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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

himselfe this is to pray that this more then miserable Kingd●me may be made more then most miserable If he meane the stopping of the now ●●sue of blood that is hath been shed by this intestine and unnaturall warre whereby the Beasts power seekes to destroy the Lambs Kingdome with his called and chosen and faithfull people This should extreamly aggravate and make the sin of this Prelate ou● of measure sinfull as who hath been one prime instrument and bloody agent to procu●e all this blood-shed But that which followeth surpasseth all transcendency of the malice and wickednesse of hell it selfe I shall desire saith he that I may pray for the people too as well as for my selfe O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance to all people that have a thirst for blood but if they will not repent then scatter their devices c. Here 1. he makes it plaine that what hee prayed before was for himselfe and his party and that the issue of blood on his part might be stopt as before 2. The maine of his prayer is to lay the guilt of al the blood that hath been shed in this war upon the Parliament and people especially this City that stand for their Rights ●s a people that thirst for bl●od whereof if they repent not that then their devices may be sca●tered as being contrary to Gods glory the truth and sincerity of Religion to wit of Popery as before is shewed to the establishment of the King and his Posterity after him in their just Right● and Priviledges to wit in an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall gove●nment whereby the Tyrannicall Prelacy the truth sincerity of the Popish Religion may he supported and maintained for which very cause all this bloody war● hath been● raised and con●●●ued in Ireland and England wherein so many hundred thousands of innocent people loyall Subiects have been most barbarously murthered and for no other cause but that they bar● the name of Protestants only not such Protestants as could be hoped to professe the true Protestant Religion of the present Church of England the truth and sincerity of which Religion is Popery improperly so called as befo●● shewed But he adds For the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their ancient and iust power Note here never a prayer in particular for this present Parliament but for Parliaments in generall and that also with a limitation in their auncient and iust power And what is that Namely so farre as standeth with the Kings Prerogative according to that new clause lately foysted into the Kings Oath at his Coronation by the Legierde-main of this Iugler to govern his people according to the Lawes and maintain their Rights and Liberties But with this Provi●o so far as stands with the Kings Prerogative Which Legier-de-main was one of those Charges proved against the Prelate in the Honourable House of Peeres so as in these words ancient and iust power doth lurck a great deal of serpentine deceit that all this ancient and iust power comes to iust nothing further then with reference unto and dependance upon the Kings Prerogative Such are the slie equivocations and mentall reservations of this subtle serpent all along in this his pretended prayer wherein he thus desperately dallyeth with God and men Then For the preservation of this poore Church in her truth peace and patrimony This poore Church to wit the late and yet proud Prelacy her truth such as is regulated by he● Canons with an Et caetera her Peace for which shee hath caused troubles and war in those Kingdomes he●Patrimony a part of Peters Patrimony for the support of her truth peace that which this Prelate in his Relation of a conference tooke all that paines about for the blessed meeting of Truth and Peace as he call● it in reconciling of Rome and England together as hee professeth throughout his booke and in the very last page and words thereof He adds And the settlement of this distracted and distrossed people c. Whatsoever he prayes here is with reference to the truth peace and patrimony of his poore Church and therefore it is added with a Copulative and the settlement c. And hereunto hee adds another And And when all this is done that then they may be thankefull with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements Here they must take notice that there is no such blessing for which to be thankfull as the up-holding of the Prelates Protestant Religion When this is done then fill their hearts with thank●fulnesse But how can dutifull obedience to Gods Commandements and to Prelaticall Canonicall Commandements stand together For what more contrary and opposite one to the other then Christs Commandements to Antichrists We have had wofull experience hereof Christ commands to preach the Word