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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 RESURRECTION OF JOHN LILBURNE Now a Prisoner in Dover-Castle DECLARED And manifested in these following Lines penned by himself and now at his earnest desire published in print in these words London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread Eagle neer the West-end of Pauls 1656. THE RESURRECTION OF John Lilburne c. HAving many and strong compulsions from the measure of the light of the Lord now shining clearly within me and raised up now to a good degree of life and power in my soul to make a publike declaration in print of my reall owning and now living in in my present attained to measure the life and power of those divine and heavenly principles professed by those spirituallized people called Quakers at my owning of which all my old and familliar friends in a manner are so much troubled and offended with me for and my great adversaries so jealous of the reall intentions of my heart within me at my so doing and by that measure of the Light of JESUS thining in my soul I am now directed and guided to intitle it as aforesaid and here at this place as an introduction before I come to the main thing of that which through the strength of God I have now to say to insert here the copies of the very two first Letters that ever I writ of note after the great and glorious power of God had seized upon my soul to let in the real beginnings of convincement into my soul of my spiritual blindness deadness and emptiness and by which I came to see a clear glimps of that spiritual fulness that was and really is in the divine and heavenly declared principles of the aforesaid precious people The first Letter being to my wife take in these following words Dover-Castle the fourth day of the tenth moneth 1655. For my deer and loving wife Elizabeth Lilburn at her friend George Wades house a Cook at the Sign of the Sun neer Guild-Hall and Lawrence Lanes end in London these with speed deliver My dear heart WHat in a great measure my temper of spirit was before thy coming to me I in its measure communicated unto thee by the copy of my letter to Luke Howard which I have here inclosed thee at thy leisure to peruse And what distemperedness my earthly spirit was in at and towards thee at thy and my last meeting upon Saturday the tenth of November last I need not to repeat unto thee being I beleeve it is fresh enough in thy own memory And the frame of my heart after thy reconciliation and mine so far as God hath given me the spirit of discerning and searching it I in no small proportion in reallity discovered to thee And since my departue upon VVednesday the 21. of November last setting my self seriously to a deep and weighty consideration of that work that my soul longed for a new to be a travelling in And giving fulness of scope to that divine and heavenly voice of God speaking plainly in my heart unto which I am truly able to se● my seal ●o that it is that spirit or power of the Holy Ghost or true Comforter spoken of Joh. 16. 7 8. that convinceth or reproveth the world or the carnal or first or fallen nature in me of sin and of righteousness and of judgement and is that eternal and everlasting spirit of truth that imbraced and closed with leads my soul by its divine and strong power or attractive drawings step by step in its measure and degree into truth and in my heavenly fathers good time I doubt not but it will establish and build me up in truth Ioh. 16.13 and mould me into a real conformity in life and power in real and substantial injoyment to the wayes of truth of light and life be they never so difficult to the fl●sh carnal man or fallen or first nature in me or never so full of the cross or self-denyall or giving up my own reason understanding will wisdom and affections to be crossed and crucified by the Will and Wisdom of JESUS the annoynted above measure of the Father and to be guided or led on by him the living life light or power in all the sons of men that have the greatest degree or least of sparks of divine or heavenly light shining within their dark in their small degree or measure or inlightned inlivened souls in their larger degree or measure I have since I see thee read extraordinary much of those two volumes which I shewed thee containing both almost seventeen hundred pages of the writings of those preciousest though most contemptible people called quakers the-truly beloved objects of my soul And this at present because I rather now heartily desire to live in the possession power or life of truth in my soul then in the bare profession notion or talk of it I shall and can in sincerity say to thee that my soul hath been amazed and even confounded by them not as Herod by