ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Production Note Project Unica Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 2015i M) The Grand ■(37 IMPOSTOR VN MASKED.1 - ■ O R, lv; — A Detedion of the notorious hypocrifie, and delperate Impietie of the late Archbiihop (io ilyled ) of Canterbury, cunningly couched in that written Copie, which he read on the Scaffold at his execution, (fan. io. 1644) Alias, called h* the publifher, His funerall Sermon. By Henry Burton, Rom'i, y. But thou after thy hardnefle, and impenitent heart, treafurcft up unto thy fc'f vvrath againft the day of wrath, and revdat/onof the righteous judgement of God; Who v*ll render to every nun according to his deeds. Psai. 50. 11; Thefe things baft thou done,and I keept filifice ; thou thoughteft that I wsalto-gether fuch a one as thy felfe : but 1 will reprove thee, and fetthem in order before thine ey es. O consider this, ye that forget Gcd, left I tear you in pieces, andthetc bee •none to deliver. When the Tox peacheth} let the Ceefe bet»Are. Published according to Order. London, printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-fpread Eagle, at the Weft end of Pauls..1\jA0X.\t<¿ ÜLifl.*fÍ «ti j?í J^í j£« ^ S §§§§pl Wtéá The Preface to the Reader. Reader^ He old faying is, Of the dead fpeake nothing but well ,/o jlull I fpeake■■ nothing but truth of this mans falsehood^ both while he lived and when he died. And let me deprecate thee the leaf fu(pition of malice in me towards the mans or his memorie; the winch l Wlts f° farre and free from in his life time, that a little before his death, my lj} felfe with two other godly, reverend t- Brethrcn0wcnt to his lodging in the Tower , totender our Chri-f flidn dutie ofCharitie to him, for Counfell and comfort (fit would rj beacceepted) inthat his condition. Butby his Secretarte here-q iurning Court* thanks faid, Some had been with him that day^ and now he was ctherwife employed in his private bufineffe. Where. h ukm we returned: and that morning Mr. Lieutenant of the IL Tower having been with him, and taking his leave with thefe words, I pray God open your eyes : he returned him thanks fay-ingjAnd I pray God open your cyesj and I hope there is noharmein ch^,, Jhe would cunningly tnftnuat, thatTo the Reader. '{after Lieutenants eyes were blinded, rather then his. But more of this legierdemaine anone; and for this task, / was fir ft earneflly importuned by two reverend godly Mimjhrs ,to undertake it,which l took tis a call from God• Now for his Funerall Sermon, how it couldbetruely[aid to be preacht ,when he read it verbatim , as alfo how he couldproperly be faid to pray ,what he readin his Paper (for without bh' book he could neither preach nor pray) I leave it to thy right judgement. Finally,That ¡uch a poyfonfullpeece as this fhouldbe fo licenti-oufly pubhjhcd in Print, before feme Antidote were prepared, either to corrett its Malignancy, or to corroborate the ftmple hearted people^ apt to drink in [uch afugared pot ion, from the mouth offuch a bold dying man,though a Traitor: if unsjlerjlanding men doe not wonder,/fhallconfejje my felfe the onelyfoole to marvaile ■ But I hope this ¿Antidote will not come altogether too late to recover fuch, as whofe weaker ftomacks have not beene able to overcome thepoyfon, Farewell. Good'The grandtmpoftor unmasked. GOOD People. You l pardon mj old Memorie, and upon fo fad occa-fions as I am come to this place, to make ufe of my papers , I dare not truft mj felfe other wife. HOwever the good Teople may Pardon his old memory for reading, in ftead of preaching, yet how the righteous God lhonld pardon fuch an oldmemorie, as comd not remember one ofalithoie grofie fins, wherein he had lived, fo as to confeife them, and to crave pardon of God for them, I cannot fee, I dare not fay „• He did with iAdam hide his tranfgrejfions in his bofome ; he would not with Achan confeife his Mat.17.15 jinne that troubled I frael, to give glory to G od ; nor with the Traitour Judas repent of his Treafon, nor reliore the price of innocent blond, which he had fhed, nor conf-fl'.-at all his fin of Treaion .• Yea, when Mr.ff'eld^rs. Jones, and others, came to him in the Tower to demand of him recompenie for ail the wrongs he had done them in their per-fons, credits, and eftates, he could never be brought to acknowledge theleaft,faying, He remembred no fuch thing; thus laying all the burthen upon his old memory, living and dying. And yet in his next words he addes; And upon fo fad occafons, as I am come to this place, hfad occafoniure, had hee beer.e lb fenfible of it, as he fhould have been: Wherein,though his old memory failed him, yet hisV/^Confcience (Turer to keep then a thoufand memories') might have helped him. But itfeemes, that not onely his long habituated wickedneflehad feared, and brought his Confidence into a deep Lethargy, or dead fleep, butfurely iome compounded Cordiall by the Apothecaries Art, had fo wrought with him,that net onely it caufed him to have a ruddy freih countenance, but aifo did fo prop up his fpi-rits,that he might feem, as A gag, to have already fwallowed down the bitter cup of death, and that the world might take him to die as e might properly {peak them : and not any fuch malefactor, as this,on whom the juft lawes of the land had immediate power thus to punifii him : whereas Tilate had no fuch legall power over innocent Chrift to put him to death , but