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A80117	The araignment of hypocrisie or, a looking-glasse for murderers and adulterers; and all others that profes religion, and make show of holiness, yet deny the power and practice thereof in their lives and conversations. Being a fearfull example of Gods judgements on Mr. Barker, minister of Gods word at Pytchley two miles from Ketterin in Northhamptonshire; who for living in adultery with his neer kinswoman, and concealing the murder of her infant; was with his kinswoman and maid-servant executed at Northampton. With the strange manner of the discovery of that horrid murder; and their several speeches immediately before their deaths.	J. C.	1652 (1652)	Wing C52; Thomason E1290_3; ESTC R208987	8,267	16

his faithfull Ministers for my sin I pray you again and again for if you should you may condemn the generation of the Just for my wretched life and errors do not say they are all such Remember you have been told by them that are now dead and by my self You may as well say that because there was one Judas a Thief a Traitor among the Apostles that therefore they were all Theeves and Traitors and so you may utterly undo your souls and bodies by affirming such an untruth such a false conclusion Blame me a sinfull wicked man and lay the fault of this scandall and offence upon mee Oh that I could do that good as I have done hurt and that my life and blood would stop the mouthes of the enemies of the truth who will say I know when I am gone and dead I knew and saw one hang'd as precize as you Oh how it cuts my heart that I have been such an offence to my own calling and Profession You of the Ministery I pray you forgive me and pardon my offensive life You that profess the glorious Gospel forgive me for I have made all your hearts sad I have been a great cause of grief to all of you and an occasion for you to have in your dish when I am dead Alas good Sirs what shall I doe I am presently to appear before the great Judge of all the World Oh how bitter are the thoughts of death to mee How shall I do to encounter with Death Then hee was told that JESUS CHRIST had pulled out the Sting of Death which is sin for all that live godly and righteously in this present World Yea but said hee I am ungodly and unrighteous What shall I doe Hee was answered That CHRIST came not to call the Rsghteous but Sinners to repentance Oh said he that Repentance and godly sorrow is that which I want He was then advised to have 〈◊〉 course to him that giveth liberally unto all and respecteth none Then said he Mine end is reproachfull He was answered It was not so bad nor so bitter as Christs upon the Crosse and yet he submitted to his Fathers Will and further That it was better to goe from the Callowes to heaven then from a Down-bed to hell God corrects every Son whom he receiveth Then he said How am I pressed with my sinnes How doth the burden of them oppress me He then was wished to accept of that Invitation Matth. 11.28 Now your poor wounded soul is laden and weary come unto me and I will ease you Then said he direct me and I will be ruled by you then he was told That all those who are saved from hell are justified freely by the grace of God through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ The Ministers told him That now it was not how many or how foul his offences were if he had faith to come to Jesus Christ and to lay hold on him He that cometh to me I will in no case cast off I said he but may I believe you may I ground upon your words He was answered He might take Gods Word who hath commanded you to believe the Prophets and you shall prosper and hath said that Christ loveth to the uttermost them that come to him Then said he upon this Foundation will I build ●ere will I build here will I rely and repose my ●elf though he kill me yet will I trust in him And yet ●e said Oh that I might see your faces in Heaven ●nd were as sure to be there as you are Hee was told They hoped he should though he went before them Oh said he what a merry and joyfull meeting should we have He was then told that this was a good Argument that he was translated from death to life because he loved the Brethren and wished their salvation Oh said he I do love you and am loath to part with you that love and fear the Lord. Then was he told That the Church triumphant and the Church militant are such as doe belong one to another the Saints there and the godly here are all of a company Why then said he you say I must rest only on Christ for Salvation and upon his free grace and mercy Yea said the Ministers for God is faithfull that hath promised and to them that truely Beleeve and Repent the sinfulnesse of the sinner doth not make the grace of God of none effect You know Mr. Barker what your Wife said That if she had a House full of Gold shee would give it with all her Heart to save your Life Why then Mr. Barker said they argue thus for your eternall comfort from the lesser to the greater The love of the Creature is finite but the love of the Creator is infinite If your Wife whom you have wronged so much doth so love you The love of the LORD passeth