets flew all over my head and afterwards lest I should be exalted with abundance of salutations in London streets and abroad a messenger of Satan was sent to buffet me as we shall heare anon Thus we are in our way to London we dine at Brainford where not only all the Innes but streets were filled the company flowing in as a maine springtide not only filling the high way but overflowing the banks all along They were multiplied at Brainford to many thousands horses and coatches filling the Road from thence to London which no lesse filled the Adversaries hearts with envy and madnesse who for so long time before had rejoyced and made merry during our durance A little before I came to Charing Crosse as before is touched a woman being on foot in the midst of the horse called to me and said O Sir this is a glorious wedding day To whom I replied It is indeed good woman blessed be God Yea said she againe but your wedding day upon the pillary was more glorious I admiring this speech of the woman answered indeed it is true And truly so it was for my suffering on the pilary was made glorious by an inward spirituall power and hand of heaven upon my soule makeing it to ride as it were in triumph in that charret but this my returne from captivity was attended with an externall glory shining forth from humane favour although all was the effect and fruit of Gods mercy and providence causing the same who in all is to be blessed for ever And when I was newly past Charing Crosse over against the Mewes Sr Peter Osburne Governor of Guernsey where I was prisoner was staying in his Coatch with the boot downe no doubt as he was appointed to receive me into his coatch and so to carry me to his house at Chelsey which he tendering unto me I desired his honour to excuse me seeing I was all in a sweat and fit to goe no where but to my owne house lest my health might be endangered He pressed me againe and againe I answered still as before Then said he take notice that I have required you to goe with me I replyed And I pray you Sir take notice of the answer and reason I give you why I dare not goe with you So he dismissed me and we rid on the streets all along on each side thronged with people and all the houses and windowes from the Mewes to my house in Alderman-bury full of beholders of all sexes and ages of all sorts we were three long houres in passing from the Mewes to Alderman-bury Against my comming home that night some friends waiting in my house for my comming one of them espied there a strange man in a scarlet cloake musled about his face and being demanded what he was and not giving a cleare answer they wished him to be gone whereupon he went his way So I comming safely home enjoyed naturall rest in mine own house and the next day being the Lords Sabbath spirituall and corporall rest from all my labours past On the monday following my brother Prin and I went to attend the House of Commons

A NARRATION OF THE LIFE OF Mr. Henry Burton WHEREIN Is set forth the various and remarkable Passages thereof his Sufferings Supports Comforts and Deliverances Now published for the Benefit of all those that either doe or may suffer for the Cause of CHRIST According to a Copy written with his owne Hand PHIL. 1. 21. Christ is to me to live and dye gaine Dum patior pro Christo potior Christo LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1643. The Preface to the Reader Christian Reader I May say as old Iacob and no lesse truly few and evill have the dayes of the yeares of my pilgrimage been For proofe hereof As it is with a Mariner or traveller who after a long Voyage comming within ken of his native Country begins to recount with himselfe the many hazzards he hath run what by terrible stormes in the midst of Rocks and shelves what by pirates and other perills all which having now waded out of and overcome and arriving at his wished port after thanksgiving to God for bringing him to the haven where he would be he ●…ts him downe and to recreate himselfe and friends begins to discourse of his travells and of the most memorable passages therein So is it now with me Onely I cannot yet say that after so long tedious and perillous a Voyage as I have passed through by Sea and Land every where attended and assailed by fierce tempests and Pyrates I have already arrived at the Port or Haven which I have long wished for to wit my celestiall Countrey and which through the Perspective Glasse of Faith I can as yet in comparison at such a distance but darkly discover For although by his divine providence whose exiled prisoner I have lately been I am now delivered from that otherwise perpetuall prison and exile yet I still carry about with me the manicles and fetters of this mortall and sinfull body which I cannot be freed from untill I have paid my * prison-fees that so my soule may flit out of this her earthly tabernacle to her heavenly mansion Nor is it unusuall for men to set forth a description of their owne lives Moses did so David so Paul so And who fitter then a mans selfe as being best acquainted with and most privy to the many passages of his life Nor had I undertaken this taske but partly to satisfie the importunity of many godly friends and partly to give a just account to Gods people of that divine support and comfort which it pleased the Lord to uphold mee