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A88202	Ionahs cry out of the whales belly: or, Certaine epistles writ by Lieu. Coll. Iohn Lilburne, unto Lieu. Generall Cromwell, and Mr. John Goodwin: complaining of the tyranny of the Houses of Lords and Commons at Westminster; and the unworthy dealing of divers (of those with him that are called) his friends. To the man whom God hath honoured, and will further honour, if he continue honouring him, Lieu. Generall Cromwell at his house in Drury Lane, neare the red-Lion this present.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2122; Thomason E400_5; ESTC R201740	21,051	15

to say unto you in the wards of Iob chap 32.21 22. Let me not pray you accept any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I know not to give flatering titles in so doing my maker would soon take me away Now deer Sir knowing that you cannot but know that it is a saying of the Spirit of God That faithfull are the wounds of a Friend but deceitfull are the k●sses of an Enemy I come now downright to unbowell my mind unto you and truly to tell you that in my thoughts I look upon the redeemed ones of Iesus Christ in England in as low and sad a condition almost as the Iews were in the third of Esther when Haman upon this false suggestion to K Hashuerosh That there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed amongst the people in all the provinces of the Kingdome and their lawes are divers from all people neither keep they the Kings lawes therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them had obtained a Decree to destroy them all and therefore as poore Mordicai in the bitternesse of his spirit in the fourth chapter sayd unto Queen Esther so say I to thee thou great man Cromwell Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the Parliament House more then all the rest of the Lambs poore despised redeemed ones and therefore O Cromwell if thou altogether holdest thy peace or stoppest or underminest as thou dost our and the Armies petitions at this time then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to us poore afflicted ones that have hithertoo doted too much upon thee O Cromwell from another place then from you silken Independents the broken reeds of Egypt in the House and Army but thou and thy Fathers House shall be destroyed but who knoweth whether thou art come out of thy sicknesse and to such a height in the kingdome for such a time as this And therefore if thou wilt pluck up thy resolutions like a man that will persevere to be a man for God and goe on bravely in the feare and name of God and say with Esther If I perish I perish but if thou would not know that here before God I arraigne thee at his dreadfull Barre and there accuse thee of delusions and faire words deceitfully for betraying us our wives and children into the Haman-like tyrannicall clutches of Ho●●is and Stapleton both now impeached and the rest of that bloody and devouring faction that hath designed us to utter ruine and destruction and this land and kingdome to vassalage and slavery against whom we are sufficiently able to persevere our selves if it were nor for thee O Cromwell that art led by the nose by two unworthy covetous earth-wormes Vaine and St. Iohn I mean young Sir Henry Vaine and Sollicitor St. Iohn whose basenesse I sufficiently anatomized unto thee in thy bed above a yeare agoe in Colonel Mountagues house in the Pears as thou canst not but very well remember and which I am resolved to the purpose shortly to print * See the last page of the Outcries of the oppressed Commons and the Resolved mans Resolution p. 6. 7 8 9 10. O Cromwell I am informed this day by an Officer out of the Army and by another knowing man yesterday that came a purpose to me out of the Army That you and your Agents are likely to dash in peeces the hopes of our outward preservation Their petition to the House and will not suffer them to petition till they have laid down their Armes because forsooth you have engaged to the House they shall lay down their Armes whensoever they shall command them although I say no credit can be given to the Houses Oathes and engagements to make good what they have promised And if this be true as I am too much afraid it is then I say Accursed be the day that ever you had that influence among them and accursed be the day that ever the House of Commons bribed you with a vote of 2500. l. per annum to betray and destroy us Sir I am jealous over you with the hight of godly jealousie that you like Ephesus have forsaken your first love and zeale * Which is very probable for Peter to save himselfe forswore and denyed his Master Matth. 26.72.73 yea and for feare playd also the hypocrite and dissembler for which Paul reproved and blamed him to his face Galat. 2. for which I am most heartily sorry and should be very glad I were mistaken and upon manifestation of which from you I should very gladly cry you peccavi for my present heat But Sir if these Army newes be true I must bid you for ever Farewell and must hereby declare my selfe an avowed enemy to your selfe-pecuniary interest and all your copartners and shall with more zeale bend all my abilities against you all and unmask you to my friends then my adversaries the tyrannicall and arbitrary Lords doe the worst you can to my throat which you used jestingly to say you would cut so soon as ever I fell out with you Sir I have but a life to lose and know that to die to me is gaine being now crucifi●d to the world and it to me and being now sufficiently able to trust God with my Wife and Children but by the strength of God I am resolved Sampson like to sell my life at as deare a rate as I can to my Philistine Adversaries that shall either by force without law endevour to destroy me or by treachery to undoe me And if the Army doe disband before they petition I and all such as I am must truly lay the whole blame upon you and truly declare the House of Commons bribe Cromwel to betray the liberties of England into their tyrannicall fingers Sir is it not the Generals Commission to preserve the lawes and liberties of England And how can he those with him without being esteemed by all men that are not bribed or preferre their own base interest before the common safety the basest of men to lay down their Armes upon any conditions in the world before they see the lawes and universall well known liberties of England firmly setled especially seeing as I will undertake publickly and I hope shortly to prove the Parliament tyrannizeth ten times more over us then ever the King did * See my printed Epistle to Colonel Martin of the 31. of May 1647. page 6 7 8 36 37 38 48 49 to 56. And see the first part of the justification of the Kings Government against the Parliament page 3 4 5 to the end And Mr. Richard Overtons Appeale dated Iuly 1647. and I will maintain it that by the law of this Kingdome it is ten times easier to prove it lawfull for us to take up Armes against them in the wayes they now go then it was for them to take up Arms when they did against the King And I professe I would doe it if I were rationably able to doe

