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hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91254	A letter of due censure, and redargvtion [sic] to Lieut: Coll: John Lilburne: touching his triall at Guild-Hall-London in Octob: last. 1649. Wherein if there be contemper'd some corrosive ingredients, tis not to be imputed unto malice: the intent is, to eat away the patients proud, dead flesh, not to destroy any sincere, sound part.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing P405; Thomason E603_14; ESTC R205827	37,997	43

A LETTER OF DUE CENSURE AND REDARGVTION TO Lieut. Coll JOHN LILBURNE touching his Triall at Guild-Hall-London in Octob last 1649. WHEREIN If there be contemper'd some corrosive ingredients t is not to be imputed unto malice The intent is to eat away the Patients proud dead flesh not to destroy any sincere sound part 2 SAM: 16. 5. And when king David came to Bahurim behold thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei the son of Gerah he came forth and cursed still as he came 6. And he cast stones at David and at all the servants of king David and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left 7. And thus said Shimei when he cursed Come out come out thou bloody man and thou man of Belial 8. The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul and behold thou art taken in thy mischief because thou art a bloody man 11. And David said to Abishai and to all his servants c. Let him alone and let him curse c. It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his cursing this day LONDON Printed by Fr Ne●le 16●0 YOu Benjamites which envie Judahs Crown Cursing weak Princes when their hands hang down Which limit God by your intayles and spight Scepters transported by his soveraigne right Which scorn the Son of Noble Jonathan As a desponding poore unhearted man Because he can behold without regret His Fathers Flowers in Davids garland set Expect black-mouthed Shimeis tardie fate The sword of Heaven trenches deep though late SIR GODS strict injunction obliges us all to reprove sin wheresoever we finde it and as far as reproof has any vigor in it to endeavour the reducement into the right way of all such as wander from it through ignorance I being therfore to direct this my reprehension and censure to you desire you to accept of it as injoyned by God himself For I have read the relation of your Arraignment in Octob last the same as is verified and avowed under your own hand and my conscience tels me I should deal unfaithfully with you and neglect Gods command if I should not strive to convince you of the great scandall that has been given by it to all good and wise men If I my self erre or transgresse my bounds in this censorious redargutory addresse of mine I desire the like freedome from you well knowing that in many things we offend all and therfore God forbid but I should be as readie to ask pardon where I give offence as to grant pardon where I receive any Nay I am not more forward in begging your pardon when I know I have offended then I am in challenging your censure wherein I have offended when I know not the same my self Alas it is a wofull obstinacy in some men that they will not hear and it is as wofull a timidity in others that they will not give just and due reprehensions I doubt you are hardned in your errors because so few declare against you yet I hope this will easily sink into you that other mens silence when you are really become a publick scandall will neither be able to acquit you before God nor disoblige them This man pretends you are a stranger to him that man intimates you are belowe his reprehension a third objects that you are mordacious and so wilfull that you are beyond the benefit of any ingenuous reprehension but sure Gods command of an office so just and charitable as Christian objurgation is is not so to be superseded or eluded Your sin becomes mine upon my silence because I endeavour not to cure you and my sinfull silence addes to your trespasses because it renders you the more incurable For first All English Protestants are to regard you as a brother within Gods command and not as a stranger without it for our common Mother the State of England and our common Mother the Church of England has a share in you and necessarily must suffer losse by the loosing of you or gain by the reduction of you and so in both these respects or consanguinious relations religious and politick you are to be tender'd as a brother though perhaps your face be strange to us Nay Gods command of reprehension is so large that he that may be made my brother by it though he be not so as yet is capable of and may require at my hands all faithfull brotherly offers from me 2ly If you were bred a man of Trade and not of letters no man how learned soever can therfore alledge that t is too inglorious a task for him to contest with you Your want of literature at the last day will not make you uncapable of charity or absolve them who fail in the offices of charity towards you the duty of reproof was not imposed upon us by God that we might gain victory to our selves but that we might recover souls to him wherfore if any man make use of reproof only for triall of his wit and affect therein a garland above truth that man setting himself on work is to receive wages from himself he remains still a debtor unto God but t is not to be expected that God should be made a debtor unto him 3ly others testifie not against you for fear of your maledicency and inflexibility but neither are these so to be acquitted before God For God does not call all men in the forenoon nor in the third nor fourth houre of the afternoon it belongs to us early and late to admonish and advertise and with patience to expect Gods time and good pleasure whether he will prosper our first or our latter endeavours Besides if Gods call has preceded yet we still must wait with patience for his call does not alwayes work a sensible change in the first moment especially in men of rugged dispositions and in those things which are most congeniall to the ruggednesse of their dispositions Lastly if a sensible apparent change has been wrought by Gods call yet still more patience is required of us forasmuch as there is so much instability and lubricity in the best men that none of us are absolutely free from temporary relapses and strange defections at sometimes These things therfore will charge justly all of want of charity or pusillanimous despondence who see other mens deviations yet seek not to reclaim them and receive scandals often times yet use no endeavours to amend them But I hasten to the principall scope of this Letter and to the particular heads of those things for which you are lyable to reproof 1. The first thing which in reading the manner of your Triall gave me scandall was your prolix urging and repeating of very many impertinent things and yet complaining withall that a just and due freedome of speech was taken from you t is most evident though you were

