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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76083	A just defence of John Bastwick. Doctor in Phisicke, against the calumnies of John Lilburne Leiutenant [sic] Colonell and his false accusations, vvritten in way of a reply to a letter of Master Vicars: in which he desires to be satisfied concerning that reproch. In which reply, there is not onely the vindication of the honour of the Parliament, but also that which is of publike concernment, and behooves all well affected subjects to looke into. Printed and published with license according to order.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1065; Thomason E265_2; ESTC R212430	39,689	39

minded men who if they shall impartially judge I am most assured they will determine that the obligation lyes on John Lilburnes part towards me and not on my part towards him especially if they shall seriously way all other passages betweene us which in the following discourse will appeare for I freeley gave him the Copies of both my Letany and answer never expecting any profit to my selfe by them or ever looking for any reward from him or any other thing but his love And I am most confident if I could have beene mercenary as yet I never was who never tooke a penny of my Printer for any thing I did I might have had forty pieces at least for the Copies of them and it will not be a difficult thing to prove what I now say Now then whether or no Iohn Lilburne bee not for this my humanity obliged to mee I leave it to all mens consideration And whereas hee saith he adventured his life at home and abroad and underwent all those miseries for my sake and cause it is most false for he exposed himselfe to all those dangers as Mariners doe to all the perills of Sea for hope of gaine and of getting a livelyhood for themselves their Families And it is well known that Iohn Lilburne at that time was not so well instructed in the controversies of the Church as uow he seemeth to be who dares all the World to dispute with him Neither was it so much his zeale to the Cause that put him upon that imployment as the eye he had to his own honour and profit which in all probability if he had not beene betrayed hee would have concommitated his endeavours and if John had not forgot himselfe he would as formerly hee hath done acknowledge that I was the best master and instructour that ever hee had for matters of controversie and Religion so that next unto God he owes his greatest ski●l to mee who was a good Tutor to him and I would have him to know that I am yet able to teach him and a better Schollar then any independant in England who are yet to learne their Primer in Politickes and their Catechisme in Divinity though through the judgment of God upon this Nation which affect Novelties the people are infatuated with that generation of men and as it is in the song of Moses Revel. 15. Great and wonderfull are thy workes Lord God Almightie and just in all thy wayes thou King of Saints to give men over to error because they receive not the truth in the love of it that they might be saved 2 Thes. 2. ver. 10. 11. And if John had but grace in him he would not disdaine at this present to be advised by me who so long as he followed those wholsome principles and the good councell I gave him hee had true honour indeed and might have lived and dyed with comfort and repute whereas taking those idle courses and following a company of unstable guidy-headed people out of vaine glory and ambition to have a name of a Champion of the Independents he perpetrates those unwarrantable things that brings dishonour to God and scandalls all Christian Religion and his holy profession so that whiles hee would be thought to bee a Teacher and Doctor as Saint Paul speakes 1 Tim. chap. 1. Hee understandeth not what he speaketh nor whereof he affirmes who hath erred from the truth and is now turned in to vain janglings not knowing that the end of the Commandement is love out of a pure heart and a good Conscience and of faith unfained which forbids him to rayle of dignities and to speake evill of Government and injoynes him to obedience and teaches him in love to thinke better of others then of himselfe and to preferre others before himselfe Rom. 12. v. 10. Phil. 2. and not out of a vapouring humour proudly and arrogantly to vaunt himselfe and dare all others and our of his turbulent and tumultuous spirit to rayse a Faction to the disturbing of both Church and State and the disquieting himselfe and others to the griefe of all such as wish his good both for soule and body Now as I have related unto you Master Vicars the beginning of our acquaintance and shewed you what the Obligations were that hee sayes I stand so much ingaged unto him for so I thinke it not amisse to speake of some other passages of love both from my Wife and my selfe towards him As for my Wife in the time of my banishment at his sufferings she was failing to him in no offer of friendship but withall tender affection shee was ever ready to yeeld him her best assistance in any thing and night and day she was solicitous for his good providing for him a most faithfull and diligent Chirurgion often visiting him and stirring up friends to doe him good and according to her owne abilities pleasuring him in any thing hee stood in need of continually taking order that hee wanted nothing that was sitting for a man in his condition and had as great a care of him as if he had been his owne Father and that when he was diserted of his friends as can sufficiently be proved and after he was set at liberty and I was returned from my banishment we lived in as great amity and affection as ever any two christian Brethren did and there was no office of love that I have ever hitherto been failing to him in either in his sicknesse or in health notwithstanding in the time of his imprisonment he falling into acquaintance with sectaries and straglers was much swarved from those ●uthes and that purity of doctrine he had learned of me yet all this in the least alienated not my affection from him but I continued as cordiall as ever rejoycing either to see or heare of him and of his wel-fare and he had my prayses wheresoever I came and all these were obligations and so would any others have thought And this I may also say that he may thanke me as an earthly instrument that I may make use of some of his owne language for all the honour he had in the world for his acquaintance with me and his suffering about my books as many of the Parliament have often told me was the cause that he became so famous and so well knowne and honoured whereas otherwise he might have lived and dyed in obscurity and been knowne no farther then a man can shoot a pelle● with a Trunk and perhaps not to his next neighbours doore as it happens in London to many thousands of eminenter men otherwise for all parts then he though his abilities are very considerable and therefore i● that also he is beholding unto me Besides I taught him some courtship by being in my company and made him sit for all Gentlemens and Noble-mens society whereas when he came first to be my Scholler though he were Honest and Religious yet he was but a meere country courtier and very rough hewen so

