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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93093	The false alarum or, An answer to a libell lately published, entituled, An alarum to the House of Lords, against their insolent usurpation of the Commons liberties, and the rights of this nation. Wherein the insolency and lying vanities of the author or authors, is described, the libertie of the subject discussed, and the just rights of the Lords vindicated. / Written by S. Shepheard.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel)	1646 (1646)	Wing S3162; Thomason E350_2; ESTC R201039	11,016	18

themselves as St. Paul saith sin against their own soules And whereas the Pamphleter saith that he deserveth the Title of Lieutenant Colonel the Honour he hath gotten in the field in the defence of his Countreys Liberties I answer that that Honour had been worthily bestowed on him had he gone forth out of a sincere intent to fight for his Countrey and for the Kingdomes good but his intent in arming himselfe was rather to defend and secure himselfe from arrests of his creditors then to offend and bring low the enemy as I have already made apparant to the world in my answer to two Libels aforementioned Comparisons are odious the audacious libeller sticketh not to paralel Lilburnes Honour with the Lords and goeth about to prove his Honour equivolent nay transcendent to theirs Was ever known such brazen impudence the ages to come will stand amazed and read this truth but as a fiction Neither is this sufficient but the libeller proceedeth not stinting till he arrive at the very height of evill for by what meanes some of you came by yours saith he meaning the Lords is very uncertain Though your ignorance falsely informe yet the wise know and can avouch by what meanes the house of Peeres have attained to their worthily deserved Honours who can derive their pedegree and make it apparent to the world that they are the sonnes of those men whose Heroick actions in defence of their Countrey deserved no lesse but a far greater recompence But I amplifie too much upon so absurd an objection And therefore in the charge you bring against him if yet you wil persist afford him his Title use him not altogether as a slave though you have made Newgate his habitation and from thence have removed him to the Tower of London whether to murther him privately from the peoples knowledge we cannot tell we judge little lesse The charge brought against him the world knowes which generally talketh of his folly and it is not needfull to set down he is become a by-word to the sonnes of men and doubtlesse it will be Proverbe in the next age that when any man shall be notoriously known to be seditious he shall be said to be as FACTIOUS and REBELLIOUS as ever was LILBURNE But the Libeller is netled ' cause the Lords in their warrant afforded him not his Title know foole that men honourable indeed have as a reward of their misdemeanors been ere now degraded and is it such a breach for this upstart to have a Title whereof he is not worthy debarred him he hath forfeited his empty Title a triviall power bestowed it on him but a power full and absolute taketh it away But the Libeller proposeth he might not be used like a slave his usage hitherto hath been with lenity such as the nature of his crime merited not and did not the Lords out of Noblenesse of their nature limmit their power the weight of his Irons should weigh him down as his sinne will once even beneath the centre he should be brought forth and either make publique recantation of his high contempt or else undergoe exemplary punishment what he and all other libellers and disturbers ought to suffer by the known law of the Land I have * In my answer to two Libells the one intituled the just man in bonds the other a p●arle in a dunghill elsewhere shewn and therefore here shall not insert But see the prodigious basenesse of the libeller he would have the world believe that the removall of Lilburne from Newgate to the Tower is out of some secret intent the Lords have to murther him privately there Sirrah know the greater crime the greater punishment and the more obdurate the malefactor is the more sure ought be his bands but the certaine cause of his commitment to the Tower I conceive is for that his offences are treasonable He that withstandeth the Kings Vicegerent opposeth the King and indeed God from whom he deriveth his power so long as things lawfull are commanded by him and he that resisteth the King commanding as aforesaid things lawfull and not destructive to himself is a Traytor and as a Traytor ought to suffer But see yet more impudencies