the judgements of all private persons are so apparently divided as now they are that no one can decide without indangering the peace of all that private person can never discharge himself of sedition and Treason which breaks the common Peace out of a fond preference of his own phancie before other mens In England there are now some that hold the Supreme Authority to be in the last Kings Heir absolutely and their endeavours are to bring him in upon his own terms you and your party hold it lawfull to joyn with him upon your terms but till you joyn with him and He submit to your terms the supreme Authority is not in him We and our side which is now prevalent after a long dispute in Arms hold this to be a true Parliament and that the true Parliament is ever the Supreme Authority of England and we have not onely the decision of the Sword which in such like dubious cases after the last appeal hath been made to it is no contemptible plea but also the strongest reason and majority of suffrages of all the people throughout the Land on our side T is your manifest regret that your party and the Royalists though they correspond and conspire together cannot both counterpoize the third greater and better party that stands for the Majestie of Parliaments You and the Royalists have divers times endeavoured to perswade the people that they are generally against the Parliament and by severall acts and attempts against the Parliament you have put it to the triall whether the people would adhere to you or the Parliament yet still the major and better part of the people have declared against you and continued their loyalty to the Parliament The City of London if it had been so adverse to the Parliament as was presumed by you and the Royalists both was strong enough to master the Army the onely advantage of the Parliaments you cry out upon yet when it came to proof would not draw a sword against the Parliament if these demonstrations will not satisfie you but you will still plot new commotions and study to ingage the people in new bloody broils you shew yourselves to be thirsty of humane blood and all your endlesse cavilling pretensions will not absolve you before God Jehoiadah the Priest of the royall line and a publick person affords us an excellent example his part was to subvert a manifest Usurpres and Idolatresse and to reinthrone a true Prince of whose title there was not one man in the whole Nation that could make any doubt yet to avoid bloodshed and the mischeifs of a dubious open war He divers yeers concealed the rightfull Title and submitted to the yoke of a heathenish murderous Tyrannesse making no insurrection at all till he was sure to do right to the young King without causing any destruction of the people How unlike are your actions to Jehoiadahs who being no publick person nor interessed extraordinarily in the present differences above any other man will needs hazard the peace of the Land against a lawfull Authority when you have little hopes of effecting what you strive for without a vast expence of blood But in the next place suppose the power of the Parliament were indubitably usurped as you can never prove it for it is still but the Nations power and what Nation ever usurpt over it self yet by what Law of God or man is it lawfull for such a common person as you are to machinate against it Herod had usurped over the Jews the Romanes had usurped over Herod Caesar had usurped over the Romans yet our Saviour shews himself submissive upon all occasions to all these Powers When He is brought before Annas he comports himself humbly and as becomes a prisoner when he is lead to Caiphas and presented before the Jewish Counsell he yeelds to be examined and makes there such answers as He knew would be adjudged blasphemous and capitall When he was turned over to the Tribunall of Pilate the Romane Deputy and transmitted from thence to Herod the Deputy in Galilea He still made reverent dutifull confessions upon all legall Interrogatories though to the eminent forfeiture of his own life Yet no man will suppose all these had a proper jurisdiction over our Saviour or such power as was free from all force and usurpation All the Apostles also walked in our Saviours steps for we read that they though innoent were examined scourged imprisoned and did suffer martyrdome by Magistrates in all Nations under Heaven and we read not that any one of them at any one time unreverently treated or declined any Court or Counsell except it were by appeal from the inferior to the superior Judge yet we may safely beleeve that some of all the States and Potentates before whom they were convented might be liable to this exception of yours You will say all men in justice ought to be enemies to Usurpers and Friends to such as are unduly depressed I reply on the contrary that private men let the case be what it will of their own heads or upon their own conducts are not to rise against a settled Usurper or enterprize any thing that may disturbe the common Peace nay even publick persons are to prefer the safetie of the people before any lower interest or right or Law whatsoever The story of Jehoiadah justifies this during so many yeers as He suffered Athaliah and the story of David also who by right and Law was to proceed against Joab for murther but the superior right and Law of Common safety bounds his hands many yeers from doing justice and yet we cannot say therein that the not doing of justice was the doing of injustice inasmuch as He obeyed the superior Law rather then the inferior and chose to spare one guilty murtherer rather then to expose thousands of innocent men to the chance of war But in the 2d place if you will needs suppose you have a right to pronounce this Government usurped and so justly lyable to your opposition yet why do you not then circumscribe your self within the bounds of this Government how is it that you assume to your self as great a prerogative of censuring the acts of other Parliaments as you do of this and the ordinances of our Ancestors as imperiously as you do ours If you did seem wiser in the Laws of England then all the Judges and Lawyers of the Land you did arrogate too much to your self but when you will pretend to be wiser then the Laws themselves when you will with opprobrious terms revile the Legislative power of this Nation and say that for six hundred yeers together our Ancestors assembled in Parliament were the Introducers or continuers of foolish and slavish Acts you arrogate more to your self then any man till this day ever arrogated In this you challenge the obedience due to some great new-rais'd Prophet such as Mahomet pretended to be amongst the brutish Arabians or that Vice-God at Rome who amongst a