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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.

17 c. 15 26. c. 16. 13. 1 John 4. 6. c. 5. 6. A Spirit of Truth which guides true Christians into all Truth Upon this ground Solomon rankes h Prov. 6. 16. 17. 19. A lying tongue and a false witnesse that speaketh Lyes among those things which the Lord especially hates and abhominates And Saint John registers i Rev. 21. 8. c. 22. 15. Lyars and he that loveth and maketh a lye in the black Catalogue of those damned ones who shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone and shall be excluded the Caelestiall Jerusalem to k Mat. 25. 4● accompany the Devill and his Angels for Eternity in hell fire Yet notwithstanding this undeniable verity there is a new Generation of fiery zealots sprung up in the world of late who deem themselves brimfull of the Spirit of Truth and most others no better than Reprobates or Devils in carnate who like Jobs deceitfull friends are l Job 13. 4. Forgers of Lyes or like the m Tit. 1. 12. Cretians alway Lyars if not like those wicked ones whom David describes Psal 58. 3 4. They go astray as soon as they be born yea new-born into their factious separation speaking Lyes their poyson is like the poyson of the Serpent n Psal 52. 2 3 4. Their tongue deviseth mischiefes like a sharp rasor working deceitfully They love lying more than to speake righteousnesse they love all devouring words Yea o Jer. 9. 3. 5. they bend their tongues like their bow for lyes but are not valiant for the Truth and they will deceive every man his Neighbour and will not speake the Truth they have taught their tongues to speak Lyes and weary themselves to commit Iniquity even in Print being the very generation of men in the latter times of whom the p 1 Tim. 4. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 3. 4. Spirit speaketh expresly that they should depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits speaking Lyes in hypocrisie having their conscience seared with a hot Iron false accusers sierce heady high-minded c. having a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Among the whole rabble of this lying slandring Generation there is none more peceant then John Lilburn of late years a poor obscure Apprentice in London but now a Lieutenant Colonel and Ringleader of an Anti-Parliamentary Anabaptistical Faction who forgetting all the Laws of Christianity common Civility hath abused his best Benefactors yea the very high Court of Parliament who as himself confessed saved him from the Gallows and most grosly belyed traduced his ancient Christian friends in such a scurrilous virulent unchristian maner without any provocation as no age can parallel in sundry Printed Libels which he intitles Letters wherewith he hath poysoned the minds of many poor Ignorant people of his Sect and others with prejudices against the Parliaments proceedings and filled their mouths with bitter invectives calumnies and reports against those they formerly honoured most of any Mortall● and the very Raisers of John Lilburne to all the reputation he ever gained in the world to wit Master William Prynne whose Servant he was generally reputed to be and was contented to own that Title for his own emoliment though never capable of such an Honour and Dr. John Bastwick the Printing of whose Letany which he freely bestowed on him at his request was the best stock he had and that which first made him notorious to the Prelates their opposites and the present Parliament whereas otherwise he had lyen buried in obscurity among the rubbish of the meanest vulgar scarce known to any but him selfe For my own particular I so much undervalue all his scurrilous lyes and rayling invectives against my selfe that I deeme them more worthy scorn than answer and his Libellous seditious Letter to a Friend with that unto my selfe fitter to be refuted by the hangman hand than any others But because I am certainly informed by divers That this last Letter with other seditious Printed papers of his which he hath privatly scatred among his friends have done extraordinary hurt much incensed his ignorant mis-informed Brethren of the Separation and opened the mouthes of them yea of many Royalists and Malignants against the Parliaments proceedings in his and other cases as tyrannicall illegall arbitrary unjust and diametrally contrary to Magna Charta which this grand Ignoramus had never law enough to understand in the Language wherein it was first written nor in his mother tongue as appears by his very transcribing of it wherein he writes DISEASED for DISSEISED the meaning of which Law term I am certain he understands not and that his mistaken Law embraced by his disciples as infallible Oracles hath deceived many poor silly souls and is conceived to have been learned from my selfe whose servant heretofore and now he is generally cryed up to have been when as I blesse God I never entertained him in my service nor any such turbulent factious crosse-graind peece as he shews himself I have at the motion of some friends undertaken to passe a briefe censure on this his most seditious Letter so far as it trencheth upon the Parliaments and Committees most just Proceedings and my own personall reputation both which I shall clearly vindicate from his Malicious Lyes and intollerable Libellous slanders Wherein I shall pursue this method First truely State the Parliaments most just and favourable Proceedings against him which he most wilfully falsly and ungratefully mis-relates to alinate the peoples affections from and draw down an odium upon them without the least just occasion Secondly Rectify his grosse mistaken Law his mis-interpretation of Magna Charta and the Petition of Right and manifest the Parliaments and Committees proceedings against him to be warranted by both not contrary to either much lesse to be utterly Illegall Tyrannicall Unjust and destructive to the Subjects Liberties as he scandalously reports them Thirdly Recite and answer this whole Jury of most grosse Lyes and Slaunders summoned from the very Vicinage of Hell and brought by him to the Bar to give in a Verdict intentionally against my Reputation but really against his own 1 To begin with the first of these Upon the publication of my Truth triumphing over Falshood Antiquitie over Novelty in defence of the Parliaments undoubted Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction against Papists Prelats Anabaptists Independents Royalists who oppugned the same Iohn Lilburne for whom I had done sundry Courtesies but never injured in thought word or deed I know not out of what malicious schismaticall or unchristian humour before ever he had read over my book a great part whereof he understood not Writ and sent me a most rayling virulent Letter dated the 7. of January 1645. wherein he scurrilously Libels not onely against my selfe but likewise against the Synod assembled by Parliament against the Ordinances of Parliament prohibiting the Printing of Libellous and Seditious Pamphlets Bookes without speciall License as contrary to the Libertie and

