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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96357	Iohn White's defence. In the behalfe of himself, his honoured commander, the lieutenant of the Tower and the other his fellow warders. Against a lying and slanderous pamphlet written by Iohn Lilburne, and intitled Liberty vindicated against slavery. The author of which pamphlet, is here reprehended for his slandering, taxed for his libelling, and incited (the spirit of disaffection abandoned.) to submit himselfe to his rulers, [brace] as he is commanded. To live in unity with his fellow commanders, [brace] as he ought.	White, John, warder of the Tower.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1793B; Thomason E354_4; ESTC R201093	10,171	17

belonging to it neither is any man compelled to give any more then what he listeth but say we did take more accounting also the great care and paines we take so watch and ward all the yeare long day and night for 14. pence a day and of that we are behinde on Arrears almost five yeares some of us haveing nothing else in the world to live on but the Honourable Committee have taken Order for our better payment for the future I would intreat Master Lilburne not to adde to the wickednesse of his friend Master B. who hath already sufficiently wronged the warders and although it pleased his friend aforementioned to say that there were not above two or three in all the company that could be trusted without scruple yet it cannot be proved that ever any one of them failed in his trust or let escape any Prisoner during this dangerous time And here let the Reader take notice of the wavering and unstable minde of my accuser who in this Booke highly advanceth Magna Charta and yet in another standerous lying Libell intituled An ALARVM to the house of LORDS he tearmeth it a beggerly Law and saith also that the Laws were made by Kings to keepe men in slavery and yet the Lord Strafford and the Archhishop of Canterbury lost their heads for going about to alter them and in a Booke of his intituled The Freemans Freedome vindicated page 11. He raileth against all Power and Authority whatsoever and setteth up an absolute Anarchie His words are these A POSTSCRIPT Containing a Generall Proposition GOd the absolute Soveraigne Lord and King of things in heaven and earth the originall Fountaine and cause of all causes who is circumscribed Governed and limited by no rules doth all meerely and onely by his Soveraign and unlimited good pleasure who made the world and all things therein for his owne glory and who by his owne will and pleasure gave man his meere creature the Soveraignty under himselfe over all the rest of the Creatures Gen. 1.26 28 29. and indued him with a rationall understanding and thereby created him after his owne Image Gen. 1.26 27. and 9.6 the first of which was Adam a male man made out of the dust or clay out of whose side was taken a Rib which by the Soveraigne and absolute mighty creating power of God was made a Female or Woman call'd EVE which two are the earthly originall Fountain as begetters bringers forth of all and every particular and individuall man and woman that ever breathed in the world since who are and were by nature a like and equall in Power Dignity Majesty c. none of them having by nature any Authority Dominion or Majesteriall Power one over or above another neither have they or can they execute any but meerely by institution or donation that is to say by mutuall agreement or consent given derived or assumed by mutuall consent and agreement for the good benefit and comfort each of other and not for the mischiefe hurt or dammage of any it being unnaturall Irationall sinfull wicked and unjust for any man or men whatsoever to part with so much of their Power as shall unable any of their ☞ Parliament men Trustees Deputies Viceroyes Ministers Officers or Servants to destroy and undoe them therewith and also unnaturall unjust sinfull and divellish is it for any man whatsoever spirituall temporall Cleargy man or lay man to appropriate and assume unto himselfe power Authority and Jurisdiction to Rule Governe or Reigne over any sort of men in the world without their free consent and whosoever doth it whether Cleargie men or any other whatsoever doe thereby as much as in them lyes endeavour to appropriate and assume unto themselves the Office and Soveraignty of God who alone doth is to rule by his will and pleasure and to be like their Creator which was the sinne of the devils who not being content with their first Station but would be like God for which sinne they were throwne downe into hell reserved in everlasting chaines unto the judgement of the great day Lude v. 6. and Adams sinne it was which brought the curse upon him and all his Posterity that he was not content in the Station and condition which God had created him but did aspire to a better and more excellent namely to be like the Creator which proved his ruine yea and indeed had been the everlasting ruine and destruction of all his c. Let the wise and understanding Reader judge the Authors intention in framing the Proscript afore recited whether or no his inclination serveth not were the reines in his hand to dissolve the whole Frame of Government to set up confusion and give licence to every evill worke to be acted without controule and yet such was his boldnesse that a the taile of his Proscript he addeth his name as glorying in his Lines Thus per me IOHN LILBURNE Oh Master Lilburne if e're these lines come to your vew peruse them with patience and consider what a rash and unadvised course you have taken having been another ACHAN a troubler of Israel I remember what I once learned at Schoole nunquam sera est ad benos mores via now at length recollect your selve set forth your recantation for the past and your resolution for the future which will for the glory of God and the comfort of his Church But if this shall be hid from your eyes and the spirit of delusion have tane so sure possession on you all I can doe is to deplore your miserable condition and to pray God to open the eyes of your minde that you may see in what a Labyrinth of evils you are involved as also this I le wherein we live by your meanes and those bearing as evill a minde as your selfe was ever a Nation so miserably divided and according as one of our Modern Poets said truly in a Poem of his lately Printed Some for the Parliament partake Some for the King a party make As he is King and some that hee A Tyrant might become to be Some would a * Where the people ruled popular Estate Some * Arbitrary Government Aristocracie Create Some are a Faction for the Pope Some to maintaine the Prelats hope Some for the Presbiterians Vote Some Independencie promote Some strive for this and some for that Some neither know nor care for what So warres goe on and get they may Free Quarter Plunder and their Pay Some fight their liberties to save Some that they others might enslave Some for Religion and for Christ Some that they might doe what they list Some for the Common-wealth availe Some for themselves with Tooth and Naile And they that have the basest end As fairly as the best pretend This is our Posture and whil'st we So foolish false and factious be Or while affaires continue thus Who knowes what will become of us I have read in the Chronicles of a Speech of King HENRY the Eight to