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A43512	A briefe relation of the death and sufferings of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate, the L. Archbishop of Canterbury with a more perfect copy of his speech, and other passages on the scaffold, than hath beene hitherto imprinted.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1685; ESTC R212372	21,500	34

needed to receive that blow which could not but be welcome because long expected For so well was he studied in the art of dying especially in the last and strictest part of his imprisonment that by continuall fasting watching prayers and such like acts of Christian humiliation his flesh was rarified into spirit and the whole man so fitted for eternall glories that he was more then halfe in heaven before death brought his bloudy but triumphant chariot to convey him thither He that had so long been a Confessour could not but thinke it a release of miseriea to be made a Martyr And as is recorded of Alexander the Great that the night before his best and greatest battaile with Darius the Persian he fell into so sound a sleepe that his Princes hardly could awake him when the morning came so is it certified of this great Prelate that on the evening before his Passover the night before the dismall combat betwixt him and death after he had refreshed his spirits with a moderate supper he betooke himselfe unto his rest and slept very soundly till the time came in which his servants were appointed to attend his rising A most assured signe of a soule prepared The fatall morning being come he first applyed himselfe to his private prayers and so continued till Pennington and other of their publique Officers came to conduct him to the Scaffold which he ascended with so brave a courage such a chearfull countenance as if he had mounted rather to behold a triumph then to made a sacrifice and came not there to die but to be translated And to say truth it was no Scaffold but a Throne a Throne whereon he shortly was to receive a Crowne even the most glorious Crowne of Martyrdome And though some rude uncivill people reviled him as he passed along with opprobrious language as loth to let him goe to the Grave in peace it never discomposed his thoughts nor disturbed his patience For he had profited so well in the Schoole of Christ that when he was reviled he reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed his cause to him that judgeth righteously And as he did not feare the frownes so neither did he covet the applause of the vulgar herd and therefore rather chose to read what he had to speake unto the people then to affect the ostentation either of memory or wit in that dreadfull Agony whether with greater magnanimity or prudence I can hardly say As for the matter of his Speech besides what did concerne himselfe and his owne purgation his great care was to cleare His Majestie and the Church of England from any inclination unto Popery with a perswasion of the which the Authors of our present miseries had abused the people and made them take up Armes against their Soveraigne A faithfull servant to the last By meanes whereof as it is said of Sampson in the booke of Iudges that the men which he slew at his death were more then they which he slew in his life so may it be affirmed of this famous Prelate that he gave a greater blow unto the enemies of God and the King at the houre of his death than he had given them in his whole life before of which I doubt not but the King and the Church will find speedy fruits But this you will more clearely see by the Speech it selfe 〈◊〉 followeth here according to the best and most 〈◊〉 Copies A Speech of the L. Archbishop of Canterbury spoken at his death upon the Scaffold on the Tower-hill Ianuary 10. 1644. Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to Preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12.2 Let us run with Patience that race which is set before us Looking unto JESVS the Author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Crosse despising the shame is set down at the right hand of the throne of God I have beene long in my Race and how I have looked to JESVS the Author and finisher of my Faith He best knowes I am now come to the end of my Race and here I finde the Crosse a death of shame but the shame must be despised or no comming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are now upon the very brinke of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of promise for that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it He instituted a Passeover for them a Lambe it was but it must be eaten with sowre Hearbs I shall obey and labour to digest the sower Hearbs as well as the Lambe And I shall remember it is the Lord's Passeover I shall not thinke of the Herbs nor be angry with the hand which gathereth them but looke up only to Him who instituted that and governes these For men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakenesse and infirmities of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour ut transiret Calixiste that this Cup of Red wine might passe from me But if not God's will not mine be done and I shall most willingly drinke of this Cup as deepe as He pleases and enter into this Sea yea and passe through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods Servants were in this boysterous Sea and Aaron among them the Aegyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of Bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace and I most humbly thanke my Saviour for it my Resolution is now as theirs was then They would not worship the Image the King had set up nor will I 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 Calfe in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their Eyes that they may see the right way for at this day the Blind lead the Blind and if they goe on both will certainely into the ditch For my selfe I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most greivous Sinner many waies by thought word and deed and I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poore Penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my

