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A48453	As you were, or, The Lord General Cromwel and the grand officers of the armie their remembrancer wherein as in a glass they may see the faces of their soules spotted with apostacy, ambitious breach of promise, and hocus-pocus-juggleing with the honest soldiers and the rest of the free-people of England : to the end that haveing seene their deformed and fearfull visage, they may be returning to doe their first pretended workes, wipe of their spots, mend their deformities & regaine their lost credit : in a word, save themselves and the gaspeing libertyes of the surprized and enslaved English nation : least enlargement and deliverance arise to the English from another place, but they and their fathers house shall be destroyed : Ester 4. and 14. : all which is contained in a letter directed to the Lord Generall Cromwel, to be communicated to the grandees of his army / written by L. Colonel John Libvrne May 1652 ...	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing L2084; ESTC R1524	49,801	36

further goeing on saith the Spirit of the Lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue the God of Israel said the rock of Israel spake to me „ He that ruleth over men must be just ruleing in the feare of God „ And also I further answer with those sayings of the Spirit of God in the 2d of Isay the 11 12 13 14 15 the 3d of Isay the 11 13 14 15 where it is said The lofty lookes of man shall be humbled and the haughtynes of man shall be lowed downe „ and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty upon every one that is lifted up he shall be brought low and upon all the Cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oakes of Bashan and upon all the high mountaines and upon all the Hills that are lifted up upon every high-tower and upon every fenced wall Woe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him for the Lord standeth up to plead and standeth to judge the people the Lord will enter into judgement with the Ancients of his people and the Princes thereof for yee have eaten up the vineyard the Spoile of the poore is in your houses What meane you that you beat my people to peices and grind the faces of the poore saith the Lord God of Hosts chap 5 15 16 And the mighty man shall bee humbled and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled but the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgement and God that is holy shall be Sanctified in righteousnes And chap 13 6 11. Houle yee for the day of the Lord is at hand it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty and I will saith God punnish the World for their evill and the wicked for their iniquity and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease will lay low the haughtynes of the terrible and chap 23 9. The Lord of Hosts hath purpos'd it to staine the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the Earth and chapter 24 5 6 20 21. the Earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the Lawes changed the ordinance broken the everlasting covenant therfore hath the carse devoured the Earth and they that dwell therein are desolate the Earth shall reele to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall sall and not arise againe And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall punnish the Hosts of the high ones that are on high and the Kings of the Earth upon the Earth and Chap 26. 4 5 6 7 10 11. trust ye in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength for he bringeth downe them that dwell on high the loftie Citty he layeth it low he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust the foote shall tread it downe even the feet of the poore and the stepps of the needy the way of the just is uprightnes thou most upright dost weigh the paths of the just But let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learne righteousnes In the Land of uprightnes will he deale unjustly will not behold the Majestie of the Lord. and chap 28 2 3. Behold the Lord hath a mightie and strong one which as a tempest of haile and a destroying storme as a flood of mighty waters overflowing shall cast downe to the earth with the hand the Crowne of pride And Chap 29 20 21. For the the terrible one is brought to naught and the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut of that make a man an offender for a word lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate that turne aside the just for a thing of naught And Chap. 40 23 29 30 31. Where it is said of God that the bringeth Princes to nothing and maketh the judges of the earth as vanity and giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might hee increaseth strength Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall but they that waite upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Aegles they shall run and not be weary they shall walke and not faint Fourthly I answer when God will have athing brought to pass the sounding of Ramms-hornes shall be sufficient to blow downe the walls of Jericho Joshua the 6. For when God will worke who shall let him Isay 33.13 And when the Allmighty will have a man to act in desperate visibly improbable designes for him he will compass him about with such necessityes to goe on with his worke that there is no evadeing it and put him into Jeremies condition as many times I my selfe have bin when he forced him to cry out O Lord thou hast deceived me I was deceived thou art stronger then I thou hast prevailed I am in derision daily every one mocketh me For since I spake I cryed out I cryed Violence and spoile because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me and derision daily then said I I will not make mention of him nor speake any more in his name BUT HIS WORD WAS WITHIN ME AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES AND I WAS WEARY WITH FORBEAREING AND I COULD NOT STAY For I heard the defameing of many ●eare on every side Report say they and wee will report it all my familiars watched for my halting saying peradventure he will be intised and wee shall prevaile against him and we shall take our revenge on him But the Lord is with me as a MIGHTY TERRIBLE ONE therfore my persecutors shall stumble and they shall not prevaile they shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten But O Lord of Hosts that tryest the righteous and seest the reynes and the heart let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee have I opened my cause bee not a terrour unto me thou art my hope in the day of evill LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED THAT PERSECUTE ME but let not me be confounded let them be dismayed but let not me be dismayed BRING UPON THEM THE DAY OF EVILL AND DESTROY THEM WITH DOUBLE DESTRUCTION Jeremy 20 7 8 9 10 11 12. and chap. 17. 17 18. And give me leave without offence to say to my Lord Generall Cromwell as God in something the like case said in the 22 Jeremy 13 14 15 16 17. Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousnes and his chambers by wrong that useth his neighbours service without wages and giveth him not for his work that ●aith I will

