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A94165	An anatomy of Lievt. Col. John Lilburn's spirit and pamphlets. Or, A vindication of these two honorable patriots Oliver Cromwel, Ld Governor of Ireland, and Sir Arthur Haslerig, Knight baronet, from the unworthy and false aspersions by him cast on them in two libels; the one intituled, An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwel, &c. The other, A preparative to a hue and cry against Sir Arthur Haslerig: wherein the said Lilburn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar, and unworthy of civil converse.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.; T. M.	1649 (1649)	Wing S6290; Thomason E575_21; ESTC R204578	18,441	24

and humours they first make shipwrack of a good conscience And it 's not to be wondered that men should deny the common and ordinary Rules of Civil Government who have professedly denyed all Rules and Institutions both of Law and Gospel for though Religion and Civil Government be of different natures yet they are commonly inter-woven together as to the flourishing of each other that Government shall never thrive where Religion is not advanced nor will Religion much flourish in the midst of Factions or Schisms or under Popular or Tyrannical Governments of States yet commonly the one is blessed by the other Gods design being to advance himself first to set up his own Name and then to prosper Nations I am constrained Honourable Worthies to represent this Consideration to you that you would vindicate your own names in advancing Christs and expect no hearty conjunction of any with you in this Government but honest and consciencious men who can only be engaged by Principles of Religion and Civil Freedom for men that have left the Principles of the Scripture the Rule of Religion expect nothing else but they shall as they find their l●st act soon oppose the most fundamental Maximes you can lay down as a basis to your Goverment It is the fear of this unlimited Toleration makes many honest Presbyterians stand at such a distance and so unwilling to submit to this change yea that makes you lose many a godly heart which else would rejoyce in former acts done by you while they see no more signal Character of favour and respect professedly set on the Principles of the Gospel then on Heathenism or Judaism and continually hear Blasphemies spoken cum privilegio at least without punishment Is our Religion so uncertain or doubtful that it need to have false Religions to try it by Is Blasphemy a less sin then it was or is Gods honor faln in its worth and excellency that it should not be as much preserved as ever God forbid Liberty of Conscience must be given onely to men that can be supposed conscienciously to differ not onely from Religion but some externall way of practising the same Principle But I leave it to Your wise and serious Consideration onely present You with this Vindication of two of Your faithful and active Agents of this Nation You have Power enough to vindicate Your own Authority I can do no more then witness against the false and wicked aspersions of Lievt Col. John Lilburn against them and submit it to Your Iudgments as those who ought to take the prime cognizance of it that You may know what Servants You and this State hath and what an evil and intolerable person this John Lilburn is to live under the favor and smiling aspect of such a State or which he makes the onely Butt of his madness and malice Your Honors most humble Servant T. M. AN ANATOMY OF Lievt Colonel John Lilburn's SPIRIT and PAMPHLETS AMong all the Exorbitancies of this last age there is none hath stained the Glory of this Nation more then the multitude of licentious and abusive Pamphlets that continually fly abroad like Atomes in the Air whereby the Press is made a common Strumpet to conceive and bring forth the froth of every idle and wanton fancy or to vent the malice and venom of every discontented and debaucht spirit and Books that were wont to be monuments of the industry and seriousness of mens spirits and records of the vertues and noble acts of brave men adorned with Reason and Judgment and ordained to be as embalmings to their names are now turned into Pasquils and Libels stuft with the rancor and rage of these men who know no way to recruit their own lost reputation but by defacing the names of their betters But of all the Pamphlets that I have yet seen there are none that express such a dangerous and unworthy spirit as those that go under the name of Lievt Colonel John Lilburn Some Pamphlets though they have little of truth yet have nothing of falshood Others though of little concernment yet may serve to divert a studious head from the continual pressures of more serious thoughts Others are pretty essays and done on purpose to engage better pens in manifesting Truth and the continual writing or rather scribling of the most demonstrates that men are not idle but that the Nation is big with something that will be brought forth at last in form and beauty In Diurnals those lean and miserable sheets you have some things true among many mistakes and lyes but probably reported and you may know how the days pass away by them though there be little else In Pragmaticus and the Man in the Moon with the rest of that bauling Crue you have some wit with their malice But this man especially in his two last Pamphlets breaking all the bonds of Religion Civility Humanity professing open defiance to the Laws of Grace and Nature hath devoted himself to slander reproach defame rack and crucifie the names of all sorts of men that have the face of honesty or that cannot comply with him in his Levelling Designs swelling up his Title-pages with horrid and nasty expressions as Polecat Foxes Wolves and such like as if he had been newly come out of the Desarts of Arabia or been conversing with Nebuchadnezzar seven years at grass interlining his sentences with barbarous and cruel Invectives against men in Authority calling them Murtherers Theeves Robbers threatning them with the worst of deaths quoting himself and his own Pamphlets as often as others do the most learned and orthodox Authors with such like expressions as these P. 2. See to this purpose my Impeachment of High Treason c. See my Arguments or Reasons in the second Edition of my Book of the 8. of June 1649. intituled The Legal and Fundamental Liberties of England c. P. 3. Peruse carefully I entreat you the 6. 8. pages of my Impeachment c. as also the 12. and 16. pages of the second Edition of my forementioned Book So P. 4. See my second Edition of my Picture of the Councel of State Making bold and daring Titles that men may expect great things from and when they are engaged to look after the proofs finde nothing but a heap of Impertinencies and a Catalogue of his Petitions and Letters and Conferences and References to his other Pamphlets for satisfaction but satis est repetere He that loves the smell may have enough of these noisom weeds almost in every line or sentence As for sober and serious men I know their stomacks rise at first sight But my intent in this Discourse is not to run through all his Volumes by which he hath defiled the Press and brought himself into a labyrinth of just Troubles and Miseries lest in raking such a Dunghil I should raise too great a stink in the nostrils of my self and Reader I shall follow his own request and refer it to any who have patience enough