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A88210	L. Colonel John Lilburne revived. Shewing the cause of his late long silence, and cessation from hostility against alchemy St. Oliver, and his rotten secretary; as also of the report of his death. With an answer in part, to the pestilent calumniation of Cap: Wendy Oxford (Cromvvels spie upon the Dutch, and upon the English royallists, sojonrning [sic] in the United Provinces) closely couched in a late delusive pamphlet of the said Oxfords, called The unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England All vvhich, vvith many historicall passages, giveing light into the unvvorthy practises of the English grandees, is contained in three letters (The first to a friend in the United Provinces, The second to a friend in Scotland. And the third, to the honourable, Colonel Henry Martin, in England VVritten by L. Colonel John Lilburne.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Oxford, Wendy. Unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2128; Thomason E689_32; ESTC R206981	43,475	37

the world but they were cause allso of encreaseing their dominion and Empire over all Nations and that the world afterwards had great Affiance and trust in them and that most justly So that the People and Citties did not only receive the Captaines and Governouis the Romans sent them but they allso went unto Rome and procured them to come and did putt themselves into their hands And not only the Citties and Commonalties but Kings and Ptinces also that were oppressed by others more mighty then themselves had no other refuge but to put themselves under their protection by reason whereof in a very short time with the favour and helpe of the Gods as my Author is persuaded all the world came to submit themselves to their obedience and to bee under the protection of thir Empire Titus himselfe also did glorie more that he had restored Grece againe unto libertie then in any other service or exploit he ever had done and having besides all this done many more famous things he went to Rome with a world of riches and treasure and triumphed And this year being out longer then which no Roman Generall did ordinarilie hold his place especiallie in the puritie and glorie of their common-wealth and mischeife in his absence being a brewing amongst the poore Grecians by the forementioned Antiochus a potent king who went out of Asia into Greece with a potent fleet of Shipps and a very puissant Armie to stir up the Citties of Greece to forsake their league and alliance with the Romans Thereupon the Romans fearing the riseing of the People in Greece and the fame of the power of that great king Antiochus they chose and sent out for the next yeare Manius Acilius for a Generall and Titus was content without scruple to goe under him as one as his Lieutenants Whose behaviour in that Journey was as full of wisedome and humanitie as in the former in saveing severall Citties by his sweet and overcomeing perswasions from the furie of the present Generalls Rage who in battell haveing overthrowne the said great king sought and prosequted revenge on those that had any way sided with him Which made the poore People of Grece when beseiged to looke over the walls to spie Titus and to call unto him by his name holding up their hands unto him and praying him to take pitty upon them But he answered never a word to them at that time but turned his back and fell a weepeing Yet was he their sure Intercessor to prevaile with the Generall for their pardon Which made one of the Citties being preserved by his meanes to consecrate unto him all the remembrances that that heathen Age could devise to honour a Man with And in the Temple that they dedicated to him they had a Preist chosen by the voyce of the People to doe sacrifice unto him After which the People sing a song of triumph made in praise of him the latter end of which runns thus The cleare unspotted Faith Of Romans we adore And vow to be their faithfull friends Both now and evermore Sing out ye Muses nine To Ioves eternall fame Sing out the honour due to Rome And Titus worthy name Sing out I say the praise Of Titus and his faith By whom ye have preserved bin From Ruine Doole and Death And after his return from the warrs with Antiochus he was chosen Censor at Rome which office is of great dignitie and as a man may say the crown of all the honours that a Cittizen of Rome can have in that Common-wealth And he and his fellow Censor by their office having power to put all such as they judged unworthy persons out of the Senate did put out onely foure They did receive also into the number of Cittyzens of Rome all such as would present themselves to be enrowled in their common Register with a proviso that they were born free by Father and Mother unto which last they were compelled by Tenentius Culio Tribune or protector of the peoples liberties who to despite the Nobilitie perswaded the people of Rome by their Supreme authority to command it should be so After all which high dignities and honours and brave and noble actions he abased himself to become a Colonell of a thousand foote being obtained of and by his own seeking of purpose to goe into the warrs to fight for the glory of his Countrie which action in my opinion is to be commended in him For I beleeve none of the great Generals of our age but would scorne after their being Generals to goe into the warrs again as private Colonells And so much for famous and renowned Titus Quintius Flaminius All which you may reade more at large in Plutarchs Lives Fol. 381.382 to 395. Makeing Sir no farther Application of these things at present I onely beg your pardon for my tediousnes to you especially to whom I know large Epistles are no way pleasant intreating you likewise to steale a little spare time from your many great occasions to read these lines seriously which I very strongly imagine may prove of some use to you And oblige me yet so farr unto you as to present my heartie service to my old true-hearted plain and blunt friend Mr. Moyle of your house and tell him from me that he often used to clap me on the back call me Noble Cato which before I came to Flanders did not fully understand what he meant by it But haveing red so much of famous Plutarchs Lives lately with so much delight and seriousnes as I have done reading for many daies together fiftie of his large Folios in a day and also largely takeing notes as I reade my common practise in reading any book that pleaseth me I hope shortly in a few lines which I intend to present him with to let him know I now fully understand his meaning So with my heartie and true love and service presented to you I take leave to subscribe my self SIR Your most affectionate Friend heartily to serve you being yet as much an English man as ever I was JOHN LILBURN Semperidem From my delightfull dwelling in Bruges Saturday Novemb. the 9. 1652. New stile The End