with in all my tryalls To which purpose I may use the Apostles words Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of Mercies and the God of all consolation who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith wee our selves are comforted of God As also the words of David Come and hearken all ye that feare God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soule And these are they especially to whom next unto Iesus Christ the Righteous Iudge as I owe my life so I ought to give an account thereof For the rest I am not ashamed to make my selfe herein a spectacle even to those that are without this being but an anticipation seeing we must all appeare before the Iudgement Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evill Farewell HEN. BURTON 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 64. 1642. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He that once dead unburied lay Three dayes count yeares halfe a day Reviv'd here shews his pilgrimage Now in the last scene of his age The short remainder sharpe or sweet Expect till death shall make complete A Narration of the Life of Mr. Henry Burton MY birth and breeding was at Birdsall an obscure Towne in Yorkshire and the more obscure as having never had a preaching Minister time out of minde long before I was borne nor for ought I know to this very day Notwithstanding my Parents were piously affected they would correct us their children whereof they had many and that severely if we swore an oath or neglected the Church or made a lie Me of all the rest they kept at School my mother encouraging me with often shewing me a new Testament in English which she kept lockt up it having beene my Grandfathers in Queene Maries dayes promising it me when I could read it so as afterwards I was put to read every night two or three Chapters in it to the Family In time they sent me to the University of Cambridge and placed me in the Colledge called St. Johns where I proceeded Master of Arts In which time it was my happinesse to be a constant hearer of Mr. Chatterton and Mr. Perkins on the Lords day For from my first entrance in the Colledge it pleased God to open mine eyes by their ministry so as to put a difference betweene their sound teaching and the University Sermons which savoured more of humane wit then of Gods word Thus I had and for ever have cause to admire and adore the goodnesse of God who thus brought me out of darknesse into his marvellous light Some time after I was in the house of a Noble Knight for the education of his two sonnes in which time with them sojourning a while with a religious * Matron of worthy memory and having often conference with her she took such notice of my spirit then and chiefly of my zeale against the Prelates pride and practices that she said then to some yet surviving of me This young man said she will one day be the overthrow of the Bishops After this I was by the foresaid Knight recommended to the excellent Prince Henry of glorious memory whom I served as sole Officer in his closets during his life only the Bishop who was Clerk of King James his closet envying me the title of Clerk was a meanes to depresse me though my office otherwise was absolute But this was by the speciall providence of my God still who would not suffer me to rise high in Court lest I should have beene corrupted with the preferments of it Nor had I learned the art of ambition to climbe up that ladder in so much as I would often say to a familiar friend in Court that I wondred wherefore I lived in Court considering my naturall indisposition to a Court-life as also how the greatest benefit I found by my office was that it afforded me time for my private studdies which I hoped God would in time bring me forth to make more publicke use of and then I should know why I had so lived thus long in Court And in that time under Prince Henry I writ a Treatise in Latine of Antichrist which in a Manuscript I presented to him with an Epistle Dedicatory and which he graciously accepted

read in my Church upon a Lords day that very day in stead of reading of it which I utterly abhorred to doe as an abominable thing I turned my afternoon preaching into an opening of the fourth Commandement therein proving the Lords day to wit the first day of the week to succeed the seventh or last day of the week both for Sabbath and Sanctification under the Gospel Now the newes and Order for my enlargement comming to me on the Lords day I took it as a gracious reward of mercy from God whose day I had formerly stood for against all the adversaries thereof Againe secondly this day was the fifteenth day of the month to wit November which was the first day of the last month that made up the three yeares and a halfe from the day of my Censure and so was fulfilled that which I spake before at Coventry to the said Reverend Ministers Mr Nalton and Mr Hughs that three yeares and a halfe hence we should meet againe and be merry For June 14. 1637. was my Censure and November 15. 