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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and quietnesse then like an angry wind that layes bare the very ocean or like fire imprisoned I burst forth and spred my self with greater violence and could not give rest to my mind till a new war was kindled and all things for their destruction with a fresher resolution then before prepared against them How I bestirred by self both at the Counsell Table and privy Juncto to reproach all his Majesties Royall intentions of peace with his Subjects and that Pacification as dishonourable and fit to be broken yee can all beare mee record I controlled the judgement of the whole Kingdome and Parliament And though they found no just reason and emergencie for warre yet because I apprehended our Kingdome was like to make a fatall end and our Babel was trembling ready to tumble down about our eares and that there was no safety left but to build upon the ruines of their confusion Therefore in politick probability I thought it most fit to shake all and put all in divisions and disorders that so wee might work our owne safety and the redemption of Hierarchy from the publike reproach fishing in troubled waters Thus in my gracelesse fagacity I concluded it good counsell to bring both Kingdomes neerer to ruine that being made poore and passive they might be ruled with the more ease It is not unknown to you all how impudently and blasphemously I railed against that Covenant of Scotland which like a terrible Spear in the hand of the mighty has strickē us through the very soul must triūph through the world to the abolishing of that great Bishop if wee observe the indeniable finger of a Providence though it was most true that the same did containe nothing but the marrow of Religion was approved by Nationall Assemblies subscribed by his Majesties Commissioners by the Lords of his Majesties Counsell and by them commanded to be subscribed by all the Subjects of that Kingdome as a testimony of their duty to God the King Though the beautiful face of Religion which did shine there most gloriously and all these warrants in a morall way could have justified them and taught mee better manners yet I would break through all considerations and make good my mistake using that power whereof I was in possession to the effectuall embracements of my owne wishes As they used all means to approve themselves to God and Man and deliver unto their Posteritie the true Religion in her purity and majesty So I professe my study was to render them odious charging with unquestioned guilt these Subjects that endeavoured to gain his Majesties favour and were most faithfull to his Crown and dignity When the Parliament could not bee induced to discend into warre against a Nation maintaining their Religion and Liberties I did impede their procedings and stop their Resolutions as if they had met for no other purpose then to give up their Judgements to mee and evidence their devotion to my corrupt ends And not only did I advise the breaking up of that high and honourable Court of Parliament on which all the Eys of Europe were fastned and whence the reformed Churches expected refreshment but did like-ways sit still in the Convocation house making Canons and Constitutions Ordaining under all highest paines that hereafter the Clergy should preach foure times in the yeere such Doctrines as were contrary not only to the Scottish proceedings but to the Doctrines and proceedings of other Churches to the Judgement of all sound Divines and Politiques and tending to the utter slavery and ruining of all Estates and Kingdomes and to the dishonour of Kings and Monarchs Not content herewith I procured six Subsidies to be levied of the Clergie under pain of deprivation to al who should refuse for this great exigency and Holy war And as if all these had not been sufficient O hide your faces and blush for shame I caused frame and print a Prayer and sent through all the parishes of England to be said in time of divine Service against that Nation by the name of traiterous Subjects having cast off all obedience to their anointed Soveraigne and comming in a rebellious manner to invade England that shame might cover their faces as enemies to God and the King Here let horrour and wonder sease your soul and all Religion and C●dor be ashamed if these alas be the fruits of the spirit of truth and peace or the words of charity or the wayes of the Gospel God and the World will judge Many strange oaths I invented pressing them upon the paine of imprisonment and huge pecuniall mulets And in that sacred Synod as wee called it but God is not mocked was that love-lock of Antichrist forged that prodigious that bottomlesse and unlimited oath coined which was provided most prudently as bonds and chaines to ty the laity from invading our liberties which wee conceived to be powerfully fortified with our imperiors Canons as a Rampard So that if the wisdome of the State in the great counsell and supreame Senate of the Kingdome should think fit to alter any thing hereafter in the government of the Church we gloried in this as a Master-piece of providence to anticipate and forestall their judgement by making them sweare before hand to damnable heresies for why should I now dissemble That the government of Archbishops Bishops Deacons c. A strange mishap in Monster with a Dragons taile not sprung from Scripture is jure divino and that they should never give consent to any alteration This was a heavie yoke and strong fetters cast upon Christian liberty Yee all know what meanes wee used in that our Conclave to make all sure against the storme that threatned us for the motive of our meeting was not the peace and purity of the Church nay we threw oile in the flame nor the extirping of heresies for day after day they set up their abominable heads and came forth as Locusts out of the pit and establishing the truth in the power of doctrine and discipline but to assure our Episcopacie and exalt Hierarchie which was now fainting and languishing under the weight of so many reproaches ready to expire If we dare not for the illegality of these Canons appeare before that powerfull Sun-beame the Estates of Parliament which doth melt us like Snow and make us ashamed like Bats and Owls where shall we stand for their impietie in the great day of our reckoning These ô these be the trophees of my triumph these bee the garlands adorning my Mitre which are now desperatly blasted with the angriest thunder that ever fell upon an ambitious hea● which shall be likeways shortly turned to Cypresse at my unlamented funerals The black cloud of dishonour hangs over me and I am drowned in shame I am now the despised prey of the world the noysome spectacle of this age example of justice to all those who dare crucifie the harmlesse truth disgrace the beauty of the glorious light resist the graces of the Gospell