ever wrought by me or for me But to return from this digression I say my forementioned carriage or practise is not onely full of peace and tranquillitie of minde to me but also in my own apprehension and upon my most serious scrutinie and examination I never yet found my self a loser by it no more then the old and famous Common-wealths of the Acheëns or Romans did judge themselves to be loosers by the like of which Acheëns Polybius the Grecian in his wise and wel-pend Historie fol. 414. gives this worthie testimonie viz. That they were estranged from deceit towards their friends to advance their power by which they would not vanquish their enemies holding it neither noble norfirme if they did not vanquish by prowesse and in open fight Wherefore they ordained amongst themselves that no man should make use of hidden armes thinking that an open Combatt hand to hand was the true determining of warr Finally they declared themselves to their enemies and signified the warr when they were once resolved to undergoe the danger of the battle The like they did of the places where they would decide it And in the fame page he goes on and saith there is yet in his time which was in the life of Hannibal the great that cut his way in the depth of Winter through the mountanous Alps of Italy to get his armies as nigh Rome as their swords would inable them remaining in the Romans some reliques of their antient humour in such affaires they signifie their warr before and they seldome use any ambushes fighting readilie hand to hand Let these words saith he be spoken against the affection which is much more readie then is needfull in malicious practises policies and ambushes amongst Princes as well in affairs of warr as policies And Plutarch in his Historie fol. 139. relateing how that the old renowned Romans by their Generall Consull Camillus made warr and besieged the strong citties Falerians which being a very strong place in all parts made the people within very secure which their General Schoolmaster to their Children perceiving he for his own treacherous ambitious ends led the Children day by day out of the walls to play and at last presented himself and them before the Roman Generall in hopes of great matters from him for so doeing but the vertuous gallant old heathen Roman although he brought him the chief mens Children of the cittie said to those that were about him Warr of it self surely is an evill thing because in it many injuries and mischiefs are done neverthelesse amongst good men there is a law and discipline which doth forbid them to seeke victorie by wicked traiterous meanes and that a noble and worthie General should make warr and procure victorie by trusting to his own valiantnesse and not by anothers vilenesse and villanie Therefore he commanded his Sergeants to teare the cloathes off the back of this vile Schoolmaster and to binde his hands behinde him and that they should give the children rods and whips in their hands to whip the Traitor back again into the cittie naked that had betraied them and grieved their parents which when the Falerians heard that the Schoolmaster had thus betraied them all the cittie saith Plutarch fell a weeping and men and women ran together in one anothers necks to the town walles and gates of the cittie like people out of their witts they were so exceedingly troubled at the losse of their children but when they see their children bringing back the traiterous Schoolmaster as is aforesaid and calling the Roman Generall Camillus their father their God and their Saviour not onely the fathers and mothers of the children but generally all the other Cittizens did conceive in themselves a wonderfull admiration and great love of the wisdom justice and goodnesse of Camillus so that notwithstanding the great strength of their cittie they presentlie called a Counsell and there concluded to send Embassadors forthwith unto him to put their lives and goods to his mercie and favour who sent their Ambassadours unto Rome where having audience before the Senate the Amstassadors said because the Romans preferred justice before victorie they taught them to be better contented to submit themselves unto them then to be their owne men at libertie confessing their vertue did more overcome them then any force or power could doe where upon the Senate left all to their Generall Camillus to doe in it what he pleased and he used them so as became a man of a truly noble minde that rather desired to overcome their mindes with love then their bodies with feare terror and thereby choosed to have their subjection out of the lasting principles of love rather then to have it by the cobweb ties of feare And as full of noblenesse and justice was that act of Fabricius another of the Roman Generals towards Pyrrus King of Epirus a dangerous and formidable adversarie to the Roman Common-wealth and who forced their Generals and Armies in divers pitcht Battles against whom his own Physitian for the hopes of filthie lucre conspired to take away his life for the accomplishing of which he writes a letter with his own hand into the Roman Camp in which he profered to poyson the King his master in case the Roman Generall would promise him a large reward for his paines and for ending their desperate warrs without further danger But Fabritius detesting the wickednes of the Physitian and having made Quintus Aemylius his collegue and fellow Consul also to abhorre the same wrote a letter unto King Pyrrus and bad him take heed for there were that ment to poison him the contents of the letter were these Caius Fabricius Quintus Aemylius Consulls of Rome unto King Pyrrus greeting You have ô King made unfortunate choise both of your friends and of your enemys as shall appeare unto you by reading of this letter which one of yours hath writt unto us for you make warrs with just and honest men and doe your selfe trust altogether the wicked and unfaithfull hereof therefore we have thought good to advertize you not in respect to pleasure you but for feare the misfortune of your death might make us unjustly to be accused imagining that by Treachery or treason we have sought to end this warr as though by valiantnes we could not otherways atchieve it which letter procured the execution of this physitian for his treachery and a high admiration in King Pyrrus of the Romans worth and noble gallantry Plutarch Fol 409. O Renowned and worthy heathens far surpassing in honestie and farr surmounting in Iustice and rightiousnes our great pretended Christians the governors in England that Judge noe meanes nor wayes though never so abominable in themselves too vile for them to undertake for the accomplishing of their owne ends whether it be treacherie murder prejurie breach of faith or what ever it be and who have cheated all manner of Interests that ever yet in their lives they delt with and

