A Full and satisfactory answer TO THE Archbishop OF canterburies Speeh, OR, funeral Sermon Preached by himself on the Tower-Hill, on Friday the tenth. of January, 1645. Upon Hebr. 12.1, 2.  
At which time he was there and then Beheaded.  
Wherein Is a full and plenary Discourse to satisfy all those who have been startled with his Suttle and Jesuitical Falacies, and evasions in the said Speech.  
And other passages and observations of great consequence, to satisfy the expectation of the kingdom therein.  isaiah. 14.16. 
They that see thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms.  
LONDON: Printed by JANE COE. 1645.   

A full and satisfactory Answer to the Archbishop of Canterbury's Speech, Or, funeral Sermon.  
Good people,  
YOu will pardon my old memory, and upon so sad occasions as I am come to this place, to make use of my Papers, I dare not trust myself otherwise.  
Answ. The Archbishop here you see made a repetition of a lesson he had writ out by heart (whether by the advice of his counsel, or whether he had it from Oxford; or did stuit himself it matters not) he spoke it not you see out of Conscience, which was the cause why he dirst not trust his decriped memory; lest his conscience should fly in his face, and put him out of his lesson.  
Good people,  
This is a very uncomfortable place to preach in, and yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture, in the twelfth of the Hebrews, Hebrews. 12.1, 2. 
Let us run with patience that race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was sir before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the aight hand of the Throne of God.   
Answ. he saw how uncomfortable a thing it was to be brought to public shame, in respect of himself, but was nothing at all touched in Conscience; for that cruel Tyranny where by he insulted over others to bring them to public shame before, he speaks nothing, nor was at all humbled for that. And yet speaks of a place of Scripture you see▪ that no Text in all the whole Bible (had he had grace) could have come nearer to his conscience, for persecuting, imprisoning, whipping, pillering, and drawing the blood of the saints of God, in that tyrannical manner which he hath done.  
I have been long in my race, and how I have looked unto Jesus the Author and finisher of my Faith, is best known to him: I am now come to the end of my race, and here I find the cross, A death of shame, but the shame must be despised, or there is no coming to the right hand of God; Jesus despised the shame for me, and God forbid but I should despise the shame for him.  
Answ. He lived to an old Age; and enjoyed many great blessings, had he had grace to use them to God's glo●y) but you see he doth not in all his speech so much as once praise God for the same: But rather stand upon his justification by works as you shall see by and by? Why he calls Jesus to witness here; and then goes on to apply his Text to himself; even to his very death, to justification by works: Even triumphing over that shameful death, in all which he speaks nothing of believing but all of doing.  
I am going apace, as you see, towards the Red-sea, and my feet are upon the very brinks of it, an Argument, I hope, that God is bringing me to the Land of Promise, for that was the way by which of old he led his people; But before they came to the Sea, he instituted a Passeover for them, a Lamb it was, but it was to be eaten with very sour herbs, as in the Twelfth of Exodus.  
Answ. He was then indeed as near the Red Sea as Pharaoh was when his Horses drew him into the deluge, as he was pursuing the people of God, and in justice cut off, whilst he pursued them by bloody persecution. No doubt but many of those Saints, that died under his martyrdom are in the Land of promise: And though for himself he labours to make us believe him to be a lamb, yet was he chief amongst the first borne of the Egyptians, that so Cruelly insulted over the people of God, which was to be smitten before the people of God could expect to be delivered.  
I shall obey, and labour to digest the sour herbs, as well as the Lamb, and I shall remembr that it is the Lord's Passeover; I shall not think of the herbs, nor be angry with the hands that gathered them, but look up only to him who instituted the one, and governeth the other: For men can have no more power over me, then that which is given them from above.  
Answ. Now he comes to works of superarogation to make himself not one lamb, but a lamb unspotted, and the putting of him to death a Passeover, nay a Passeover of God's institution.  