a Peere was doomed to so long imprisonment without being called unto his Answer What else hath filled so many Prisons in most parts of the Kingdome with the best and wealthiest of the Subjects but the most dangerous effects and consequences of this woful President Which as it was the leading case unto all our pressures so might those pressures have beene remedied had the Subject made his Case their owne and laboured to prevent it in convenient time But such a miserable infatuation had befallen them generally that seeing they did see but would not perceive But yet the malice of his Enemies was not so contented For though some of the more moderate or rather the lesse violent Lords who did not pierce into the depth of the designe gave out that they intended only to remove him from his Majesties eare and to deprive him of his Arch-Bishoprick which resolution notwithstanding being taken up before any charge was brought against him was as unjust though not so cruell as the others yet they shewed only by this Overture that they did reckon without their hosts and might be of the Court perchance but not of the Counsell The leading and predominant party thought of nothing lesse then that he should escape with life or goe off with liberty Onely perhaps they might conceive some wicked hopes that either the tediousnesse of his restraint or the indignities and affronts which day by day were offer'd to him would have broke his heart not formerly accustomed to the like oppressions And then like Pilate in the Gospel they had called for water and washed their hands before the multitude and said that they were innocent of the bloud of that righteous person thinking that by such wretched figge-leaves they could not only hide their wickednesse and deceive poore men but that God also might be mocked and his All-seeing eye deluded to which all hearts lye open all desires are knowne and from which no secrets can be hidden To this end not content to immure him up within the walls of the Tower they robbe him of his meniall servants restraine him to two only of his number and those not to have conference with any others but in the presence of his Warder and in conclusion make him a close Prisoner not suffering him to goe out of his lodging to refresh himselfe but in the company of his keeper And all this while they vex his soul continually with scandalous and infamous Papers and set up factious and seditious Preachers to inveigh against him in the Pulpit to his very face so to expose him to the scorne both of boyes and women who many times stood up and turned towards him to observe his countenance to see if any alteration did appear therein And to the same ungodly end did they devest him of his Archiepiscopall and Episcopall jurisdiction conferring it on his inferiour and subordinate Officers sequester his rents under pretence of maintenance for the Kings younger Children as if His Majesties Revenues which they had invaded were not sufficient for that purpose convert his House at Lambeth into a Prison and confiscate all his coals and fewell to the use of their Gaoler deprive him of his right of Patronage and take into their owne hands the disposing of all his Benefices seize upon all his goods and bookes which they found at Lambeth and in conclusion rifle him of his notes and papers not onely such as were of ordinary use and observation but such as did concerne him in the way of his just defence In which they did not any thing from the first to the last but in a proud defiance to the lawes of the land which they most impudently violated in all these particulars and more then so they had proceeded steppe by steppe to this height of tyranny a whole year almost before they had digested their generall charge into particular Accusations or ever called him to his Answer in due forme of law But God had given him such a measure both of strength and patience that these afflictions though most great and irksome did make no more impressions on him then an Arrow on a rocke of Adamant For a● his 〈◊〉 commitment he besought his God as Master Pryn observes out of his Manuall of devotions to give him full patience proportionable comfort and contentment with whatsoever he should send and he was heard in that he prayed for For notwithstanding that he had fed so long on the bread of carefulnesse and dranke the water of affliction yet as the Scripture telleth us of the foure Hebrew children his countenance appeared fairer and fatter in flesh then any of those who eat their portion of the Kings meat or dranke of his wine And he was wont to say to his private friends that he thanked God he never found more sweet contentment in his greatest liberty then in the time of that restraint And certainly it was no wonder that it should be so he being conscious to himselfe of no other crimes which drew that fatall storme upon him then a religious zeale to the honour of God the happinesse of the King and the preservation of the Church in her peace and patrimony as he professeth at his death before all the people So that despairing of successe in the way intended his enemies sell upon another but more desperate course which was to ship him for New-England and make him subject to the insolencies of Wellt and Peters two notorious Schismaticks But this being put to the question in the house of Commons was rejected by the major part not out of pity to his age or consideration of his quality nor in respect unto the lawes so often violated but to preserve him yet a while as a stale or property wherewith to cheat the Citizens of some further summes and to invite the Scots to a new invasion when their occasion so required For it was little doubted by discerning men but that the Scots who made their first invasion on a probable hope of sequestring the Lord Archbishop and the Earle of Strafford from His Majesties Counsels and sped it so well in their designe that they were recompensed already with the death of the one would easily be tempted to a second journey upon assurance to be glutted with the bloud of the other And this appeares more plaine and evident in that about the comming on of the Scots which was in the middest of Ianuary 1643. they did againe revive the businesse which had long layen dormant causing the Articles which they had framed in maintenance of their former Accusation to be put in print about that time as is apparent by the Test of Iohn Browne their Clerke dated the 17 of that moneth And as the Scots advanced or slackned in their marches Southward so did they either quicken or retard the worke till hearing of the great successes which they had in Yorkshire they gave command to Master