onely from an extraordinary divine difp.nfa-tion. Bat thus this man hath taken a lawlcfle liberty to himfelfe all along, thus intolerably to ahufe the Sacred Scriptures, beating this, gold by force of his hammer fo thin, that he may therewith guild over, his rotten caufé, thereby to deceive the fimple at his death, as hee had done in his life : who are apt to take all for gold that glettereth. Here he compaires himfelfe with Aaron, as before with Chrift ? but he muft remember , he is no longer the Canterburian high Prieft. But who be thofe Egyptians, that drove this Aaron into the Read-lea,and Ait.13.to jjjgk'fre drowned in the fame waters ? Q full of fubtilty ! What? the Parliament? O childe of the Devil! But who is that God, whom he hadferved> Though our God hath s .. ferved himfelfe of this Prelat, as he doth oiSathan, and other wicked ' _Eu’ ,0 men, ufing them as his * rods to fcourge his own dear children; furely in no other fenfe could hebefaidto ferve Cod trtstly : For all his other fervice, what was it, butfuperftitious, Idolatrous, after the inventions of men , a wi!l-worfiJp , after the rudiments of the world . and not after Cel, i.® Chrift. And here he compaires himfelfe. with thofe three children in the for-nace. whence fjod delivered them, andfo can he him. Miferable Prelate 1 Is he now upon the Scaffold for fuch a caufe,as thofe were in the furnace ? Why, thofe were there, for not obeying the Kings commandment, to bow to his new golden god: but was this .Sifhop now or. the Scaffold, for any fuch difobedience ? Nay, was it not for his too much officioufnefle,and obedience. So that, might he not havefaid,as Cardi-nali Wolfey, Had I fía id htfbeene as care full to feme God,as I have been to ferve the King, I had never come to this death. And for Gods power to deliver, it is not queftioned But his glory was feene in delivering thole three innocent children from the hot fiery furnace: not fo, that he fhould have deliuered fuch a traitor from the blocked when as his Glory called for execution of juftice upon fuch a maIefa fhalhhee run away with it thus in a darkemift; leaving the People to grope at noon day, as in the ALgiptian darknefle? I mofi humbly thank^my Saviour for it íaithhe my refolutio i is non>,SiC. What? Not to for fake the Temple,and Truth of Cjod. O Hypocriín 10 B afphemie! Will hee intereft and itigage Chriil in all his Idolatrous Crucifixes, Crojjes,a(j4The grand Impofiw unmasked, 1Ke> KingJome puniih theeves,and robbers, and murtherers, and traytors? aitjj gut however, he chargeth nothing upon his Judges. Thats well, fc Bat ver had traytor fairer play; and they proceeded , fecundurr. allegatk hat And this is the law of the land. Let that luffice.Buc whom ol- ei(e he layes his charge upon, it matters not; his charge is no bnrthen, tch ,Tor his tongue a ilander. • And though in alegall courfe an Innocent !1- p,ay bee condemned, yet more Nocents are, which hee was to have n* C looked better to. es gQt for all this, hee thanks Chrift, he is quiet wit hits, as ever. O poor ts wretch! What? All this while, noremorfe, noftirring, no fting of 'h confciencc? No awaking of that fleepy Lion? No apprehenlion of Oi- ls vine luftice? Nothing bat a dead Humber, a deep hypocriiie, ordatn- nable Atheifme? I remember how 'Bernard tells usof a bad confctence Confcien-and quiet, which is the moil dangerous and defperat ofall other. thmala,& Among others,hisPvedeceffors(ashecalIs them) he brings in S.Iohn tranquills. i 'Baptifi (as hee ttyles him) whofe head teas danced off by a lewd woman: 1 Anci iurely if hee had been as faithfull, as Ioh i Baptijl was, in repro- ving Herod, and his lewd woman, he might perhaps have been prevented of Iooiing his head for creafon, and might have proved a Saint William for it; did Saint- fhip now a dayes go by vertue,and not by vii-lany, the way that he took And why among the reft,did he not mention his Predeceflor, his S Thomas a B <%f,who (though not judicially) was taken awaj ? He fought,by deprclliog the King and State, to exalt the libertie of theCharch for this, the Tope Sainted him: but king Henry 8 afterward would have him called no longer Saint,but traytor ' But this man thought hiiiifelf no Traytor, becaufe not againft the king As if Treafoh againft the Stace of the Kingdome, and Common-weale, bee not treaion alfo againft the King, by divydingtheone from the other, and cutting the knot,that ftiould knit them together* ZsOath, Covenant, Lawes. But it comforts him, that his charge lookes fomewhat like that of Saint paul, Alls 25 being accufed for Law and Religion; and that ¿»/Stephen ^ Aits 6 A poore comfort, when well conlidered, ahd the account caft Up-And thoughf’dw/fbefore his converiion) was confenting to Stephens death, yethee found Mtrcy afterward, as having done it ignorantly, and confeffing and repenting of it. But this Prelate could not lay, hee perfected the Saints ignorantly, neither would ever co ifeffe thoje perfecting fins of his , nor repent of them) and therefore how could hee finde or hope for mercy at Gods hand, or mans either? Herehee, as impertinently as before,hales in another place of Scripture, and that moil grofly. The Romanes will come, if we let this man *lone. Surely he hath prety well played his part to bring the Romans £ 2 i*tJsl ^ f The grand Imp oft or unmasked, ■a, for hath he not been a maine inftrument to fill the land with I1 a. f$s, and prophane