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A88202	Ionahs cry out of the whales belly: or, Certaine epistles writ by Lieu. Coll. Iohn Lilburne, unto Lieu. Generall Cromwell, and Mr. John Goodwin: complaining of the tyranny of the Houses of Lords and Commons at Westminster; and the unworthy dealing of divers (of those with him that are called) his friends. To the man whom God hath honoured, and will further honour, if he continue honouring him, Lieu. Generall Cromwell at his house in Drury Lane, neare the red-Lion this present.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2122; Thomason E400_5; ESTC R201740	21,051	15

to say unto you in the wards of Iob chap 32.21 22. Let me not pray you accept any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I know not to give flatering titles in so doing my maker would soon take me away Now deer Sir knowing that you cannot but know that it is a saying of the Spirit of God That faithfull are the wounds of a Friend but deceitfull are the k●sses of an Enemy I come now downright to unbowell my mind unto you and truly to tell you that in my thoughts I look upon the redeemed ones of Iesus Christ in England in as low and sad a condition almost as the Iews were in the third of Esther when Haman upon this false suggestion to K Hashuerosh That there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed amongst the people in all the provinces of the Kingdome and their lawes are divers from all people neither keep they the Kings lawes therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them had obtained a Decree to destroy them all and therefore as poore Mordicai in the bitternesse of his spirit in the fourth chapter sayd unto Queen Esther so say I to thee thou great man Cromwell Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the Parliament House more then all the rest of the Lambs poore despised redeemed ones and therefore O Cromwell if thou altogether holdest thy peace or stoppest or underminest as thou dost our and the Armies petitions at this time then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to us poore afflicted ones that have hithertoo doted too much upon thee O Cromwell from another place then from you silken Independents the broken reeds of Egypt in the House and Army but thou and thy Fathers House shall be destroyed but who knoweth whether thou art come out of thy sicknesse and to such a height in the kingdome for such a time as this And therefore if thou wilt pluck up thy resolutions like a man that will persevere to be a man for God and goe on bravely in the feare and name of God and say with Esther If I perish I perish but if thou would not know that here before God I arraigne thee at his dreadfull Barre and there accuse thee of delusions and faire words deceitfully for betraying us our wives and children into the Haman-like tyrannicall clutches of Ho●●is and Stapleton both now impeached and the rest of that bloody and devouring faction that hath designed us to utter ruine and destruction and this land and kingdome to vassalage and slavery against whom we are sufficiently able to persevere our selves if it were nor for thee O Cromwell that art led by the nose by two unworthy covetous earth-wormes Vaine and St. Iohn I mean young Sir Henry Vaine and Sollicitor St. Iohn whose basenesse I sufficiently anatomized unto thee in thy bed above a yeare agoe in Colonel Mountagues house in the Pears as thou canst not but very well remember and which I am resolved to the purpose shortly to print * See the last page of the Outcries of the oppressed Commons and the Resolved mans Resolution p. 6. 7 8 9 10. O Cromwell I am informed this day by an Officer out of the Army and by another knowing man yesterday that came a purpose to me out of the Army That you and your Agents are likely to dash in peeces the hopes of our outward preservation Their petition to the House and will not suffer them to petition till they have laid down their Armes because forsooth you have engaged to the House they shall lay down their Armes whensoever they shall command them although I say no credit can be given to the Houses Oathes and engagements to make good what they have promised And if this be true as I am too much afraid it is then I say Accursed be the day that ever you had that influence among them and accursed be the day that ever the House of Commons bribed you with a vote of 2500. l. per annum to betray and destroy us Sir I am jealous over you with the hight of godly jealousie that you like Ephesus have forsaken your first love and zeale * Which is very probable for Peter to save himselfe forswore and denyed his Master Matth. 26.72.73 yea and for feare playd also the hypocrite and dissembler for which Paul reproved and blamed him to his face Galat. 