either prevaile with you to write me your answer or with them to doe it For my part Sir my End is no other then English in it it being in no manner of respect a farthing advantage unto mee either in possession or expectation Onely it is one of the greatest ambitions I have in this world to be really and substantially a true lover of my Countrie and its real libertie And the rather because of late in readeing some store of Historie I find that many gallant and worthy heathens made it their worke study and hazard to make the sonns of men liveing in this world happy in their lives yea and to march with Armies valiantly to venter their lives to set at libertie and freedome their neighbours that they might enjoy their owne lawes and customes which they themselves had according to reason and the light and law of nature that supreme and original guide that God mans alone absolute Soveraigne had placed in every mans soule by common consent chosen and established or hereafter should choose and establish the actings according to which principally if not onely makes Man to differ from a brute Beast and bee delivered in good earnest from the bondage and slavery of Tyrants and Opressours or rather salvage brute Beasts in Mans shape not in words only but in deeds allso Of which without being judged tedious suffer me I beseech you to give you a few remarkeable instances The first is of the Citty of the Acheëns who by their good and just government and common liberty became as saith that old and rational historian Polybius fol 28.83 c a certaine president of a true Common-wealth and reconciled thereby all Morea And one of their chiefest and most virtuous Cittyzens called A rate made it his cheife worke to study by all meanes to chase away the kings or tyrants as they are there called and to preserve the common libertie of the Countrie of Morea and prevailed with Lysidas Aristomachus Xenon and Cleomenes to lay downe their crownes and renounce their royall principalities and to joine themselves to the league of the Acheëens of whose virtuousnes faithfullnes and noblenes of mind the said author gives a most commendable character in fol 414. in which Plutarch fully concurrs with him in his famous Historie of the lives of the noble Graecians and Romans fol 371. yea the said Author Polybius declares that when Antigonus a Governour and Generall under a king and Tutor to his Sonn had overcome the Lacedemonians by force of Armes and thereby had made himselfe Lord of them if he had pleased so to be yet he forbare to use any outrage or crueltie towards them and carryed him selfe not onely like a moderator and temperate man but was allso gracious unto his very Enemies and returned into his Countrie leaveing them in their full libertie doeing them many favours both in Generall and particular So as they not only termed him at that time their benefactour but after his death they called him their Saviour folio 86.100.229.353 Yea Plutarch in his foresaid history declares that Lycurgus when he had the power of the kingdome of Sparta in his owne hands and might easiely have kept it yet so sincere just and full of virtue was hee that he voluntarily laid it downe and betooke himselfe to a weareing and toilesome life to study and find out a governement that might make that Citty its territories a free happy and pleasant Commonwealth which he accordingly did And as that judicipos Author saith made it one of the famousest that was in the world and filld it full of valour virtue and love for many yeares together Their very children being trayned up in it from their cradles that so it might be as it were incorporated into their very natures and there being in it no coveteousnes nor poverty nor lack but a fullnes of abundance with a quiet and sober life Haveing allso two singular good properties besides viz that it had no Lawyers nor yet any suites in Law And 2dly whilest these Lawes of Lycurgus were observed and kept their life and vigour which for many yeares they did Sparta seemed not to be a policy or a Commow wealth but rather a certaine holy place and order of religion and of that respect and honour amongst their neighbours that with a little scrowle of parchment and a poore cap the Spartans commanded and gave Lawes to all the rest of Greece even with their owne good likenig and consent yea and expulsed and chased away the tyrants which usurped tyrannical power over any of their neighbours Citties and did decide all controversies and often times pacified their seditions without sending out one soldier but only a simple poore Embassadour So great reverence had their neighbours of the good government and justice of the Spartans Plutarch fol 42.44.49.56.57.60.78 It would be too tedious unto you for me to bee any thing large upon too many instances And therefore I shall but only name the hazards that love to just libertie and freedome that rationall image of God amongst men who only as absolute soveraigne Lord of Man commands him by his will led Clisthenes to run into to set Athens free from their tyrants and tyrannie wherewith they were oppressed in his time and that Pericles under tooke to deliver Samos from its tyrants and tyrannie or small aristo-craticall or olig-archical governement of a few nobles to establish a popular Governement or Soveraigne Authoritie or Majestie of the People as the aforesaid Author calls it or that Alcibiades and his associates underwent againe to recover the Libertie of Athens from new upstart tyrants or that Pelopidas Ismenias Androclidas and Pherenicus with their associates hazarded to deliver the Cittie and Commonwealth of Thebes from the usurpation and tyrannie of Archias Leontidas and Philip with their associates and mercenary soldiers Which story especially is extraordinarily well worth the readeing All which are by Plutarch touch 't upon in his foresaid history in fol 158.171.212.288.289.290 And in fol 300.302.305 he shewes that Pelopidas being by his Citty sent Embassadour to Artaxerxes king of Persia who very much honoured him for his valiantnes and Wisedome procured of him that all the People of Greece should be free againe And his Citty and hee being sollicited by the Thessalians to helpe to deliver them from the most unsupportable and beastly uglie tyrannie of their grand Tyrant Alexander they made it their worke to deliver all such as were oppressed by tyrants yea and sought to roote out tyrannicall governement throughout whole Greece For the obtaineing of which in a pitcht battaile with the forementioned tyrant Alexander that valiant and worthy Captaine Pelopidas lost his life which the Thebans immediately after sufficiently revenged and compelled the Tyrant to withdraw his garrisons and set those Citties free which he kept in bondage Yea when the ancient and most famous commonwealth of Rome came to have power in Macedonia after the Consul Paulus Aemylius had

