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A48483 To the right honourable the chosen and representative body of England assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of L.C. Iohn Lilburne a free man of England Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. 1646 (1646) Wing L2187A; ESTC R216534 4,324 5

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obedience to all iust authority to answer any Charge when the same shall be in a legall way brought against him And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray to God to enable you to go on to finish and perfect the great things expected from you according to the trust reposed in you Newgate Iune 16. 1646. JOHN LILBVRNE A Postscript containing a generall Proposition GOD the absolute Soveraign Lord and King of all things in heaven and earth the originall fountain and cause of all causes who is circumscribed governed and limited by no rules but doth all things meerly and onely by his soveraign will and unlimited good pleasure who made the world and all things therein for his own glory and who by his own will and pleasure gave man his meer creature the soveraignty undor himselfe over all the rest of his Creatures Gen. 1.26.28.29 and indued him with a rationall soule or understanding and thereby created him after his own image Gen. 1.26.27 and 9.6 the first of which was Adam a male or man made out of the dust or clay out of whose side was taken a Rib which by the soveraign and absolute mighty creating power of God was made a female or Woman cal'd Eve which two are the earthly original fountain as begetters and bringers forth of all and every particular and individuall man and woman that ever breathed in the world since who are and were by nature all equall and alike in power digniy authority and majesty none of them having by nature any authority dominion or majesteriall power one over or above another neither have they or can they exercise any but meerely by institution or donation that is to sav by mutuall agreement or consent given derived or assumed by mutuall consent and agreement for the good benefit and comfort each of other and not for the mischiefe hurt or damage of any it being unnaturall irrationall sinfull wicked and unjust for any man or men whatsoever to part with so much of their power as shall enable any of their Parliament men Commissioners Trustees deputies Viceroys Ministers Officers or servants to destroy and undoe them therewith And unnaturall irrationall sinfull wicked unjust divelish and tyranicall it is for any man whatsoever spirituall or temporall Cleargy-man or Lay-man to appropriate and assume unto himselfe a power authority and jurisdiction to rule govern or raign over any sort of men in the world without their free consent and whosoever doth it whether Cleargy-man of any other whatsoever doe thereby as much as in them lyes endeavour to appropriate assume unto themselves the Office and soveraignty of God who alone doth and is to rule by his will and pleasure and to be like their Creator which was the sinne of the Devils who not being content with their first station but would be like God for which sin they were thrown down into hell reserved in everlasting chaines under darknes unto the judgement of the great day Iude ver 6. And Adams sin it was which brought the curse upon him and all his posterity that he was not content with the station and condition that God created him in but did aspire unto a better and more excellent namely to be like his Creator which proved his ruin yea and indeed had been the everlasting ruin and destruction of him and all his had not God been the more mercifull unto him in the promised Messiah Gen. Chap. 3. From my Cock-lost in the Presse yard Newgate per me Iohn Lilburne Iune 19. 1646. Curteous Countrymen to fill up this vacant place I shall desire thee to reade the words of the Declaration of the House of Commons published 27. Ianu. 1641. which you shall find in the 41. pag. of the booke of Declarations thus And this House doth further declare That all such persons as have given any Councell or endeavoured to set or maintain division or disl●l●e between the King and Parliament or have listed their names or otherwise entred into any combination or agreement to be ayding or assisting to any such counsell or endeavour or have perswaded any other so to doe or that shall do any the things above mentioned And shall not forthwith discover the same to either House of Parliament or the Speaker of either of the said Houses respectively and disclaime it are declared Publique Enemies of the State and Peace of this Kingdome and shall be inquired of and proceeded against accordingly Secondly the three Votes of both Houses May 20. 1642. which you shall find in the book of Declarations pa. 259. Resolved upon the Question 1. That it appeares That the King seduced by wicked Counsell Intends to make Warre against the Parliament who in all their consultations and actions have proposed no other end unto themselves but the care of His Kingdoms and the performance of all duty and loyalty to His Person Resolved upon the Question 2. That whensoever the King makes Warre upon the Parliament it is a breach of the trust reposed in Him by His people contrary to His Oath and tending to the dissolution of this Government Resolved upon the Question 3. That Whosoever shall serve or assist Him in such Warres are Traitors by the Fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome and have been so adjudged by two Acts of Parliament and ought to suffer as Traitors 11. Rich. 2.1 Hen. 4. Joh Browne Cler. Parliament 3. The Declaration of both Houses in pa. 576. in these words Whereas the King c. 4. The words in their Declaration for the vindication of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax as you shall find pa. 914. in these words The said Lords c. FINIS