ignorant P rot eft ante s,not ondy by the publifhing o that prophane Boofpffports, lately burned in Chcap-fide , where with the whole land hath been poyfoned, but by (topping the free courie of preachiug Gods Word, cropping oft'both branch and fruit of-all godlinefte, and found knowledge, and by placing his prophane, and Popiihly-aftcded, avaritious, and ambitious, Priefts , and the Court favourites, in all the chief places of the Kingdome? (o as no marvaile it is, ifby the induftry ofthis man, that enemy who hath [owed his /„•S-psi. tares jn every of this kingdome, while men (lept, the pope never had fuch a harveft in England. And furdy never had the Pope fuch a def-perate power, and numerous party in England, and that collected out of all Popifh Countries round about, waging war againftour Lawes and Liberties, Religion and Republicand all to reduce, by folemne and fait league with Rome, England back againe to the Pope, as being one of thofe that are made drunken ith the whoores cup, and doe give up their Kingdome unto the Beajl, who now altogether make warre with the Lamb , and thofe on his fide , called, and chofen, and faithful,l: fo that Popery is that grand Sed, the Grandam of all divilions, efpe-cially of this great one, between King and Kingdome, Head and Bo-die, Husband and Wife, Father and Children; a right BabyloniiL di-vifion, which tends to confufion. But his ajm was againit godly people, who feparatingfrom his Hierarchie, hee brands with feds and divilions; and therein comprehendeth and condemneth,the very body of the kingdome, the which hath cait out both Bifhops, and their Service-book: for which he ityles us all Scds,&c. But I truft God will fo blefle thefeSeds, that they ihall be the Angel with the fharp fickle to cut down the Topes Harveft in this Land, never henceforth to reap any Cor. 6,7*more in England. And as for that place of the Ape file , the Hypocrite doth moflfalfly apply it unto himfelf ,as he doth all other Scripture. For his honour is d ftjOnour, his good report evill,and this deceiver is truly fo, living and dying. Next he tells us what a good Proteftant the King Is. Truly if he be not fo good, as he would have him, the fault is not the Prelates. And what good counfell he hath given him, both his pradifes, and his E-' piitle Dedicatorie before his relation, befides his confcience, can tell. Here he complaines of the City for that faflAon in gathering of hands, and going to the parliament to clamour for juftice, as being a difparage-ment to that great and juft Court, a way to indanger the innocent, and ent blood uptn their orvn, and Cities head. Howf What a dif-¡¿oth he finely caft u^on that great and wife (fourths if any fihould extort from them any ad of injuftice, as thereby it CT\ to/ to ce P-'S 19, Reply, p 37, J « \ ; t0 The grand lmpoflor unmasked. V truth the Lord hath fan me unto you,to fpeahall thefe words in jot* > d.r«.Now could this mail poifibly beleeve,that any in chisCity ihould bc(o (ample, as to beiccve him?Or could he bdeeve,that this Scripture! fliould perl wade the city, or Parliament, Princes aeid People, to do as" the words following declare, ( verf. I 6)Thenfaid the Princes and al the People unto the Pr lefts, and to the Trophetr, This man is not worth) to die-, for he hathfpoken to us in the name of the Lord our Cjodt Here this porcupine ftrikeshimfelfthorow with his own quils.Hdj coin plainer fdr th epoore Church of England-, and that is his Hierarchy! that once flouriflied fa, once the Abbayes and Monafteries did) and] •tv as a fhelter to other neighbouring Churches. What? To the Church o\ Scotland'? wicnefle his reformed Service-books, and his animating thq King with his Army againft them,for carting outfuchmerchants and! merchandife. Or that oflreland, which he had filled with his oArmi.1 nian &fupcrftitious Priefts, and helped to make that land afield of blond,\ a iliambles to butcher thole hundred thoufands of innocent Proteftantl fubjetts-, as good proteftants as himft Ife is,or his confederates, in everie cleft of this filfe-divided Kingdoms, profaneneffe (he faithj' and irreligion hath crept ini Now truely himfelfe was the prime wood-, (layer, that drave in the fa&wedges, and thereby brought in by the head and eares all profaneneffe and irreligion, whichleaking,yea flowing info fail, have well nigh drowned the lliip. But flay, what means this profanenefc and irreligion, which the Prelate here tells us of i* He fhal be his own interpreter. In his delation, in the Epiftle Dedicatorie,hej tells the King faying. Though I cannot propbefieyet lfeare,that Atheif•] me and irreligion gather firength, while the truthis thus weakned by an] unworthy way ofcontending.And p. I 9: The external! worfiAp of God, in his Church,it the great rvitneffe to the world.that our hearts (land right in the fervice of God. Take this away, orbring it into contempt,and what light is there left to ¡bine before men, that they may fee our devotion,and glorifie our Father which isin heaven? The refult is(as the Replyer clear-eth) that the negleff or contempt of his external worfhip, is that- which bringeth in f rofanneffe and irreligion-, that is, Not tofet the face in aright poflure towards the Eaft in our devotion: not to bow to an Altar: not to kneel at the Sacrament not no ufeafaire white Surplice,&blackhood inAd~ minifiratio-.'iot to baptife with the fign of theCroffe-.not to fay fee od fervice &c.ail this flic WSjthat our hearts ft and not right in the fervice of God; that wi'.hout thefe,no light is left to fhine before men,that they may fee oh* devotio, &glorifie ourEather which is in heaven O notorious hypocrifie! O egregious impiety,thus to abufe Scripture, and all true religion! fo as Profpers(\peecb here alleaged by him,hits him full home -.men that intro-Auce profa>tenes(v)hich is done by a falfe religion & Devotion of mans devi- iaauncnc> vThe grand Tmposlor unmasked, v-fan) are cloaked with a name of imagixarie Religion? And whai */o#rdeVJ1 w or flip , but an imaginarie Religion} And if we have in' rc°U,q*"jLr qlmoft loft thefubflance, we may thank his Ceremonies for it: pturg ** por ^ ¿anger the land is now in,threatn'\ng rustic,the Lord prevent nd*/' fr'by the juft r*<« of this man, that hath teen a maine ir.ftrumentall ortl- caufe of it* He comes here to his laft particular,which it> himfclf. He makes a/0* F'S,T? iemne protefiatiou of his religion to be protefiant, but with this limitation preference to the Church of England only, not to other Irotellant churches: for no Proteftaut Churches are Epifcopall, but this. This therefore hee fticks to: in this prohilion he was born, lived, and will tl 'i now die: H. difcUimes the bringing in of Popery into this Land. Now what ihould be the meaning of this myflerie, confidering all his indta-vours and pradiics have tended , and contended, to reduce this his Churchto as neara conformity with Rome , as pcfsibly may bee.? For ?*He chy and the tad sd, me y) u ie t s I (excepting the d ff-.rences in Dodrine ) take the whole Hierarchy, Government, Difcipline, Officers, Services, Ceremonies, Vefiments, and all other implements; we finde the Church of England to bee one and Ded.pag, the fame with that of Rome.as the Prelate affirmeth; for which lee my \6, Reply, from pag<$3 to 69 How then is it true, that hee is no fetter up, Amos 7 tr bringer in ofTopery, as he proteftethi furely two wayes: Firft,be-caufe he found Lome old Rdiques of Rome, in the Kings Chappells, and fome Cathedralls, as an Altar, Images, Adorations,Organ- fervice, Copes, and the like. Therefore he makes a fhift by piecing it out with fome forced interpretations of the Queens Injun Elion s,& with improvement ofthe Service-bookand other viis & modis, to bring in a gencrall conformity to thofe paterns, and that under a fpecious colour of uniformity jj“ a very laudable thing in a kingdomejefpecially Regis ad exemplum,that God and all ihould be of the Kings Religion, or the Religion of his Chappell, e- the king, very Daughter Church to conforme to the JM other, the Cathedral,and thus all being raifed up to one conformity, it came ropafle, that both Ie-luits on the one fide boafted, that the Church of England was turned - Roman, and fome bold Minifters began to tel! tales in the Pulpet, and at laft, to write and publifh bookes of it,though to their coft. This is the Golden leafe wherewith the Prelate hath Gilded over his Fro-See*;« teftation for currant,for which hee flics and layes hold on the Hemes Ofthe Altar, in the Kings fhappell, his mo ft fared SanBuarie. His fia.r‘h3W other, IS a word of Equivocation , which is Fcpcrj. Hee diftmglliih-cth lopery , into Proper and Improper, or lege proper. Popery*taken proper y, is that, whereof the pope is foie Head and Mafteri And ’this is that Popery, which he here proteih th hee never Mended, tofet UP *' *he Chut ch of England,to Vl\t the Hniver-J ta pstp of the Pope,which the Logicians callproprtuns quarto mo-mi ■ m The grand Imp oft or unmasked. oy° ' *s> is proper to the Pope, and only to. the Pope & alway mhothe Pope:*s laughing is faid to be proper to man,alone,&at all tit, * y* ‘The Prelate then would not have fucia a Popery fee up in the Proprttl ) of it, as fhould exalt the P„ over the See of Canterbury, to overtop til Metropolitan of all England,Whzt tben?he would have no other Popl fet up inE ngland,tbta chat only which is leffeproper,or improperly cal UdPopry,or rather a thing that isPopry,but muft not be called Popr And Chat is That the Pope ¡hall be Head,or Bifhop of the Church of Ron and the Archbijbop of Canterbury ¡h all be an independent Primate ar, (Jlietropolitane of all England, and the Pope to have nothing to doe herL but himfelfalone to be D.minus fac totum. Only with this referve, thal this Primate become Pop.’, when timeferves. And it feemes hee takel it as a deed or gift from thcTope, which he gaye to the Prelate predcceA (er.asinfelem, to whom the Tope gave this title, ftyling him, Patrarch\ alterius orbir.theTatriarch or Pope of the other world, meaning England of which th" Romane Poet writ of old, Et pemttts toto divifos orbe Bri\ tannos. Andthus, it feemes, it defended upon the Succeflbrs of Can* terbury by an hereditarieright from the Pope. And therefore not with-p> out caufe doth the Prelate make mention hereofin his Relation, telling See Reply us that a Patriarch is above a Primate-,Co expert was he in the learning png. ’.63, of Ecclefiafiicall Heraldry for Titles,and Degrees, And thus we come tc uuderftand what he means by making profefs'ion of the Proteftant Relii gionofthe (fhurch of England-,miT\rdy that this Religion is not Popert properly taken, but only improperly as hath been faid. So as herein Wfl may give credit to his words in (ome feijfe, both For himfelfand hq friends, whom he fo highly magnifies Cor good ProteBants oftheChurck