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A04416	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, on the first Sunday in Lent: Martij 1. 1600 With a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession, and penitence, before and at the time of his death. By William Barllow Doctor of Diuinitie. Whereunto is annexed a true copie, in substance, of the behauiour, speache, and prayer of the said Earle at the time of his execution.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1601 (1601)	STC 1454; ESTC S100950	23,845	78

Barlowe encouraged against the feare of death To whom he answered That hauing beene diuerse times in places of daunger where death was neither so present nor yet so certaine he had felt the weakenesse of the flesh and therefore now in this great conflict desired God to assist and strengthen him and so with eyes fixed on Heauen after some passionate pauses and breathings he began his prayer in effect following O GOD Creator of all things and iudge of all men thou hast let me knowe by warrant out of thy worde that Sathan is then most busie when our end is neerest and that Sathan being resisted will flee I humbly beseech thee to assist me in this my last combat and seeing thou acceptest euen of our desires as of our actes accept I beseech thee of my desires to resist him as of true resistance and perfect by thy grace what thou seest in my flesh to be fraile and weake giue me patience to beare as becommeth me this iust punishment inflicted vpon me by so Honorable a triall Graunt me the inward comfort of thy spirit let thy spirit scale vnto my soule an assurance of thy mercies lift my soule aboue all earthly cogitations and when my life and body shall part send thy blessed Angels which may receiue my soule and conuaye it to thy ioyes in heauen Then concluding his prayer for all Estates of the Realme he shut vp all with the Lords prayer reiterating this petition Lord Iesus forgiue vs our trespasses Lord Iesus receiue my soule Then desiring to be informed what was fit for him to doe for disposing himselfe fitly for the blocke the Executioner on his knees presented himselfe asking him forgiuenesse to whom the Earle said I forgiue thee thou art welcome vnto me thou art the minister of iustice At which time Doctor Montford requested him to rehearse the Creed which he did repeating euery article after the Diuines So opening and putting off his doublet he was in a Scarlet Wastecoate and then ready to lye downe he said he would onely stretch foorth his Armes and spread them abroade for then he was ready So bowing towards the blocke the Doctors requested him to say the two first verses of the 51. Psalme which he did and then inclining his bodie he sayd In humilitie and obedience to thy commaundement in obedience to thy ordinance to thy good pleasure O God I prostrate my selfe to my deserued punishment Lord be mercifull to thy prostrate seruant so lyeng flatte along on the bordes and laying downe his head and fitting it vpon the blocke stretched out his armes with these last wordes which he was requested to say Lord into thy hands I commend my spirite His head was seuered from his bodie by the axe at three stroakes But the first deadly and absolutely depriuing all sence and motion Thomas Montford William Barlow Lib. 1. Apologer Senec. Epist. Quòd in Sap non cadit iniuria 1. Cor. 2. Eurip●d Senec. de benef Wright Esa. 65.5 De vita Mos. lib. 3. Acts. 8. 1. Sam. 15.21 2. Cor. 13. Gen. 10 Iob. 1 Philip. 3. ● 2. Tim. 2. ● Mar 12. Psal. 22.16 Psal. 140 5 1. Tim. 6. ● Psal. 140.9 Luk. 4 6. Ver. 36. Ver. 24. Prou. 1.17 Colos. 2. Eccles. 4 1● Iud. 16.9 Psal. 129 4 Prou. 21 30 Esay 8 9 Luke 23. Deut. 7 Psal. 20 9 Rom. 13. Luk. 6. Rom 13.7 2 Cor. 9.3 Rom. 12. 2. Reg. 4. 1. Cor. 9.6 Psal 58. Lactantius Aquin. 15. 2. Cor. 8. 1. Pet. 5. ● Colo. 3. Eph. 6.5 Rom. 13.4 Reg. 10 Eccle. 10 17 Deut. 17 Nehe. 9 37 Iudg 9 7 Esop Rom. 13 1. Pet. 2 13 1. Sam. 24 2. Sam. 20 1 1. Reg. 12 Luk. 10. Rom. 13 Exod. 21. Eccle. 10. Dan 2 21 Prou. 30. Psal. 8. Psal. 21. Psal. 45 Rom. 13 1. Reg. 4 1. Tim. 2. Iob. 32. Gala. 1. 2. Sam. 3.38 Act. 8. Math. 4. Iudge 3. Merc. Gallobel Prou. 25. 2. Cor. 2.7 2. Tim. 1.17 1. Sam. 13. Basill Nom. 33. Esa. 37.66

his speach to the Lordes or in both vpon the Scaffolde desiring God to forgiue him his great sinne his bloudy sinne his crying sinne his infectious sinne why these wordes for none of them is as Basil speaketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idle worde First great in comparison of his other sinnes which he on the Scaffold laide out in odious termes against himselfe his delicta juuentutis not that they were little sinnes 〈◊〉 vnto vs in his Chamber he confessed that sometimes in the Fielde encountring the enemye beeing in any daunger the weight of his ●●nnes lying heauie vpon his conscience being not reconciled to God quelled his spirits and made him the most timorous and fearefull man that might be But this sinne excéeded them a●l euen that which we obiected to him in his chamber and he acknowledged which the Schoolemen call Vactans conscientiam so wasting and spoiling his conscience as that not one good thought was left in his hart That sinne which Moses calleth the sinne with an high hand Nomb. 33. himselfe called it a Presumptuous sinne Secondly great in it selfe because as the Nabis in Egipt is a beast shaped of many beasts and Hannibals armie in Liui● was colluui●s omnium gentium