be to hard for them all and therby know the bottome of their greatest designes before they be a quarter ripe for execution Secondly because by my discourse with some of them I find that not only the Prince himselfe but his cheisest Councellours are for his comeing in by force and conquest which is a principle I as much hate as any man in the World doth and have given as cleare testimonie against such a Principle and practise in any person what soever as any man upon the face of the earth ever did or durst doe I am confident of it But besides I have professed to be a man of Conscience and one that could die for his principles and never could be threatned from them nor courted out of them by anie persons in the World what soever And it hath bin one of my maine principles and so declared by the constant series of my practise that evil must not be done by any that good may come thereby The Apostle by the Spirit of God haveing concluded the damnation of sach practisers to be just Romanes 3 8. but if I should out of Machiavel or any other Politic Author learne such Principles as to joine with the Prince or any other Interest whatsoever out of a designe of being revenged of my adversaries to conquer the People of England that therby he or any else might rule over them by his will and pleasure I should not only account my selfe one of the greatest murtherers in the World but also one of the basest fellowes that ever breathed upon the face of the earth Knowing very well that none is to rule over the sonns of men by will and pleasure but God only and alone But truly I am afraid my LORD GENERALL CROMWELL HIMSELFE hath really that latitude in his Principles that will easily lead him out and permit him to act such a practise as I dare pawne my head by his actions for many yeares together clearly to evince and Manifest And it may without a speedy reconciliation in short time prove the subject of my pen. And therfore he haveing such Principles within himselfe may judge thereby that I have the like and thereby may be left to as large an elbow-roome as himselfe takes But for disputacions sake at present admit that I am so Yet truly I must tell you I have red Machiavil and the History of the Kings of Israel and of Iudah contained in the Scripture and many other Histories and also within this 15 yeares have seene aboundance of experince even in England it selfe out of all which I cannot see the least ground to draw any manner of inference to induce me to side with a man or Interest of men that are beaten out of all and totally to forsake mine owne Interest among those that live under those that are in possesion of all manner of power and strength or to thinke that ever by a forreign Arme or power of force he can ever probably overturne them Especially considering experience teacheth me assuredly to knowe that his bare attempting and endeavouring of it joines them in England all together in one against him although in many other things they are much divided amongst themselves I am sure of it in Scripture I read that when Absalom had a mind to be King of Israel he did not presently goe about to raise force to obtaine it although he nor none of his interest were ever beaten before but he courted the People and stole away their hearts by observeing to them his Fathers negligence to doe the people right when they came to complaine and handsomely reproveing of it in him by telling the People there was no man deputed by the King to heare them and therfore before the People he wished O THAT HE WERE MADE A JUDGE IN THE LAND that every man that had a suit or cause might come unto him and he would doe them justice and when any man came nigh to doe him obeysance he complemented to the purpose with them and put forth his hand and tooke them and kissed them by meanes of which he rivetted himselfe in the Peoples hearts and affections and in process of time therby he made his Father King David to flie before him 2 Sam 15 1 2 3 4 c. So likewise JEHV for his owne ends could cry out come with me and see my zeale for the Lord 2 Kings 10 16. And as I have red the Scripture so I have seene much experience in England and first I have observed the Parliament by their curious oylie and sweet declarations in reference to the People out-courted and out bid the King who in his stood upon the punctillioes of his prerogative and therby won the hearts of the people from him which proved his ruine And afterward in process of time the independent party or the great men of the Armie served the Presbyter or the Parliament the same trick and therfore Sir had I nothing of God in me but only a graine or two of reason left me I should never side with anie partie in the World in endeavouring the overturning the men that rule in England unles it were a partie that in boones and priviledges did in reference to the People outbid all parties that ever went before them in Just and rationall things and soe to ty their hands that if they would they should not without the apparēt running the hazard of there owne ruine doe any mischeef ād therfore it is that by all the honest and industrious meanes that a laborious or studious man can invent or take will I by the assistance of God preserve my Interest in their owne bowells amongst those honest and gallant men that live amongst them which have held forth that in worth and exellency that in it selfe is good and profitable for all sorts of reasonable men that are not sotts and brute beasts in their understandings that never any held out before them videlicet THE AGREEMENT OF the people DATED MAY THE 1. 1649. And this Interest I shall Increase widen and strenghten as much as possible I can with all persons what soever that will embrace it not doubting but that in the conclusion it will prove like Aarons rod that devoured the rods of all the Egiptian conjurers Exodus the 7 and the 20 „ Swallowing up all Interests into it selfe „ And you may remember when I was indited for my life at Guildhall October 1649 that it was laid unto my charge in the said Inditement as an act of treason that I had held out in print the same thing to the Prince by name the words of which as they were conteined in the inditement yow may read in the first part of the historie of my said tryall page 58 59 60. And I must now acknowledge unto yow that a learned and I am sure of it as honest a judge as ever I knew in England videlicet BARON RIGBY upon a serious discourse with him told me in these verse words that if