I am not in love with this passage through the red Sea, for I have the weakness and infirmity of flesh and blood in me, and I have prayed as my Saviour taught me, and exampled me, Vt transiret Calix ista.  
That this Cup of red Wine might pass away from me, but since it is not that my will may, his will be done; and I shall most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he dleases, and enter into this Sea, I and pass thorough it, in the way he shall be pleased to lead me.  
Answ. he would make himself a lamb as Christ was, expressing himself in Christ's very words, you see so proudly, and loftily did he carry himself in all his actions at his death, as if he was so pure a lamb, that he would bid defiance to Heaven: To charge him with any spot, or blemish.  
And yet (Good people) it would be remembered, Th●t when the Servants of God, old Israel, were in this boisterous Sea, and Aron with them, the Egyptians which persecuted them, and did in a manner drive them into the 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 Blood, as he was to deliver the three Children from the furnace, Daniel 3.  
Answ. His speech is the phrase of a Potentate; (still, Good people?) The language which Princes use when they speak to their people; scorning to call us us brethren, who had so much honour from the Pope, like the Beast which must be lifted up above his brethren. Yet I wonder what should make him dream of a deliverance▪ whether he looked for a Pardon or a reprieve, from the KING: or whether he thought the parliament did but jest with him, to try what he would do, or that he hopod for an insurrection about him, or what it should be, I am altogether Ignorant. Surely, in that condition he was now in, it had been more consonant to a gracious spirit, to humble himself before God, seeing how he was overwhelmed with those waves; into which he had driven the people of God, and in which himself was now so near drowning.  
And I most humbly thank my Saviour for it, my resolution is now, as theirs was then; their Resolution was, They would not worship the Image which the KING had set up; nor shall I the Imagination which the PEOPLE are setting up, nor will I forsake the Temple, and the Truth of GOD, to follow the bleating of jeroboam's Calves in Dan and in Bethel.  
Answ. He still goes on, as if there had been some hopes of his deliverance, and set down you see his resolutions, if he should have lived, and that full of pride, that he would never submit to the Parliaments, and their laws, which he sets in opposition to the Temple and truth of God: Nay he is so far from Charity, that he seems to invite the people to mutiny.  
And I pray God bless all this People, and open their eyes, that they may see the right way; for if it fall out that the blind lead the blind, doubtless they will both into the ditch.  
Answ. Are not these wicked Tares for a dying Man to sow between the Parliament and the People.  
For myself, I am, (and I acknowledge it in all humility) a most grievous sinner many ways, by thought word and deed, and therefore I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent, as well as other sins;  
Answ. This speech hath something like grace in it, when it is spoken from a sincere Coonscience; but whether this was only a compliment with God, or to blind many, or how cordial it was spoken none can judge; and therefore I shall wave that to come to those particulars which follow, in which we shall better understand this.  
I have, upon this sad occasion, ransack●d every corner of my heart, and yet I thank God, I have not found any of my sins that are there, any sins now deserving death by any known Law of this Kingdom.  
Answ. Had he ransacked every corner of his heart as he here saith he did, and dealt ingeniously with us: and laid the poor fellow's blood (that he caused to be hanged, drawn and quartered to fulfil his humour) close to his Conscience; that (had there been nothing else) would have given him the lie in this particular. But that is but one thing, there were many crimes proved against him; as to give the King a wrong oath at his Coronation, to keep that Plot so private, which he knew of when an Indian nut had been prepared to be given to the King with poison; his labouring to subvert the fundamental laws of the Land; his correspondency with the Pope, and known Jesuits, Priests and Papists in England, which is treason by Law; his causing of new Canons to be made against law and men's houses to be pulled down over their heads to please his humour; his causing of several Parliaments to be broken up, &c. Why should a dying man this dissemble at his death; But than he daubs up the matter and saith:  
And yet thereby I charge nothing upon my judges (I humbly beseech you I may rightly be understood, I charge nothing in the least degree upon my judges) for they are to proceed by proof, by valuable Witnesses, and in that way I or any Innocent in the world may justly be condemned: And I thank God, though the weight of the Sentence lie very heavy upon me, yet I am as quiet within, as (I thank Christ for it) I ever was in my life:  
Ans. The Witnesses are hundreds of honest godly men that came against him, some of them are honourable Members in Parliament, some of them reverend Divines, some Gentlemen, and other godly honest Christians, and of as good repute as any amongst those where they live, that came to witness against him from all parts of the kingdom.  
