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<P>THE FULL VIEW OF Canterburies fall, From POP deliver us all.</P>
<P><HI>Grace, and no grace, Hath wrought thy di&s;grace.</HI></P>
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<L>My head that wrought all mi&s;ery</L>
<L>is &s;mitten off, as you may &s;ee,</L>
<L>You Prelats be warned by me,</L>
<L>the reward of evill ju&s;t you &s;ee</L>
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<L>Laud &s;ought applaud,</L>
<L>but ju&s;tice turnd the wheele.</L>
<L>Had&s;t thou been good,</L>
<L>thou had&s;t been graced &s;till</L>
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<L>O' Canterbury,</L>
<L>had you had grace</L>
<L>For to beware</L>
<L>this preaching place,</L>
<L>Then had you better</L>
<L>provd to be,</L>
<L>And prai&s;es gaind</L>
<L>eternally.</L>
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<P>A Briefe EXPOSITION, PARAPHRASE, OR INTERPRETATION, UPON THE Lord of Canterburies Sermon or Speech, upon the la&s;t Pulpit that ever he preached, which was the Scaffold on Tower-hill.</P>
<P>Al&s;o, upon the Prayer which he u&s;ed at the &s;ame time and place before his Execution.</P>
<P>Written by <HI>William Starbucke</HI> Gentleman, to give the people a glimmering of the Bi&s;hops hypocri&s;ie.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>MATTH. 7.15.</HI></BIBL> Beware of fal&s;e Prophets which come to you in &s;heeps cloathing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PROVERB. 26.24.</HI></BIBL> He that hateth di&s;&s;embling with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him: when he &s;peakes faire believe him not, for there are &s;even abominations in his heart.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON</HI> Printed for <HI>William Starbuck.</HI> 1645.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Chri&s;tian READER.</HEAD>
<P>_CHri&s;tian Reader, I know your expectations, or your de&s;ires by your Queres, Que&s;tions, An&s;wers, and Objections; or rather indeed by many of your di&s;tractions: to wit, What do you think of my Lord of <HI>Can|terbury</HI> his Speech or Ser|mon? how did you like it? To which Queres, Que|&s;tions, An&s;wers, Objections, and Di&s;tractions, I will give as briefe an an&s;wer as I may, for the&s;e rea&s;ons: fir&s;t, in regard of my little time; for things in this na|ture require ha&s;t. Secondly, of my unability, for there
<PB N="2" REF="4">is &s;uch deepe my&s;teries, as Latine, and other &s;entences, that I and many more cannot finde out the depth of it in a &s;hort time, and it may be never, in regard of his hy|pocri&s;ie. Thirdly, too
<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Eccl. 12.</NOTE> much writing or reading is a wearine&s;&s;e both to the writer and reader.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, what doe you thinke of his Sermon or repen|tance? my skill or under&s;tanding deceiveth me, if <HI>Judas</HI> his repentance were not as good, and <HI>Achans,</HI> if not both rather better: for <HI>Judas</HI> confe&s;&s;ed a particu|lar &s;in, not onely, <HI>I have &s;inned,</HI> but, I <HI>have &s;inned in betraying the
<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">Mat. 27.4.</NOTE> innocent blood. Achan</HI> likewi&s;e, not, <HI>I am a &s;inner,</HI> or onely, <HI>I have &s;inned again&s;t the Lord;</HI> but, thus and thus have I done, <HI>I &s;aw a Babyloni&s;h garment, and two wedges of Gold, and I coveted them.</HI> In doing this, the Text &s;aith, <HI>he gave glory, unto the
<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Io&s;h 7.19, 20</NOTE> Lord God.</HI> But how many of the Saints of God &s;tood and &s;ate looking with their eyes, and hearing with their eares, and de|&s;iring with their prayers, that God would, if it were his will, give him repentance, who&s;e innocent blood he had been the arch &s;piller of, &s;ome of them, or their friends; witne&s;&s;e Ma&s;ter <HI>Burton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Prynne,</HI> Doctor <HI>Ba&s;twicke,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Lilburne,</HI> be&s;ides the man that was put to death as a Traytor, for him, which it may be &s;aw the &s;pilling of his, &s;ome of them: how many were
<PB N="3" REF="4">there; nay rather, how many thou&s;ands, which &s;ome of them he had been the arch impri&s;oner of; <HI>laying waite for the
<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Prov. 14.15.</NOTE> righteous, and &s;poiling them of their re&s;ting place,</HI> cau&s;ing them to flie from one Pari&s;h to another, one Towne to another, one City to another; nay, from one Land to another, many into <HI>New-England,</HI> &s;ome to the <HI>We&s;t-Indies,</HI> and other places of the World: which of any of all the&s;e heard this Merchant, or great man of the earth, which by his policy robd and deceived the Nations, waxing rich by his &s;orceries, to confe&s;&s;e any &s;inne or &s;innes, to