the Love of Women Then said he I will throw away all my other Foundations all my Latine Greeke and Hebrew it will doe me no good all my Labours and Duties I cast them all away and close with JESUS CHRIST I come LORD JESVS CHRIST Oh plead thou for me bequeath thy Righteousnes unto wee And this must you do all that hear me this day You must goe out of your selves and out of your best Dueties as Reading Hearing Receiving the Sacraments Workes of Charitie Fasting Prayer Singing of Psalmes and the like you must not think to be saved by them nor for them fly you to CHRIST alone who hath left unto us the Words of Eternall Life Be continually using holy Duties and abound in them but trust not to them rest not in them I but this new Worke is but lately wrought in me it is but since yesterday for before I had a hard stony heart that could not repent I deferred to seek God in trueth flattering my self with vain hopes of life Surely I had never this Worke of Grace in trueth but since yesterday Oh Mr. Rogers the Son of a godly Father you were an Instrument of breaking my hard heart it is not two daies since To this answer was made this was but the seed-time this was but the earnest the full Vintage and fruition of grace in glory Oh Sirs what think you of me They answered very well seeing the LORD hath so broken your heart and brought you out of your self Why I thank God said he I have some Peace Conscience is a little quieter it doth not smite nor check me now whilst I hasten to that full fruition of glory which the LORD hath prepared for them that love him for my time is at an end and my strength is spent I now take my leave of every one of you shaking many by the hands I leave you to him that is able to preserve you blameless till his appearing And you of the Ministry and ●●●●ers that Pr●●●● the Gospel I beseech you to walke honestly and circumspectly you had need so to do amongst a froward People with whom you dwell Love the Faithfull Ministers reverence them for these are the Mosesses that stand in the gapp these are the Lots that defer Fire and Brimstone from Sodom these hold up the hands else Amaleck would prevaile Make much of these Bushes that stop the Gapps for if these were taken away the dropps of Gods angry displeasure would with their fearfull effects be more seen among us then they are Have a care hereof Once again I take my leave of you said he and so giving his Executioner a Piece of money he commended his Soul and Body into the hand of the Lord saying LORD into thy hands I commend my spirit AND Lord JESUS receive my Soul And so was Executed The 2 young Womens Speeches that suffered with him consisted of these Three Heads 1 ALl Persons whatsoeuer were exhorted by their examples to take heed of all Sin whatsoever as Swearing Cursing Pilfering Cozening Sabbath-breaking Covetousnesse Pride Formality Slighting of Gods Servants Hypocricy but Lying both of them did bewail in speciall manner the Maid-servant said It was her bane the other said She played the beast in Lying to the Judge thinking to save her life hereby and it did oppresse her very sore and said shee I perswade my self it hath eclipsed the light of Gods Countenance from me for I lyed against my knowledge 2. That all that have the charge in Childrens Education would be admonished to place them in Religious Families and let none say So were you placed and we see what is befallen you for said they it is the want of true Religion in our hearts that hath undone us 3. They acknowledged themselves guilty of that for which they dyed and they cleared Mr. Barker from having any hand in the Murder and they did advise all People to take heed of trusting to any mortall Creature and of relying too much upon any friends or any thing here below but to cast their care upon the Lord alone forever FINIS

THE ARAIGNMENT OF HYPOCRISIE OR A Looking-glasse for Murderers and Adulterers And all others That Profes Religion and make show of Holiness yet deny the Power and Practice thereof in their Lives and Conversations Being a fearfull EXAMPLE of Gods Judgements on Mr. Barker Minister of Gods Word at Pytchley two miles from Ketterin in Norhamptonshire Who For living in Adultery with his neer Kinswoman and concealing the Murder of her Infant was with his Kinswoman and Maid-servant executed at Northampton With the strange manner of the Discovery of that horrid Murder And their severall SPEECHES immediately before their Deaths Printed at London by John Crowch and T.W. 1652. To the Reader IT is not unknown to many in Northamtonshire and else-where how strict a Professor and how much followed this Minister was by many People who were termed Puritanes for his Person and Profession I shall have that Charity as to passe by But for his crime which was Adultery and Murder being the reigning sins of these Times he having already suffered for the same I shall only give you the brief Relation thereof and referr you to his own Speech at his Death He having a neer Kinsman who at his death committed his only Daughter to his care and Tuition who growing to maturity he tempted to his Lust and got her with Chide and the closer