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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88219	London's liberty in chains discovered. And, published by Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, Octob. 1646.; London's liberty in chains discovered. Part 1	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Lilburne, Elizabeth. To the chosen and betrusted knights, citizens and burgesses, assembled in the high and supream court of Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2139; Thomason E359_17; Thomason E359_18; ESTC R9983	57,117	77

sinne upon him Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the Children of thy People but thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy selfe I am the Lord. And when the fulnesse of time was come that Christ the Restorer and Repairer of mans losse and fall should come and preach Righteousnesse Justice to the world He saith it is the Law the Prophets that whatsoever we would that men should do to us that wee should do to them Matth. 7.12 Luke 6.31 Yea and further saith That as it is the great Commandement that we should love our Soveraign Creator and Preserver the Lord our God with all our hearts and all our soules and with all our minds so the second Commandement which is like unto it is That we should love our neighbours as our selves and on these two saith hee hang all the Law and the Prophets So that by this it is cleerly evident that Religion Christianity or the knowledge of Christ doth not destroy morality civility justice and right reason but rather restores it to its first perfection beauty splendor and glory and therefore the Apostle exhorts Saints and Believers Ephes 4.17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Not to walk as other Gentiles do in the vanity of their mind having their understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnesse of their heart Who being past feeling have given themselvs over to lasciviousn●sse to work all uncleannesse with greedinesse But saith the Apostle to all that love Christ Ye have not so learned Christ If so be ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts And be renewed in the Spirit of your mind And that ye put on that new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse and excellent to this purpose is that of the Apostle Col 3.7 8. where speaking of and to those that have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which saith he is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him And therefore the same Apostle layeth down his exhortation at large and declareth it is not only the duty of the Saints to doe good each unto other but as much as in them lyes to doe good unto all the Sons of Adam saying Gal. 6.10 as we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the Houshold of Faith But the greatest good that I know of that any man can do unto the Sons of Men besides the discovery of the knowledge of Christ and the benefits and priviledges that are to be injoyed by him is rationally to discover the privilege that is the Right Due and Propriety of all the Sons of Adam as men that so they may not live in beastlinesse by devouring one another and not onely so but also to stand for and maintain those Rights and Priviledges in any Kingdome or Nation wheresoever they are in any measure established that so the trusted made great and potent by a power conferred upon them may not there-with as is too commonly seene Lord it domineer over and destroy by their Prerogative-will and pleasure the Betrusters yea and also to maintain the liberties and priviledges established in a Land by Law against the incroaching usurpations of some great and mighty Nimrods of the world made so by wayes and meanes more immediatly and properly flowing from the Divell then God and by their false-assumed incroaching power tyrant-like tread under their feet all just and innocent persons and protect defend and countenance none but those that will comply applaud and assist them in their brutish woolvish and tyrant-like proceedings which practises are contrary to the very end of Government and Magistracy as is largly declared by the Apostle Rom. 13.3 4. where he plainly saith Rulers are not no nor ought not to be a terrour to good workes but to the evill wilt thou then not be afraid of the power Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same For he is the Minister of God to thee for good But if thou do that which is evill be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill but not upon him that doth good The knowledge of which in some measure in my own soule hath been the true ground that conscienciously made me out of duty to my selfe and neighbours and obedience to God stand against and oppose my self against the Bishops and with resolution so often since in the middest of many deaths hazard my life for my liberties and the lawes liberties and rights of all the people of this Land which is the only principle that now carryes me on in opposition against the Lords unto whom as so many men I have and must confesse I am ten times more oblieged for my own particular than to the house of Commons it self having found at their hands several times cordiall and speedy Justice which I never enjoyed from the House of Commons in my life although I have waited upon them therefore these six years and followed them as close as any man I think in England and I dare safely say it without vain or lying boasting for these nine or ten years together I have been as serviceable to the Common-wealth of England in my place and condition as any one man whatsoever that sits in that house though I have been as ungratefully dealt with by them as ever man in England was yet I say when the Lords forced me to contest with them which I professe I was as unwilling to do as I was to run my head against the wall the which I told unto one of themselves yet I say before I would have parted with my reason and understanding and so have defaced obliterated and annihilated as much as in me lay the Image that God created me in and which Christ by communicating of himself to me hath restored confirmed and inlarged and degenerated into the habit of a beast which all slaves that live in the World without a rationall and just Law are in by parting with and betraying my native naturall just liberties which the fundamentall lawes of this Land give me I will part with my very heart-blood first yea and if I had a thousand lives they should all go before I will part with my just liberties either to them or any power on earth what ever it be that dare assume unto themselves so much tyranny and satanicall pride as to go about it or endeavour it And it is this very principle that now engageth to write this Postscript to beget a Contest with the Prerogative-men of London Englands mighty Nimrods who haue inslaved not only this City but