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A88247	The resurrection of John Lilburne, now a prisoner in Dover-Castle, declared and manifested in these following lines penned by himself, and now at his desire published in print in these words.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing L2175; Thomason E880_2; ESTC R501	16,915	16

the spirituall Kingdom inhabited by the spirituall subjects or true Saints of Christ nor wasting nor destruction within their borders but they shall call their wall salvation and their Gates Praise The Sun or borrowed humane Lights or Rudimentall Ordinances shall be no more thy Light saith God by day neither fo● brightness shall the Mooa give Light unto thee but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Light and thy God thy glory Thy Sun shall no more go downe neither shall thy Moon withdraw it self for the Lord shall be thine everlasting Light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended Thy people shall be all Righteous they shall inherit the Land for ever the branch of my planting the work of my hands that I may be glorified A little one shall become a thousand a small one a strong nation I the Lord wil hasten it in his q Esa 60. 18 19 20 21 22. See ch 40. 19 20 21 22 23 25 26. Rev. 7. 14 15 16 17. 21. 1 2 3 4 5. 10. 11. 22 23 24 22. 1 2 3 4 5. time In all which consideration I say I have now the faithfull and true witness in my own soul that the Lord himself is become within me the Teacher of my soul and inabler of me to walk in a measure of his pure wayes and paths yea and so clear a teacher within me is he already become unto me as that I with confidence beleeve my inward Teacher shal never now more be removed into a corner but is and shall be as a continual voice speaking in my ears This is the way walk in r Esa 30. 20 21. see ch 24. 18 19. 35.7 8. 42.2 3 4. 7. 44 3. 51. 7. 54. 13. Prov. 6. 22 23. Ps 37.31 Deu. 18.15 16.18 19. 34. 6. Jer. 24.7 31.31 32 33 34. and 32. 14 15. Eze. 11.19 34.22 23.24 25 26. 27 36 2● 25 26 27. and 37. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. Joel 2.28 29. Matt. 11. ●7 Luk. 10. 22. Joh. 1.5 9 12 3.21 6.41 45. 7.37 8 39. and 9.5.39 10.7.9 16. 11.9 10.25 22. 12. 35 36 46.48 and 14. 16 17 18 19.23 26. and 15.5.15 and 16 17 18.13 14.26 27 28. Act. 1.4 and 2.4 16 17 18. Rom. 10.7 8 9 10. Gal. 1.15 16. Heb. 8.7 8 9 10 11. and 10.16.19 20. and 1 Joh. 2.2 20.27 and 3. 24. and 4.13 and 5. 10. see Act. 17.27 28.31 and 26. 16. 18. Rom. 1.19.21 and 2.15.26 27 28 29 and 1 Cor. 7.19 and 2 Cor. 2.3 4.6 Gal. 3.3 5.5,6 6.15 Phil. 3.3 Col. 2.11 3.11 3.11 1 Tim. 4.10 Tit. 2. 11 12. 1 Joh 1.5 6 7. it By which divine teaching I am now daily taught to dye to sin and led up by it into living power to be raised up and inabled to live in a pure measure of Righteousness and by which inward spiritual teachings I am I say again led up into power in Christ by which I particularly can and do hereby witness that I am already dead or crucified to the very occasions and real grounds of all outward wars and carnal-sword-fightings fleshly buslings and contests and that therefore I confidently now believe I shall never hereafter be an user of a temporal sword more nor a joyner with those that so do And this I do here solemnly declare not in the least to avoid persecution or for any politick ends of my own or in the least for the satisfaction of the fleshly wils of any of my great adversaries or for satisfying the carnal will of my poor weak afflicted wife but by the special movings and compulsions of God now upon my soul am I in truth and righteousness compelled thus to declare that so I may take away from my adversaries all their fig-leaf-covers or pretences of their continuing of my every way unjust bonds And thereby if yet I must be an imprisoned sufferer it may from this day forward be for the truth as it is in Jesus Which truth I witness to be truly professed and practised by the savouriest of people called quakers And to this my present declaration which I exceedingly long and earnestly desire to have in print and for which I know that I can chearfully and assuredly lay down my life if I be called to witness the truth of it I subscribe my outward name From my innocent and every way causeless captivity in Dover-Castle the place of my souls delightful and contentful abode where I have really and substantially found that which my soul many yeers hath sought diligently after and with unsatisfied longingness thirsted to injoy this present first day of the week being the 4th of the 3d. month 1655. IOHN LILBVRN the new or inward spiritual name no man knowes but he that hath it The End

for thy eternal good with the same sincere heartedness as for my own hoping that thy late out-fall and mine was but for a set season that so as divine Paul in another sense speaks Phil. 15. thy reconciliation and mine again might now remain firm in love for ever I therefore earnestly intreat thee not to much cumber thy self in thy many toilings and journeyings for my outward liberty but sit down a little and behold the great salvation of the Lord and if by any means possible thy spirit can be made free to it retire thy self but for one week or the like into thy own chamber as being sequestred from all thy friends acquaintance and with as much seriousness and deliberation read this and the forementioned precious books with the letter that thy my indeared sp●ritual faithful friend Luke Howard yesterday sent unto thee as the real out-goings of the measure of the spirit of God in his heart towards thee as I have often and deliberately read thy last Post-letter to me Dated at VVhite-Hall upon Wedneseday the 28. of November last and often wept for joy and gladness of heart at that thy honest exhortation to me at the last end of it in these words viz. My Dear Retain a sober patient spirit within thee which I am confident thou shalt see shall be of more force to recover