2. for which I am most heartily sorry and should be very glad I were mistaken and upon manifestation of which from you I should very gladly cry you peccavi for my present heat But Sir if these Army newes be true I must bid you for ever Farewell and must hereby declare my selfe an avowed enemy to your selfe-pecuniary interest and all your copartners and shall with more zeale bend all my abilities against you all and unmask you to my friends then my adversaries the tyrannicall and arbitrary Lords doe the worst you can to my throat which you used jestingly to say you would cut so soon as ever I fell out with you Sir I have but a life to lose and know that to die to me is gaine being now crucifi●d to the world and it to me and being now sufficiently able to trust God with my Wife and Children but by the strength of God I am resolved Sampson like to sell my life at as deare a rate as I can to my Philistine Adversaries that shall either by force without law endevour to destroy me or by treachery to undoe me And if the Army doe disband before they petition I and all such as I am must truly lay the whole blame upon you and truly declare the House of Commons bribe Cromwel to betray the liberties of England into their tyrannicall fingers Sir is it not the Generals Commission to preserve the lawes and liberties of England And how can he those with him without being esteemed by all men that are not bribed or preferre their own base interest before the common safety the basest of men to lay down their Armes upon any conditions in the world before they see the lawes and universall well known liberties of England firmly setled especially seeing as I will undertake publickly and I hope shortly to prove the Parliament tyrannizeth ten times more over us then ever the King did * See my printed Epistle to Colonel Martin of the 31. of May 1647. page 6 7 8 36 37 38 48 49 to 56. And see the first part of the justification of the Kings Government against the Parliament page 3 4 5 to the end And Mr. Richard Overtons Appeale dated Iuly 1647. and I will maintain it that by the law of this Kingdome it is ten times easier to prove it lawfull for us to take up Armes against them in the wayes they now go then it was for them to take up Arms when they did against the King And I professe I would doe it if I were rationably able to doe

of proceedings in the way of Justice as the foresaid petitioners averre who although they bee impeached of treason in the highest nature and the particulars of their impeachment declared and prosecuters with witnesses upon oath ready avowedly to make it good yet are they suffered to walk at liberty by the Parliament contrary to the declared and known law of the land and the universall practice of the lawes of the Kingdome in all Ages yea and their own in the case of the Earle of Strafford Bishop of Canterbury Judge Battlet with many others who they required and caused immediatly to be secured and imprisoned upon a generall impeachment without declaring any particulars in the least O brave iudging Parliament who have forgot to be iust and visibly mind and practice nothing but playing at Hocus Pocus and the protecting of treason cheating knavery and roguery in each other for which they deserve the most transcendent punishment that ever amongst men was inflicted vpon Villaines Tyrants and Traytors to their trust but not destroyed in prison without and against Law which if I can help it I will not be without a witnesse or if I have done no evill which my adversaries declare I have not in that as yet they have layd nothing to my charge then I require immediatly to be delivered with just reparations and this I know lies in your power to effect in three dayes if you please And so desiring the God of Councell to direct you I rest From my causelesse captivity in the Tower of London this first of July 1647. Your true friend in the wayes of Justice and Truth till death Iohn Lilburne I shall conclude with the Copie of a letter I sent Lieutenant Generall Cromwell into the West Decemb. 9. 1645. Deare and Honourable Sir THe endearednesse of my affections towards You for those excellencies that I have seene in you and for those reall respects that I have enjoyed from you but especially in that God hath honoured you and counted you worthy to be a Patron to his people ties me to have high and honourable thoughts of you and by how much the more my esteeme is of you by so much the more do I judge it my duty to speak my mind freely and plainly to you although in the eye of the world yea by thousands of degrees below you and I hope you will make no other constructions of my words then that they are the cleare demonstrations of the cordiall affections of a reall plaine and single hearted friend of yours who you very well know was never skilfull in the wicked art of flattery colloging or d●ssimulation From my Brother have I by two letters received an invitation as comming from your selfe to come down into the Army but I beseech you give me leave to informe you that the foyles affronts and undermining usages that I met with not from you but others of more quality then honesty when I was last in the Army hath stucke in my stomack ever since could never yet be disgested by me though I do protest I highly honour your selfe and could willingly if I know my owne heart lay downe my