shall see such an alteration in a little time that the Nobles and Pears of the Kingdome and all the Gentry of the same the Flower and honour of all Nations to be the most contemptible and the onely men to be suspected who by all the Independent party at this day have beene accused to be the ruine of the Kingdome and to be of rotten hearts and the Kings friends and this I have heard many of them my selfe speak and I am confident it may by many be proved but this has ever been their evasion when we accuse them of any thing they say that they may not all be blamed and judged for the rashnesse of some when notwithstanding they that uttered such words spake nothing but what they had learned from their faction or what they had received from the chiefe heads of them And it is well knowne that Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne is upheld by that party and 〈◊〉 yea animated in all that he doth as all the crowds and 〈…〉 after him may sufficiently witnesse and they look upon him as their Champion applauding all his actions And it will not be a difficult thing for me to prove whatsoever I have written in my books against the Indepedent party from their owne bookes and even from his owne Letter and the proceedings of that company that followed him to the Committee of Examinations and their behaviour and carriage there may abundantly prove my charge in my booke against them for they gave lawes to the Committee and would not be examined but upon their owne tearmes crying out of injustice and threatning that they would bring up the whole City and a thousand such other insolencies they used there for many dayes together all which doe manifest that if in time their party grow a little stronger they will give lawes to the Parliament and make them doe what they would have them or else they will take the authority into their owne hands for Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne hath plainly taught his Disciples that the power that now resides in the Parliament is inherent to the people and that those of the Parliament are not to act according to their owne will and pleasure and boldly taketh upon him to instruct the Parliament and teach them their duty and affirmes that the power is the peoples birth-right and that they have but entrusted them with it so that it seemes if they shall once conceive that the Parliament doth not discharge their trust they have committed unto them they may resume it when they please for that must necessarily ensue from his premises and this is the Doctrine that he infuseth to all his followers and onely for to stirre up a commotion in the Kingdome and to put the people in a heat which if the Parliament timely prevent not they will runne the greatest hazard of being destroyed that ever any Councell in the world did And whereas he saith that when the King went to Oxford he left many of his friends behind him I for my part believe that he is one of them for I am most assured that never any friend the King had hath done the Parliament more wrong and indignity than Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne for it was not an apparent enemy to the great Councell that hath done them this wrong it was no Aulicus for then they would have laughed at it and made themselves merry with it but it was their friend their familiar one that the Common-wealth had fed at her table and one that the Parliament had in speciall honourd favourd and confided in and who they had stood by in his greatest difficulties yea and had preserved his life and for this man now to lay so foule things to their charge as unjustice and tyranny and trampling downe of the liberties of the Subjects oh let not this be spake in ●●b and Askelon truly such friends as he is both are and will prove I am afraid their greatest enemies and howsoever he often boasteth and tell●●h them that he hath drawne his sword in their defence it doth appeare that it was for his owne base ends for liberty of conscience as they call it in their dialect which is meer licenciousnesse and lawlesse liberty under the pretence of conscience which they aime at that they may both speake print and doe whatsoever please●t the●●●lves both against the Law of God Nature and the Religion and against the great Councell of the Kingdome Synod and all good men which is their daily practice as all their Pamphlets witnesse and this his Letter for had Colonell Lilburne with a good intention and an honest mind drawne his sword in the defence of the Parliament he would not now have drawne his pen to have cut all their throats and to enrage all the people against them as in this his Letter he hath done He telleth many stories of his service for the State and what danger he hath exposed himselfe unto in their quarrell and upbraideth them all with their ingratitude and how little requitall they have made him for all there are many in this Kingdome that have adventured themselves as farre as ever he did out of their love to the publike and have I beleeve suffered as much as ever he did yet make no noyse but with modesty and patience wait and attend till the great and weighty matters in the Kingdome will give leave for private businesses And all men know that the publike good the preservation of the whole body is to be looked unto in the first place and then afterward as occasion doth offer it selfe without damage to the publike private bus●nesse and the reliefe of the necessiited are taken into consideration and satisfaction is given unto them that can justly complaine and this has ever been the practice custome of all Nations as the Annals and Histories of all times relate Neither have such as have been forced to wait forthwith published disgracefull books and mutinous complaints against the Councels and States of any Country to bring them into hatred amongst the people neither would such proceedings be thought tolerable in any well governed Country It is well knowne that there are many Noble-men and great Gentlemen also of honour and eminency in the Kings Army that have not onely ventured their lives and all their estates but are at this day brought to such extremities and necessities as to relate would exceed beliefe so that many of those that had some three some four thousands by the yeer some more are brought to such streights as they have not bread to put in their families mouths nor cloathing to p●t on their backs yet I never heard that they did ever print Letters in disgrace of the King or his Councel and upbraid him with ingratitude towards his Souldiers because their particular necessities were not satisfied or because they conceived they were wronged by his Majesties Councel And I am most assured that if any of those that follow the King should doe any such thing or durst attempt