But by this we may discerns your unsufferable incroachments upon our common Rights daily increasing upon us which in time if not prevented will wholy enslave and vassalage us all for it is come to this already that the Free-men of England cannot goe to see their Fellow Commoner without bazzard of their Freedomes and it is an act so unreasonable and destructive to us that we cannot chuse but take notice of it and let you know that We cannot neither will we suffer such intolerable affronts at your hands Calvin in his * the preface booke intituled Instructio adversus libertines saith Cum scelesta perniciosa aliqua secta pullulare O cepit praesertim vero cum auges●it eorum quo Deus ad aedificandum Ecclesiam constituit officium est ire obv●am ac fortifer resisiere priusquam ad perdenda e●rrumpend● omnia vires sumps●rit When any pernicious sect begins to arise but chiefly when it grows t is the duty of them whom God hath appointed to build up his Church to oppose it strongly and to appeare against it before it get strength to corrupt and destroy all Now cause the house of Lords hath done as this holy man adviseth nay as the sacred Scriptures command to wit have suppressed the Author of a most pernicious sect or if they will not yield to that the Broacher of new heresies and blasphemies Lilburne therefore they unsufferably encroach on the Commons Rights and intend to bring them into slavery and bondage I know the Sectaries their abettors will not stick to say that I WIL RUN WITH THE WIND that I am a timeserver and sooth up the Lords in hope of gaine but let such know there is as great enmity betwixt flattery and my nature as between the Wolfe and the Sheep I know that Ministers first care ought to be of the Name of God and next of the salvation of others and I resolve with Horum alterum cum intercidere necesse fit pereat p●pa pereant impii Magistratus * Luther in c. 9. Hos pereant impiorum dogmatim patroni pereat totus mandus salvetur Deo sua gloria suum verbum su●● cultus amen When any thing is done by which of necessity either of those must suffer and fall to the ground let the Pope perish let wicked Magistrates perish let the patrons of wicked opinions perish let the whole World perish and let Gods glory his Church and his Worship be saved But the Libeller proceedeth and sheweth that already they are in some sort enslaved for saith he a Commoner of England cannot go to see his fellow c. Let any capable of sence judge whether it be convenient that one convicted of transcendent crimes ought to have his combiners and abbettor

have free accesse to him by whose poysonous Rhetorick he may not onely be more hardned in evill but also may * as Lilburne in his inprisonment formerly hath done to the very great disturbance of the peace of the Kingdom deliver to them papers stuffed with language of dangerous consequence to be disperst abroad as may occasion the subvertment and destruction of this Nation and the deterring of these men from their brother in euill is thought by them to be an act so unreasonable and destructive to them that they cannot but take notice of it and publish to the world in print that they cannot nor will not suffer such unsufferable Affronts that the act is not unreasonable but just I have already proved but that it is destructive to their proceedings I shall easily believe and for that intent it is performed to wit to impede the growth of evill and hinder the corrupting of many but for that t is said they cannot nor will not suffer as they presumptuously terme them such intollerable affronts all from thence to be gathered is that these intend to rebell and could they have Lilburne for leader he would play Judas of Galile and lead forth but which of them would returne but they speake their desires not their abilities the points of their speares are dulled and the edges of their Swords rebated But he hath got a good cause and all good people that desire not to live by oppression of others are of his side and that your Lordships will finde for all these things will be laid open as the sunne and every man will see wherefore you call his Books scandalous seditious and dangerous Pamphlets and why the Judges Lawyers and Monopolists are his deadly Adversaries even because he deales plainly betwixt you all and the people whom you labour by all means joyntly to keep in bondage and vassalage to your wils The greatest Hereticks Traytors or Conspirators that ever yet suffered condigne punishment have pretended a good cause was their prop c. and for that the Libeller saith all good people are on his side and that the house of Lords will finde I suppose he meaneth such good