And though I am not only the first Archbishop, but the first man that ever died in this way, yet some of my predecessors have gone this way, though not by this means: for Elfegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes; and Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellows: And long before these Saint John Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd woman; and Saint Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting Sword.  
Ans. The Archbishop here you see looks upon John Baptist as his Predecessor, but the Archbishop's case was rather like that of Thomas a Becket, or Cardinal Woolsey's, or Bishop Bonners, but his stomach will not down, he cannot bow, no he talks of greatness, and his comfort is that he goes the way of great men. But nothing in all his speech can be more observable than this that here he bring in; not only Cyprian a moderate Popish Father, but Elfegus a most notorious Popish Priest of the Danes, and with him also Simon Sudbury another as notable a jesuited Prelate, in King Richard the seconds days, and these are the men from whose example (he saith) to his great comfort he is taught patience.  
Many examples great and good, and they teach me patience, for I hope my cause in Heaven will look of another dye then the colour that is put upon it here upon earth; and some comfort it is to me, not only that I go the way of those great men in their several Generations:  
Ans. Indeed it was a great favour to grant him leave to die such a honourable death? But this you see is not all, for he looks upon his death as meritorious▪ and that so the very act will appear in heaven, is his hope.  
But also that my charge (if I may not be partial) looks somewhat like that against Saint Paul in the 25. of the Acts, for he was accused for the Law and the Temple, that is the Law and Religion; and like that of Saint Stephen in the 6. of the Acts, for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave us, which Ordinances were Law and Religion: but you'll say, do I then compare myself with the integrity of Saint Paul, and Saint Steven?  
Answ. Yes▪ and here he showed a great deal of arrogancy in it too, his cause and theirs being quite contrary. Yet he saith:  
No, God forbid, far be it from me; I only raise a comfort to myself, that these great Saints and servants of God were thus laid up in their several times; And it is very memorable that Saint Paul, who was one of them, and a great one, that helped on the accusation against Saint Steven, fell afterwards into the selfsame accusation himself, yet both of them great Saints and servants of God.  
Answ. This seems verily to rise from the pride of his heart, and we may all see how justly God hath requi●ed him for the evil he hath done to these kingdoms, which he was too proud to a●ply to himself in that particular concerning Paul's fall who before helped forward the accusation against S●ephen: seeing he was the man that helped forward the accusation against the Scots to cause them to be proclaimed traitors, and Bendfield to be hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor, it was just with God to caase him to die under the condemnation of a traitor, though he was too lofty to stop down before the throne of God's justice, and lay it home to his Conscience.  
I but perhaps a great clamour there is, that I would have brought in Popery, I shall answer that more fully by and by, in the mean time, you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himself, in the eleventh of John; If we let him alone, all men will believe on him, Et veniunt Romani, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation. Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come, and see how just the judgement of God was, they crucified Christ for fear lest the Romans should come, and his death was that that brought in the Romans upon them, God punishing them with that which they most feared: and I prey God this clamour of veniunt Romani, (of which I have given to my knowledge no just cause) help not to bring him in; for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation, as he hath now upon the Sects and divisions that are amongst us; in the mean time, by honour and dishonour, by good report and evil report, as a deceiver and yet true, am I now passing out of this world.  
Answ. To pass by this caution (for indeed we may already say veniunt Romani, and indeed the Pope never had such an Harvest in England; but who may we thank for this, did not the Archbishop act his part in this, yea verily, and both countenanced, and encouraged the Queen, and told her that with a good Conscience she might go on according to those Principles, which occasioned all this, which gave opportunity to such armies of Papists in the three kingdoms;) but let us see what it is, he saith further of this in the ensuing discourse, first taking a view of that he saith concerning the King.  