overthrowne king Perseus in battle and Slaine in the feild above twenty-five-thousand of his men whereby their country was forced to submit unto him yet notwithstanding the history saith of him that he redelivered the Macedonians their Country and townes again with power to live at libertie according to their own lawes paying yearely to the Romans for tribute an hundred talents where before they were wont to pay unto their Kings ten times as much But most worthy to be written in letters of gold are those two most commendable admirable virtuous and most noble presidents of Corinth and their Generall Timoleon and of that worthy Generall and Consul of old Rome Titus Quintius Flaminius The substance of which in breife is thus After Dion had driven out the Tyrant Dionysius of Syracusa in Sicily and restored the People thereof to their freedomes yet through their folly or basenes the tyrant got in againe ten yeares after he was first driven out and made himselfe King Vpon which the cheife Citizens repaired to Icetes tyrant of the Leontines who being borne in their owne citty they beleived would afford them helpe to deliver them from the insufferable bondage of the said tyrant Dionysius And haveing chose him their Generall the Carthaginians invaded Sicily with a great Army which put the Siracusians into a great feare and necessitated them to send Embassadors into Greece unto the Corinthians to pray aide of them against the barbarous people Haveing better hope of them then of any other Grecians not only because saith the Historie they had some relation to them and that they had formerly received favours from them but principally because they knew that Corinth was a Cittie that in all ages and times did ever love libertie and hate tyrants and that had made alwayes their greatest warrs not for ambition of Kingdomes nor out of a covetous desire to conquer and rule but onely to defend and maintain the libertie of the Graecians Vpon the arrival of whose Embassadors they were very forward to relieve them And amongst others that profered their service and were named for Generalls a meane private Commoner names one Timoleon a man that untill that time was never called upon for service neither looked for any such preferment Yet he was naturally enclined to love his Countrey and Common-wealth and was alwaies gentle and courteous to all men saveing that he mortally hated tyrants and wicked men The people of Corinth willingly accepted of him and freely chose him for their Generall In which mean time the forenamed Icetes had forsaken those that chose him for their Generall and turned traitor by joyning with the Carthaginians on purpose to divide all sicily betwixt himselfe and them and therefore wrote letters to Corinth to disswade them from comeing or putting themselves to any charge or trouble forasmuch as the Carthaginians did lie in waite with a great fleet of Shipps to meet them and to destroy them Whose embassage was so far from cooleing them at Corinth that it fild them full of choler and zeale to goe on with their busynes and accordingly their Generall set saile with 17 gallies and being waylaid by the Carthaginians with a far greater power then hee had he by a sleight got from them and arrived safe at the Cittie Tauromenion in Sicily where they were very well received by him that governed the Cittie who ruled his Cittyzens with all justice and equitie and did allwaies shew himselfe an open Enemie to tyrants Hee lent his Cittie to the Corinthian Generall to gather forces in hee haveing of himselfe not above a thousand footmen in all and neither provision nor so much money as would serve to pay them the People haveing bin squee zed so much before by some that had formerly bin with them upon pretence that they came to set them at libertie to drive out tyrants and yet neverthelesse just like your Generall Cromwell and his mere mercenary Armie in England whose wicked way of getting their liveings by killing of men merely for hire I judge to be abaser more sordid trade then that of a common Hangman who earnes his bread by killing of those the law hath legally convicted and condemned or then the trade of a common whore that prostitutes her body to all comers and goers had done so much hurt unto them that the misery and the calanity which they had suffered under the tyrants seemed unto them a blessed condition in comparison of that which such Captaines had made them to undergoe Now in a little Cittie called Adranus there being dissention amongst the people thereof one Part of them sent for Icetes the traiterous Generall who came with about five thousand men and the other part sent for Timoleon who with all he brought from Corinth and those he had gat in the Island could make but twelve hundred men with which he overcame his aduersarie Icetes and his Axmy And haveing spoiled his Campe the Cittyzens of Adranus opened their gates and received the Corinthians in After which many Cittie 's sent to joine in league with their Generall Timoleon And the Tyrant Dionysius haveing bin beaten before by Icetus and pent up in his strong Castle at Syracusa much esteemeing the valiantnes of Timoleon sends privately to him to yeild himselfe and his Castle into his hands Who haveing with the like privacy taken Possession of it and severall times put in foure hundred of his owne soldiers to garrison it which was full of riches and armes of all sorts he sent the Tyrant away to Corinth This good success of Timoleon haueing done all this in 15 daies incouraged his masters the Cittyzens of Corinth to send him a supply of two thousand foote and two hundred horse who found it allmost impossible to get to their Generall Timoleon because the Carthaginians kept the Seas with a great navy of Shipps In the meane time the traitor Icetes kept the said Castle blockt up and allso hired two soldiers privately to goe and kill Timoleon who kept no guard about his person nor mistrusted any danger which by a kind of miracle was prevented At which Icetes being mad and also understanding that multitudes were daily drawne to Timoleons deuotion hee causeth Mago the Carthaginian Generall with his whole fleet of an hundred and fiftie saile to come into the harbour to his aid Out of which hee landed threescore thousand men and lodged them all in the Cittie of Syracusa Which greatly distressed the Corinthians in the Castle But yet their Generall supplied them with some provisions from Catana in little fisher-bootes Which Mago and Icetes finding out they tooke the best soldiers of all their Armie and sailed away to take Catana to hinder therby the releife of the Corinthians But Leon the Corinthian Captaine that kept the Castle perceiveing it and that the enemie within the Citty kept but a slender guard he sallied out upon them killed abundance of them and tooke a good and strong part of the towne where he

