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A88243	The recantation of Lieutenant Collonel John Lilburne, prisoner in the Tower. Opening, all the machinations of the Independent partie: their various practises and judgements. With the reasons or grounds of his unexpected revolt from that party: also certain rules to know them, with cautions to shun most of their pernicious heresies.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657,	1647 (1647)	Wing L2171; Thomason E386_19; ESTC R201489	4,670	8

my wants for I may speake it to your shames that many of you mistaking the way to the Tower are hurried with too forward zeale to Newgate Bridewell or the Fleete I must tell you Brethren † Martin Marpri●st alias H. Overton his Wise in Bridewell MARTIN though a little bird has a villanous stomacke * Mr. Musgrave Jane Hules and John Larner in the Fleet and Cupid Overton in the Gate-house even like any Cormorant can digest your silver as easily as an Estriche Iron Martin is a † He writ the Bo●ke of soules morta●lity and maintaines the same Mortall Creature and of a retrograde judgement to the truth of our profession besides he studies Chymistry and by his fained art of Eloquence can easily extract the silver from his fellow-sufferers O divine Martine if your superlative holinesse have no more fellow-feeling of the necessities of your Brethren I shall hardly endure you to build your Nest this Summer on the charities of your abused Brethren but will cause you take your flight at Midsommer with Cockoes and Jackdaus more Westerly where you shall pearch according to your Dignity It cannot much impaire your holinesse function considering your grave Labours and most Elaborate Peeces that * A scurrillous Pamphlet entitu●ed Martins Eccho Eccho forth your * sacred endowments I shall goe neere to tell the people that your holinesse battens like an Abby-lubber in your Cloyster of Newgate far more aboundantly then in your † Sacred decretall or a Hue and Cry of 〈◊〉 his holinesse Martin Mar-priest hole in Toolies Martin went upon * Where his holinesse kept his S●ru●pet called Margery Mar-priest alius his Printing-presse Crutches then though now his holinesse hath taken upon him the garbe of a compleat Gallant smells like a † perfumer God save his holinesse Courts the Sisters and findes them excellent well edified and very compliable in their uses Mortall Creatures grasse and hey all Mortal all Mortall * Both his Servants names But deare Brethren enough of this fowle bird Martin next I shall desire you to lay to heart all my suffering for your Priviledges Liberties † But he may thank● sister Daw the Perfumers w●fe and Native Birth rights And that you would exhort all and every Member in your respective Congregations to contribute freely to my necessities and the necessities of my fellow sufferers in the Fleet and to hold your hand from contributing to profane Martin any more till his Brethren that are more worthy sufferers then himselfe be first supplied or he himselfe reclaimed from his pernicious Errors Therefore to conclude I give my judgement for the present which I desire to hold and maintaine untill I be convinced by you of the same and convinced shall be soone reclaimed 1 I beleeve the King to be supreame head and governour in all causes over all persons Ecclesiasticall or Civill 2. I am of the judgement that no Subject ought to take up Armes against his lawfull King and that all such taking up Armes against lawfull Authority is fighting against God and his Ordinances 3. I querie whether the King being despencer of Law or Chiefe Minister thereof offending or breaking the Law be under a capacity of being punished by any inferiour power my judgement therein is that no power under the King can doe it but he is to expect his punishment from God only and none else 4. I am of that judgement that if the King shall command me any thing contrary to the word of God I ought not to doe it neither to resist but patiently suffer what punishment soever he shall inflict upon me for Christs sake 5. I am of that judgement that there cannot be fighting for Religion but suffering for Religion in England Ireland or else where 6 I am of that judgement that the Church founded upon the 12 Pillars or Articles of Christian Faith in the three Creedes called the Apostles Athan●sius and Nicene Creed is the true Church of God and that wee ought not to seperate from that Church but from any knowne Error in that Church And any new Faith coyned by the Assembly to the contrary of none effect Thus deare Countrey men have I layd downe my judgement for the present which shall no longer be evidenced by mee then prooved by the Word Therefore I desire thee to search the Scriptures by which Rule all sure foundations are layd for lasting structures Common wealths and Churches have not a Philosophicall Generation the new out of the perversion the corruption of the ancient Government the new out of the extirpation the annihilating the established old Religion And if so great tempests and Earthquakes of Drums and Attillery subvertions and immersions of persons and estates Such unreckonable expence of a Kingdome coyned to effect for supplies and such inundations and overwhelming of blood beget but a bare promise of such an issue what remaines for the Nation to undergoe before its productions Doubtlesse this birth can at these rates be attended with no lesse then a desolation when there shall be too few left and those too much enfeebled to fall out about the enjoyment of so great a happinesse Reason was given to man for a direction as well as a distinction and generally wee beleeve our eyes above any assertions Poore selfe-deceiving Englishman who canst not be sensible how fantastick thy opinionate Reformation is how reall the devastation of thy substance and canst finde a hope that the one will improove and not a feare that the other may impaire As thou art onely miserable in a proportion at present from thy selfe So the Remaining degrees that thou art to take in misery are not to be proceeded in without thy consent to a continued Vassallage It is iust with God and abates the Condemnation of imposing man to lay burdens and use Goades on those who will be beasts by disavowing their reason or pinning it upon opinion of anothers infabilities and as just to strike him blinde who will not see an object of his marke in other colours or demensions then what are rendred by anothers spectacles FINIS