What heavier charge of Injustice Oppression could be objected against the Parliament its Committees then this vile libellous Incendiary hath most falsly and scandalously cast upon them in these seditious bitter lines in which there is scarce one word of truth For where as he publisheth with a b●azen forehead 1. That he hath beene three times imprisoned since the first of May last by Authority from the House of Commont before his two last commitments It is most certaine he was not so much as once imprisoned by any Authority from the House though hee deserved to bee three times successively imprisoned in that space for his intollerable Libels and affronts against the Parliament Let him therefore shame the Devill and tell his deluded Confederates when where and by whom he was thus three times imprisoned to what Goale he was thus committed how long he lay there what fees he payd and how he got thence released or else recan● this desperate malicious Lye True it is hee was thrice sommoned to appeare before the Committee of examinations for his successive printed Libels and the last time sent for in custody by a Messenger but yet not apprehended as a Prisoner but entertained and lodged by him at his house as a friend one night without paying any fees and permitted the next morning to goe at liberty with●ut bayle or mainprize And these are the three No imprisonments this lib●ller so much declaimes against instead of rendring heartiest thanks to the Committee for their incomparable Clemency towards him considering his reiterated Crimes and obstinacy 2. Whereas he ave●s he was thrice imprisoned before ever he knew his Accuser or Accusation he writes expresly in the very next words pag. 1. 2. 3. c. that I was his Accuser that his Accusation was the writing and printing of his letter to me and that he was the Author of Martins Bookes Was not here then both an Accuser and Accusation by his own printed confession True it is that when he first appeared before the Committee I did accuse him for printing his libellous Letter but the Commons house had accused him for it some two or three Moneths before and ordered the Committee to send for and examine him which order he knew off long before he was sent for and when he was sommoned the second and third time the Wardens of the Stationers formerly checked about his unlicensed libells were his knowne Accusers not I but as their Councell And therefore it is a most impudent Lye that he neither knew his Accuser nor accusation before he was committed 3. Whereas he complaines he was committed before he was ever suffered to speake one word for himselfe this is a more audacious Lye then all the rest For at his first appearance before the Committee he had liberty to speake what he pleased for himselfe nay which was never granted to any before upon a bare Examination without Articles by expresse order from the house Leave and time indulged him by them to set downe his owne answer in writing which he not only gave in under his hand but likewise published in print to all the world and informes them againe in this very Libell that he did so Yet forsooth he hath the monstrous impudency to print this contradiction That he was never heard to answer or speake one word for himselfe O the falsenesse and boldnesse of this matchlesse Lyer who needs no other testimony against him but himselfe It may be at his second appearance the Committee being otherwise imployed had no time to heare him but I am certaine they did not then commit him before he was heard or suffered to speak one word For he was not at all committed And that he was committed at other times before he was heard one word is so apparently false that the greatest part of his Libellous Letter to a Friend is but a meer Relation of what saucy malapert daring speeches hee used to the Committees faces charging them with the breach of Magna Charta which they gave him free liberty to read as himself records for their vindication against his brazen-face Lyes and much trampling upon the Subjects Liberties they hearing him speake with much patience such desperate Language against their Authority and most just proceedings as never any Malignant Cavaleere or Royalist of the Kings owne Party durst use unto them which they would not have endured from any other but such an impudent ungratfull Companion as himselfe Yet for all this liberty of speech in his defence hee cries out of the sad and deplorable condition that himselfe and the other free people of England are fallen into that they should from Committees of Parliament themselves be Imprisoned they know not wherefore and when wee come before them according to their owne commands bee remanded backe againe unheard AND NOT SVFFRED TO SPEAK ONE WORD FOR OUR SELVES when himself was suffered as he there relates to speake and write so much Wherfore I shall only turn his own Scripture exclamation against himselfe Heare ô Heavens and give eare ô Earth and thou righteous God that lovest Iustice and Truth and hatest and abhorrest Lying and Lyars put forth thy hand and doe justice thy selfe upon this most desperate Malignant Lyar Slanderer of the Parliaments most just proceedings against him for his conversion and amendment if he belong thee or else to his just punishment who hath thus falsely abused his Tongue and Pen against these highest Powers who represent thy person and are thy faithfull Ministers And all you giddy seduced people of his combination and Schisme now at last discerne and Judge I beseech you of the gracelesse nay Devillish temper of this transcendent Lyer and how false those vile imputations are which he hath publikely charged on the Parliament to render them odious to the people out of the meere malevolence and virulency of his seditious spirit contrary to his owne knowledge in his Printed papers How can or dare you credit him in any thing who hath so grosely belyed both the Parliament and Committee in those very particulars which are the ground of all his Satyricall Declamations against their Proceeding as Tyrannicall and unjust which certainely himselfe of all Malignants ever yet brought before them had the least cause of any to complaine But admit all these three malicious Lyes to be true there is no such cause for such an outcry as he makes against the Parliaments proceedings as Arbitrary and unjust Certainely had he ever enjoyed the honour of being mine or any other Lawyers or Justices Clarke he would have known that there is nothing more usuall then for Judges Justices Mayors Aldermen and all superior and inferiour Courts of Justice in the Realme upon private credible Informations or complaints to sommon yea attach men by Bayliffes Serjeants Constables and other Officers to appeare before them upon generall summons to answer such matters as shall be objected or alleaged against them and sometimes to commit them to safe Custody till