life for you your honour and reputation as soone as for my father that begot me or the dearest friend I have upon the face of the earth Yet so deepe impression hath the dealings with my selfe and others of my deare friends that I have taken notice of both before that time and since from one and the same parties taken upon my spirit that I have many times and still do in a manner scorne to take imployment under those persons where the son or sons of Machevell hath such sway power and authority by advice policies and counsels as the party or parties that I know abused me hath in your Army and give me leave without passion to tell you that I say you your self harbour in your brest a Snake or Snakes although you will not know it you and I say there are those that have no small influence into you that if the wheele of honour and profit shall turne round every day in the weeke they are able to carry themselves so that they shall be no losers by it yea and are able and have principals to do it to give the t●●est words in the world to you or any other honest man they deale with when they intend to cut your throat and supplant and undermine you and this I am able to make good Sir you may remember what you used to say That it was the greatest honour and glory that my Lord of Manchester ever had in the world that he was a Commander of so many of Gods people and give mee leave to say the same to you and also give mee leave to tell you that that which lost my Lords estimation amongst Gods people was the harkning to the evill advice of those that had as specious pretenses as those I meane above you and I wish that your harkning to theirs may not eclips though I hope it will never lose that respect that flowes from Gods people towards you Sir I run not at random but speake upon grounds from something lately come unto my knowledge and observation and I have now discharged my duty and my conscience take it as you please and when you and I meet I shall clearly lay downe my grounds unto you if you please to give me leave which I shall take for a greater honour then if I had been one in the new Model of Dukes Barons lately so made by vote for my part I will not take upon me now to give you advice but shal leave you to the wise Counseller of all his who tels me honesty is the best policy and uprightnes begets bouldnes neither have I any thing now to desire of you for my selfe or any of my friends being resolved by the goodnesse of God patiently to be content with my portion though it be but bread and water with the enjoiment of the cordial affections of the simple and contemned people of God and rather here hazard my selfe in seeking for justice and right which is my due then to go abroad to venter my life againe in fighting I know not wherefore as I have done hitherto unlesse it be to set up tyranny violence injustice and all manner and kind of basenesse So craving pardon for my boldnesse and it may be too plain lines I commit you to the protection of the most High with as much sincerity and uprightnesse as I doe my owne soule And shall ever remaine London this 9. Decemb. 1645. Your faithfull plain and truth-telling friend and servant John Lilburne The Postscript It may be divers may demand to know the reason wherefore I write and caused to be printed the fore-going Epistles unto whom at present I returne this answer That because the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax is not now an Army acting by a Commission either from the King or the two Houses for although they

IONAHS Cry out of the Whales belly Or Certaine Epistles writ by Lieu. Coll. Iohn Lilburne unto Lieu. Generall Cromwell and Mr. John Goodwin Complaining of the tyranny of the Houses of Lords and Commons at Westminster and the unworthy dealing of divers of those with him that are called his Friends Jonah 2.2 3 4. I cryed by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord and he heard me out of the belly of hell cryed I and thou heardest my voice For thou hadst cast me into the deepe in the midst of the seas and the floods compassed mee about all thy billowes and thy waves passed over me Then I said I am cast out of thy sight yet I will looke againe towards thy holy Temple Jer. 20 10 11 12. For I heard the defaming of many feare on every side Report say they and we will report it all my familiars watched for my halting saying peradventure he will be intised and we shall prevaile against him and we shall take our revenge on him But the Lord is with mee as a mighty terrible one therefore my persecuters shal stumble and they shal not prevaile they shal be greatly ashamed for they shal not prosper their everlasting confusion shal never be forgotten But O Lord of hosts that triest the righteous and seest the raines and the heart let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee I have opened my cause Micah 7.5 Trust yee not in a friend put yee not confidence in a guide Esay 63.9 In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the Angell of his presence saved them in his love and in his pitie he