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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88917	The triumph stain'd. Being an answer to Truths triumph, i.e. a pamphlet so called, and lately set forth by Mr. John Wildman, a pretended gentleman of the life-guard to his Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax. With a full and perfect account of an information of dangerous and bloody consequence, given in to the House of Lords (at their bar) January the 18. 1647. against Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn and John Wildman. / By George Masterson, preacher of the Gospel at Shoreditch near London.	Masterson, Geo. (George)	1648 (1648)	Wing M1074; Thomason E426_18; ESTC R202890	15,661	27

risen up and born witness to some particulars in the Relation which you have already read which when the understanding unprejudiced Reader hath observed if he shall then with Master Wildman call the discovery which I made to the Lords and Commons at their several Bars and at a Conference of both Houses A false and treacherous Information of c. I will silently take up my Cross Et meâ me virtute incolumem involvam The critical Letter I spake of was in the Original delivered by me to the Honorable Committee of Lords and Commons at Derby House this Transcript with which you are presented I received back again from the hands of my honored Friend Master Walter Frost Secretary to that Committee and it agrees so to a letter with the Original that the Reader must be intreated to bear with the broken English of it Worthy Gentlemen and dear Friends OUr bowels are troubled and our hearts pant within us to behold the Divisions Distractions Heart-burning and Contentions which abound in this distressed Nation and we are confounded in our selves upon the foresight of the Confusion and Desolation which will be the certain consequence of such Divisions if they should be but for a little time longer continued There are now clouds of Blood over our heads again and the very rumors and fears of War hath so wasted Trading and exhausted the price of all food and clothing that Famine is even entring into our Gates and doubtless neither Pen nor Tongue can express the Misery which will ensue immediately upon the beginning of another War Why therefore O our Countreymen should we not every man say each to other as Abraham to Lot or Moses to the two Israelites Why should we contend each with other seeing we are brethren O that our Advice might be acceptable to you that you would every man expostulate each with other and now while you have an opportunity consider together Wherefore the Contention have been these Six or Seven years hath it not been for Freedom and Justice O then propound each to other the chief Principles of your Freedoms and the foundation of Justice and Common Right and questionless when you shall understand the Desires each of other you will unite together inviolably to pursue them Now truly in our apprehensions this work is prepared to your hands in the Petition which we herewith send to you Certainly if you shall all joyn together to follow resolutely and unweariedly after the things contained in that Petition the Blood and Confusion which now threaten us may be prevented and the sweet streams of Justice will run into your Bosoms freely without obstructions O that the Lord may be so propitious to this tottering Nation as to give you to understand these things which belong to your Peace and Welfare Many honest people are resolved already to unite together in that Petition and to prosecute the obtaining it with all their strength they are determined that now after seven years waiting for Justice Peace and Freedom they will receive no Denyal in these requests which are so essential to their Peace and Freedom And for the more effectual proceedings in this Business there is a method and order setled in all the Wards in London and the out-Parishes and Suburbs they have appointed several active men in every Ward and Division to be a Committee to take the special care of the Business and to appoint active men in every Parish to read the Petition at set Meetings for that purpose and to take Subscriptions and to move as many as can possibly to go in person when the day of delivering it shall be appointed and they intend to give notice of that time to all the adjacent Counties that as many of them as possibly can may also joyn with them the same day and the like orderly way of proceeding is commended to several Counties to whom the Petition is sent as Hartfordshire Buckingham Oxford Rutlandshire c. And we cannot but propound to you the same method as the best expedient for your Union in pursuing after a speedy Settlement of your Peace and Freedom Therefore in brief we desire 1. That you would appoint Meetings in every Division of your County and there to select faithful men of Publique Spirits to take care that the Petition be sent to the Hands of the most active men in every Town to unite the Town in those Desires of Common Right and to take their Subscriptions II. That you would appoint as many as can with convenience to meet at Dartford the the 23. of this present January being Lords-day and we shall confer with you about the matters that concern your Peace and Common good and Freedom We shall at present adde more but this That to serve you and our whole Countrey in whatsoever concerns its Common Peace and Welfare is and always shall be the desire and joy of Dertford this 9. Jan. 1647. Your most faithful Friends and Servants which came from London from many other Friends upon this Service John Lilburn John Davis J. Wildman Richard Woodward For all the peaceable and well-minded people in Kent who desire present Peace Freedom Iustice and Common Right and Good of all men A Man would think now at the first blush that this were as innocent a Letter as any in the Alphabet he that looks upon the smooth gums would scarce expect to finde the Vipers teeth there Our bowels are troubled and our hearts pant within us c. It mindes me of the Emblem in the Abbey of Fulda a beast of prey in a specious appearance courting a flock of sheep with these words issuing in a pendant out of his mouth God is my witness how I long for you all in my bowels The Design in this Letter wears a very long robe it is clothed with fair pretences down to the heels of it and yet see if you do not perceive the Claws in this expression Many honest people are resolved already to unite together in that Petition and to prosecute the obtaining it with all their strength they are determined that now after seven years waiting for Justice Peace and Freedom they will receive no denial in their requests The Letter I acknowledge hath a fair appearance of an Angel of light but me thinks that expression is somewhat rank of Brimston What no denial though all the Authority joyn'd with all the Representative reason of the Kingdom should Vote against your Petition will you yet prosecute it with all your strength though the strength of Reason and Authority engage against you Is the design that you have carried in your thigh these seven years so ripe for the birth that you cannot wait one day longer for the Midewifery of Authority to bring it forth you know the Proverb festinans canis your great haste is like to bring forth but blinde whelps I shall say no more of the Letter now but this That if report have not abused us in that we have heard of a Tartarian plant Boroneth by name that it growing up in the likeness of a lamb insensibly devours all the grass that is round about it This Letter is Boroneth and that but a Ciens of that fruitful stock the Large Petition And now I shall ask but this one thing of the Ingenuous Reader That he would compare the Discovery made by me with Mr. Wildmans Defence and take this particular along with him in his understanding That the most material passage in my Discovery namely that Answer to the Objection of cutting of throats made by a plain man in the company was affirmed by Robert Malbon who was present at the Meeting to have been framed by Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn in these words This Petition in your hand will be as good as a blue Ribband in your Hat to preserve your throat from cutting This the said Robert Malbon affirmed on Wednesday the Nineteenth of January in the presence of Mr. Nicholas Skinner Merchant Captain John Willison Gabriel Gayler and George Cotterel And thus being extremely weary of following a Pretended Triumph thus far I shall suffer it quietly to pass through the Inns of Court the Pretended Minister of Christ at Shoreditch dares not pretend to so much Law and besides he hath another guest Magna Charta to employ himself in as will serve him to judge whether the Gentlemans Truth triumph in his Law Cases at any higher rate then she doth in his Treachery Anatomized Onely I could wish that Mr. John Wildman after so long and sad an absenting of himself from a people with whom he hath walked comfortably in Evangelical Dispensations even to the total neglect of them as himself tells us would at last seriously bethink himself if he might not have reaped more sweet communion with the Father in the ways of Fellowship with his Saints then by yielding his members the members of such a Generation of men and sacrificing his parts to a Design that can neither dwell together with the Authority of the State nor power of godliness in the same Kingdom And O that while The Cry of the People is scattered up and down the City and Kingdom in his language the great God would give him an ear to hear as he hath afforded him ability to supply the Cryes of so many thousand poor souls that are ready to perish for want of Gospel-bread Let me beseech you Sir in the spirit of meekness and love to improve your utmost skill in making out an Impartial Discovery of the comeliness and sufficiency of our Lord Jesus to the souls of poor creatures Thus you shall be reckoned among the sons of Wisdom one that hath loved fair Truth and prepared her a Chariot to ride triumphantly in the hearts of men FINIS Imprimatur Febr. 9. 1647. G. MABBOT