<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 18.17.</NOTE> re|&s;tore any pledge or pledges, either publiquely, or pri|vately; aske M^i^s. <HI>S.I.</HI> and others, which have been with him, and then judge of my thoughts; and parallel <HI>Juda&s;es</HI> and <HI>Achans</HI> repentance, and then tell me, which of them is the wor&s;t: and now, as in a wilder|ne&s;&s;e, not knowing how to get out, I end my Epi&s;tle, and begin to &s;u&s;pend my thoughts upon his Speech or Ser|mon; and where I come too &s;hort, I refer you to Ma&s;ter <HI>Prynnes, Deeds of darkne&s;&s;e,</HI> which I heare &s;ay is comming forth, if it be not already.</P>
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<BIBL><HI>HEBREVVES 12.1, 2.</HI></BIBL>
<Q>Let us run with patience the race that is &s;et before us, looking unto Je&s;us the Author and fini&s;her of our faith, who for the joy that was &s;et before him indurd the Cro&s;&s;e, de&s;pi&s;ing the &s;hame, and is &s;et down at the right hand of the Throne of God.</Q>
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<HEAD>The VVriters Apology.</HEAD>
<P>_GOod people, my Apology is, as my Lord &s;aith in a nother ca&s;e, that you would pardon my boldne&s;&s;e, if I follow the Prophets expre&s;&s;i|ons to the prie&s;ts of <HI>Baall,</HI> who&s;e Sermon I have heer to deale with, although as &s;eldom as I may which was ironically &s;poken: cry aloud, it may be he is in a journey, or a&s;leepe; which was the preachers practice to both young and old, <HI>Rejoyce young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the wayes of thy heart,</HI> (as he did) <HI>and in the &s;ight of thine eyes: but for all the&s;e things God will bring thee unto judgement.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Bi&s;hops Apology.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, before my Lord begun his Sermon he de&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ed the good people to pardon his old memory, but by right he &s;hould have craved pardon when he was younger, for his memory was as ill to be tru&s;ted then as now, but at that time he granted out &s;o many pardons to others, and ab&s;olutions, that he forgot his own, or el&s;e it &s;lipt out of his memory; but it may be, he had it from the Pope long &s;ince, and then it might be in his Study or in &s;ome little blacke box, and &s;o as &s;afe as his own Licence or the re&s;t of the prie&s;ts, that was made by him or his &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P>Secondly, he told us upon what oca&s;ion he came thither, included in the&s;e words, <HI>I am come;</HI> he came indeed, but he mu&s;t needs come when he could not tell how to helpe it; for had not the Sheriffes and their Officers, according to an Ordinance of Parliament, brought him thither, as <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> &s;aid in another ca&s;e, &s;o &s;ay I, you &s;hould not have &s;eene his face that day, e&s;pecially upon, or in that pulpit.</P>
<P>Thirdly, he &s;aid he mu&s;t make u&s;e of his paper; he dare not tru&s;t him&s;elfe otherwi&s;e: but for my part I thin he he never had a &s;tronger motive to &s;tir up his memory, &s;o that if he had never preached but upon a paper all hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> life before, he might have throwne away his paper then except his Sermon had been longer, but he that hath not the Spirit to depend upon, to bring things into his memo|ry, and hath not a mouth and wi&s;dome given him from God, he mu&s;t needs tru&s;t to &s;omething, let him tru&s;t to his paper.</P>
<P>Fourthly, and la&s;tly he &s;aith, <HI>good people,</HI> but he leaves out all, you know what he meanes, <HI>that is an uncomfor|table
<PB N="7" REF="6">place to Preach in.</HI> I grant it, for if no afflictions are joyous to the gooly for the pre&s;ent, then much more no puni&s;hments to the wicked, for the prophet &s;aith <HI>no peace
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> &s;peaketh my God to the wicked:</HI> be&s;ides to preach glad ti|dings unto others and his own Funerall Sermon, it was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> an uncomfortable time, but the place was good enough&punc; for he never had more roome, (had the &s;caffold been but empty) nor yet a greater audience of people; &s;o much for his Apology, now I come to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ex <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.1.2.</P>