redeemed them TO THE MAN WHOM GOD HATH honoured and will further honour if he continue honouring him Lieu. Generall Cromwell at his house in Drury Lane neare the red-Lion this present Much honored Sir IT is the saying of the wise man That he that rewardeth evill for good evill shall never depart from his house the justnesse of which divine sentence ingraven in nature hath even ingaged morall Heathens to a gratefull acknowledgement of favours received and hath been a sufficient obligation conscientiously to ty them to acts of retribution to those for whom they have received them and therefore not only below a Christian but a very morall Heathen and Pagan should I judge my selfe if I should bee forgetfull of your seasonable favours much more if I should returne contrary effects unto you which with all thankfullnesse I must acknowledge tooke compassion ●● mee in my bonds and chaines even when I was at deaths doore and was principally instrumentall in delivering me from the very gates of death in Anno 1640. and setting me free from the long and heavy Tyranny of the Bishops and Starchamber even at that time when I was almost spent which to me is so large an Obligation that I thinke while I live it will be engraven upon my heart as with the point of a Diamond many particular respects since then I must ingeniously confesse I have caus● to take notice of from you and one large one of late since I came into present capti●ies which was for that large token you sent me for which now in writing I returne you many thanks Sir I dare not now by way of boasting take upon me to enumerate my hazardous actions which hath flowed from the truth of my affections to you in doing you reall and faithfull service in maintaining the honour of your person and your just interest which was all the retrabution that I in my poore condition could answer all your kindenesses with and truly if I be not mistaken I thinke I have been faithfull cordiall harty sincere and hazardious in dischaging my ingaged affection and duty to you and the more high hath my thoughts been towards you for that I have apprehended in you in your service abroad an affectionate cordiall and free hearted spirit to the poore people of God unto whom in times by past you have been as a Sanctuary and hiding place and God hath honoured you sufficiently for it not only in giving you extraordinary large ●oome in the affections of thousands and ten thousands of his chosen ones but in hanging upon your ba●k the glory of all their atcheivements by meanes of which you have been made mighty and great formidable and dreadfull in the eyes of the great ones of the world and truly my selfe and all others of my mind that I could speak with have looked upon you as the most absolute single hearted great man in England untainted or unbiased with ends of your owne But deare Sir give him leave that presumeth to say and that without flatery he honoureth you as he doth his owne life and being that looking as a dilligent spectator upon your actions and carriages for this many moneths together It hath struck him into an amase and filled his spirit as full of boylings and turmoylings as ever Jeremiahs was when he said thy word is within me like a burning fire shut up in my bones and I am weary with forbearing and I could not stay Jer. 20.9 and truly Sir I was in paines and travell how to behave my selfe towards you and faine I would have writ my minde freely and plainly unto you but truly unto my owne shame I must really acknowledge I have been like Jonah who fled from the presence of God and the Errand he had to imploy him upon Jonah 1.3 c. and I have withstood those many pricking motitions which I beleeve flowed from his spirit and have either too much preferred my own ends or my base carnall reasons before the Dictates of God but now am not able for all the world to forbeare any longer being lately forced nolens volens without rest or sleep most seriously to meditate upon these following sayings of God Exodus 23.6.7.8 Thou shalt not wrest the judgement of the poore in his cause Keep thee farre from a false matter and the innocent and the righteous slay thou not For I will not justifie the wicked Thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous O deere Cromwell the Lord open thy eyes and make thy heart sensible of those snares that are laid for thee in that vote of the House of Commons of two thousand five hundred pounds per annum And Deut. 16.19 God saith expresly Thou shalt not wrest judgement thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift For a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise and pervert the words of the righteous And truly being very fearfull and jealous in my own soule that some of my true friends with whom I have talked of your selfe very freely of late should shortly hit me in the teeth by reason of my silence to you and too justly upbrayd me with that saying of Ecclesiasticus chap. 20 vers 29. Presents and gifts bl●nd the eyes of the wise and stop his mouth that he cannot reprove And therefore Sir give me leave