of England. This is that true Proteftant Religion which they fo much proteft by bookjor crool^ to maintaine. Touching his treafon in fubvming theLaws,& perverting ofReligioti it matters not for all his proteftations,that he never intended,but tvei abhorred it; for all things were clearly, and fully proved in Court a-gainft him. His proteftations of his intnoccncy have been too well] known, as well as others what credit they dderve. A man commits! many Murthers , and pleads he abhores to be a nrurtherer. Hee kills,I flayes,(laughters innocent,Proteftant Subfeils,andprotefts he intends] the maintenance of the true Proteftant Religion. Will this hold gooc in La w? or yet in the Court of Confidence? For his contempt of Parliaments,this was alfo proved agatnft himjanc he here in part coofetfeth ic. And in the clofe.he forgives all the world] He cryes th'uffirft, calling all his perfecutors his oitter enemies.He] forgives them, he faich, but hegiveth them a cruell dafh,calliag them bitter enemies, who did but in alcgall way, and juftcauieprofecute hiepjttifull fhuflingis hers ? Here is a generaJl asking of forgiven effe:bu.t for fvhac? here is .no acknowledgement of any fin againft God, or of any one 'M Offence or injury to any man. And that all may plainly fee how this Hy-e, pocrite and Impoftor playes moeje-holy-day , hee askes forgiveneiT of c-at very man,whether he hath offended him or no. Why?what needs forgivenes, -s when no offence given or taken. Butfaithhe, if he do but conceive that r. jhftve.Gh tender heart! But here he would make the world beleeve,that <1 non can challenge him for wrong,unlefle in conceit only, tis but a conceit d that men nav e.onely,that the good B ifhop of Canterbury thou Id dee cite - leaft wrong to any man living. For .what fay you to that fpeech of hi» „ in his Relation to the King ? God forbid, l fhould ever offer to perfwade a -j perfecutiouijt ahj kinde,or prattife it in the leaft. Tis but a conceit then j i that the prelate of Canterbury fhould bee either a perfecutor or a per-? I Jtvader thereunto, A conceit,that he fhould perfwad,tbat the terrible cen-■ i fure in the Star-Chamber againft thofc his three hitter me? (as hee calls them ) (houldbe executed to the Httermofi, although he left them to the Kings jujlice, A conceite, that hee fhould ufe the leaft meanes to pro-merit the Judges a little before the cenfute, though he made a great feaft a t Lambeth. A conceit, that he fhould be an inftrument of perfection,to whom poore petitioners to the King, about the booke of fports, were referred for mercie. where none could be had or hoped for. And thus he concludes, Lord,doe thou forgive me,and Ibegge forgivenes of him. Of whom ? Of one, whether I have offended him or no,if he do but conceivetbat lhave. What juggling is here ? Nofparke of ingenuity, or truth in all this, nor all along. Well,but what then «* So (faith he)/ heartily defire you to joyn with me in prayer. Nay flay, He fhould bave^remembred that faying of Chrift. Alatth. 5 23.24. If thou bring thy gift before the Altar, and their remembreft that thy brother hath ought againft thee, leave there thy gift before the Altar,and goe thy way firft, be reconciled to thy brother, andthen come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine Adverfarie quiclfy Crc. NoW the Trelat here brings his gift to the Altar, he hath a Prayer in his hand in ftead of his v heart to offer: but he fhould remember, that not one brother, but many have great, and grievous things againft him, Therefore before hee read his Prayer, he fhould have rubb’d up his old ruftie memo fie, and called for thoie who had many things Againft him, and have made his peace with them. He fhould have called for all thofe Preachers,whom he had C wickedlythe Pope,, «TTheJVi *- The grand Imp oft or unmasked. Mr. JVardy&ic. He fhould have called for all thofe godly preachers an Chriftians whom his bioudy crueltv caufed to fl.e into the Deferts of A merica, as Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hooter,Mr.T>avenport, Mr. Peter,with m* ny thoufands more. He lliould have called for all thefe Congregations whofe foules he had famifhedby taking away their godly teachers, the bloud pfwhofe foules werefound to bee upon his skirts, and under his wings.He lliould have called for all thole whom he had moll: cruelly and agatnft all juftice caufed to be imprifoned, pillaryed, ear-cropped, branded, whipped, fined, confined to perpetual! clofe imprifonment,& that in perpetuallbanilhment from their native Countrcy, from fociety of wives, children, friends, acquaintance, common light andaire, and what not ? As Mr. William Pryn, Doftor Baftwicke, Henry Burton, Doctor Leigh ton,bit. John Lilbume ,NathanaelWtckins, all which, with many more, indured intollerable, inhumane, and moft barbarous ufage intheir priions and perfons. Thefe, thefe fhould he have called for to have made his peace with them, by at leaft acknowledging his extream wronging of them, as having beene the prime inftrumenta/I caufe hereof, though otherwife he could never make them reftitution for their ears, nor fatisfa&ion for their Ioffes. But he fhould have done to the utter-moft what lay in his power,before he lliould go onfo defperatly to cff;r his Sacrifice of prayer at Gods Altar. He fhould have put it laft I/and And whether he had offended any, or no, as if any did but conceive fo. But fo far was he from fhewing