THE RECANTATION Of Lieutenant Collonel John Lilburne Prisoner in the Tower OPENING All the MACHINATIONS of the Independent Partie THEIR Various Practises and Judgements With the Reasons or Grounds of his unexpected Revolt from that Party Also certain Rules to know them with Cautions to shun most of their pernicious Heresies Printed in the Yeer 1647. THE RECANTATION of LIEV COL IOHN LILBVRNE Fellow-Commoners I Know it cannot otherwise chuse but strike a wonder into you to see me now revoke that Cause that formerly I have so unanimously maintained both with my sword and pen besides many cruell sufferings as whipping imprisonments and the like in defence of you your Priviledges Freedomes and Birth rights even with the hazard of my life against all Opposers whatsoever whether Bishops Kings Parliaments or any other Principalities or Powers in high places 1. Being imprisoned by the Bishops in the Fleet for a long time denyed ever what nature it selfe so plentifully gives to all sorts of Creatures water being neere famished shamefully betrayed by my * Ed. Childingden friends abused by Jaylors censured by Star-chamber whipped from the Fleet to Westminster afterwards enduring long Captivity by the Bishops then having obtained liberty by the meanes of my much honoured friend Liev. Gen. Cromwell no sooner released but againe arraigned for my life before the whole House of Peeres about the Earle of Strafford the King himselfe sending my Accusation against * May 24. 1641. me The House of Commons then vouchsafed me so ☜ much justice as to vote for me 1. That the Sentence of the Star-chamber given against mee was illegall and against the Liberty of the Subject as also wicked bloody cruell barbarous and tyrannis all 2. That reparations ought to be given mee for my imprisonment sufferings and losses sustained by that illegall sentence But since what justice I have received from them let the world judge considering the high esteeme I have had both of them and their Cause that had I had at the beginning of these warres ten thousand * my hot Zeale lives I should have ventured them all for the Parliament though I had stript my selfe to my very shirt and though I had not left my Wife and Family any thing wherewith to have subsisted In their service I freely adventur'd my life with an undaunted courage and resolution till being taken prisoner at Brainford I was carryed to Oxford where for almost a yeere I continued a prisoner arraigned againe for my life but when they could not worke upon mee by any threats or menaces they resolved to try to doe that by polycy they could not effect by force and made me many proffers of worldly honours and preferments which came even from the King himselfe by the hands of 4 several Lords yet I remained unmoveable as a * My strong faith ●ock stopping my eares against all those juncto Syrens and not so much as listning to any their conjurations or imprecations charmed they never so wisely though I indured at that present as much misery as it was possible for any one man to doe by sicknesse and otherwise to the utter ruine of my estate to the value of 6 or 700 l. as I can make it appeare After this being exchanged I served under the Lord of Manchester and being before Newarke was stript to the bare * Yèt fervent for their Cause skin hardly escaping with my life and although I tooke in Tickell Castle from the Cavaliers with much hazard and danger Yet the great Parliamentary Reward for all my good service was but an earnest desire to hang me an unwelcome payment for so deserving a service and an excellent new reformed way to pay old debts having due unto me under the command of the said Earle about 700 l. a summe that would have reared a gallows as high as Hamans for Mordecai but c. ☞ I forbeare to speake of Col. King But they having served their owne turnes of me I could never have justice from them since though I have been as faithfull a servant to them and the Common-wealth as any they ever imployed and have bid defiance to all men in the world to brand or taxe me with unfaithfullnesse And whereas Magna Carta saith Iustice and Right wee will deny to none nor wee will defer to none Yet did I waite at least foure yeeres upon them and in all that time could not get them so much as to put their Votes in execution since have I followed them 6 moneths to the expence of above a hundred pounds to get a Petition read that I might have Iustice and Right yet denyed both and have been since the 1 of May 1641. imprisoned three times by authority of the House of Commons before ever I knew mine accuser or ever was suffered to speake one word in mine owne defence directly against my Freedome having beene in the field with my sword in my hand for the preservation thereof But if you please to read Magna Carta 9 of Hen. 3. cap. 1. you shall finde there That no Freeman may be taken and imprisoned and disseazed of his Freehold or his Liberty or his free Customes or outlawed or banished or any way destroyed neither will we go upon him neither passe upon him but by the lawful tryal of his equals or by the law of the Land Iustice Right we will sell to none wee will deny to none nor will deferre to none all which is my proper Birth-right and Inheritance confirmed by this present Parliament in many Declarations taxing the King for the violation therof yet acting contrary thereunto themselves Deare fellow Commons I Desire you to judge impartially and tell me if they deserved so faithfull a Champion as my ☜ selfe That with undaunted courage and unparrallelled valour have disarmed their enemies even at their very doores as namely Captaine Hide and others and yet from that very house unto which those dores doe lead have received so many Votes in Commitments and otherwise as any Freeman under the Cope of Heaven the Copy of one followeth Die Sabbati 19 July REsolved upon the Question by the Commons assembled in Parliament that Lievetenant Collonell Lilburne be forth with taken into Custody by the Serjeant at Armes attending this House and so kept till the House take further Order To the Sergeant at Armes attending at this House or to his Deputy c. H. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Could instance you many more Tyrannies and Outrages committed upon me since my commitment to the Tower where I remaine yet a Prisoner but it is needlesse therefore enough shall suffice for this time Let me in the next place give you notice concerning your Collections in your severall Congregations I have found lately your Zeale very cold and your Talent of Charity not to abound the streame of your bounty still ebbing or flowing some other way I speake this to put you in minde of your forwardnesse to minister freely to