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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88243	The recantation of Lieutenant Collonel John Lilburne, prisoner in the Tower. Opening, all the machinations of the Independent partie: their various practises and judgements. With the reasons or grounds of his unexpected revolt from that party: also certain rules to know them, with cautions to shun most of their pernicious heresies.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657,	1647 (1647)	Wing L2171; Thomason E386_19; ESTC R201489	4,670	8

my wants for I may speake it to your shames that many of you mistaking the way to the Tower are hurried with too forward zeale to Newgate Bridewell or the Fleete I must tell you Brethren † Martin Marpri●st alias H. Overton his Wise in Bridewell MARTIN though a little bird has a villanous stomacke * Mr. Musgrave Jane Hules and John Larner in the Fleet and Cupid Overton in the Gate-house even like any Cormorant can digest your silver as easily as an Estriche Iron Martin is a † He writ the Bo●ke of soules morta●lity and maintaines the same Mortall Creature and of a retrograde judgement to the truth of our profession besides he studies Chymistry and by his fained art of Eloquence can easily extract the silver from his fellow-sufferers O divine Martine if your superlative holinesse have no more fellow-feeling of the necessities of your Brethren I shall hardly endure you to build your Nest this Summer on the charities of your abused Brethren but will cause you take your flight at Midsommer with Cockoes and Jackdaus more Westerly where you shall pearch according to your Dignity It cannot much impaire your holinesse function considering your grave Labours and most Elaborate Peeces that * A scurrillous Pamphlet entitu●ed Martins Eccho Eccho forth your * sacred endowments I shall goe neere to tell the people that your holinesse battens like an Abby-lubber in your Cloyster of Newgate far more aboundantly then in your † Sacred decretall or a Hue and Cry of 〈◊〉 his holinesse Martin Mar-priest hole in Toolies Martin went upon * Where his holinesse kept his S●ru●pet called Margery Mar-priest alius his Printing-presse Crutches then though now his holinesse hath taken upon him the garbe of a compleat Gallant smells like a † perfumer God save his holinesse Courts the Sisters and findes them excellent well edified and very compliable in their uses Mortall Creatures grasse and hey all Mortal all Mortall * Both his Servants names But deare Brethren enough of this fowle bird Martin next I shall desire you to lay to heart all my suffering for your Priviledges Liberties † But he may thank● sister Daw the Perfumers w●fe and Native Birth rights And that you would exhort all and every Member in your respective Congregations to contribute freely to my necessities and the necessities of my fellow sufferers in the Fleet and to hold your hand from contributing to profane Martin any more till his Brethren that are more worthy sufferers then himselfe be first supplied or he himselfe reclaimed from his pernicious Errors Therefore to conclude I give my judgement for the present which I desire to hold and maintaine untill I be convinced by you of the same and convinced shall be soone reclaimed 1 I beleeve the King to be supreame head and governour in all causes over all persons Ecclesiasticall or Civill 2. I am of the judgement that no Subject ought to take up Armes against his lawfull King and that all such taking up Armes against lawfull Authority is fighting against God and his Ordinances 3. I querie whether the King being despencer of Law or Chiefe Minister thereof offending or breaking the Law be under a capacity of being punished by any inferiour power my judgement therein is that no power under the King can doe it but he is to expect his punishment from God only and none else 4. I am of that judgement that if the King shall command me any thing contrary to the word of God I ought not to doe it neither to resist but patiently suffer what punishment soever he shall inflict upon me for Christs sake 5. I am of that judgement that there cannot be fighting for Religion but suffering for Religion in England Ireland or else where 6 I am of that judgement that the Church founded upon the 12 Pillars or Articles of Christian Faith in the three Creedes called the Apostles Athan●sius and Nicene Creed is the true Church of God and that wee ought not to seperate from that Church but from any knowne Error in that Church And any new Faith coyned by the Assembly to the contrary of none effect Thus deare Countrey men have I layd downe my judgement for the present which shall no longer be evidenced by mee then prooved by the Word Therefore I desire thee to search the Scriptures by which Rule all sure foundations are layd for lasting structures Common wealths and Churches have not a Philosophicall Generation the new out of the perversion the corruption of the ancient Government the new out of the extirpation the annihilating the established old Religion And if so great tempests and Earthquakes of Drums and Attillery subvertions and immersions of persons and estates Such unreckonable expence of a Kingdome coyned to effect for supplies and such inundations and overwhelming of blood beget but a bare promise of such an issue what remaines for the Nation to undergoe before its productions Doubtlesse this birth can at these rates be attended with no lesse then a desolation when there shall be too few left and those too much enfeebled to fall out about the enjoyment of so great a happinesse Reason was given to man for a direction as well as a distinction and generally wee beleeve our eyes above any assertions Poore selfe-deceiving Englishman who canst not be sensible how fantastick thy opinionate Reformation is how reall the devastation of thy substance and canst finde a hope that the one will improove and not a feare that the other may impaire As thou art onely miserable in a proportion at present from thy selfe So the Remaining degrees that thou art to take in misery are not to be proceeded in without thy consent to a continued Vassallage It is iust with God and abates the Condemnation of imposing man to lay burdens and use Goades on those who will be beasts by disavowing their reason or pinning it upon opinion of anothers infabilities and as just to strike him blinde who will not see an object of his marke in other colours or demensions then what are rendred by anothers spectacles FINIS