1640. was the first day of the last month that made up three yeares and a halfe so as the Parliaments Order calling me forth of prison to be presented before them seemed to me to be that great voice from heaven saying to the two Witnesses after their lying dead three dayes and a halfe three yeares and a halfe unburied Come up hither Moreover I observed that I had come to Guernsey on the fifteenth day of the month and three yeares after on the fifteenth day of the month taking that month current from the fifteenth day came my release And the like did my brother Prin of his comming to Jarsey which was on the seventeenth day of the month and his release came to him on the seventeenth day of the month so punctuall is God in doing all things in number weight and measure could we but take a right measure of his doings in all the passages of his Providence On Tuesday the seventeenth the messengers came to my brother Prin so as by Thursday after he came to me to Guernsey where we being feasted by all the Ministers there and more especially by Mr Delamarch at his house and my selfe by some worthy Merchants in the Towne we were no sooner ready to set saile but the wind came about for us to goe for England And here I cannot omit to observe the sweet Providence of God in bringing our friends from London so prosperously They came on Thursday from London to Southampton the next day they provided a Bark the while the wind was opposite but Saturday morning the fourteenth they being ready the wind came about and brought them the next day to Guernsey They staid not one day for the wind in comming nor we for going for England On Saturday the 21. about two of the clock in the afternoone taking our leave of the worthy Lievtenant and the rest we set saile for England where the wind by a gentle gale brought us the next day at night being the Lords day to arrive And here againe I observe two speciall passages of the divine Providence First that the wind blowing slack and the night comming on and we being now distant from from the maine land three or foure leagues so as the master was somewhat perplexed for want of wind we encouraged him and thereupon all our company went into the hold and fell to sing Psalmes Wee had no sooner begun to sing but presently the wind began to whistle up so that we might heare the Bark to rowse through the waves we continued our singing and the wind continued his blowing untill just as we had done singing the master had cast anchor we not knowing it till we came upon the deck for which we blessed our God The second Circumstance was that in the very same place where I had parted last from England did our Bark now cast anchor for England God so disposing it by his wind And this was in the mouth of Dartmouth where leaving our Bark to goe for South-hampton with our Stuffe we lodged in Dartmouth that night concluding and refreshing our long Pilgrimage with the close of the Sabbaticall rest of that day The next day being courteously entertained of some of the best of the Towne who also provided us horses being nine or ten in company we hastened for London and came that night to Exceter within night where we saw the faces of many religious people who most lovingly entreated us many of them accompanying us the next day out of the City We rode the next day to Lime where comming though somewhat late in the evening we were kindly entertained by the reverend and godly Minister there Mr Geere and by a worthy Justice of the Peace Thence we set for ward the next morning before day hastening to come to the Lecture at Dorchester which we did being there refreshed both in soule and body where we were saluted and entertained by many worthy Christians After dinner the same day we rode on our journey lodging at a private Towne betweene Dorchester and Salisbury The next day we dined at Salisbury where we visited Mr Thatcher a reverend and laborious Minister there but very sickly at that time and since deceased whence in the afternoone being accompanied by sundry good Christians in the City we rode to Andover that night being in the way met by sundry good Christians of that Towne who entertained us very courteously and accompanied us on in our journey the next day on which being Friday we reached to Egham that night being met by the way before we came at Bagshot by many of our loving friends and neighbours of London and especially my Friday-street neighbours my old Parishioners and when we were not farre past Bagshot we were met by my most loving and dear wife who came accompanied with many loving friends and worthy Citizens of London among whom was that most affectionate friend Mr Willingham and his loving wife who came with my wife in the Coatch which he had provided for that purpose What expressions of joy and love there were at our meeting cannot be expressed Well to Egham we came in the close of the day where every house brought forth a light to light us to our lodging where we were most nobly entertained by multitudes of friends that from London met us there They called it our wedding night which was principally celebrated by that worthy and reverend Minister of Egham Mr Rayner who prayed with us with solemne giving of thanks expressed also in singing of Psalmes which he had most fitly and sweetly composed of many parts and parcels of Psalmes very admirably accommodated to the present occasion and all which continuing almost a whole houre Mr Rayner repeated without book The next morning very early all our company was ready and after prayer took horse being on our journey for London before the Sunne arose Of the whole traine consisting of two or three