the leaft ingenuity, or from having the leaft dram ofgrace,as that he refufed to be ipoken withall by any whom .he had wronged, much lelfe would he acknowledge the leaft offence done to any,either ihhislife,ornowat his death. But as a man bereft of his comon fenfe.Sjftript ofhis underftanding,benumbd with a lethargy, fenfeleiTe,brutifh,blinde, obdurate,he perlifts in his Diabolicall impe-nitencie,acknovvledging not the leaft offence to Man in all his Life, of which to repent,hoping therby after hisL eath to merit this Infcription Upon his T ombe, Here lyes the moft innocent Archbifhop of Canterbury. But now can hee not beecontenc to die in his ovvnefins, but he muft heartily deftre the people to joyne with him in his moft hypocritlCall,deadi lame,blind prayer,that he brought with him in his hand,as a pricein the fools hand,but he wants a heart ? Had he not fufficiently captivated the people to 1'urh blind devotion by his Service-BookJPraycrsI And had noe / thisold Arch-prelate in all the time he lived,got one prayer atleaftby heart,though he wanted grace in his heart,&GhriftsSpirit,even the Spirit of grace and fuppiication(which for any evidence he h ath given, hee neverJl*p The %rand Impojfar tifinuisked, •0iJWr had in-all his life) to powre forth one true figh of godly. at his death ? Here be many godly words indeed compiled f<7^'her but all will not make up one 0/fW«&,being but as a du rs 3 image without life and breath, or like Cafars Sacrifice without a heart, 'of 'which was taken for a prefageof death,as proved true the fame day. hn: ^gaine, ihould the people become accHTarie to all the.hypocrifie,dif- r, c'fimulation,aud impenitency of this wretched man, who would|wra]bpe s, b up all his villanies committed in & againft the date of this Kingdpme, md, & au Gods faithful! people therein, by )«yning with him in fuch a god-uei; |e(yC} fpirit-leiTe Prayer, even the dead carcaife of a prayer, a blinde and petf lame facrifice, which the Lord abhorreth, aijd forbids tp be offered? it,< Betides, as the whole prayer for the frame of it, is not an incenfe ac-iet cording to Chrifts fpirit,but patched and made up of fundrie ingredi-a«, ents of a moft hypocriticall fpirit, which makes the whole prayer to be \°'i, a very packe of lies, and fo, abominable before God : fo there are fome 'ifii paiiages in it,fogroffe and palpable,as any one that hath the leaftfpark age of Gods fpirit, may difcover plainly to be monftrcus falfe. As 1. That " tc he hath a heart ready to die for Cjods honour: and yet he mill not cor.feffe any 3fl! one particular wickedntffe, that he might with Ach an give glory to God. re- 2. For the Kings happinejje: when if either he counfelled the King to all rs, thofe courfes, lb deftrudive both to himfelfand kingdome; or if hee by :r* obeying the Kings command, in being aa adive inftr.ument of all thole l-r cruell opprelfions perpetrated by him, upon the innocent lubj’ejds, and id exorbitant, illegal!, violent, tyrannicallinvafions upon the j'uft lawes 3, of the Kingdome, and naturall liberties of thefubjed, bee thus by the le lawes of the Kingdome, and a due proceeding therein, brought to this, n juft penall death : furely this can little make for the Kings happineffe; e unleffe the cutting off of fuch limbes as theie, and fo of this adive inftru-i ment ofmifchicf in particular, may bee a meane-sto procure the Kings , happineffe, in cafe fuch heads fo cut off, prove not the heads of the Romans Hydra, which upon the cutting off of one head, puts forth two, untill the whole Lema-Lake fhall be quite drained and dryed up ; o-therwife, he, whofe life hath but a little advanced the Kings happineffe, can give but little hope of railing it by fuch a death,the juft reward of a taaitour. Thirdly,for this Churches prefervation,by which he alwayes «»• derftand his Hierarchies or the Protefiant Religion of the Church of Fng-land( as before) there cannot be a more Cure Omen of the utter ruine of that, as whofe Primate is cut effby the Hatchet of Juilice in the Hangmans hand. Againe, he boldly tels God, that his zeal to thefe three, is all the fin, which he ttysorves is yet kno tone of him in this particular of Trerfott. Did his zeale then fo far tranfport him, as to wade fo deep through foma- ........... - C a ... “ f Deut, ry it Exod. 30Tte grand lmb0(to. >0, that is,Cuch ** , the Pot>a y ' ' "YAndifhpoJlor unmasked. treafon to the State, aj to play theTraitor for tht honour **•"/,Purely God will not be honoured with any fuch fervice. ' And as for his zeal to the Kings happineffe, no marvaile if it were fiery,as to become an Ineendiarie to the State,aftd all for theprefervatti of this his Church, which could not he preferred, but with the txtrear, hazzard, if not utter mine of three Kingdoms s ; fo as fuch a prefervatiol purchafed at fo dear a rate, could be as little for the Kings honour,as fo| his happirujje, when three Kingdomes fhould father w-f/fir in their owj blond, then t he ‘Prelaticall kingdom fhoiild not re allot» in all its pomp am plcajure : and indeed the zeal hereof in all ages, hath been that, wliicf hath fet the Kingdomes of the Earth in fuch horrible combuflions,as at length it hath grbwne to be a Proverb of the Prelates own making, Nt BiJljop, no King : and fo, No BifbopHcifer Bijhopdome, no Kingdome. He p’rayes alfo, that there may be a ftoppe of that ifjuc of blond, in this more then miferable Kingdome. Here it