<P>As his memory was not to be tru&s;ted to, but his paper, and his place very uncomfortable, &s;o his time was very &s;hort, for he wanted time, otherwi&s;e he would have de|vided his Text; but to &s;how his &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">holler&s;hip in too many places, (though it would not have charged his memory, yet his paper,) being charged in the 7. 10. 13. 14, 18, 19. pages too much Latine, except it had bin all interpreted, or el&s;e he mighth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ve been affraid of this word <HI>us:</HI> for this word <HI>us</HI> would have &s;hewed, that it was meant the &s;aints, and not Traitors or impenitent Malefactors, for the cloud of witne&s;&s;es before u&s;ed, were &s;uch as were per&s;ecuted by &s;uch as him&s;elfe, them&s;elves being no per&s;ecuter; He &s;aith he hath bin long running the Race, I canno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ay &s;o, a Race, but not the Race: for if he had begun, Chri&s;t which was the Author, would have him the fini&s;her, or if he had bin the fini&s;her, he would have fini&s;hed his worke better, therefore you &s;ay well, you are come to the end of your owne Race. You &s;ay that the &s;hame mu&s;t be de&s;pi&s;ed, or el&s;e there is no comming to the crowne, I had thought the crowne had bin come to by the free grace of God, and &s;ufferings and effect, in tho&s;e which have received the a&s;&s;urance, but now I &s;ee your Arminiani&s;m and your gene|rall Redemntion although you have kept it clo&s;e, you tell us he hath de&s;pi&s;ed the &s;hame for you, then Chri&s;t hath
<PB N="8" REF="7">died for all, and if he died for all, then all &s;hall be &s;aved, <HI>Indas</HI> &s;hare and yours is as good as the re&s;t of the Di&s;|ciples, and he de&s;pi&s;ed the &s;hame for Chri&s;t though he cru|cified him. He &s;aith, <HI>that be is going apace toward the red Sea, his feet being upon the brink, and it is an argument, that God is bringing him to the Land of promi&s;e, and that he in&s;tituted a Pa&s;&s;over for them;</HI> &s;o <HI>Pharaoh</HI> was going a pace toward the read &s;ea when he per&s;ecuted the children of I&s;rael; a poore argument that ever he &s;hould come to the land of <HI>Canaan,</HI> but he was drowned in the &s;ea again&s;t his wil, &s;o you, whil&s;t your chariot wheels were on, but now you are come to the red Sea again&s;t your will, &s;o as <HI>Pharaoh</HI> and all his ho&s;t were drowned, your head hath bin chopt off, and your red bloud run about the &s;caffold: but I&s;rael pa&s;&s;ed thorough dry&s;hod and triumphed over <HI>Pharaoh</HI> and all his Ho&s;t, as the &s;aints do now over you, your head being chopt off; the Pa&s;&s;over was in&s;tituted but for I&s;rael, and the Lord pa&s;t them by, but the fir&s;t borne of <HI>Pharaoh</HI> were all &s;laine; &s;o God hath pa&s;&s;ed by tho&s;e which you have per&s;ecuted, and you are catched in the &s;ame &s;nare; <HI>Hagaion &amp; &s;elah.</HI> As for your dige&s;ting the &s;oure Herbs, you mu&s;t whether you will or no: and for your being not angry; it is becau&s;e your Horns be cut off, the day hath been, when you would not have been well plea&s;ed with the hearing tell of &s;uch &s;oure and bitter Herbs: and though you were a chiefe Bi&s;hop you mi&s;take Chri&s;ts example, <HI>for when hee prayeth that the Cup might pa&s;&s;e from him,</HI> he prayeth &s;o, that the people might under&s;tand him, and the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>bee will pray with the &s;pirit and with under&s;tanding al&s;o: el&s;e how could they that occupied the roome of the unlearned &s;ay Amen?</HI></P>
<P>In the next place you &s;ee, though he had &s;ome faith &s;uch a one as it was; that I&s;rael was &s;aved and their enemies
<PB N="9" REF="7">drowned, and the three Children freed from the fiery fur|nace, and they that put them in burned, &s;o that he &s;hould be delivered, and they which hee &s;uffered under &s;hould &s;uffer them&s;elves; but hee wanted a Revelation for that. He told us al&s;o, that his re&s;olution was as the three Chil|drens, and not to wor&s;hip the Image which the King had &s;et up: telling us that the people had &s;et up their ima|ginations, &s;aying, that he would not for&s;ake the Tem|ple and Truth, <HI>to follow the bleating of Ierobvames Calves in Dan and Bethell;</HI> you &s;ee his thoughts of the erecting wor&s;hip, but hee &s;ayd nothing of the bleating of the Sheepe, and the lowing of the Oxen, which where in <HI>Pauls</HI> and many other places puld downe by Order of Par|liament; though formerly reedified by him&s;elfe. <HI>He pray|ed that God would open the Peoples eyes, that they might &s;ee the right way, for if the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch,</HI> it was well con&s;idered, for he had led &s;o many into the ditch him&s;elfe, that except they &s;ee a righter way then he led them, will not get out in ha&s;t.</P>