Some particulars also I think not amiss to speak of: and first this I shall be bold to speak of the King, our gracious sovereign, He hath been much traduced by some for labouring to bring in Popery, but upon my Conscience (of which I am now going to give God a present account) I know him to be as free from this Charge I think as any man living, and I hold him to be as sound a Protestant, according to the Religion by Law established as any man in this kingdom, and that He will venture His Life as far and as freely for it▪ and I think I do or should know both His affection to Religion, and His grounds upon which that affection is built, as fully as any man in England.  
Ans. it is rather conceived that by the labours, and endeavours of the Queen, and the Jesuits, and Priests, and friars, that by the Archbishop's means have been suffered at Court, the King hath been brought to do what he doth. And till now the Archbishop never once talks of Conscience and now he speaks his Conscience, you see what it is that he saith, i know him, I think him; I hold him to be a Protestant, and I think I know his affection, and the grounds upon which upon which that affection is built; Is this an expression for such a man as he, that is an Archbishop to bring his Conscience too, that gives no satisfaction at all, he had been better to have said nothing at all of him. But let us see what he saith of the City of London, for that is the next particular he speaks of.  
The second particular is concerning this great and populous City, which God bless; here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands, and then go to the Honourable and great Court of the kingdom, the Parliament, and clamour for justice, as if that great and wise Court, (before whom the causes come which are unknown to the many;) could not, or would not do justice, but at their call and appointment; a way which may endanger many an innocent man, and pluck innocent blood upon their own heads, and perhaps upon this City also, which God forbid: and this hath been lately practiz●d against myself, God forgive the setters of this, with all my heart I beg it, but many well-meaning people are caught by it: In Saint Stephen's case, when nothing else would serve, they stirred up the people against him, Acts 6. and Herod went just the selfsame way, for when he had killed Saint James, he would not venture upon Saint Peter too, till he saw how the people took it, and were pleased with it, in the 12 of the Act. But take heed of having your hands full of blood, in the first of Isai. for there is a time best known to himself.  
Ans. Here you see he seems to look back to the Earl of Strafford; whom he compares to Stephen, and seems to charge the Parliament that the City coming with Petitions against him, to them, and finding that Straffords death pleased the people, therefore they put him to death also: and from thence charges the City with blood, wherein he now flies quite from what he said before, and most enviously, goes about to do what he can to blemish the Parliament, and the City of London; when he said before that he charged nothing upon his judges; and whereas he speaks as if the way that hath been taken with him, may endanger an innocent man, it is notoriously known that in this he lies against his own Conscience, well knowing, that never any Subject in England, had a fairer trial, and more liberty and privilege, and favour all along than he, the like was never shown to any man in his case, if he could have defended himself, and that his counsel knew right well.  
When God among other sins makes inquisition for blood; and when inquisition is on foot, the Psalmist tells us, psalm 9 that God remembers, that is not all, tha● God remembers and forgets not (saith the Prophet) the complaint of the poor; and he tells you what poor they are in the ninth verse, the poor whose blood is shed by such kind of means: Take heed of this. It is a fearful thing (at any time) to fall into the hands of the living God, in the 12. of the Hebrews: but it is fearful indeed, and then especially, when he is making his Inquisition for b●oud, and therefore with my Prayers to avert the prophecy from the City, let me desire that this City would remember the prophecy that is expressed, Jeremiah 16.15.  
Ans. He should have taken this into serious Consideration when he pesecuted the poor saints of God from place to place, never suffering them to be at quiet but going a-thirsting for their blood from day to day, for whereas he talks of Inquisition for blood. I am sure by his means the high Commission was little inferior ti the Spanish Inquisition for bloo●, and now as if he had had some Divine Revelation from Heaven, her angles upon the City, and bids us remember it, as it is in Jeremiah 26.15. But to come to his third particular.  