in season and out of season the Prelates forbid Lectures on week dayes and Sermons in the afternoone on Lords dayes God commands to worship him in spirit and truth Prelates command to worship God by humane forms by Images by Adorations towards the East with many other superstitious Ceremonies of mans devising God commands his Sabboths or Lords dayes to be sanctified Prelates suspend Ministers for not reading the book for profane sports on these dayes with infinite more He closes all with a Lord receive my soule to m●rcy adding Our Father c. Now what hath an impenitent hard hearted hypocrite to doe with mercy All that hee hath here prayed or rather babled out of a paper is but meerly to delude the people and to mocke God even to his face Never came there such a forlorne and formidable spectacle upon stage or scaffold to act the hypocrites part so that as he was a seducer deceiver ell his life time so hee will dye The reply to the Relation hath set him ●orth in his colours long before prophecying of his c●rsed end which we see now fulfilled as also of the terrible iudgments and calamities that should fall upon his Prelaticall Clergy of England together with his Protestant Religion aliâs Popery though but improperly so called He complaines for want of Room to dye which he needed not for he had too much of Room that brought him to dye I beseech you saith he let me have an end of this misery For all this hast hee should have laid a better and surer foundation to build his hope upon for freedome from a future misery both infinitely durable and extreamly intollerable then yet we have seene in him Nor could he finde a word in Scripture to satisfie Sir John Clotworthie's question for any assurance that hee had of a better life And just was this with God the righteous Iudge that as hee was a great decryer and vilifier of the Scripture as The light which is in Scripture it selfe is not bright enough it cannot beare sufficient witnesse to it selfe That the beliefe of Scripture to be the Word of God dependeth primarily upon the

authority tradition of the present Church That it is a candle which hath no light till it be lighted which is first by the tradition of the present Church That notwithstanding these and many more most grosse derogations from the selfe-sufficiency authority and light of Scriptures to demonstrate it selfe to be the word of God he saith hee hath given to the Scripture enough and more then enough c. Iust I say was it with God that this wretched Prelate for so vilifying yea annihilating the sufficiency of Scripture-light should bee lost altogether without so much light as to light him to so much as one place of Scripture that might minister unto him some solid comfort at the houre of his death As some Malefactors trusting to their neck-vers when they came before the Iudge were not able to read one word of the booke And though he said to Sir John that that word was the knowledge of Jesus Christ and that alone yet this gracelesse wretch was never acquainted with this knowledge of Iesus Christ For he was a perpetuall enemy to Iesus Christ a cruel persecutor of his Saints a hater of his Word an oppressor of the power of godlinesse where ever hee found it This wretch n●●er knew Iesus Christ in the power of his Resurrection in the fellowship of his afflictions in a conformity to his death He never had Christs spirit and therefore was none of Christs He had not the spirit of grace supplication he had not the spirit of prayer even unto his death as hee had been a quencher of this spirit of prayer in all those in whom he perceived it to be For he was altogether for book-prayers as here he was at his death Such was his last prayer which was in his hand And this prayer if a prayer is to be interpreted as the former all for mercy but wwithout repentance for this Kingdome but in reference to Tyranny to his Protestant Religion to this his Church of England Thus he dyes one that was ever true to his old principles as in his life so at his death and thus hee is as good as his word in his Relation where he tells the King thus In the publishing hereof I have obeyed your Majesty discharged my duty to my power to the Church of England given account of the hope that is in me so testified to the world that faith in which I have lived and by Gods blessing favour purpose to dye Now concerning this faith of his and that of Rome there is no more difference between them then that distinction which himselfe hath put mentioned before to wit Popery properly so called and popery improperly so called I shall conclude with a passage or two in my Reply written in my banishment at Guernsey above foure yeares agoe in Answer to the Prelates Relation towards the end Bethinke your selfe how suddaine the time may be that you must goe and give account as you say to God and Christ of the talent committed to your charge which you cannot so easily answer before that Judge as you could doe in the Star-Chamber And remember what you said to the Iesuit Our reckoning will be heavier if wee thus mislead on either side then theirs that follow us But I see I must looke to my selfe for you are secure And are not you full out as secure as the Iesuit● But in that you p●ay that God for Christs sake would be mercifull to you But is that enough to wipe off all old scores to say God be mercifull to me when the whole course of a mans life hath beene a very enmity and rebellion against Christ When he lyeth spends and squandereth the talent o● of his strenth and wit learning 〈◊〉 and friends to the dishonour of God in oppressing Christs word persecuting his servants and members profaning and polluting the service of God with superstitious inventions of men and Will wo●ship forceing mens consciences to confor●ity using all cru●lty even to blood and the like with Lord have mercy upon me without any more adoe serve the turn to salve all again But where is your hearty repentance for all your Scarlet and Episcopall sins your high Commission sins your Star-chamber sins your Counsell table sins Nay is not your soule conscience still ●eared and stupified is not your heart still hardned O stupid conscience O desperate soule O shamelesse Hypocrite O blasphemous wretch Dost thou thanke God to make him the author of all thy impiety iniquity cruelty craft hypocrisie dissimulation of thy faith●esse ond false heart in thy plotting to bring thy false truth thy turbulent peace with the Whore of Babylon that notorious ene●y of Christ and of his true Spouse his Church to a meeting a blessed meeting yea to a cursed meeting This is that Peace and Truth which you contend for for the procuring and meeting whereof all trueth shall be corrupted and peace perturbed not only in the Churches but in Civill States and Kingdo●●s when for the maintenance of your Truth Peace Princes shall be set against their People and People forced to stand for their Liberties against Prelatticall ●surpation and Tyrannicall Invasion But I conclude if such was his deplored condition then as to ly naked to such language how is the measure thereof now filled up in an obstinate out-facing maintaining all his wickednesses perpetrated since that till now and th●t before the high bar of the Kinhdome the very Tribunall of God and at last upon the very Scaffold powring out his blood in a most obdurate desperate and finall impenitency O that this might be an example to all that tread in his steps It is very observable by common experience in the●e dayes that a malignant and godlesse life hath an impenitent and desperate death This is that Ca●terburian Arch-Prelate in his life time heire-apparant to the Pope-dome subtile false treacherous cruel carrying two faces under one hood Sathans second childe who ever is the first as hard to speake truth as to do good or to repent of any evill as his Father the Devill an inveterate adversary to Christ and all true Christians an underminer of the Civill State a Traitor to his Countrey wilfully damning his owne soule to save the credite of his cursed cause sealing with his blood the Kings part with Romes to be righteous the Parliaments odious that so he might be as unlike to Sampson as possible to do as much if not more mischiefe to his native countrey at his death as he had done in his life and therefore worthy to have dyed the ancient death of parricides or Traytors to their Countrey which the ancient Romans used to be sowed up in a Culle●s or leather sacke and cast into the warer and there to perish as unworthy to touch either earth or water or ayre as Natures out-cast FINIS Clericus absquc libro He begins Job 31.33 Josh. 7. Mat. 27.3 Psal. 74.14 Psal. 80.13 * Being not long before degraded Act. 9. * Reply Pag. 166 to 170 173. Exod. 1. Act. 7.19 Act * Esa. 10. Col. 2. Page 5. * Esa. 44.19 20. Hab. 2. ●8 * Esa. 44.19 20. Hab. 2. ●8 Ibid. Reply p. 19. p. 252.225 See the Reply p. 205.202.275 p. 211. Reply p. 19. p. 252.225 See the Reply p. 205.202.275 p. 211. Reply p. 19. p. 252.225 See the Reply p. 205.202.275 p. 211. As Mr. Rud Mr. Bernard and many others Aug. Non remititur peccatanisi resti●ua●ur abla●um Ier 2.34 * Consci●ntiae mala tranquilla {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Mat· 13.25 * 2 Cor. 6 7. Luk. 18.7 * V. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Pag. 18 19. See Reply p. 37 38. * pag. 13 * Relation Epistle Ded. pag. 16. Amos 7.13 See my book for God and the king * See his Speech Starcham●ber * P. 171 See Reply p. 263 264 Ier. 2.3 4 Deut. 15.21 Exod. 30 2 Tim. 4.2 ●o● 4.23 Deut. 5. Reply p. 74.405.86.87 Printed 1640. Relation p. 80. p. 83.84.85 See Redly Phil. 3.10 Rom. 8. Epist. dead. page 22. Page 402. Relation page 116.