Iohn Baptist preachings was for fear of eternal wrath or loss of his Tetrarch-ship by or for his sins which to avoid made him reform and amend many things Mark 6.20 but of real breakings or shame of soul that so glorious a Talent as my Lord and Master by the clear lively and powerfull breakings in of his divine and heavenly light into my heart long and many yeers ago bestowed upon me should by me or my first and carnal wisdom be most ungratefully and unfaithfully like a lighted candle put under a bushel or hid or buried in the earth in me in obscurity and darkness Or that my soul should by the will and wisdom of the first nature ambitiously Adam-like eat a new upon the tree of Knowledge of good and evill and thereby covet to be esteemed something amongst the sons of men more then the Divine Wisdom would have me with that measure or degree I had attained to and therewith be with it like the unbelieving Jews the type in the flesh or the first or mean in its degree or measure to what I ought to have thirsted after out-goings of the divine and heavenly teaching and instructing spirit or voice of God in or unto my soul willing and content to sit down in the wilderness or journeying way to Canaan and not with precious Ieshua and Caleb the spiritual anti-types in that particular or in another particular the outward types of the spiritual travelling anti-types the seed of God under the Gospel into Gods spiritual rest in himself be willing longing and desirous by faith in the strength of God resting as the old Israelites after the flesh ought to have done in his faithfull and powerfull promise of carrying me on through all difficulties self-denyals crosses and hardships whatsoever to travell into the spiritual Kingdom or heavenly Land of Rest that God in the naked injoyment of himself hath prepared for and at this very day I beleeve hath experimentally and really bestowed the clear injoyment of upon many of his

demonstration of love of his own blood by his spiritual Command requires them not to be the servants of y 1 Cor. 7 23. men but to glorifie him both in body and z 1 Cor. 6. 20. see chap. 3. 16 17 2 Cor. 2. 5. 15.17 c. Psal 1.10 see 4. 3.9 10.11 5. 1 Col. 2. 8. 20. 22. soul and therefore his grown up servant Paul declares himself to be no man-pleaser avowing himself that if he were a man-pleaser he should nor could not be the servant of Christ And therefore the same apostle by the infallible spirit of the Lord requires the spiritual Subjects of this spiritual King Jesus to present their bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which saith he is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world the kingdome of the Prince of darkness but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect wil of a Rom. 22. 1 2. God therefore when any man once becomes a spiritual subject of this spiritual King Christ and dwells in him he becomes a new creature old things in him are past away all things in him are become b 2 Cor. 5.17 new spiritual savory yea even his very thoughts his words are found few and divine his behaviour righteous and solid his deeds upright and free like God from all respect of persons c Mat. 3.34.37 39 40 41 45 46 48. 6.25 31,32 33. and 7.12 13. and 23 3.5 6 7. and 9. 10. Mark 12. 14. Luk. 20 21. Act 10. 34 35. Deu. 10 17. Esth 3.2 5 6. Job 32.21 22. Prov. 10. 20. 28.21 Rom. 2.11 and 1 Cor. 2.16 and 15.33 Gal. 2.6 Eph. 4 29. and 5.4 and 6.9 Phil. 2. 5. Col. 3.15.8 5. 16. 3.4.6 1 Tim. 1.10 6.3 4 5 6. 2 Tim. 1 7.13 and 4.3 Tit. 1. 19. 17. and 2.1 2.8 Jam. 2. 1. to 10. and 5. 12. and 1 Pet. 1.15 16 17. and 4. 12. and 2 John 9 10 11. and although there be such a perfect and absolute contrariety betwixt all the laws constitutions of these two Kings or Masters and a continuall and perpetuall war betwixt the Subjects thereof yet the weapons of the warfare of Christs Spiritual Heavenly and glorious Kingdom handled and used by his Servants and true Subjects who although they do walk in the flesh yet do they not war after the flesh and therefore their weapons of warfare are not carnall but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of d 2 Cor. 10. 3 4 5. Christ The Armour of Proof of these Spiritual war●ing Subjects and Souldiers of this spiritual glorious King is to have their loynes girt about with truth having on them the Brest-plate of righteousness and their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace above all taking the Shield of Faith wherewith they shall be able to quench the fiery-darts of the wicked and taking the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of e Eph 6.13 14 15 16.17 God which Spiritual Sword or Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper then any two edged Sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight who is this Spiritual sharp Sword or eternall and everlasting Word of God that indures for ever but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to f Heb. 14.12 13. do With which Spirituall Sword this spiritual conquering Lord and King pricked and wounded to the very heart three thousand of his enemies at once by the Ministration of his single Spiritual Souldier the Apostle Peter which made them bitterly to cry out for a Plaister and a Physician to heal and cure g Act. 2. 