people as under pretence of goodnesse act the very worst of wickednesse seditious slanderous and reprobated persons no other can nor will adhere to Lilburne in his seditious and unparaleld rebellious courses and these I hope saying with the Libeller the house of Lords will finde and bring to condigne punishment I hope they will make a discovery and finde out the seditious Author of a slanderous Libell entituled EVERY MANS RIGHTS or Englands PERSPECTIVE the Author of a contemptuous and disdainfull reviling Paper entituled SEVERALL VOTES OF TENDER CONSCIENCES at the bottome of which Paper is portraied a Pope a Presbyter termed Antichristian and a Prelate all these each a dagger in hand stabbing at an heart furnisht with wings and termed TENDER CONCIENCE the Author of a Paper that striketh at Church and State Emblematically called the WATCHMANS WARNING PIECE the Embleme is a man issuing forth a wood his weapons abandoned and cast beneath a Tree when on a suddenly he is assailed by a Dragon a Leopard and a Serpent the Author presumeth to explaine his Embleme thus would you thinke Independents could versifie And what is by this EMBLEM represented The STATE by Plots of Papists circumvented Shall I demonstrate still to make you know That these * Papists P * Presbiters P * Prelats P are Papists all a row The Dragons head the Pope doth represent His sharpt tongu'd * His sting shaft curses which he doth vent His teeth are envie and his hornes are Power The Dragons body is Romes Church that WHORE The spotted Leopard also hath his doome This body pleads for Prelats brats of Rome His jawes are malice head EPISCOPALL A gaping mouth teeth pawes tyrannicall The crooked Serpent creepes upon the earth An Antichristian PRESBITER by birth His head 's from Rome his Tayle and Body so With them to aye perdition he shall goe But to the Libeller who saith that things shal be laid open as the Sun and all men shall see why his Books are called scandalous seditious and dangerous Pamphlets Things need not be made more evident then they are and all men not besotted see and know why and on what ground his Bookes are termed justly SCANDALOVS SEDITIOVS and DANGEROVS Pamphlets but the Libeller sticketh not to maintaine most eroneus paradoxes ineptae fabulosae nugae throughout his whole Pamphlet whereof this is a grand one but saith he his chiefe enemies are the Clergy Judges and Lawyers and Monopolists O unheard of insolencie he ranketh the Clergy and Judges with the Monopolists and Lawyers all Clergy-men Judges Lawyers and all men of what craft or faculty soever ought as they tender their welfare in this world and that to come to abhorre abominate and declare against the seditious rebellious and destructive proceedings of Lilburne and his wicked complices but see he goeth further and maketh the Lords Judges Lawyers and Monopolists ●ombiners together using their utmost endeavour to bring the people into bondage alas alas my friends what need any goe about to enslave you who seeke all the meanes possible to fetter your selves and I may boldly averr such is your ignorance accompanied with selfe conceit that you differ in a small manner from the Atheists all your life is that you love to goe to Church with great Bibles under your arme but he that knowes best how to judge saith cor doloplenum sonant vitium percussa maligne you will now and then Dare operam Augustino read Austin frequent Sermons and yet professed usurers meere gripes tota vitae ratio Epicurea est all your life is Epicurisme and Atheisme come to Church all day and lie with a Curtesan at night Qui curios simulant Bachinalia vivunt But of you enough from whom we have felt too much And therefore it will be good for your Lordships in this charge to reflect upon your selves the people are now quick sighted not easily deluded if it were not so Mr. Lilburne were in a sad case for here is no lesse then the whole house of Peeres his accusers c. Now the Libeller having before threatned the Lords and shewed them the dangers they have run into by censuring and imprisoning Lilburne whom the Libeller is not ashamed to terme in the title of his libell DEFENDOR OF THE FAITH I say having shewed them into what a premunire they are fallen he now giveth his judgement and adviseth the Lords to reflect on themselves for the people are quick sighted I wish it were so indeed and that they had Eagles eyes to discerne the vanity and wickednesse of their seducers who under pretence of advising them in matters necessary and behovefull for them incite them to strife malice and sedition the onely way to worke their owne and this Kingdomes ruines and it is to be admired as