were in the furnace Why those were there for not obeying the Kings commandement to bow to his new golden god but was this Bishop now on the Scaffold for any such disobedience Nay was it not for his too much officiousnesse and obedience So that might he not have said as Cardinall Wolsey Had I said he been as carefull to serve God as I have been to serve the King I had never come to this death And for Gods power to deliver it is not questioned But his glory was seen in delivering those three innocent children from the hot fiery furnace not so that he should have delivered such a traitor from the blocke when as his Glory called for execution of justice upon such a Malefactor yea such a notorious hypocrite such a desperate obdurate impenitent remorselesse shamelesse monster of men Here he prosecutes his comparison between himself and the three children They would not Worship the Kings golden Image Nor will I saith he the Imaginations which the People are setting up Nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Jeroboams Calves in Dan and in Bethell By People here in Capitall Letters he must needs mean the Parliament the People of the Land representative and so by Jeroboams Calves whereby he means a revolting from Iuda and from true Religion and that the Religion now to be set up is in comparison of that under the Prelacy no better then Ieroboams Calves worshipped in Bethell and Dan and the Prelaticall Government as the Temple of Jerusalem and the Truth of God Thus he holds to his old Principles which he suckt in with his Mothers milke and was Nursed up in Oxford and which grew up with him in Court to a full stature But stay shall he run away with it thus in a darke mist leaving the People to grope at noon day as in the Aegiptian darknesse * I most humbly thank my Saviour for it saith he my resolution is now c. What Not to forsake the Temple and Truth of God O Hypocrisie O Blasphemy Will he interest and ingage Christ in all his Idolatrous Crucifixes Crosses Altars Superstitious Worship Ceremonies and Reliques of Rome set up every where in his Idoll Temples and Chappells calling all this his Temple and Truth of God Will he call his Images the Truth of God which the Truth of God the Scripture calls a * Lye and a teacher of Lyes O abomination And doth this devout Votary to Images humbly thank Christ that his resolution lay not to lye down till he lay down his head upon the Block not to part with his Antichristian Hierarchy the Grand enemy of Christs Kingdom and grievous Tyranny over the Soules and Bodies of Christs Saints whose Redemption cost him his dearest Blood O the Rocky cruelty of this wretched man Who as he shewed no mercy to others whom he most wickedly oppressed in his life so now at his death he can shew no mercy to himself by considering the justice of that Saviour whereof his whole life had been a most high provocation now sealed up at his death with a desperate resolution to be the same man still should his life be prolonged an hundred yeares So as no marvell it is if wicked men be punisht eternally in hell when if they should live eternally in this world they would hold firm their Resolution never to cease to be the same men in sinning But he bestows his Episcopall blessing upon the People for the opening of their eyes to see the right way Himself being so blind as not to see any other right way out of his own way then which none is more contrary and opposite to Christ and his way But he acknowledgeth himself in all humility a most grieveous sinner many wayes by thought word and deed and therefore I doubt not saith he but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as well as for other sinners But wherein What sign What thought What word What deed Did he confesse those thoughts whereby he resolved and indeavoured to reconcile Rome and England together which he expressed in his Relation of a conference with the Iesuit Did he confess the sinfull words of that Reconciling Book That there he cunningly incites the King against godly Ministers That there hee blames and bewayles with a bleeding heart the separation between Protestants and Papists both for the causing and continuing of it That he hath there in many passages abused and vilified the Scriptures all along his Booke That he hath fathered his grosse lyes upon God the Father upon Christ upon the Holy Ghost and infinite other bold and wicked expressions there And for his Deeds did he ever confesse elswhere or on the Scaffold all his Prelaticall pranckes and practises in oppressing suppressing supplanting the Truth of God both in Pulpit and Presse silencing suspending fining confining outing godly painfull Preachers with wives childern and other christians Did hee ever confesse his being the chief cause of cropping of Eares Pillorying Imprisoning Whipping Branding Banishing those against whom no crime could be layde by any Law Or did he to shew the truth of conversion come forth to offer restitution to all that he had wronged oppressed and spoiled of their goods and livelyhoods No such thing here is nothing but a generall confession of I wot not what grievous sins But being put to it he would not confesse one particular sin as we noted before when some came to him for restitution of their wrongs And yet doth hee hope for pardon Aug. saith The sin is not pardoned where the wrong is not satisfied for Nay when many such things were witnessed against him before the Honourable House of Lords as of his violent dealing with many Preachers and others hee justified himself saying that he did but discharge the office of a good Diocesan and the like And what doth this desperate Hypocrite tell us of ransacking every corner of his heart What have we to doe with his selfe-deceiving heart known only to God We looke upon his Actions we judge of the tree by the fruits He finds not in his false heart any true cause of death But we find it in his hands we finde the blood of the soules yea and the bodies too of the poore Innocents upon his skirts and this is found not by secret search but upon all these His notorious practises proclaim it so as he that runs may read And doth not the Law of this Kingdom punish Theeves and Robbers and Murtherers and Traytors But however he chargeth nothing upon his Iudges That 's well for never had Traytor fairer play and they proceeded secundum allegata et probata And this is the Law of the Land Let that suffice But whom else he layes his charge upon it matters not his charge is no burthen nor his tongue a slander And though in a legall course an Innocent may be condemned yet more