thee then all thy keen mettal hath been I hope God is a doing a work upon thee and me too as shall make us study our selves more then we have done O my dear Love I am deeply already entred into my part of it The mighty power of God inable thee to get in too and also to go through thine and effectually to go cheerfully willingly a long hand in hand with me which abundantly would render thee more amiable lovely and pleasant in mine eyes although thou wert then clothed in rags then thou couldst be to me in thy drawings back or standing still where thou wast when I last see thee though therein thou wert clothed all over with rich and outwardly glistering earthly Diamonds and in the greatest of earthly prosperities I am sorry for that hard portion thou tell'st me thou hadst in going from me in thy dangerous travelling upon the Thames and I desire to bless God for thy deliverance from so nigh a death I am also sorry thou art so straightly put to it for money but to live upon God by faith in the depth of straights is the lively condition of a Christian O that thy spirit could attain unto it According to thy desire in thy Letter and my own present genius or frame of Spirit which now can contentedly feed savourily upon bread and cheese and Small-Beer alone for saving of money I have discharged my old Nurse and borrowed 20. s. to give her to carry her towards her husband and by her have I sent these lines to deliver to thine own hands Of which poor ignorant soul I must say this to thee in truth that although the woman in my clear understanding be but wholly in the first nature of fallen man-kinde yet she hath been in the hand of God an instrument of much service honesty performed faithfulness and tender compassion to me in the day of the greatest and unparalelled extremity of my outward desires in the Isle of Jersey for which in her station I must value her as long as I live and if ever outward prosperity in any competent degree be my portion really requite her therefore I expect from thee if she have occasion to use thee that thou beest tender and respectful to her for my sake And for my Liberty about which thou so weariest and spendest thy self and earthly strength as thy Letter acquaints me with thou dost I can say no more to thee then what was contained in my Letter directed to thee and Dated Nov. 21. last which I gave here to thy own hands but that I am in my present temper of spirit ready really with Peter at the sight of the glorlous transfiguration of Christ to say its good being here for me for here in Dover Castle through the loving kindness of God I have met with a more clear plain and evident knowledge of God and my self and his gracious out-goings to my soul then ever I had in all my life time not excepting my glorying and rejoycing condition under the Bishops and now the pangs and travelling throes of God are powerfully a fresh upon my very heart and therefore now in my own will I could rather wish thee and my sweet Lambs to be with me here then I at present with thee and them where thou art yet submissively and heartily I say and can say the Will of my heavenly Father be done in me by me and for me in whose Will I leave thee and thine with all thy and my friends and rest From Dover-Castle the place of the present injoyed delightfull dispensations of the eternal everlasting love of God unto my soul the 4th day of the 10th moneth 1655. Thine in the strength of renewedness of true love John Lilburn The forementioned second Letter take in these following words Dover-Castle the fifth day of the tenth month 1655. For my indeared Friend William Harding commonly called Mayor at Weymouth in Dorcetshire these deliver Kinde Friend SInce my arrival here I have often been desirous in my own spirit at large to have writ to thee but hitherto by a power above me I have been hindered and yet am as to the particular aforesaid onely now I thought it not only convenient to acquaint thee but am thereunto compelled to tell thee that meeting here with one of those precious people called quakers of which people thee and I at the Isle of Iersey had much talk of and getting into my hands two volumes of their printed papers amounting to about seventeen hundred pages I have with serious of discourse and seriousness reading therein been knock'd down off or from my former legs or standing and giving scope to my true teacher and guide the light of God speaking in my soul I am become at present dead to my fallen or first natures reason wit wisdom and desires and also totally become dead to my old busling wayes in the flesh and now in a great degree or measure am struct down dead to the very earth within me and by that Light which gloriously within my soul hath shined round about my first or corrupt nature within me I am like Paul with astonishment and mazement Act. 9. fallen down flat at the feet of Jesus and hearing a voice speaking within me to perswade me for my good and benefit to become willing to be guided and directed by the heavenly wisdom of Jesus my annointed I have thereupon given up my self wholly to be guided by his Divine teachings shining within me before which I now stand ready to give ear to what by it shall be told me being willing and desirous to have the seales fall