37. 4i them which spiritual Sword is the only and alone weapon that this glorious conquering spiritual King useth to sight withall against all enemies the powers of the Prince of Darkness of this world and with which only and alone he conquereth and h Rev. 1. 16. and 2. 12. 16. and 19.15.21 Hos 6.7 overcometh carnal Weapons of any kinde whatsoever having no place nor being of no use at all in his spiritual Kingdom for his Subjects are to love their enemies to do good unto their haters and to resist or requite their evill with i Matt. 5. 39 40 44 45 56. good and to dwell in love towards all men as the God of love himself dwells in k Gal. 6.10 and 1 Thes 3 12● 5.14 15.1 Joh. 4.16 17. love and to be holy as God is l 1 Pet. 1. 15 16. holy and perfect as he is m Matt. 5.48 perfect and therefore not in the least to draw temporal weapons against their enemies for among the true and real Saints of the Lord in the mountain of the Lord where the Lord himself is the inward and soul-teacher and instructer of his people and Subjects in his own waies there all the temporal swords are to be beat into plowshares and their earthly spears into pruning-hooks no more using of carnal swords or so much as learning of earthly war is to be exercised amongst n Ila 2. 2 3 4 5. them but they are to walk in the pure holy peaceable light of the Lord which shal wil lead the sanctified justified and redeemed soul to advancement or set up the innocent harmless peaceable lamb-like nature or seed of Christ to become Lord and King in the heart of and over the Lyon like warring devouring and destroying wicked nature of the serpent the devil satan within man yea in the Gospel-mount of God or the spiritual kingdom of Christ under the Gospel-dispensation the habitation of the true Saint of God The wolf shal dwel with the lamb and the leopard shal ly down with the kid the calf the young lyon the fatling together a little child shal lead them And the cow and the bear shal feed their young ones shall lye down together And the lyon shall eat straw like the oxe And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp and the weaned child shall put his hand on the Cockatrice Den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy o Esa ii 6 7 8 9. 65. 25. mountain saith God For the earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Yea they shall be far from p Esa 54. 14. 66. 11 12. Oppression Yea and violence shall no more be heard in the Land or

Ransomed ones contemptibly and scornfully called quakers I say unto thee the real and close applyed home unto my soul by the spirit and power of life from God that now aloud again speaks within me consideration of the premises or that which is foregoing and that people afar off yea ignorant ideots fools and prophane * * As is clearly proved by the printed speeches of severall of the prisoners in Northhampton and Eversham Goals ones in comparison of my being so nigh at hand so many years ago to the clear and full possession of the spiritual Land of Canaan should enter into the glorious Kingdom of God or that clearness of Rest Peace and Union in and with him that now clearly to my spiritual understanding they injoy and there bring forth the ripe fruits of spiritual old age in comparison of me of Praises Honor and Glory to the Lamb and to the ancient of Dayes that clearly sits upon the Throne in their hearts as having judged down conquered and overcome within them all their sinns or spiritual enemies and caused them to triumph over them as in his strength divine and heavenly power reigning and ruling as King and Lord over them O I say unto thee again the real sight in its measure and degree and spiritual consideration of these things since I last see thee for divers hours in several nights one after another when my God denyed sleep unto my outward eyes and caused my soul to be awake with himselfe and to be really exercised in an interchange of Divine conference contemplation or parley with him hath even caused my soul to weep sigh and mourn within me before him and in his strength and almighty power to indent with him and now in good earnest to ingage in my soul or spiritual man to be obedient to his heavenly and divine voyce speaking clearly in me and to follow him least I should