<P>And as for his Repentance looke into the Epi&s;tle to the Reader, but behold what a foule heart he had: for after he had ran&s;aked it hee found no &s;innes there (they being hid as <HI>Saul</HI> was among&s;t the &s;tuffe,) that de&s;erved Death by any ju&s;t Lawes of this Kingdome: here is worke for the Parliament, he meanes it may be repealing worke, though he cleares the Judges with his mouth, yet there might be &s;even abominations in his heart, for I am &s;ure hee con|demns the witne&s;&s;es, and leaving Chri&s;t, he takes comfort in <HI>Elfegus;</HI> you &s;ee that hee keeps his Supremacy &s;till, as the Pope, which &s;aith, that he is Chri&s;ts Viegerent upon Earth, forgetting what Chri&s;t &s;aid to his Apo&s;tler, <HI>let him that it chiefe among&s;t you be your &s;ervant: call no man Lord, for one is your Lord which is Ie&s;us Chri&s;t; bee not Lords
<PB N="10" REF="8">over Gods heritage;</HI> you &s;ee hee tumbles good cau&s;es and bad together, and good per&s;ons and bad together: daub|ing up his comforts with <HI>Iohn</HI> the Bapti&s;t, <HI>Paul,</HI> and <HI>Ste|ven,</HI> and with ancient Fathers, as the Papi&s;ts his Bre|thren doe.</P>
<P><HI>He &s;aid al&s;o that the Pope had never &s;uch a Harve&s;t in his life,</HI> but if it &s;hould come to the Popes care, he would give him little thanks for his report; if Heading, Hanging, Draw|ing and Quartering, cutting off Archbi&s;hops hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s be &s;uch a harve&s;t, he will not medle with it, take th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> who will.</P>
<P>You &s;ee al&s;o what a favorite hee was to the King, and and how he knowes his mind; and who was his coun&s;ellor or <HI>Achitophel;</HI> but I remember <HI>Pharaoh</HI> he &s;aw it plea&s;ed the people and &s;o he proceeded further.</P>
<P>Citizens cleare your &s;elves, for you are taxed by my Lords Booke for going to the Parliament, to cry out for Ju&s;tice, and there is Scripture again&s;t you&punc; &s;o that by con|&s;equence for this great crime you wil bring innocent bloud on your &s;elves, but it may bee hee gives you this caution to make the People thinke him&s;elfe Innocent and you guilty.</P>
<P>Now I am come to my Lords lamentation <HI>for the poore Church of England,</HI> while&s;t my Lord was Arch-governour, you were kept in good order, all things went well, <HI>Pauls</HI> went up apace, all the re&s;t of the hou&s;es were puld down that prophaned it, Organs repaired, and not pulled downe, I puni&s;hed tho&s;e that &s;pake again&s;t the Service Booke; the Singers al&s;o had their wages, but now in&s;tead of &s;inging longs of alacrity, they &s;ing &s;ongs of lacrymae. Profanene&s;&s;e comes in, and is already, the high Com|mi&s;&s;ion Court is put downe, every man may doe what hee lift, the&s;e Puritans, Roundheads, may doe what they plea&s;e, whereas I could have &s;lit their No&s;es, cut their
<PB N="11" REF="8">Eares, &s;et them on the Pilory, Starved, Impri&s;oned, Com|pelled them to bla&s;pheme as <HI>Paul</HI> did, and per&s;ecuted them unto &s;trange Cities.</P>
<P>The la&s;t particular, (for my Lord made ha&s;te, becau&s;e the head&s;-man &s;taid for him) be tels us of his birth, where he was borne and baptized; to wit, in the Church of England: but he forgetteth Sion, which &s;aith, this man was borne there, and that Jeru&s;alem which is from above is the mother of us all. Although he hath been a ruler in England, we have not yet one word of his new birth. But &s;ome of his Chaplains would have done well to have prea|ched out of the third of <HI>Iohn</HI> upon his Ma&s;ters Pulpit, ra|ther then to have let him preached him&s;elfe; it may be that might have done him &s;ome good, and hindred him from &s;ending abroad his hypocriticall or Je&s;uiticall poy&s;on into the world, and wre&s;ting of Scriptures to his owne pardition.</P>
<P>Al&s;o he &s;aith, <HI>this is no time for to di&s;&s;emble.</HI> Is not this the way of all Je&s;uits, to die with m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntall re&s;ervation ac|cording to Law, who knows his meaning&punc; telling us of his innocencie, how he laboured to keepe an uniformity; yea and did, one with the Pope; and would have done with Scotland al&s;o, by &s;ending of his poy&s;on thither, if God had not prevented him in his owne time. Al&s;o, what clamours of the people hath he &s;uffered; how have they clamored, or rather cried out of him for impri&s;oning of their husbands, children, and friends, robbing them by his Pur&s;evants, &s;ilencing, and turning wife and children out of doores. He proceeds, and contrary to all witne&s;&s;es, and proceedings of Parliament, cleares him&s;elfe from Trea&s;on, or what&s;oever is laid again&s;t him; but as good a Lawyer as he was, let Ma&s;ter <HI>Prynne</HI> alone with him, he