the miscellan of all nations so this his offence and treason the compound of all the famous rebellions eyther in Gods booke or our owne land which himselfe in other words scatteringly expressed consisting of Abners discontment of Corahs enuie of Absalons popularity of Shebas defection of Abimelechs faction and banding his familie and allyes of Hamans pride and ambition in pretence finall all one with that of Henrie Duke of Lancaster against Richard the second remoouing certaine which missed the King In pretence originall that of Kettes and Tylers 〈◊〉 the King as they in your citty cryed in that insurrection for the Queene for the Queene The second worde was his bloudy sinne It should haue béene no drye rebellion for how could it be in that he who could hardly represse the rage of his owne people from murthering ●●● honourable counsellers in his owne house they béeing the men not aym●● at in shew of their reformation should not be able to stay their armed fury at the place designed for the execution of their intent But here you of the 〈◊〉 will say it should not haue béene bloudy to vs he loued vs well be it so yet I will tell you his opinion vttered of you the very myght of his apprehension and his béeing in Lambeth house in the hearing of the Lord Archbishop of the Lord Admirall of the Lord of Effingham and diuers other and my selfe among the rest That you were a very base people that he trampled vp and downe your city without any resistance that he would vndertake with foure hundreth men of his choise to haue ouerrunne your citie that he passed many of your lanes and chaines baraccadoed it was his worde without one blow offered at him in his returne from Ludgate to Queenchith Againe what his conceipt was of your loue to him his owne spéeches shall testifie wherby he argued that you were both a daunger to his body and his soule in the first I telling him that his relieng vpon the peoples plausibilitie spurred him on but now they had deceiued him True sayth he a mans friendes will fayle him and addes to that a very diuine spéech All popularitie and trust in men is vayne whereof my selfe haue had late experience Thus he accompted your loue at the best to be but vanitie or as he sayd i● the prophet an Aegiptian réede which eyther breaketh fayleth him that leaneth on it or pearceth his hand to his hurt in-sinuating hereby that ha● he not trusted vpon you he would not haue ventured so farre and thus you séemed by his wordes to haue indaungered his body as béeing a remote motiue to that his action Then the request which he so earnestly made vnto the Lordes for his priuate death within the tower was principally because of you for in the morning he conf●●●sed himselfe much bound to God and her maiestie that he should die thus priuately because he feared least if it had beene publike your acclamations should haue houen him vp for this 〈◊〉 much doubted in himselfe euen in 〈◊〉 small companie which was there 〈◊〉 therefore desired God still to graunt him an humbled spirite and requested vs if we eyther see his countenance eye or tongue wander that we would interrupt him and so haue withdrawne his minde from God and haue b●ene a temptation vnto him and thus he tooke your loue to him but as a danger to his soule but thinke you it had not béen vnto you a bloudy day if it had béene effected what they purposed now heare and tremble béeing asked what he meant by taking the tower of London sithence his principall proiect was for the court● he answered that he meant it should haue beene a bridle to your citie mark● that worde a bridle hath raines and a bit so that if you had made an head for him agaynst the Quéene which I hope you wou●d not he would haue giuen you the raines you should haue gone on without any restraint to haue béene rebels to your prince and country but if you had vnited your force against him as good subiects and as I am fully perswaded you would they are his owne wordes if happely the Citie should haue misliked his other attempt then you should taste of the Bit. They call it the playeng of the Bit in the horse mouth but I beléeue the playing of the Ordinance from the Tower would haue fetcht both you● houses downe and your bloud out The third word his crying sinne● which word is borrowed from Gen. 19. Where the sinnes of Sodom are said to cry vp to heauen namely to fetch downe vengeance from God so intollerable they were and one of those sinnes was pride which I wel bold to tell him was the ground of all this action and he tooke it very well This also argued that there was bloud in this sinne for the first crying sinne we read of was Caines murther Gen. 4. The last word was his infectious sinne the meaning thereof he explaned to vs in our conference with him which I named before that it was a leaprosie which had infected far and neare Which vnfoldeth both the greatnesse of the danger and ●●gueth that the contagiō of the sinne is not gone with him Doctor Montfo●d asked him if there were not an oth taken by them for secrecie and resolusion He vtterly denied that how durst you trust each other being so many said we His answere was that they were firmly perswaded each of others faithfulnesse mutually as any one of them could be of his owne hart to himselfe Now then the time béeing more then spent conferre these points together all out of his owne wordes and beginne with the last first they are thirtéene in all 1. THis conspiracie thus banded 2.