to hide his sinne and the shame thereof from the eye of the World and his wronged Wife procured Savin and gave it her to destroy her Childe but that failing he juggl'd so with his Maid-servant that with the help of the Mother they barbarously and inhumanly mudered the same But God that will not let Murder goe unpunished discovered the same by a little Boy who being in an Apple-tree gathering Apples saw Mr. Barker digge the Hole in the Orchard and the Maid-servant bring the Childe and put it therein Vale Thine J. C. THE Arraignment of Hypocrisie Mr. Barker's SPEECH DEar Friends I ought rather to fall a weeping over you then to begin to speak to you but I can do neither as I would for indeed my strength is spent as wel as my time but yet as well as I may God enabling me I will endeavour to give the world satisfaction in clearing my conscience speaking the truth in the discovery of mine offences You know and I think here is none ignorant that two things have brought me to this sad fatal dismal place Murder and Adultery and for the latter of the two I confess my self exceeding faulty I am fouly guilty of Incontinency and I think that in this kind there is not any like me in the world so gross an offendor have I been very unclean wonderfull vile that way although those that knew me did not think I had bin such a wretch It is my fault I confess that brought these two already dead of my family to their end so that I may say I have sinned I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done Let thy hand be against me and my fathers house for I have a long time continued in this gross vile sin of uncleaness and have many times exprest it by wanton words thoughts and actions and that to her who was neer to me neer ally'd to me dear to me that was committed to my care by her dearest friends who hoped better then what hath befallen This odious sin I committed with her that profest Religion that had excellent parts that was well proportioned that was beautifull that had good gifts one that had received much illumination by me and I received much good by her Oh that I might have died to have preserved their lives But oh such a vile wretch I have bin that although I preached against that sin yet I lived in it though I had many checks of conscience and many reproofs by others Sermons that I heard in divers places yet I lived in it and continued so to do and so I am perswaded I should have done till I had dy'd in that sin and been damn'd for that sin if God had not taken this course to bereave me of this great sin my Master-sin my bosom-sin this abominable sin for which I now abhor my self Oh that I could lament and mourn for this sin all other mine offences with tears of blood yea as many as I have done water since my sinning and that against such light and knowledge O that I should live in and love such a sin so long that was a Minister a Preacher one that was noted and followed all the Country over such a man as I in an eminent Calling but my Hypocrisie was very great to live in such a sin such an odious sin such a base course of life under a Cloak of Religion a meer form of Godliness so that it may be justly said of me What hast thou to do to take my Word into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed Yet was I taken for a sincere and as the World counts them a Puritan-Minister I was taken for a strict godly man but alas there was no such matter in me Beloved I fell into this grievous sin and all other my offences for want of Religion for want of holiness that was the cause of my dangerous falling for had Religion been in me in truth had a good foundation of holines been grounded and setled in my soule I had never so fouly miscarried as I have and been such an offence and offender as I am I have been I confess a great offence to true Religion to the faithfull Ministry and to the holy profession of the Gospel it is true that offences shall come but wo to them by whom the offence commeth and that heavy wo hath overtaken me and falls very sore upon me that I should be a great meanes and cause of scandalizing the truth Oh how is my mind distracted Oh that I could do God some service some honor now at the last Oh that I could convert all you that hear me Oh that the words of a dying man might take impression upon you to work in you a hatred of all sinfull wayes Oh that I could be an instrument of good to you to turn you from your sinful wayes But I know to my grief my fall is that which som do rejoyce in that they may hereby take occasion to jeer sing and rime of it on the Ale-bench Well take it from me and they are the words of a dying man that the falls of the faithfull are the destruction of the wicked Christ himself was set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel But by one miscarriage they will take occasion and liberty to sinne although they destroy themselves Now will such say Come man do not you know how such and such and such strict dissembling Puritans have lived themselves Thus will they encourage themselves and others in all sorts of voluptuous wayes But consider this I beseech you that this your resolv'd plodding on in