may be qtieflioned what he means by this if He of blond. If he meane the flopping of the courfe of Jnflice, in cutting o/fuch Traitors as himfelf: this is to pray that this more then miferable Kingdome, may bemademore thenmofl miferable. Ifhe mean the flopping of the new ¡flue ofbloud,that is and hath been fhed'by this intefline and unnatural! war,whereby the Bealls power leeks to deflroy the Lambs Kingdome with his called, and chofen, and faithfull people : This (Kouldextreamely aggravate, and make the fin of this Prelate out ofmeafure finfull, as who hath been one prime inflrument and bloudy a-gent to procure all this bloud-fhed. But that whichfofloweth, fiirpaiTeth all tranfcendency of the malice afid wlckedncfle of hell it felf. 1 fhalldeftre (faith he) that I may praj for the people too, as rvell as for my felf ; O Lprd, I befeech thee give grace of repentance to all people, that have a thirftftr blond, but if they will not repent,then fcatter their devices,&c. Here I. he makes it plain, that what he prayed before, was for himfelf,and his party,and that the//«? ofblcud bn his part might be flopt; as before. The maine of his prayer is, to lay the guilt ofall the bloud that hath been fhed in this war, upon the' Parliament and people, Specially this City that Hand for their Rights, as a people that thirftfor bloud: whereof if they repent not,that then their devices may be fcattered, as being contrary to Cjodsglory,the truth andJifn-cerity of Religion ( to wit) of Poperie, (as before is fhewed) to the cfla-blipment of the King and his P a ft critic after him in their )ufl Right and Priviledges (to wit) in an Arbitrary & tyrannical government,whereby the Tyrannic all Prelacy,the truth andftneerity of the Popifts Religion,may be fupported and maintained : for which very caufe all this bloudy war hath been raifed and continued in Ireland and England,wherein fo many - - - -............- hundred9*r > ôr; The grand Jmpoflor unmasked. • «A»* thoufands of innocent people & loyill Sub jt¿Is have bee hundred t murthered, and for no other cauie, but that they baretK Mr° fttoteftants.only not (uch Proteftants as could be hoped to pro* f rtferiieW»* F rat (fiant Religion of the prefect Church of England, thetrutli and finceritie of which Religion is Popery, improperly lo called, as be- ' *-Sds : f°r h°*ofir AT,d confervation of Parliament, tie their ancient ahdjufipower. Note here: never a prayer in particular for this prelent Parliament, butfor Parliaments in general!, and that alfo with a limitation, in their auncient and juft power.And what is that ? namely fc far re as ftandeth with the Kings Prerogative; according to that new claufe lately foyfted into the Kings Oath at his Coronation, by the Le-cérde*mainof this Jligler, togoverne his people according to the Laws,and maintaine theirrights and liberties-.But with this Proviio,fofar as fiands rrith the Kings Prerogative. Which Leger-de-main was one of thole Charges proved againft the Prelate in the Honourable houfe of Peeres, foasin thefe words, ancient and jufipower, doth lur be a great deale of Terpentine deceit ; that all this ancient and juft power comes to Juft nothing, further then with reference unto, and dépendance upon the Kings Prerogative. Such are the flic equivocations, and mentallrefervations of this fnbtile ferpent all along in this his pretended prayer, wherein he thus defperately daliyeth with God and men. Then, For the prefervation of this poore Church inker truth,peace, and patrimonie. This poore Church, to wit, the late and yet proud Prclacie: her truth, fuch as is regulated by her Canons, with an Et catera : her Peace for which fhe hath caufed troubles and war in thofe Kingdomes : her t Patrimony,apart, of Peters Patrimonie, for the fupport of hex truth and peace. That which this Prelate in his Relation of a conference, tooke all that paines about for the blejfedmeeting of truth andpeace, (as he calls it,) in reconciling of Rome and England together, as he profeffeth throughout his book, a!nd in the very laft page and words thereof. * He adds, tAnd the feulement of this difirafted and difirefied people, &c, Whatfoever he prayes here, is with reference to the truth, peace,andpa-trimonie of his poore Church, and therefore it is added with a Copulative, and. thefetlement,&c. And hereunto he addes another, isfndvt hen all this is done, 'that then they may be thanhfull, with religions dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements. Here they muft take notice, that there is no filch blef-fmg,for which to be thankful!,' as the upholding of the Prelates Prote-.ftant Religion : When this is done, then fill their heat ts with thankefulnefie, "But how can dutifull obedience to Cods Commandments, and to Prelati- C J4 N >¡>•4.» i nvick* ' Thtgr.indImpojtor unmafked. tjseif w,-, is all Comm.iniemcnts, Hand together'' For what more contra > pscn'U oppoftteone to the other, then Chriils Commandements to Antu chrifts? We have had woefull experience hereof. Chrift commands to bn-*.