further from the blinde eyes of my soul that they may be further opened and that a power therewith may come in to my soul from the Holy Ghost which may inable me in the strength thereof to redeem my lost and misspent by-past precious time and not now to consult with flesh and blood in my daily taking up the Cross of Christ and following him whithersoever he shall by his call or heavenly Divine voice within me lead me I say I am compelled from a power within me at this present time in brief to tell thee these things and to require thee from God to give ear to that true convincing light that clearly speaks in thy conscience and by the assistance thereof to strive with the first or fallen nature yet ruling in thy soul and lay aside that greatness of wit and earthly wisdom that thou hast attained to and in that measure of Light that long since thou hast received withdraw into thy private Closet and seriously meditate upon these brief lines And being thou in my late conversing with thee told me thou hadst read or hadst sent me down from London most of the Quakers Books Let me in love to thy soul earnestly intreat thee with seriousness to read over strong and tall in Christ Iames Nayler his sheet of paper intitled Something further in answer to John Jacksons book called Strength in weakness which Iohn Iackson is my indeared friend and old and long acquaintance and a greater professor of Religion now then ever thou thy self in all thy zeal once was therefore in him thou mayest plainly read thy own condition and that precious prisoner of the Lords in Northampton Goal VVilliam Dewsbury his two books the first and excellentest of which is called The discovery of the great enmity of the serpent against the seed of the woman his other book is intituled The discovery of mans Return and the Lord by his almighty power set them home to thy soul I heartily desire to return thee my hearty thanks for all thy kindness and tenderness manifested to me at Jersey in our passage from thence and at thy own house so with my hearty salutations presented to thee and all thy friends that were with me at thy house at Weymouth I desire to let thee know that by my moral honest carefull and industrious old Nurse Elizabeth Crome who by reason of shortness of money with me I am forced and compelled to part with I have writ thee a few lines in her behalf intreating thy countenance and favourable respect to the old and real serviceable to me in my great distress in Jersey woman in case in things that are just and righteous before God she desire thy favour and what thee or thy friend and mine Edward commonly called Lievtenant Tucker in that particular doth for her I shal thankfully look upon as actions done to thy souls Faithful hearty and real wel-wishing friend Iohn Lilburn From Dover-Castle being a place wherein God hath more clearly then ever before opened the eyes of my understanding the 4. day of the 10. moneth 1655. With which fore-mentioned main or principal thing that I have now to say I thus proceed and go on with it here in the especial presence of the Lord declare that by that present measure of light now born up in my understanding and moving in my soul at this very time I am here compelled to let the Reader whosoever he be to know that as I have long understood from my wife the original of my fore-going Letter to her she conveyed to the hands of Oliver Cromwelhimself and at his Son-in Law 's desire Charls Fleetwood my old and somtimes much familiar greatly obliged friend gave him a copy of it and notwithstanding the clear declarations of a sincere changed in measure heart in the said Letter at the penning of which I had then lost all manner of ability to consult with one grain of Machivel or humane deceitful policy having then the very dreadful and aweful immediate convincing judging and burning up power of God upon my soul yet upon my said writing and my wifes disposing as aforesaid of my said Letter many and great jealousies arise upon me at VVhite-hall at the strange politick contrivance of my largely reputed by them politique heart in my turning quaker of which I had several wayes exact information which it seems out of humane fear took that powerful impression upon my poor weak wife as that as I judged by her Letters to me troubled the poor afflicted Woman at the very heart and compelled her by writing in a vehement manner to press me to sign such an ingagement as George Fox did the Copy of which I have seen and read and sent it up to Oliver Cromwel to secure him from his pretended fears of my politick indeavouring to draw the temporal sword against him unto which for many reasons having then no manner of freedom in the earth to do it George Fox though even then a precious man in my eyes his particular actions being no rules for me to walk by unless I lived in the very same life and power of Spiritual injoyments that he did and had the very self-same motions in spirit from God that led him to a freedom and ability to do such and the like particular actions I therefore then ceased it and did it not and if I had then done it for my own particular human ends as to avoid further persecution and the like I had in so doing been an outside pharisaical imitator and the greatest and basest of hypocrites which sin alone is the height of Gods a Mat. 24.51 Rev. 3.15 16. See Mat. 6.5 33.13 14 abhorrance for although I must before the Lord now truly avow that the said Letter was a true and faithful without fraud or guile declaration of as real and spirituall a power of God in its measure seising upon my soul for my conviction of my spiritual blindness and sinfnlness as ever seized upon Paul declared in the 9 of the Acts or any mans that ever breathed upon earth yet betwixt the Winter-storms and fierce tempests of conviction or rather the beginning of it and the pleasant Sunshine dews and springing days of growth into a measure of refreshment there is a vast difference and therefore then the true occasion or real ground of all outward war and humanc busling contest being not taken away or absolutely crucified or subdued at the very Root in my soul if then I had signed such an engagement I had clearly gone beyond my souls then living and real attainments and there by ran presumptuously and wickedly beyond my measure and so had tempted the Lord my then present Leader and spiritual guide and abominably sinned against him But now in my already attained growing up measure having the experimental witness of God within my b 1 Joh. 5. 10. self that I am already truly and really attained in substantial and witnessed within me