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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

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

themselves telling them when they forcibly crowd into their seats that the Saints have more right to those places then they and therefore partly for the stinking of them out of their seats as Baggars doe Foxes out of their holes by defiling them these Independent Country Courtiers scummer and pisse in their Pewes and partly also they doe it out of hatred to the very structure of the poore Churches which say they having been consecrated to Idolatry ought to be demolished or else made a Tophet on and a place of easement and therefore it is now growne an ordinary ●hing with the Independents thus to pollute Churches and some of them would have given seven thousand pound not long since for Pauls that they might have demolished it as an Idol Temple and so in their judgements the Gentry and Nobility are Idols and have too long been adored and venerated and they now desire that honor themselves and therfore if once they have the power in their hands and get into the Parliament then out go all the sons of Belial fot so they call the Gentry Therefore if you have any acquaintance with those that are to choose Burgesses for the Parliament give them a speciall caviat to take heed how they make any of that fraternity Parliament-men let them have an eye to the godly and truly religious without faction and understanding Gentlemen in the Country that know what really belongs to government For consider what a deale of misery all the Countryes through the Kingdome are involved in by reason of the Committees that are composed of those independent Country Courtiers who generally domineer over the very Noble-men and Gentlemen every where where they are in authority and exercise more severity over the Parliaments very friends then the Lords and Peers of the Kingdome and the great Counsell doe ever against Delinquents as all the poore Countries can testifie therefore perswade your friends againe and againe that they make choyce of no Independent Country Courtiers to he Members for then all the Kingdome will be made Linfie-Woolsie for they will have all Religions and give a greater tal●●oti●● then the Devil himselfe for he will not tolerate all Religions for you know he persecuted the Woman the true Religion in the Wildernesse but these would tolerate all and therefore in that point they are worse then sat●● Therefore if you would avoyd an inevitable confusion perswade your friends to take heed of the Independe●ts who have made a combustion in Church and State already It is said of our Saviour that he would not commit himselfe to 〈◊〉 because he knew them John 2. now we have some experience already of all these men let us therefore take heed of them Others you know will not commit themselves unto men because they know 〈◊〉 not and 〈…〉 is very good reason why they should not now for my part I doe beleeve that there is no man can ever know the Independents and therefore they ought to shun them for they themselves professe that they keepe a reserve d●●es ad triarior●s redierit res and tell us that we put them upon too unreasonable a task to satisfie us in all things they doe or desire Now when we know them already by all their actions to be disturbers of Church and State and violaters of all the Lawes of God and humanity and enemies of all good people and notorious lyars and they themselves confesse unto us that they have yet a reserve of grolleries they justly ought of all people to be abominated for they professe openly we shall never know them And thus much I thought fit in way of answer to reply unto John Lilburnes false accusation and to speak of all the Independents practises One thing I may not passe by before I shut up my Discourse Lievtenant Colonell Lilburne complaines of some affront given him by some of the Parliament as that they slighted him and made themselves merry with him which intimatest friends usually doe with their familiars and that much troubled his patience What would this man have done thinke you Master Vicars if he had beene openly abused as I was by some of the Independent party and favourers of their way 〈◊〉 I but wri● for the Presbytery and in defence of the Parliament and the reverend assembly of Divines against the Independents who had Printed most scur●ilous Books against them all and I was not onely roughly reproved but threatned also that they would complaine of me to the Parliament for undertaking to prove the Presbytery to be jure divin● which they told me was against the sense of the House and therefore punishable in me telling me also in a very furious manner that I was an incendiary and a maintainer of the Kings party and whereas they had me in their Catalogue intending upon occasion offered to have preferred me seeing they said I tooke this way I should never have their good word If he bad 〈…〉 party as I was by the Independents and that at the Parliament doore what daggers would not this man have writ and spake thinke you For my part if all the Independents in the Parliament should have spake that which two or three of them did it should not have moved me so much as the biting of a Flea much lesse should it have made me 〈◊〉 any thing in disgrace of the whole Councell or in the least to have impeached their dignity nay had I suffered as much for the Parliament and from it as any man I would not for some mens miscarriages or some necessitated failings have writ any thing to the dishonour of the whole House and God forbid that any Presbyterian in England should either doe such wickednesse or favour it in any I shall 〈…〉 or for some 〈…〉 for offences 〈◊〉 come and therefore I neither thought nor never shall thinke the lesse venerably of the Parliament for the affront that was put upon me by the Independent party for as there 〈◊〉 no Family though never so honest that hath not a Whore or Knave of their kindred so it is impossible in such a great Councell as the 〈◊〉 is but they should have some ninnyes and grols and men that have no 〈◊〉 wit then will reach from their nose to their mouth and are onely sensible and therefore people ought not for a few mens sakes to traduce the 〈◊〉 Parliament Neither will I ever suffer it in any whiles I live but shall ever 〈◊〉 my life defend the honour of the parliament against all Independents notwithstanding the failings of some Members And although John Lilbur●● Master Vicars be valiant yet in defence of my Religion and the Church of England and for the honour of the Parliament and great Councell I shall not onely dispute with all the Independents though I understand by some of that fraternity that they have Gyants for learning as well as Pigmyes 〈◊〉 I shall also dare in the quarrell of either fight with John Lilburne with 〈◊〉 weapon from a Bodkin to a Pike But leaving him to his A. B. C. which is a great deale better imployment for him then the grave and weighty matters of State and the study of po●●●ticks and the great Mysteries of Divinity and commending you and yours to his preservation who is the keeper of Israel that neither slumbereth 〈◊〉 sleepeth with my earnest prayers for a happy peace in this Kingdome 〈◊〉 the establishing of the true protestant Religion and of the Parliament I remaine Yours JOHN BASTWICK FINIS