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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48454	The Christian mans triall, or, A trve relation of the first apprehension and severall examinations of Iohn Lilbvrne with his censure in Star-chamber, and the manner of his cruell whipping through the streets : whereunto is annexed his speech in the pillory, and their gagging of him : also the severe	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. Work of the beast.	1641 (1641)	Wing L2089; ESTC R1513	44,603	44

be whipt but neither time nor place allotted And for the Old Man in regard of his age being 85. yeares old they would spare his corporall punishment though said they hee deserves it as well as the other meaning me yet he should stand upon the Pillory but I could not understand or perceive by Censure that I was to stand upon the Pillory So we tooke our leaves of them And when I came from the Bar I spoke in an audible voice and said My Lords J beseech God to blesse your Honours and to discover and make knowne unto you the wickednesse and cruelty of the Prelates So here is an end of my publike proceedings as yet which I have had since I came into my troubles the Lord sanctifie them unto me and make me the better by them and put an end to them in his due time and make way for my deliverance as I hope he will After our Censure we had the libertie of the prison for a few dayes but the Old Man my fellow partner went to the Warden of the Fleete and told him the summe of that which he intended in the Star-Chamber to have spoken against the Bishops if the Lords would have let him So he told the Warden how the Bishops were the greatest Tyrants that ever were since Adams Creation and that they were more crueller than the Cannibals those Men-eaters for said he they presently devouted men and put an end to their paine but the Bishops doe it by degrees and are many yeares in exercising their cruelty and tyranny upon those that stand out against them and therefore are worse than the very Canibals and in this he saith very true for the Holy Ghost saith They that be slaine with the Sword are better than they that be slaine with Hunger and he gives the reason of it For those pine away striken through for want of the fruits of the field Lamen 4. 9 Whereas those that are slaine out-right are soone out of their paine and said he they have persecuted mee about forty yeares and cast mee into eight severall Prisons and all to undoe me and waste my estate that so I might not be worth a penny to buy me meate but starve in prison for want of food and yet were never able to lay any thing to my charge that I had done either against Gods Law or the Law of the land and said he they are the wickedest men that are in the Kingdome and I can prove them saith he to be enemies of God and of the Lord Iesus Christ and of the King and Common-wealth Or else I will be willing to loose my life and also told him that they did thrust the Lord Jesus Christ out of his Priestly Propheticall and Kingly Offices and hath set up a will worship of their owne invention contrary to the Holy Scriptures and that they led by their wicked practises the greater halfe of the Kingdome to Hell with them and that they rob the King of a million of money in a yeare and the subjects of as much by their powling sinfull wicked Courts and that their living by which they lived was got by * lying and cozning of poore ignorant Children for said he the Pope and the Priest did promise the Children of deceased Parents if they would give so much to the Church they would pray their Parents out of Purgatory and so cozened them of their estates said he by such dissemblings and cozening wayes and meanes as this were their livings at the first raised Yea but Sir saith the Warden what is that to them that was in time of Popery Yea but Sir said he their livings hath continued ever since and they live still to this day upon the sweetnesse and fatnesse of them This and much more he then told the Warden as Mr. Wharton himselfe since then hath told me And there being a Papist with foure or five more in the roome the Warden said Papist come hither and heare what the Old Man saith So it came to the Lords of the Counsels eares whereupon we were the next Munday after brought both together and locked upclose prisoners in one Chamber without any Order or Warrant at all but only Warden INGRAMS bare Command and Pleasure But the Old Man about three weekes after made a Petition to the Lords of the Counsell that he might have some liberty and being very weake more likely to dye than to live hee had his libertie granted till the Tearme but I doe still remaine close Prisoner but for my owne part I am as cheerefull and merry and as well contented with my present condition in regard I see the over-ruling hand of my good God in it as ever I was with any condition in my life I blesse his holy name for it for in all my troubles I have had such sweete and comfortable refreshings from my God that though my imprisonment and those straights that I have beene in might seeme to the World to be a great and heavy burthen yet to me it hath beene a happy condition and a cause of exceeding joy and rejoycing From the Fleete the place of my joy and rejoycing the 12. of March 1637. By me JOHN LILBVRNE Being close Imprisoned by James Ingram the Warden of the Fleete who locked me up within few dayes after my Sentence untill the day of my suffering and would never suffer me to walke in the Prison yard with a Keeper though I often sent to him and desired it of him but told me all was little enough because I was so refractory A VVORKE OF THE BEAST OR A Relation of a most unchristian Censure executed upon IOHN LILBVRNE Now Prisoner in the Fleete the 18. of April 1638. with the Heavenly Speech uttered by Him at the time of his Suffering VPon Wednesday the said 18. of April Having no certaine notice of the execution of my Censure till this present morning I prepared my selfe by prayer unto God that he would make good his promise to be with me and enable me to undergoe my affliction with joyfulnesse and courage and that hee would be a mouth and utterance unto me to enable me to speake that which might make for his greatest honour And in my Meditations my soule did principally pitch upon these three places of Scripture First That in Esay 41. 10. 11. 12. 13. Feare thou not for I am with thee be not dismaid for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will helpe thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousnesse Behold all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded they shall be as nothing and they that strive with thee shall perish Thou shalt seeke them and shalt not find them even them that contended with thee they that warre against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught For the Lord thy God will hold thee by thy right hand saying unto thee feare not I will helpe thee Feare