The third particular, is this poor Church of England, that hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches, when storms have driven upon them; but alas, now it is in a storm itself, and God knows whether, or how it shall get out; and which is worse than a storm from without, it is become like an oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body, and that in every cleft, profaneness and irreligion is creeping in apace; while as Prosper saith, Men that introduce profaneness are cloaked with a name of Imaginary religion; for we have in a manner almost lost the substance, and dwell much, nay too much a great deal in Opinion, and that Church which all the jesuitical machinations in these parts of Christendom could not ruin, is now fallen into a great deal of danger by her own.  
Answ. We may say so too with sad hearts, but from whence came these storms; we may all know the Prelates, and the prelatical Clergy, raised thereby contribution-money, to invite the King to war against his own Subjects; at which time the Arch Bishop was very active: and none did press it forward more than he. These, and the Jesuites and Papists amongst us, are those wedges that are driven into the body of this kingdom; to rent and tear it to pieces. It was horrible impiety that they daily committed, and still do commit, and suffer to be committed; and sowed pillows under the elbows of of those that live in such profaneness? and yet these men like the Archbishop, will call themselves Protestants. But I pray God to bless the Parliament in their settling of this great Reformation, who labour to cast off all that Imaginary Religion, which the Prelates imposed upon us: and so settled the Church, according to that rule which is written in the word of God. But in the last place, see what he saith of himself.  
The last particular (for I am not willing to be tedious I shall hasten to go out of this miserable world) is myself, and I beseech you, observe me, I was borne and baptised in the bosom of the Church of England, as it stands yet established by Law, in that profession I have ever since lived, and in that profession of the Protestant Religion here established I come now to die; this is no time to dissemble with God, lest of all in matter of Religion, and therefore I desire it may be remembered, I have always lived in the Protestant Religion estabished in England, and in that I come to die, What clamours and Slanders I have endured for labouring to keep an uniformity in the external service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men knows, and I have-abundantly felt.  
Answ. The Archbishop hath been always very laborious to cause the memory of him to remain, and without all doubt, that moved him to write the day of his own life; and many other things: as particular this last speech of his, which for that purpose he gave a Copy to Doctor Stern, but to take a view of this expression of his, where he professeth himself a Protestant of the Church of England: but what is it to say so, he is not charged for, being a Papist himself; but for labouring to bring in Popery. It may be the Pope came not high enough, and (as some say) would have sent another Cardinal from Rome to have overtopped him, and so he kept off for the present; only held a correspondency with his friends here: and so would have both Religions for the present to remain. And in this, he rather appeared an Atheist indeed; for he was like a Camelian of divers colours, sometimes punishing the poor Sect of Romish priests, but the fat ones he protected; and cherished such as Father Leader, superior of the benedict's, Master Flanders, and Master Price; and Master Gascoigne, &c. and the whole order of the Jesuites: and feasted, and adored the great ones; such as Sir Cellam Digby and others: and because he could not be Pope of Rome, intended to be a Cardinal in these kingdoms: as a Popish priest (Father Browne by name) confessed, and was put upon the bringing in of Altars, Tapers, and other superstitions into the Church by Father Leader, when he eme into England; and by the advice of the Court Papists to be cruel in the high Commission against godly people under the name of Puritans: and Separatists, &c. And the like he used, in his verdict at Lambath. In all which▪ the truth of it is, that I think he had his Religion to choose; but concerning the Treason he is charged with, he saith thus.  
Now at last I am accused of high Treason in Parl. a crime which my soul ever abhorred, this Treason was charged upon me to consist of two parts: an endeavour to subvert the Law of the realm, and a like endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant religion established by those Laws. Besides my answers which I gave to the several charges, I protested my innocency in both Houses, It was said Prisoners Protestations at the bar must not be taken de ipso; I can bring no witness of my heart, and the intentions thereof, therefore I must come to my Protestation, not at the bar, but to my Protestation at this hour and instant of my death, in which (as I said before) I hope all men will be such charitable Christians as not to think I would die and dissemble my Religion, I do therefore here, with that caution that I delivered before, without all prejudice in the world to my judges, that are to pr●ceed secundum allegata & probata, and so to be understood, I die in the presence of almighty God and all his holy and blessed Angels, and I take it now on my death, That I never endeavoured the subversion of the laws of the realm, nor never any change of the Protestant Religion into Popish superstition: and I desire you all to remember this protest of mine, for my innocency in these and from all manner of Treasons what soever.  
