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spirit_n	faith_n	grace_n	word_n	9,264	5	4.2777	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69663	The grand impostor vnmasked, or, A detection of the notorious hypocrisie and desperate impiety of the late Archbishop, so styled, of Canterbury cunningly couched in that written copy which he read on the scaffold at his execution, Ian. 10, 1644, alias called by the publisher, his funerall sermon / by Henry Burton.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing B6163; ESTC R6460	22,693	23

and Christians whom his bloody cruelty caused to fly into the Deserts of Ameries as Mr. Cotton Mr. Hooker Mr. Davenport Mr. Peter with many thousands more He should have called for all those Congregations whose soules he had famished by taking away their godly teachers the blood of whose soules were found to be upon his skirts and under ●is wings He should have called for all those whom he had most cruelly and against all justice caused to be imprisoned pillaryed eare-cropped branded whipped fined confined to perpetuall close imprisonment and that in perpetuall banishment from their native country from society of wives children freinds a●quaintance common light and ayre and what not As Mr. William Pryn Doctor Bastwick Henry Burton Doctor Leighton Mr. Iohn Lilburne Nathani●ll Wickins all which with many more indured intollerable inhumane and most barbarous usage in their prisons and persons These these should he have called for to have made his peace with them by a● least acknowledging his extreame wronging of them as having beene the prime instrumentall cause thereof though otherwise he could never make them re●●itution for their eares nor satisfaction for their losses But he should have done to the uttermost what lay in his power before he should go on so desperatly to offer his Sacrifice of Prayer at Gods Altar He should have put it past If and And w●●ther he had offended any or no as if any did but conceive so But so far was he from shewing the least ingenuity or from having the lest dramme of grace as that he refused to be spoken withall by any whom hee had wronged much lesse would he acknowledge the least offence done to any either in his lif● or now at his death But as a man beref●of his common senses stript of his understanding benumb'd with a lethargy senselesse brutish blinde obdurate he persists in his Diabolicall impenitencie acknowledging not the least offence to Man in all his Life of which to repent hoping thereby after his Death to merit his Inscription upon his Tombe Here lies the most Innocent Archbishop of Cantyrbury But now can he not be content to die in his owne sins but he must heartily d●sire the people to ioy●e with him in his most hypocriticall dead ●●me blind Prayer that he brought with him in his hand as a price in the fooles hand but he wants a heart Had he not sufficiently ca●tivated the people to such blind devotion by his Servi●-book Prayers And had not this old Arch-prelate in all the time he lived got one Prayer at least by heart though he wanted grace in his hear● Christs Spirit ●ven the Spirit of Grace and Supplication which for any evidence he hath given he never had in all his life to powre forth one 〈◊〉 sigh of godly sorrow now at his death Here be may goodly words indeed compiled together but all will not make up one prayer of Faith being but as a dumbe Image without life and breath or like Caesars Sacrifice without a heart which was taken for a presage of death as proved true the same day Againe should the people become accessory to all the hypocrisie dissimulation and impenitencie of this wretched man who would wrappe up all his villanies committed in against the State of this Kingdome all Gods faithfull people therein by ioyning with him in such a godlesse spirit-lesse Prayer even the dead carkasse of a prayer a blind and lame sacrifice which the Lord abhorreth and forbids to be offered Besides as the whole prayer for the frame of it is not an Incense according to Christs spirit but patched and made up of sundrie ingredients of a most hypocriticall spirit which makes the whole prayer to be a very packe of lies and so abominable before God so there are some passages in it so grosse and palpable as any one that hath the least sparke of Gods spirit may discover plainly to be monstrous false As 1. That he hath a heart ready to dy for Gods honour and yet he will not confesse any one particular wickednesse that he might with Achan give glory to God 2. For the Kings happinesse when yf either he counselled the King to all those courses so destructive both to himselfe and kingdome or yf hee by obeying the Kings command in being an active instrument of all those cruell oppressions perpetrated by him upon the innocent subjects and exorbitant illegall violent tyrannicall invasions upon the just lawes of the kingdome and naturall liberties of the subiect be thus by the lawes of the kingdome and a due proceeding therein brought to this just penall death surely this can little make for the Kings happinesse unl●sse the cutting off of such limbes as these and so of this active instrument of mischiefe in patticula● may be a meanes to procure the Kings happinesse in case such Heads so cut off prove not the heads of the Roman Hydra which upon the cutting off of one head puts forth two untill the whole Lerna-Lake shall be quite drained and dried up otherwise he whose life hath but a little advanced the Kings happin●sse can give but little hope of raising it by such a death the just reward of a traitour Thirdly for this Churches preservation by which he alway●● understands his Hierarchy or the protestant Religion of the Church of England as before there cannot be a more sure Omen of the utter ruine of that as whose Primate is so cut off by the hatches of Justice in the Hangmans hand Againe he boldly tells God that his zeale to these three is all the sin which he knowes is yet knowne of him in this particular of Treason Did his zeale then so far transport him as to wade so deepe through so many acts of treason to the State as to play the Traitour for the honour of God surely God will not be honoured with any such service And as for his zeale to the Kings happinesse no m●rvaile if i● were so fiery as to become an Incendiary to the State and all for the prservation of this his Church which could not be preserved but with the extreame hazz●rd if not utter ruine of three kingdomes so as such a preservation purchased at so deare a rate could be a● little for the Kings honour as for his happinesse when three kingdomes should rather welter in their owne blood then the Prelaticall kingdome should not wallow in all its pompe and pleasure and indeed the zeale hereof in all Ages hath beene that which hath set the kingdomes of the Earth in such horrible combustions as at length it hath growne to be a Proverbe of the Prelates owne making No Bishop no King and so No Bishopprick or Bishopdome no Kingdome He prayes also that there may be a stop of that issue of blood in this more then miserable Kingdome Here it may be questioned what he meanes by this issue of blood If he meane the stopping of the course of Iustice in cutting off such Trayt●rs as