found great store of corne and of gold and silver which he secured and within a short while after through many Straites and difficulties the foresaid Corinthian succour arrived with which their Generall Timoleon joined so that all his forces put together made up about foure thousand men With which he marched forth towards Syracusa to releive his men in the Castle there Whereupon Mago the Carthaginian Generall in a kind of panic feare and supposition of some treason hastens away with his great Armie and Fleet in to Africa from whence he first came Yet Icetes having got great spoiles together and secured him selfe with great store of men in a very strong part of the Cittie would not yeild till Timoleon desperately stormed him on every side and so tooke the Cittie Where he puld downe the tyrants strong fort and made councell Halls and places of justice to be built where it stood and did establish a free-state or popular Governement suppressing all tyrannical power And because that Cittie and many others were by the crueltie of the tyrants and by the warrs much destitute of inhabitants hee and all his Captaines did write to Corinth to send People out of Greece to inhabit those desolate Citties Which letters being arrived with the Syracusian Embassadors the Corinthians did not saith the History greedily desire to be Lords of so great and goodly a Cittie but. First they proclaimed by sound of trumpet in all the assemblyes and solemne feasts and common playes of Greece that the Corinthians haveing destroyed the tyrany that was in the Citty of Syracusa and driven out the tyrants did call the Syracusians that were fugitives out of their owne Country home againe with all other Sicilians that liked to come and dwell there to enjoy all fredome and liberty with promise to make equall and just division of the lands amongst them the one to have as much as the other Moreover they sent out posts and messengers into Asia and all the Islands where they did understand the banished Syracusians remained to perswade and entreat them to come to Corinth and that the Corinthians would give them Shipps Captaines and meanes safely to conduct them to Syracusa at their owne proper costs and charges ö most worthy and compassionate most noble and gallant old Heathens hereby truly shewing themselves reall actors in the true fruites of the true knowledge and adoration of the supreme Diety who prefers Mercy and righteousnes before all services sacrifices whatsoever and therein far out stripping our great and fair-seemeing Alchemy christians at this day ruleing in England These heathen Corinthians dealeing hereby a thousand thousand times more honorably nobly justly and righteously with the Syracusian strangers and aliens then our great Hypocrites in England deale with their owne Countrymen and brethren notwithstanding all their many solemne faire and glorious promises to the contrary and notwithstanding in an extraordinary and free measure they have bin assisted by them against their Enemies with abundance of their bloud and treasure In recompence of which most noble and commendable acts of the worthy Corinthians they received saith my Author every mans most noble praise and blessing Nevertheles such of the Sicilians as repaired to Corinth upon this proclamation being but a small number to inhabit so great a Countrie besought the Corinthians to joine to them some of their owne people and others of other parts of Greece Which was performed and there were Shipped to the number of about tenn thousand which with others that Timoleon had got together from other parts came to about threescore thousand persons With all whom he dealt so virtuously honourably justly and compassionately as he rather seemed to be an indeared and tender father unto them then a valiant and victorious conquering Generall over them And havenig setled that great Citty in freedome and in a way to flourish he resolved to set all other Citties in that famous Island at perfect liberty allso and totally and utterly to roote out all the tyrants of Sicily And the better to obteine his purpose he went to make warrs with them at their owne doores And first he began with the forementioned Icetes who by flight had saved his life at the takeing of Syracusa and him he compelld to forsake his league with Carthage to raze all his strong holds and to live a private life And Leptines the tyrant of Apollonia and divers places there unto adjoineing out of feare submitted unto him whom he sent to Corinth And when he had done this he forthwith returned to Syracusa about the establishment of the Commonwealth assisting Cephalus and Dionysius two notable men sent from Corinth to reforme the Lawes and to helpe him to establish the goodlyest ordinances for their Commonwealth that might be invented After which the Carthaginians perceiveing they were totally like to loose their footeing which they had in Sicily came downe with an Army of threescore and ten thousand men with two hundred gallies and a thousand other Shipps and Vessells which carryed all sorts of provisions for warrs Against whom after severall of his people and soldiers had fainted in the way Timoleon with five thousand footmen and one thousand horse resolutely marches eight dayes journey with a full intention to give them battle in the open feild And observeing his advantages when he came nigh his Enemies he got to the top of an Hill where a mist ariseing and the Sunn after a while it being in May breakeing out made the valley wherein his Enemies were cleare whiles the mist continueing on the top of the Hill hid him where he could see his Enemies and the warrlike manner in which they passed over a River where he suffering a great many of them to come over tooke his advantage allthough they were fronted with armed carts and wagons before them and gave a most furious and soldierlike charge upon them both with his horse and foote Where comenig to the close fight of Target-and-Sword with them who were heavily armed and being much helpt by providence from Heaven that sent a mervailous tempest of thunder lighteing wind raine and haile that bet full in the Carthaginians faces after he had slaine the front of their choisest men the rest fled divers of them being slaine and the rest drowned by reason that the raine newly falne had much encreased the river There were three thousand naturall Carthagenians and of their noblest families and seven thousand of their mercenary or hired soldiers slaine in this battle and five thousand prisoners taken with their whole Campe and Baggage being very rich After which Icetes and Mamercus the tyrant of Catana perceiveing that tyrants could looke for no peace at Timoleons hands they made a league with the Carthagenians againe and wrote unto them that they should send another Army and Captaine suddenly if they intended to preserve any footeing in Sicily Whereupon they sent Gisco thither with seventy saile of Shipps Who haveing done severall mischeises unto Timoleon and