<PB N="12" REF="9">hath per&s;ecuted him once for his &s;incerity, but now he hath or will lay open his hypocri&s;ie. He &s;aith he would not enlarge him&s;elfe, and &s;o forgives others, and would have others forgive him; he derogates a little from his former practi&s;es in the High-commi&s;&s;ion-Court: for then he granted out forgivene&s;&s;es for others, and asked none him&s;elfe; de&s;iring them to joyne with him in prayer, (though <HI>Salomon</HI> &s;aith, <HI>that the prayers of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,</HI>) the manner and matter being both fal&s;e. God promi&s;ed that he would poure upon the hou&s;e of <HI>David</HI> the Spirit of prayer and &s;upplication. <HI>Paul</HI> prayed with the &s;pirit and under&s;tanding al&s;o, and &s;aith, that the Spirit helpeth the infirmities which cannot be uttered by them; at the day of Penteco&s;t, or the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> fiftieth day, the Spirit came downe in cloven tongues, not Books, Beads or Crucifixes: but my Lord though he was ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">, was not there, therefore excu&s;e him. He de&s;ired the Lord to looke upon him, but not till he was bathed in the blood of Chri&s;t: here you &s;ee he que&s;tions his a&s;&s;urance. He prayes that the King and his po&s;terity, and the people may be e&s;tabli&s;hed in their ju&s;t Lawes, and ancient liberties: you know what he meanes.</P>
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<HEAD>Some Ob&s;ervations upon Sir <HI>John Clotworthys</HI> Que&s;tions, and my Lords An&s;wers.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>I.</SPEAKER>
<P>SIr <HI>Iohn Clothworthy</HI> a&s;ked him, what &s;peciall place of Scripture was mo&s;t comfortable now at his de|parture.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="13" REF="9">
<SPEAKER>C.</SPEAKER>
<P>He an&s;wers in Latin, that <HI>he de&s;ires to be di&s;&s;olved, and to be with Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Star.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ee, as he has got his honour by learning, &s;o he lo&s;eth his honour with learning. The Go&s;pell &s;aith, <HI>If any &s;peake in anunknown Tongue, let it be interpreted.</HI> As al&s;o, that <HI>he had rather &s;peake five words that he might teach others, then ten thou&s;and words in an unknowne Tongue.</HI> But my Lord forgot that.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir <HI>Iohn Clothworthy</HI> told him, that was a good de&s;ire, but there mu&s;t be a foundation for that de&s;ire, as a&s;&s;u|rance.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>C.</SPEAKER>
<P>He an&s;wers, that no man can expre&s;&s;e it, it was to be found within.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Star.</SPEAKER>
<P>A fit man to be a Bi&s;hop; doth not the Scripture &s;ay, <HI>With the heart man believeth to &s;alvation, and with the tongue confe&s;&s;ion is made.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>I.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir <HI>John Clothworthy</HI> &s;aid, It is founded on a word, and that word would be knowne.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>C.</SPEAKER>
<P>He an&s;wered, That word is the knowledge of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and him alone.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Star.</SPEAKER>
<P>But my Lord came too &s;hort of giving Sir <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;a|tisfaction according to his que&s;tion. Tho&s;e that have the knowledge of Chri&s;t within them are able to expre&s;&s;e it to others. But my Lord &s;atisfied us not that the Lord is within him.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB N="14" REF="10">
<HEAD>TO THE READER on the <HI>Authors</HI> name.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>WHen I did heare the people to admire,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With zeale my heart did burne like any fire.</HI></L>
<L><HI>What they did &s;peake, and I my &s;elfe did thinke</HI></L>
<L><HI>Will I write down with Paper, and with Inke.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Iniquity to heare them to commend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I had done ill if it I bad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> not pend.</HI></L>
<L><HI>I hearing ill extold, and good cald evill,</HI></L>
<L><HI>It to pa&s;&s;e by, in me had been uncivill.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Looke and behold, and &s;ee how they applaud</HI></L>
<L><HI>Like to a God, I meane their little</HI> Laud.</L>