* preach the Word in feafou, and out of feafou: the Prelates forbid Lectures on wee Ice day».s, and Sermons in the afternoone on Lords dayes. God commands to > vorfiphim in fpirit and truth'. Prelates comman to worth ip God by hum me forme, by Images, by Adorations fowar' the Halt, with many other fuperftitious Ceremonies of mans deviling* God commands his Sabboths or Lords dajes to be fanPHftd-. Prelates fufpend Minifters for not reading the book for profane [ports on rhefe dayes, with infinite more. He doles all, with a Lord receive myfouleto mercy: adding; Our fa* thcr. &c. Now what hath an unpeniant hard hearted hypocrite to do with mercy ? all that he hath here prayed, or rather babied out ofa paper, is but meerly to delude the people, and to xnocke God even to his face. Never came there fach a forlorne and formidable fpeiftacle upon ftage or Scaffold, to aft the hy pocrits part,fo that,as he was a feducer Sc deceiver all his life time: fo hee will dye. The reply to the Relation hath fet him forth in his colours long before, prophecying of his curfid end, which we lee now fulfilled , as alio of the terrible judgements and calamities that fhould fall upon his Prelaticall Clergy of England, together with his Protefiant Religion, alia: Popery, though but improperly Co called. He coinplainesfor want of Room to dye,-which he needed not,for he had too much Room, that brought him to die. I hefeech you ( faith heJ let me have an end of this miferie. For all this half, he ihould have laid a better and furer foundation to build his hope upon, for freedome from a future mifery, both infinite, iudurable, and extreamly intollerable, then yet we have feen in him. Nor could he finds a word in Scripture tofa-tisfie Sir John Clothrvorthies queftion, for any aiTurance that he had of a better life. And juft was it with God the righteous judge .that as hee tditioii was agreatdecryerand vilifier of the Scripture, as The light which is in n.^o.u.S x Scripture it felfe , is not bright enough, it cannot beare fujficient witnes to it -4.85,lee felfe: That the beliefe of St ipture to be the word of God depeudeth primarily upon the authority and tradition of the prefent Church. That it is a candle r. hich hath no light till it be lighted, which is firjl by the tradition of thepre* fent Church. That notwithftanding thofe and many more moil groife dirig it ions from the felfe futficiencie, authorise and light of Scripturs to demonftrate it felfe to be the word of God, he faith hee hath given to the Scripture enough : and more then enough , &c. Juft (I fay ) was it with God, that this wretched Prelate, for fo vilifying, yea annihilating the lepty, p, '4. ¿Of ii. S7 Pr n:eJ 164o. Ri-ply. .101 The grand Impoflor unmasked rfce ibfficiency of Scripture-light, ihould be left altogether much light, as to light him to io much as one place of Script^ micht minifter unto him feme folidc comfort at the houre cf his d£3 Aslome Milefaftors trufting to their nech-verf, when they came befon^^ the Judge, were net able to read one word of the book. A nd though he faid to Mr John, that that word was the knowledge o foetus C Ini ft, raid that alone: yet this gracelefTe wretch was never ac quainted witli this knowledge of JefusChrift. For he was a perpetual! emmie to Jefus Chrif},a cruell periecutor of his Saints, a hater of his Word, an opprtfl'or of the pi.il. power ofgodlinefle, where ever he found it. This wretch never knew Jefus Ohrid in the power of his refurre iechat is. Ci n.tôth' 'V tJ.4 - - *;. (.-*«■) ^ .... The rgundbnfojlor unmasked, - - andfquandcrttb the t.ifint of bus Flrength and wit 1 ear flint x'i * >d friends, to the d. fho'iour of Godwin opprefifing Chriftt Word -s'ul xnng his fervhnts and m-mbers , profaning and polluting thefervicl V, Sty'Godwitb fupe flstiom ’rive uiansofmri, and IVill worfbip, forcing me# confidences toco for-nitie, u :»g all ern- lire, even to blond, and the like ;i with Lord have mercy upon me, without any more adoe,ferve the turn? nA ftlve all again > But where is your heartie repentance, for all your ScdrtJ ’« let and Epifbopalljins ? your high Commijftou fins} jour Star-chamber\ fins ? your Conn fell table fins} Nay, is not your foule confidence fillfeaA red and (lupified ? is not your heart filll hardened } O ftupid confidence ? ? O defperate foule ? O fbamtleffe hypocrite ? O blafphetnous wretch } D oft thou thank^God, to make him the author of all thy impietie, iniquitie,cruelty, craftj hypocrifie, and dijfiimulation, of thy fiaithleffie andfalfie heart, in thy plotting to bring thy fialfie truth aid thy turbulent peace with the tVhore of Babylon ( that notorious enemte of Chrifi, and of hie true Spoufe. his Church') to a meeting, a bleffed meeting, yea, to a curfed meetingb This is that peace and truth, which you contend for, for the procuring and meeting whereof, all truth frail be corrupted, and peace perturbed not ^ onely in the Churches, hut in Civillfiates and Ki'gdimes , when for-the , maintenance of your T fr to repent of any evil, as his hacher the Dcvili, 3n inveterate adversary to Chrifi,1 and ill true C'hciihans, ah undeyminef of the Civil ftace, a T nut or to hiS.C.opntrey, w.lfallÿ ijinning hisownc foul, to fave the crédité ofnis curfed caufc,fea!;ng w.th hisbloudthc iCqgs pact, w«b Romes, to be righteous, and the I’atliaments odious, tint fo he might be as unlike t» Satnpfon, as poiftblc, to do as much ( if not more) mifehiefe to his native C oaintrey at his death, as hce had done in his life , and therefore worthie to have died theharicientdea Svof parricides, or Traitors to then Countr y, which theanctencRomaacsu&d, tobc fowed'up in a Cullens o'r -îeathep fuit, an Irait into the w .tec, and there to pcrifli, as tinworihy to touch culler ehe earths or water, or ay e, as Natures out- caft. » ^ FINIS, .