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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91211	The lyar confounded, or A briefe refutation of John Lilburnes miserably-mistated-case, mistaken-law; seditious calumnies, and most malicious lyes against the High Court of Parliament, the Honourable Committee of Examinations, Mr Speaker, with other members of the Commons House; and Mr William Prynne; wherewith he hath seduced many ignorant overcredulous people. Manifesting the Parliaments extraordinary clemency towards him, their justice in their commitment of, and proceedings against him; for which he so ingratefully and falsely taxeth them, with tyranny and injustice / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4002; Thomason E267_1; ESTC R212413	54,867	55

THE LYAR CONFOUNDED OR A Briefe Refutation of John Lilburnes miserably-mistated-Case mistaken-Law Seditious Calumnies and most malicious Lyes against the High Court of PARLIAMENT the Honourable Committee of Examinations Mr Speaker with other Members of the Commons House and Mr William Prynne wherewith he hath seduced many ignorant over-credulous People Manifesting the Parliaments extraordinary Clemency towards him their Justice in their Commitment of and proceedings against him for which he so ingratefully and falsely taxeth them with Tyranny and Injustice By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Lincolns Inne Esquire John 8. 44. Yee are of your Father the Devill and the lusts of your Father will yee do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is NO TRVTH IN HIM when he speaketh a Lye he speaketh of his owne for he is a LYAR and the FATHER OF IT Eph. 4. 25. Wherefore puting away Lying speake every man TRVTH to his Neighbour for wee are members one of another Prov. 12. 19. The lip of truth shall be established for ever but a LYING TONGVE is but for a moment LONDON Printed by John Macock for Michael Spark senior 1645. TO The Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS and Master of the ROLES Sir I Here present you with a Briefe Relation and Refutation of John Lilburnes Notorious Lyes and forged Calumnies against the Parliament and whole House of Commons in Generall the Committee of Examination Your selfe some other Members of both Houses your Brother Sir John Lenthall and My selfe in speciall Whereby the whole Kingdome may discerne his and his confederates Impudent Falsities Forgeries Lyes groundlesse Slanders and Your Vntainted Innocencies triumphing gloriously over them The truth of his Case misreported by him rightly stated the Legality of Your Proceedings against commitment of him demonstrated his mistaken Law refuted and the seeds of Mutiny of Sedition sowen among the Ignorant Vulgar in his seditious Printed Papers scattered abroad by one Leaner and others among the Kentish Malignants and the Male-contents in other parts extirpated to prevent all Popular Insurrections against the Parliaments Soveraign Authority Your speciall Interest in the Subject matter of this Relation hath among other motives induced me to select You for its Patron in the Dedication to whose Protection I commend it and Your selfe to Gods desiring really to expresse my selfe upon all just Occasions Your most Affectionate Friend to serve You William Prynne To the Jmpartiall Reader Christian Reader IT is S. James his Observation c. 3. 5. Behold how great a matter a litle fire kindleth And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity and setteth on fire the course of nature and is seton fire of hell which I may truely apply to John Lilburns tongue and much more to his pen imployed only in compiling Libellous Letters and Papers Behold how great combustions and tumults have they kindled among the Ignorant Vulgar who adore him as the onely Oracle of Truth when as he is a meere Legend of Lyes Had not his Papers kindled a publike dangerous flame dis-affected divers of his Seditious Faction and set their tongues nay hearts against the Parliament against whom they are brewing mischiefe in sundry private Conventicles and ripening publike Mutinies I had sate still in silence and onely answered this Rayler as the Arch-Angell Michael did the Devil when he strove with him about the body of Moyses Jude 9. The Lord rebuke thee or have spread his Letter onely in private before the Lord as Hezekiah spread Sennacharibs blasphemous Letter 2 Kings 19. 14 15 16. saying Lord bow downe thine eare and heare open Lord thine eyes and see heare the words of this Senacharib Lilburne which hath sent to reproach the Living God and the highest powers under him But the flame being now grown to such an height as endangers the firing of our whole State into a publike combustion I could doe no lesse then contribute my best endeavours after so long a silence and bring one bucket or two of water towards the extinguishing of his Prodigious firebrands which were certanely set on fire of hell which breathes forth in his seditious Papers fit for no other use then to make publike bonefires in the streets I shall desire the unprejudiced Reader whoever he be to read this short Relation and Refutation with an impartiall eye and then I dare say he will soone resolve There was never such an execrable Libell and Legion of Lyes published against the Parliaments the Committees Just proceedings and other well-deserving Members Persons Integrities as this of Lilburnes Letters who if we may lawfully judge of the Tree by the fruits is in Simon Magus his condition even drenched in The very gall of bitternesse and fettered in the bond of iniquity and he will more admire and perchance blame the Parliament for their overmuch Clemency and Mildnesse in proceeding with so much Patience and Moderation against such an obstinate Delinquent then he or any of his Confederates do or can maliciously exclaime against them for their pretended overmuch Oppression Tyranny and Injustice of which there is not the least shadow appearing in any of their proceedings So submitting all to thy censure and Gods blessing I shall cease to trouble thee with any further Prologue A Briefe Relation and Refutation of John Lilburnes notorious Lyes and Calumnies against the PARLJAMENT and others OF all the most Glorious Attributes of God in Scripture there is none more eminent then this a Deut. 32. 4. Psal 31. 5. Esay 65. 16. That he is a God of TRVTH in the affirmative A b Tit. 1. 2. God that CANNOT LYE yea that it is c Heb. 6. 18. Impossible for him to Lye in the Negative And of all the disgracefull Titles given to the Devill himselfe in Sacred Writ there is none more infamous then this d John 8. 44. That he is a LYAR and the Father of Lyes and aboade not in the TRVTH Whence it necessarily follows That of all persons in the world none are more desperately wicked and unlike to God or more Diabolically impious and like to the very Devill himselfe then LYARS and of all Lyars those especially who most maliciously forge and then scandalously Register Print and Publish to all the world most notorious Lyes and Untruths of others who least of all deserve such Devillish usage at their hands Hence it was that our Saviour told the Lying Jewes e John 8. 44. Ye are of your Father the Devill and the lusts of your father will ye do and that Peter used this expression to Ananias when he told but a kinde of officious not a meer malitious slanderous Lye f Acts 5. 3. Why hath SATAN FILLED THY HEART TO LYE to the Holy Ghost Intimating that Lyars hearts are filled up to the brim with Satan their Ghostly Father and that they have not the least dram of Gods Holy Spirit in them which is ever stiled g John 14.