now by any longer resistance totally quench his divine drawings through the denyall of my own or naturall reason will wit wisdom desires and affections with a real weanedness from worldly or fleshly honor applause glory riches or creature-fulness yea even to a final denyal of father kindred friends my sweet and dearly beloved by me babes or thy own self who viz. thy self for many yeers by past I must avow it before the Almighty in sincerity and truth hath been to me the greatest and dearest of all earthly delights and joyes And now therefore look about thee in good earnest and see what thou hast got to thy self as to the flesh by thy eager desires and strong indeavours to bring me back again into England for the day of thy real strong and full temptation and triall never came upon thee till now if God give thee not by degrees the fulness and compleatness of spiritual and heavenly strength and ability to bear it and go through it For my part I am now in reallity and truth in the clearly lively or evident seeing of the wisdom and loving hand of a tender and indeared eternal Father in stripping me naked of all earthly and created excellencies and taking my outward estate and profitable imployments and all my worldly glory from me and graciously and supportingly leading me through the valley of Baca Psal 84 6. or Tears outward Dangers and Death for now almost four yeers together and separating from me for a long time that wonted delight that used to be betwixt thee my old and real Idoll and me and at my coming to this place clearly unto being me of all and every one of my old Friends and familiar Acquaintance that were any way fit or able to do any thing for me and therby hedging up my way that I must whether I wil or no in spite of my teeth once again give ear to the serious and plain voice call or counsel of the Most High speaking in and unto my soul And so in much mercy and indeared loving kindness as he did in my great straits in the Bishops time provided and sent unto me a poor disspised yet understanding Priscilla to instruct me in or expound unto m●●h way of God more fully or perfectly whom I am compell'd now to tell thee I shall love and respect therefore the longest day I live upon the earth let her continue by whomsoever to be judged never so rigid or contemptible so here at this place he hath also provided for me an 〈◊〉 being a contemp●ible yet understanding spiritually knowing single hearted Shoomaker to do the same now to my spiritual no small advantage refreshment benefit by means of all which I am a present becom dead to my former busling actings in the world now stand ready with the devout C●n●u●ion or Captain spoken of Act. 10. to hear and obey all things that the lively voice of God speaking in my soul shal r●quire of me upon the further manifestation of whose glorius presence my heart with a watching fear and care desires to wait to walk faithfully and tenderly and humbly in that measure of Light already received and out of the strength of indearedness of love and tenderness of affection that hath long in times by-past dwelt in me towards thee and of late in much sincerity is renewed unto thee again I have with the same eternal wel-wishing of thy spiritual happiness as I do my own-ordered Giles Calvert to send unto thee several of those printed pieces of the quakers that in the serious reading of which have been most convincingly instructive unto my soul amongst which I have judged in the first place Iames Naylor that strong or tall man in Christ his Something in answer unto thy and my indeared friend John Jackson that tall Cedar in great profession of Religion his book called Strength in weakness which book the last Post I received from thee in the reading of which piece of Iames Naylors I must set my seal to it that there goes along in the breathings out of it a great deal of the quickning life power of the spirit of God unto it are annexed several pieces of that precious and divine soul VVilliam Deusbury the Lords now or late glorious prisoner in Northampton common goal to whose precious and heavenly spirit although I never see his face mine indearedness of love is glued unto whose book is called The discovery of the great enmity of the Serpent against the Seed of the woman and his discovery of mans return have been pieces in my reading of them seriously that by the power of the Almighty hath spoken home to my soul I have ordered to be annexed unto them as I remember as many as makes them ten in number and then twelve more in another volume principally for answering Objections I have ordered to be sent unto thee which I hope thou wilt receive before this come to thee bound up in that method that J have directed And now my dear love for whom my soul travells with God