Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

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A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF The Commitment, Charge, Tryall, Condemnation and Execution of WJLLJAM LAƲD, late Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRT.

The first Specificall branch of the Charge against the Archbishop, touching his Trayterous endeavours to alter and subvert Gods true Religion by Law established among us, to intro∣duce Popish Superstition and Idolatry in liew thereof, and to reconcile the Church of England, with the Church of Rome, by severall stepps and practises; with the copious evidences produced to manifest the same at his Tryall.

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26. Passages against Equivocation and Popish Writers, expunged.

IN Doctor Clarks tenth Sermon, page 396. the Licenser hath deleted these lines the Authors conclusion of his Sermon: Man strives to give God gifts, many a man, es∣pecially the man of sinne: not the Pope onely, but of the Popes many; many an one labours too be liberall, builds Abbies, Churches, Hospitals, sicut delictum, ita donum. gives bountifully, profusely to satisfie for sinne; Quis ista? Who hath required these things at their hands? give God what God asks: He askes not thy goods, not thy lands, but thy heart; he cares not for sacrifice; the Psalmist sayes, not thousands of Rammes, not ten thousand Rivers of Oyle; 'tis the sacrifice of prayer; the spirituall sacrifice of prayer that pleaseth him; Hosea bids offer him the Calves of our lips, that it, prayer and thanksgiving, and yet he cares not for them neither, unlesse the fire that must make them a burnt-offering be kindled from the heart.

To end this, 'tis a marvaile if the false equivocating Papist takes no hold of this Text, to patronize his perjury; for what is the meaning of his mentall reservation, but da mihi cor, onely to reserve his heart unto God; be it never so false, he sweares 'tis but juravi lingua, he hath sinned but with his tongue, but lapsus lingue, his heart as∣sented not unto the lye; God craves the heart here, not the tongue; God has his heart, 'tis well: but I feare he equivocates here too, meanes his Lord God the Pope; else co∣zening the Magistrate who executes Gods judgement, and sits upon Gods Throne, and gives him Gods Oath, he but cozens God too; Saint Peter tels him that his Lord Gods predecessors, Acts 5. 4. non hominibus sed Deo, he hath not lyed unto men, but unto God, and so consequently hath given his heart not unto God, but unto the De∣vill, &c.

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