<L><HI>Like to a martyr do they thinke he dy'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Lo by the law a malefactor try'd.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Looke not on men, they are but du&s;t and clay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">othing in them &s;teale your hearts away;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Like to a &s;hade from hence away they pa&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Like to a dream, a bubble, or like gra&s;&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="15" REF="10">
<L><HI>I doe admire, and yet admire I not,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In this plaine ca&s;e you &s;hould be &s;o be&s;ot.</HI></L>
<L><HI>If in his life &s;o many were bereaved,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In death much more they well might be deceived.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Alas poore &s;oules, &s;uch thoughts as the&s;e a &s;hun,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Above looke up, and &s;ee what God hath done,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Admire and wonder at his Parliament,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And leave &s;uch thoughts as give your &s;elves content.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Murthers and trea&s;ons till they have &s;uppre&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Minutes, nights, houres, taking little re&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Maintaining innocents in a right cau&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Malignants puni&s;hing that break the Laws.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Such that in pri&s;on once were forc'd to lie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Strange Countreys al&s;o forced for to flie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Seeking for &s;helter, wandring up and down,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Set are in places now of great renown.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Tho No&s;es &s;lit, impri&s;oned, lo&s;t their Eares,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They much re&s;pected are of Noble Peeres.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tho Bi&s;hops once upon them much did frown,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Prelates prond for them are pulled down.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>All you that captives were, and now &s;et free,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Above your voices lift you up with me;</HI></L>
<PB N="16" REF="11">
<L><HI>Admire and wonder at &s;uch things as the&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>At God alone, and let him have the prai&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Rai&s;e up your heads, and clap your hands for joy,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Remember how he doth your foes de&s;troy:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Revive a little tho they doe and &s;pread,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rotten they be, and &s;oon they will be dead.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Blood which is innocent, he that doth &s;pill,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Blood he him&s;elfe &s;hall drinke again&s;t his will.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Blood again&s;t</HI> Caine <HI>aloud to Heaven cryed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Becau&s;e that</HI> Abell <HI>innocently dyed.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>&V;nto all you I doe my &s;peech direct,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;nity which as yet doe not affect;</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;nto the Lord, and never give him leave</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;ntill in mercy he doe you receive.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Call unto God that he would give you grace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cry unto him whil&s;t you have time and &s;pace.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Crave pardon now before that you be dead,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cau&s;e you the blood of innocents have &s;hed.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Keep in your hearts the&s;e Ver&s;es few of mine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Know what they meane, and con them time by time,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ki&s;&s;e exhortations good, and eke embrace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Know God in time, to day &s;eeke you his face.</HI></L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
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