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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88176	A discourse betwixt Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilburn close prisoner in the Tower of London, and Mr Hugh Peter: upon May 25. 1649. Published by a friend, for the publick benefit	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2100; ESTC R9855	7,247	8

things will fall into confusion every man will become a law unto himself which in the depraved condition of humane nature must needs produce many great enormities Lust wil become a law and Envie will become a law covetousnesse and ambition will become laws and what dictates what decisions such laws will produce may easily be discerned So Mr Peter here is a definition of Law by the Parliament in the days of their primitive puritie before they had corrupted themselves with the Common-wealths money And elsewhere it is their language That the Law is the safeguard the custodie of all private interests your Honours your Lives your Liberties and Estates are all in the keeping of the Law without this every man hath a like right to any thing And elsewhere the Law is called that right line that discovereth that which is tort crooked or wrong the Law is that right line that measures it self and a croked line the Law is the best birth-right the Subject hath for thereby his Goods Lands Wife Children his Bodie Life Honour and Estimation are protected from injury and wrong being the surest sanctuarie that a man can take and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all To every one of us there comes a greater inheritance by right and the Law then by our Parents Yea and it is further said by their Oracle It is a miserable servitude or bondage where the Law is uncertain or unknown He answers to this effect I tell you saith he for all this there is no Law in this Nation but the sword and what it gives neither was there any Law or Government in the World but what the Sword gave and set up Unto which I Replyed to this purpose Mr Peter I look upon you as one of the principall Guids of the Army and a man that doth from time to time speak very much the sence of the Leaders of the Army being you lie in their bosomes and know their secrets and is much used by them to trumpet abroad their Principles and Tenents But Sir let me tell you withall if your reasoning be sound and good then if six Theeves meet three or four honest men and because they are stronger then they rob them that act is righteous sound and good because their swords are stronger then the others and if any Power be a just Power that is uppermost because it is up I wonder how you of the Army and they of the Parliament can acquit your selves of being Rebels and Traytors before God and man in resisting and fighting against a just Power in the King who was a Power up fenced about with abundance of Laws so reputed in the common acceptation of English men by the expresse Letter of which I am sure of it all those who ever they be that shall rise in Armes against him are ipso facto Traytors and I would faine know if it were not for the preservation of the Laws that holds out the peoples Liberties Freedomes that the Parliament and Army engaged in Theirs against the King a just Power because he was up upon your own grounds what can you or any other make rationally to be the ground of the the Wars But Sir in short and in plain English let me tell you that if there be now no Law in England nor never was that then you and your great Masters Cromwell Fairfax and the Parliament are a pack of arrant bloody Rogues and Villaines in setting the people together by the ears to fight for the preservation of their Laws in which their Libertie is contained which is the principall declared cause of the Warre from the beginning to the end of the War never if there were no such thing in being as Law in England At which Mr Peter was much startled and much condemned my harsh language though it be farre short of what Christ himselfe used to his viz. Mr Peters brothers the Scribes and Pharisees upon the like occasion Mat. 23. 14. where he saith Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for yee devoure widowes houses and for a pretence make long prayer therefore yee shall receive the greater damnation and in Verse 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 31 32 he saith Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weighty matters of the Law judgment mercy and faith these ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone Ye blind guids which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter but within they are full of extortion and excesse Thou blind Pharisee cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the out-side of them may be clean also Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye are like unto whited sepulchers which indeed appear beautifull outward but are within full of dead mens bones and of all uncleannesse Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within ye are full of hypocr●sie and iniquitie Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites because ye build the tombs of the Prophets and garnish the Sepulchers of the righteous and say If we had been in the dayes of our Fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets Wherefore ye be witnesses unto your selves that ye are the children of them which killed the Prophets Fill ye up then the measure of your Fathers And in the 8th of John when the Jews in their works and actions denyed Abraham and God to be their Father and yet in words owned them both for their Father verse 39. 41. Christ in the 44 verse tels them plainly Ye are of your father the devill and the lusts of your father ye will do he was a murtherer from the beginning and aboade not in the truth because there is no truth in him Wh●n h● speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it And the Apostle Paul's Exhortation to his Followers is to reprove such notorious hypocriticall workers of iniquitie sharply But after he had sufficiently condemned my language in speaking plain English which I say is the whole current of the Scripture to incorrigible dissembling men as they are he again and again protested and desired the Company to beare Witnesse that he in saying there was no Law in England did not speak the sence of the Army but his own proper opinion and also protested he had no design in comming to me but a bare visit and wondered I would be so hot at him for his love and he was farre enough from any of their Designs I Replyed to this purpose Mr Peter You know I know you well enough and I tell you in a Play every Player hath his part yea even the seeming Fool and many times they Act with a seeming violence and against