hold it as an undoubted article of their faith for the support of their State and policie that it is not fitt nor convenient for them to keep faith with any Interest or generation of men in the world longer then it serves their owne ends being absolutely in their owne thoughts as their constant practises sufficiently demonstrate and declare as cleare as the Sunne at noone day tyed by noe ingagement declarations protestations oaths Covenants or Contracts whatsoever that even amongst Pagans and Infidels themselves are most Sacred longer then they please and if any of their mercenary penmen dare be so impudent as to deny this that I now say of them and indeanor in there behalfe to proove the contrary I dare hereby ingage my life and reputation by abundance of evident declared and knowne instances to prove these my pressent asertions as cleare as the Sunne in its most glorious shineing therefore let all wise men be wary and take heed how they trust them But a little further to goe on me thinks it seems ugly and so inconsistent with the principles of a man that would really be reputed a Christian and that injoys Communion with the Lord of Life and glory and beleeves his Almightie power and faithfullnes to be a pursuer of any designe whatsoever but what he well examines and before hand compares with the Rule of truth and righteousnes the revealed will of god contained in the Scripture and which evidently upon the examination appears to his conscience and Judgement to be just and honest in it selfe and in the mannageing of which he Steeres his course by those two sure and never faileing cards or Compasses of righteousnes viꝪt doe as you would be donn unto and yee shall not doe evill that good may come of it that should I either undertake such wicked designes as my Cromwellish Bloodie adversaries constantly for these 5 or 6 Yeares together have donn against me or pursne the accomplishment there of with such false treacherous hellish diabolicall Bloodly cowardly meanes and ways as they have commonly done upon me not with standing any glorious outside pretences of religious fastings prayings and preachings which yet in themselves rightely preformed are excellent good things that possible I could have acted or performed really I should have Judged my selfe so farr from deserveing to be reputed to be a true Christian indeed that truly I should rather have thought that abundantly more justly I had truly deserved to have that saying of Christ in Iohn 8 44 spoken unto me that Christ himselfe spoke unto the hypocriticall jewes that boasted much to be Children of Abraham but did not doe his works but the quite contrarie and therfore saith Christ to them you are of your Father the Deviland the lusts of your Father you will doe he was a Murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is noe truth in him when he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his owne for he is a lyer and the Father of it The second consideration that I have had in my thoughts ariseth from that indeared affection that I justly beare to the Land of my nativitie above all nations in the world and that extraordinary obligeing cause and ground I have to beare the same to multitudes of the honest in habitants thereof for their former tender affection in the day of my great adversitie largely manifested unto me now if under the pretence of my indeavering to preserve my self against Cromwells faithles and apparent indeavoring utterly to destroy me and mine and extirpating me from the Earth I should in the present day of Englands adversitie by their warrs with Holland hand over head rashly and inconsiderately by way of hasty revenge ingage against it and indeavor to have done to the whole as severall bannished men upon farr greater causes and grounds then mine that I have redd of that were bannished from Rome and Athens did who by joyning their presonall and particular interests parts and abilities to the strength of Rome and Athens their professed enemyes and thereby severall times brought their native Citties countryes almost to utter desolation I say should I have done or indeavonred to have done this in the day of Englands present adversitie though I have I am confident of it as much cause given me in any open avowed way in the world to indeavor to right my selfe against that grand Tyrant Cromwell and his lawles bloodthirstie Crue as can be given unto a man yet I say if my indevoring my owne right should intentionally or rationally and consequentially tend to the mischeise and destruction of the whole I should have had little peace or comfort of minde in it or small honour or repute in the estimation of righteous and just men who might justly have told me God himselfe though absolute Soveraigne over all mankinde in wicked Sodoms case abhorred to destroy the righteous with the wicked Gen. 18. And all those that truly professe the feare of his name ought to be like unto him at least in the habite or disposition of there mindes And besides They might also have justly told me of Gods severe threatned revenge upon Edom for dealing with the house of his brother Jacob in the like case although the smitings of God himself for their sinnes was upon them yet in this very case God in Obadiah Verse 9.10.11.12.13.14.15 thus saith And thy mighty men o Teman shall be dismaied to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cutt off by slaughter for thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cutt off for ever in the day that thou stoodest on the other side in the day that the strangers carried away his forces and forraigners entered into his gates and cast lotts upon Jerusalem even thou wast as one of them But thou shouldest not have looked upon the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger neither shouldest thou have rejoyced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of their distresse Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamitie Yea thou shouldest not have looked upon their affliction in the day of their calamitie nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamitie neither shouldest thou have stood in the cross way to have cutt of those of his that did Escape neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distresse for the day of the Lord is neare upon all the heathen as thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall return upon thine own head And also having redd the Scripture as I have done diligently they might have told me if the blood of one righteous Abel causesly shed called or cried so loud in the ears of God for wrath and vengeance against Cain how much

