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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

sentence of condemnation execution especially when now God is making his inquisition for bloud So he And surely in this good season of Gods inquisition for bloud it hath pleased him to find out this Achan who hath cunningly even to the last houre not as Achan glorifying God by confession as before hid all his stollen goods the wedge of gold the Babylonish garment the two hundred shekels of silver all his under-hand dealings for the undoing of this Kingdome in the hollow of his false heart and had not both Parliament and People bestirred themselves in the discoveries he had been too nimble for us all But God I say was pleased to use the industry of his people to find out this foxes holes But besides all this O the impudencie of this wretched man in commending to this Citie the consideration of that Prophecie Ier. 26.15 they are the words of the Prophet Ieremiah to the Princes of Iudah and Jerusalem The words are these though they are not set forth in the Sermon but only the pl●ce quoted with a speciall recommendation to this City and whether he spake them on the scaffold I know not for I was not there As for mee behold I am in your hand doe with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know it for certaine that if yee put me to death yee shall surely bring innocent bloud upon your selves and upon this Citie and upon the Inhabitants thereof for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speake all these words in your eares Now could this man possibly beleeve that any in this Citie should be so simple as to beleeve him Or could he beleeve that this Scripture should perswade the Citie or Parliament Princes and People to doe as the word● follow declare vers. 16. Then said the Princes and all the People unto the Priests and to the Prophets This man is not worthy to dye for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God Here this Porcupine strikes himselfe thorow with his owne quils Hee complaines for the poore Church of England and that is his Hierarchy that that once flourished as once the Abbeyes and Monasteris did and was a shelter to other neighbouring Churches What To the Church of Scotland witnesse his reformed Service-booke and his animating the King with his Army against them for casting out such merchants and merchandice Or that of Ireland which he had filled with his Arminian and superstitious Priests and helped to make that land a field of bloud a shambles to butcher those hundred thousands of innocent Protestant Subjects as good a Protestant as himselfe is or his confederates In everie cle●t of this selfe-divided Kingdome profanenesse he saith and irreligion hath crept in Now truly himselfe was the prime wood-cleaver that drave in the first wedges and thereby brought in by the head and eares all profanenesse and irreligion which leaking yea flowing in so fast have well nigh drowned the ship But stay what meanes this profanenesse and irreligion which the Prelate here tels us of he shall be his owne interpreter In his Relation in the Epistle Dedicatorie he tels the King saying Though J cannot prophesie yet I feare that Atheisme and irreligion gather strength while the truth is thus weakened by an unworthy way of contending And p. 19. The externall worship of God in his Church is the great witnesse to the world that our hearts stand right in the service of God Take this away or bring it into contempt and what light is there left to shine before men that they may see our devotion and glorifie our Father which is in Heaven The result is as the Replyer cleareth that the neglect or contempt of his externall worship is that which bringeth in profanenesse and irreligion that is Not to set the face in a right posture towards the East in our devotion not to bow to an Altar not to kneele at the Sacrament not to use a faire white Surplice and black hood in Administration not to baptize with the signe of the Crosse not to say second service c. all this shewes that our hearts stand not right in the service of God that without these no light is left to shine before men that they may see our Devotion and glorifie our Father which is in heaven O notorious hypocrisie O egregious impietie thus to abuse Scripture and all true religion so as Prospers speech here alleaged by him hits him full home Men that introduce profanenesse which is done by a false Religion and Devotion of mans devising are cloaked with a name of imaginary Religion And what is Imagerie in worship but an imaginarie Religion And if wee have in a manner almost lost the substance we may thank his Ceremonies for it and for the danger the land is now in threatening ruine the Lord prevent it by the just ruine of this man that hath been a maine instrumentall cause of it He comes * here to his last particular which is himself He makes a solemne Protestation of his Religion to be Protestant but with this limitation in reference to the Church of England only not to other Protestant Churches for no Protestant Churches are Episcopall but this This therefore he sticks to in this profession he was born lived and will now dye He disclaimes the bringing in of Popery into this Land Now what should be the meaning of this Mystery considering all his indeavours and practises have tended and contended to reduce this his Church to as near a conformity with Rome as possibly may be For excepting the differences in Doctrine take the whole Hierarchy Government Discipline Officers Services Ceremonies Vestments and all other implements we find the Church of England to be one and the some with that of Rome as the Prelate affirmeth for which see my Reply from pag. 63. to 69 How then is it true that he is no setter up or bringer in of Popery as he protesteth surely two wayes * First because he found some old Reliques of Rome in the Kings Chappells and some Cathedralls as an Altar Jmages Adorations Organ-Service Copes and the like Therefore he makes a shift by piecing it out with some forced interpretations of the Queens Injunctions and with improvement of the Service Booke and other viis modis to bring in a generall conformity to those paterns and that under a specious colour of vniformity a very Laudable thing in a Kingdom especially Regis ad Exemplum that all should be of the Kings Religion or the Religion of his Chappell every Daughter-Church to conform to the Mother the Cathedrall and thus all being raised up to one conformity it came to passe that both Iesuits on the one side boasted that the Church of England was turned Roman and some bold Ministers began to tell tales in the Pulpit and at last to write and publish Bookes of it though to their cost This is the Golden lea●e wherewith

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