be held asleepe with security till destruction be even at their dores and ready to seale vpon them whereas if ye plaid the faithfull watchmen to your native Country as you ought to doe to warne them betimes of the danger they are in by the tyrannicall treacherous vilians amongst you they would easily be awakned and provide for their own safety by the speedy destruction of those that would destroy them which is but just and reasonable 1 part book Declarations page 150. I can now say no more at present but that I was yours and still am Englands Cordiall Freind John Lilburne Aprill 10. 1647. For the Honorable Lieutenant Generall CROMWELL this present at St. Albons Honoured Sir NOthing indears my heart so much to any man or men in the world as honestie integritie and justice the contrarie of which makes me abhor those in whom I find it although never so great and potent Sir I shall without much complement return you many and hearty thankes for your active paines and upon those representations I have of your present courage I doe assure you I would willingly be a Pioneer with you and hazard if I had them a million of lives for you But never was I so afraid of all mine enemies as of divers of those great ones I have looked upon as your chieife Councellors Sir your delay hath given extraordinarie heart to your adversaries who under hand make large preparations against you and unexpressible sadding of spirit to all your cordiall friends insomuch that I for my part have even despaired of any good from you the which hath not in the least quenched my resolutions but more fully fixed me with magnanimity flowing from the God of valour and courage to die upon my own and my old principles I am very confident that if you delay a few dayes longer you unavoidably involve thi● k●ngdome in a large effusion of blood † For your adversaries in Parliament being so false and faithlesse as by their constant actions they have declared themselves to bee they will give you good words their faith and promises to lull you asleep that so underhand in the time of your Treaty they may themselves to be able to cut your throats which is the daily worke they secretly go about And then have at you with a vengeance What I have to begge and intreat of you as for my life is First immediatly to march with a Declaration of peace and love to the body of the Citie the doing of which will enable your friends here I confidently hope to doe your worke for you in sequestring the ●● Members As for justice at present you nor any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cannot expect it For the Iudges at Westminste H●●l by Law are no Iudges See the 27 H. 8. 2● and 〈◊〉 Ordinance of Parliament by law can take away ●o 〈◊〉 life I am sure of it See the 2 part instit fol. 41 48. ● part fol. 22. 4. part fol. 23 25. 48 ●0 〈…〉 Declaration But if you should say it is but iust that an Ordinance should take away the lives of those that have made them take away the lives of others yet I say the most of the members are so guilty that they will never condemne thee The second thing I begge of you is That with all candor you endevour to understand the King and let him understand you and deale with him as becomes honest men that play above boord and doe their actions as in the sight of God for the good of all I have in th●s particular fully by word of mouth communicated my mind to Tim Trevers to be communicated to you And this if I were with you upon my life I durst dispare against you all that as things stand both in point of policy honesty and conscience you must apply to the King without which the peace of the Kingdome can never be setled and by Parliament having so tyrannized that they are grown as hatefull to iust man as the Divell And doe confidently believe hee will grant any thing that is rationall that you or the Kingdome can desire at his hands for their future good security and preservation Now one thing I shall prop●und to your consideration That you be not deceived by your Scout-master generall Watson who I am apt confidently to beleeve will never honestly and uprightly adventure the ●aking of his finger either for God his Countrey or the Army further then he may be thereby of the stronger side and be a gainer As for Dr. Stanes whatever you think of him I averre he is a iuggling knave the which I told you above two yeares agoe at Ilchester and I will iustifie it and am confident will deceive you in the day of triall And as for Nath Rich you your selfe know him to be a iuggling paltry base fellow Remember what you told him to his face in his own Chambers in Fleetstreet before me and my wife and two more at the time Manchesters treason was upon examination And besides his own Captain Lieutenant in my chamber some weekes since shewed me such letters of his to him under his own hand that gives mee cause to iudge him fully to be a iuggling dissembling treacherous He●-hearted base fellow which I desire you and all the honest men in the Army to beware of as of a plague and pest And if hee shall finde himselfe aggrieved at it I say tell him I will to his teeth with my sword in my hand in any ground in England iustifie what I say * And this I say to you that it is but iust and fit that those that pretend to bee reformers reforme first at home lest they render them ridiculous to all that setiously look upon their actions Sir in the way of iustice and single-hearted righteousnesse in the midst of all miseries I am 22. Iune 1647 Yours untill death Iohn Lilburne The Bearer by word of mouth hath from me more to say to you For Lieutenant Generall Cromwell this with speed present at Wickham Honored Sir MY thoughts about the procedings of some of your great ones in the Armie have been exceedingly perplexed which hath set my braines upon an unwearied study which in an Epistle would be too large to expresse unto you onely I cannot for former engagements sake and the common good but acquaint you with the 〈…〉 of them before I print them You cannot but know that you severall times in a forcible manner kept mee in Manchesters Army when I would for that basenesse and treachery acted there have deserted it and have betaken my selfe to travels Remember our discourse at Banbury c. And you know when he and you came to contest I stood close to you and to truth and Justice then on your side without feare or double ends Although both Watson your Scout-master Generall and Staines your Muster-master Generall with Coll. Nat. Rich your darling plaid the paltry Knaves and jugled with you of which in part