his men Timoleon thereupon Ied his Army before the Citty of Calauria In whose absence Icetes with a maine Armie enters the confines of Syracusa and carryes away a mervailous great spoile And returning by Calauria because he knew that Timoleon had but few men about him is notwithstanding fought with by him and put to flight and pursued to the City of Leontinus where Timoleon takes him and his sonne alive and putts them to death like Traytors and Tyrants And afterward he went to Catana where he overthrew Mamercus and his Armie in Battaile made peace with the Carthaginians confineing them to keep beyond the river Lycas and engageing them that they should enter into no more leagues with any of the Tyrants After which the Citty of Catana was yeelded to him But Mamercus fled to Messina to Hippon the Tyrant thereof whither Timoleon pursued him besieged the Citty both by Sea and Land But the Messinians haveing the Tyrant in their hands made all their children come from Schole into the Theatre or play-house to see the Tyrant punished who was openly whipt and after put to death But Mamercus yeelded himself to be tried by the Syracusians where he was condemned and put to death Thus did Timoleon root out all tyrants out of Sicily and made an end of all warres there and did not onely assure the inhabitants of peace and sasetie to live there but willingly did help them besides with all other things necessarie to his utmost abilitie For which they loved and honoured him as their father fonnder And he accepted of a faire house which the Syracusians gave him in the Countrie for his good service and returned no more to his own Countrey but sent for his Wife and Children to come to him And that which compleatly crowned all the rest of his most worthy Acts and rendered him a most just and virtuous man indeed was that of his own voluntarie accord he laid down his Office of Generallship praying the Cityzens to accept of that which he had already done for them being not at all puft upp with pride by all his conquests or glorious and wonderfull successes whereby he might make himself envied of the honest Cityzens Yet notwithstanding two busie Fellows put in an accusation against him before the Supreme assembly of the People at which the honest Cityzens began to mutinie against those accusers would not in any case suffer the day of adjuournment for the putting in his answer to take place But the good old and honest Generall pacified them telling them that he had taken all that extreme labour and paines which he had done and had passed so many dangers that every cittyzen and inhabitant of Syracusa might frankly use the libertie of their Lawes And another time Demaenetus in open assenbly of the people reprovenig many things which Timoleon had done when he was Generall Timoleon answered never a word but said unto the people that he thanked the Gods they had granted him the thing he be had so requested of them in his prayers which was that hee might once see the Syracusians have full power and libertie to say what they would So he lived to his dying day with the greatest and universallest honour and respect amongst those people that possible could be given to a truly virtuous wise just and upright man being esteemed a most loving and common father unto them all As you may reade at large in Plutarchs said history Fol. 266.267 unto 285. O Sir that in England amongst all the present great men thereof that in outward shew professe the highest enjoyment of union and communion with the Lord Jesus Christ the truest fountain of pure righteousnesse that can be enjoyed and pretend assuredly to look for and expect the future possession of a most glorious immortalitie with the Lord of life and glory in the life that is to come there could be found out one amongst them all that could jnstly deserve in the least for his virtue indeed valour justice humanity compassion and noblenesse of minde to be compared to this most honest old Heathen and Pagan Generall Timoleon If but any one could be sound out amongst them all like him how soon would all your desperate and dangerous divisions be closed up with humanity and brotherly affection and that great issue of bloud for the cause and continuance of which some have a large and dreadfull account to make that for many yeares together hath bin let openly run amongst you and is still without remedie like to continue All of which by the practise of this Heathens thens most commendable virtues would quickly be stopt and healed up and your selves made truly formidable and dreadfull throughout the world to all those that durst account themselves your adversaries For the very feare of haveing their people infected as they terme it with your righteous principles of justice and reason would more trouble and affright them then all your great strength and power for verily great is the power and strength of truth and reason it will at last undoubtedly overcome and prevaile by Sea or Land doth And undoubtedly if God be the God of truth and righteousnesse as absolutely he is he will speedily and with a witnesse blast you and make you a perfect hissing and scorn to all the Nations and people round about you if you continue to walk in crookeder and wickeder stepps and pathes then all or any of those did which you your selves have condemned and executed for notorious Tyrants and Oppressours And yet for all that which hath bin largely spoken of the foresaid honest and worthy Timoleon give me leave to speake a few words of another old heathen who may most fitly be compared unto him for humanity justice and righteousnes and that is the most famous old roman Consul and Generall Titus Quintius fflaminius who when he was but a young man not thirtie yeares old was by the cleare voyces of the supreme assembly of the body of the People of Rome for his virtue chosen into that high dignitie of Consul of Rome in its most glorious commendable and flourishing condition although two of the Peoples Tribunes or Protectors of their Libertie spoke aginst his Election Who after his Election being ordered to make warrs against Philip king of Macedon immediately departs to his charge with three thousand gallant old Romane soldiers which being added to the rest of his supplies in Macedon under the command of the last yeares Generall and Consul Paulus Junius made his Army above twenty six thousand fighting men Which yet was a less number then King Philips was who had in such naturally strong and almost in accessible mountanous places planted his Campe that Romes former Generalls could not come at him but at the end of their annuall Consul-ship or Generall ship came away without hurting his Armie Yet Titus Flaminius with paines care industrie and valour got up to him although the Macedonians throughout the world were most