Answ. You see, the Archbishop he shamefully denies to be guilty of the Treason proved against him, first in particular, and secondly in general. All which, as hath been showed already, was fully proved against him. But that he calls God, and the holy Angels to witness, and take it upon his death, that he never endeavoured to subvert the laws of the realm, nor never any change of the Protestant Religion into Popish superstitions; this is most desperate of all the rest. For (as you shall see by and by) he in part confesseth himself guilty of the one, in endeavouring to subvert the Parliament, the very fountain of the laws of the realm. And for the other, if he had never any intent to change the Protestant Religion into popish superstition, why did he so many things for the Pope's Agents against the protestants here, to get into the popes and the Queen's favour, as hath been said already; why did he at the instigation of the Jesuites use the godly protestant Ministers, with such rigour; and why did he impose a commonprayer book (that came from Rome upon the Scots) and why did he counsel the King to put out a book for sports on the Lord's day. And the like evident demonstrations of his endeavours to bring in popery. But to come to his conclusion.  
I have been accused likewise as an enemy to Parliaments no, God forbid, I understood them, and the benefits that comes by them, a great deal too well to be so, but I did indeed dislike some misgovernments (as I conceived) of some few one or two parliaments; and I did conceive humbly that I might I have reason for it, for corruptio optimi est pessima: There is no corruption in the world so bad as that which is of the best thing in itself, for the better the thing is in nature, the worse it is corrupted; and this being the highest and greatest Court, over which no other can have any Jurisdiction in the kingdom, if by any way a misgovernment, which God forbid, should any ways fall upon it, the Subjects of this kingdom are left without all manner of remedy, and therefore God preserve them, and bless them, and direct them, that there may be no misconceit, much less misgovernment amongst them. I will not enlarge myself any further, I have done, I forgive all the world, all and every of those bitter enemies, or others whatsoever they have been, which have any ways prosecuted me in this kind, and I humbly desire to be forgiven first of God, and then of every man, whether I have offended him or no, if he do but conceive that I have; Lord, do thou forgive me, and I beg forgiveness of him, and so I heartily desire you to join with me in prayer.  
Answ. See what juggling here is, wherein almost in every line he contradicts himself.  
First, he denies that he hath been an enemy to Parliaments, (No, God Forbid) and yet in the next line but one he confesseth that he misliked one or two Parliaments: and conceives he says that he might have reason for it.  
The second, he doth acknowledge it to be the highest, and greatest Court, and yet by and by calls it Misse-Governement.  
Thirdly, he saith that none can have jurisdiction over the parliament, and yet doth himself presume to dislike thereof.  
Fourthly, He pleads for his own innocency, and hath presumed to traduce the King to break up former parliaments: and yet should parliaments be hindered by misgovernment (which must be by force, or by treachery of their enemies) He confesseth that we should there be blessed with all manner of remedy. And hath thus made a Confused distracted Conclusion; he standing still upon his own righteous dealings, his forgiving of all men, and desires all to forgive him, in which he is so plausible, that he desires, even to those who do but conceive that he hath wronged them: And prays to God to forgive him, and so after his prayer execution was done upon him.  
In all which there is you see nothing of faith or assurance, but all of works and Merits, and Superarogation as you have seen at large.  
only thus much I would not be mistaken, That we are not to ●udge of any man's final estate, his last prayer was (Lord Receive my soul) And as to the thief on the cross, so to him or any vessel of mercy, God can come and receive them at the very last hour if he pleaseth.  
FJNJS.