being a guiltie person himselfe and a prisoner and did that which he did against mee for purchasing his owne libertie which hee hath by such Judasly meanes got and obtained who is also knowne to be a lying fellow as I told the Lords I was able to prove and make good But besides all this there was an inquisition-oath tendered unto mee which I refused to take on foure severall dayes the summe of which Oath is thus much You shall sweare that you shall make true answer to all things that shall be asked of you So helpe you God Now this Oath I refused as a sinfull and unlawfull Oath it being the High-Commission Oath with which the Prelates ever have and still doe so butcherly torment afflict and undoe the deare Saints and Servants of God It is an oath against the Law of the Land as Master Nicholas Fuller in his Argument doth prove And also it is expressely against the Petition of Right an Act of Parliament Enacted in the second yeere of our King Againe it is absolutely against the Law of God for that Law requires no man to accuse himselfe but if any thing be laid to his charge there must come two or three witnesses at the least to prove it It is also against the practice of Christ himselfe who in all his examinations before the High Priest would not accuse himselfe but upon their demands returned this answer Why aske you me goe to them that heard me Withall this Oath is against the very law of Nature for nature is alwaies a preserver of it selfe and not a destroyer But if a man takes this wicked oath he destroyes and undoes himselfe as daily experience doth witnesse Nay it is worse than the Law of the Heathen Romanes as wee may reade Acts 25. 16. For when Paul stood before the Pagan Governours and the Iewes required judgement against him the Governour replyed it is not the manner of the Romans to condemne any man before he and his accusers be brought face to face to justifie their accusation But for mine owne part if I had beene proceeded against by a Bill I would have answered and justified all that they could have proved against me and by the strength of my God would have sealed whatsoever I have done with my blood for I am privie to mine owne actions and my conscience beares mee witnesse that I have laboured ever since the Lord in mercy made the riches of his grace knowne to my soule to keepe a good conscience and to walke inoffensively both towards God and man But as for that oath that was put upon mee I did refuse to take it as a sinfull and unlawfull oath and by the strength of my God inabling me I will never take it though I be puld in pieces with wilde horses as the ancient Christians were by the bloody Tyrants in the Primitive Church neither shall I thinke that man a faithfull Subject of Christs Kingdome that shall at any time hereafter take it seeing the wickednesse of it hath been so apparently laid open by so many for the refusall whereof many doe suffer cruell persecution to this day Thus have I as briefly as I could declared unto you the whole cause of my standing here this day I being upon these grounds censured by the Lords at the Star-chamber on the last Court day of the last Terme to pay 500. pounds to the King and to receive the punishment which with rejoycing I have undergone unto whose censure I doe with willingnesse and cheerefulnesse submit my selfe But seeing I now stand here at this present I intend the Lord assisting me with his power and guiding me by his Spirit to declare my minde unto you I have nothing to say to any mans person and therefore will not meddle with that onely the things that I have to say in the first place are concerning the Bishops and their calling They challenge their callings to be Iure Divino and for the oppugning of which those there renowned living martyrs of the Lord Doctor Bastwicke Master Burton and Master Prin did suffer in this place and they have sufficiently proved that their calling is not from God which men I love and honour and doe perswade my selfe that their soules are deare and precious in the sight of God though they were so cruelly and butcherly dealt with by the Prelates and as for Master Burton and Master Prin they are worthy and learned men but yet did not in many things write so fully as the Doctor did who hath sufficiently and plentifully set forth the wickednesse both of the Prelates themselves and of their callings as you may reade in his Bookes that they are not Jure Divino which noble and reverend Doctor I love with my soule and as he is a man that stands for the truth and glory of God my very life and heart-blood I will lay downe for his honour and the maintaining of his cause for which hee suffered it being Gods cause As for the Bishops they used in former times to challenge their jurisdiction callings and power from the King but they have now openly in the High Commission Court renounced that as was heard by many at the censure of that Noble Doctor And as you may fully reade in his Apologettcus and in his Answer to Sir John Bancks his Information Now I will here maintain it before them all that their callings is so far from being Jure Divino as they say they are that they are rather jure Diabolico which if I be not able to prove let mee be hanged up at the Hall gate But my brethren for your better satisfaction reade the 9. and 13. Chapters of the Revelation and there you shall see that there came Locusts out of the Bottomlesse Pit part of whom they are and they are there lively described Also you shall there finde that the Beast which is the Pope or Romane State and government hath given to him by the Dragon the Divell his power and seate and great authoritie So that the Popes authoritie comes from the divell and the Prelates and their Creatures in their printed Bookes doe challenge their authoritie jurisdiction and power that they exercise over all sorts of people is from Rome And for proving of the Church of England to be a true Church their best and strongest argument is that the Bishops are lineally destended from his Holinesse or Impiousnesse of Rome as you may reade in Pocklingtons Booke called Sunday no Sabbath So that by their owne confession they stand by that same power and authority that they have received from the Pope So that their calling is not from God but from the Divell For the Pope cannot give a better authoritie or calling to them then he himselfe hath but his authority and calling is from the Divell therefore the Prelates calling and authority is from the Divell also Revel. 9. 3. And there came out of the smoake Locusts upon the earth and unto them was given power as