highly esteemed for valerous and good soldiers by reason of the famous and wonderfull acts that Alexander the great not long before had done with them betwixt whose Armies there was a most feirce fight the Battle of the Macedonians being usually joyned target target to target so close together that before it bee broken it seemeth as it were the body of a beast of a force invincible Yet notwithstanding the valiant and wise Consul was not long in overcomeing them and forc't them to fly leaveing eight thousand dead upon the place besides five thousand taken prisoners and when he had done thereby had the whole Country at his mercy who were miserably divided with abundance of civill warres oppressions of Tyrans yet he tooke not the avantage against them which he might have done But he sent his herald forthwith into their public meeteings or plaies where in great abundance they were assembled together by sound of trumpet with a loud voyce to proclaine in their Assemblies that the Senate of Rome Titus Quintius Flaminius Consull of the People of Rome now that they had overthrowne King Philip the Macedonians in battle did thenceforth discharge them from all Garrisons and set them at libertie from all rapes subsidies and impositions for ever to live after their owne ancient Lawes and in full liberty which privileges should extend to the Corinthians the Lochians to those of Phocide those of the Isles of Euboea the Achaians the Phthiotes the Magnesians the Thessalians and the Peirobeians And the second time after silence made the Herald proclaimed it farr lowder that so the People might heare it distinctly At which there a rose such a loud shout and cry of exceeding joy throughout the whole people that the sound of it was heard to the very sea and the people rose up full of joy from their seates and let the fenceing sword plaies and other games alone and went together with abundance of joy to salute to embrace to thanke Titus the recoverer protector and patron of all the libertie of famous Greece and then was seene saith Plutarch in strange and wonderfull manner the power of Mens voyces and the People were so violent in expressing their joy to Titus that if he had not got him away betimes he had hardly escaped from being stifled amongst the People they came so thick about him from all places who after they were weary with crying and singing about his Pavilion till night they went away and as they met any of their kindred friends or cittyzens they did kiss embrace one another forjoy and so supped and made merry together And yet in their Farther rejoycing at their tables they had no other talke but of the warrs of Greece discourseing amongst themselves what sundry great warrs they had made and what they had endured here to fore and all to defend recover their liberty and yet for all that could never so joyfully nor so assuredly obtain it then they did even at that present receiving the honourablest reward and that which justly deserved the greatest fame throughout the world that by the valiantnes of strangers who fought for the same without any bloodshed of their own in comparison or the loss of the life of any one man whose death they had cause to lament they were so restored to their ancient freedome and liberty And saith my judicious and wise another it is a very rare thing amongst men to find a Man very valiant wise withall but yet of all sorts of valiant Men he saith it is hardest to find a just valiant man yet did al these three most commendable perfections of valour wisdome and justice meet in rare perfection in this young heathen Roman The Grecians t is true had amongst them selves many famous valiant Captaines or Generalls who had very good skill to lead an Armie and to winn the Battle as well by sea as by Land but to turne their victories to any honourable benefit or true honour amongst men as he calls it to reconcile their homebred differences and cement themselves in union they none of them could ever of late especially well skill of it And excepting a few battells which the authour names all the other Battels and warrs of Greece that were made sell out against them selves and did ever bring them into bondage and all the tokens of triumph which were ever set up for the same was to their shame and losse So that in the end Greece was utterly destroyed and overthrowne and the captaines of the Citties one envying anothers doeings Whereas a strang nation the which had very little or no occasion at all to move them to doe it have notwithstanding with dangerous battles and infinite troubles delivered it from oppression servitude of violent Lords and Tyrants This and such like talke did at that time occupie the Grecians heads And moreover the deeds following did answer and performe the words of the proclamation For at one selfe same time Titus sent Lentulus into Asia to set the Bargilians at liberty and Tetillus into Thracia to remove the garrisons out of the Isles and Citties which Philip had kept there And Publius Julius was sent allso into Asia unto king Antiochus to speake unto him to set the Grecians at libertie which he kept in subjection And as for Titus he went himselfe unto the Cittie of Chalcyde where hee tooke sea and went into the Province of Magnesia out of the which hee tooke all the garrisons of the Citties and redelivered the government of the Common-wealth unto the Cittyzens of the same And after he had spent some time in mirth with the People in celebrateing some feasts and games he caused again solemne proclamation to be made openly for the Generall liberty of all Greece Furthermore visiting the Citties he did establish very good lawes reformed justice and did set the inhabitants and Cittyzens every one of them in good peace amity and concord one with another and did call home also all those that were outlawes and bannished men and pacified all old quarrells and dissentions amongst them The which did no lesse please and content him that by perswasions he could bring the Grecians to be reconciled one with another then if by force of armes hee had overcome the Macedonians In so much as the recovery of the liberty that Titus had restored to the Grecians seemed unto them the least part of the goodnes they had received at his hands O rare perfection of wisedome Righteousnes true Virtue Gentlenes Goodnes of an old heathen and pagan Roman not in the least to be found amongst our great seemeing saints and pretended Christians in England which in the glorious and transcendent rare Effects it produced reaped its full recompence of reward For saith my said Author the good deeds of the Romans and of Titus Quintius Flaminius done unto the Grecians did not only reape this benefit unto them in recompence that they were praised and honoured of all