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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

real truth with the young men in Christ spoken of by the Apostle c 1 Joh. 2. 13. John to a good measure or degree in overcoming the wicked one within me so that now I am able to witness in truth and righteousnes that the true grounds or reall occasions of all outward wars and all carnal buslings and all fleshly strivings within me is in a very large measure or degree become dead or crucified within me wch true grounds real occasions of all the outward iron and steel sword war in the world and all the wicked and fleshly fore-runners of it and dependants upon it truly riseth from its fountain the raging power of sin or lust within in carnal and unregenerated unsanctified and unjustied before God mens hearts as is plainly truly witnessed by the apostle d Jam. 4. 1 2 3 4. James in these words From whence comes wars and fightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask not Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that you may consume it upon your lusts Ye Adulterers and Adulteresses know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend to the world that spiritual Kingdom of Satan in unsanctified mens souls is the enemy of God And therefore Christ the true Lord of the soul and the true Head-Master and King of that heavenly spiritual kingdome as the Devil or Prince of the air is the Head-Master King or God of the Kingdom of this world in the hearts of the children of unsanctified and unjustified disobedient e Eph. 2.2.3.5 6. ii 2 Cor. 4.4 Jam. 1.13,14,15 Joh. 12. 3. 16. 11. Rom. 6.16.20 2 Tim. 2.26 2 Pet. 2.19 1 Joh. 3.8.10 men that he hath provided for all redeemed sanctified justified and righteous f Rom. 6. 20 22 23. g 1 2 3 4. Rom. 14. 17. 15. 13 14. 1 Cor. 4. 20. 2 Cor. 46. Gal. 5. 22 23 24. Eph. 57 3 9. Heb. 12. 22 23. 1 Joh. 1. 5 6 7. Rev. 6. 14 15 16 17. 21. 3 4. 22 23. 22. 1 2 3 4. Isa 60. 19 20 21. souls declares at his very answer before Pilate for his life and saith My Kingdome is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now is my kingdom not from g Joh. 18. 36. hence and therefore it was when Judas betrayed this spiritual King Christ into the hands of his murdering enemies and that his servant Simon h Joh. 18. 10. Peter stretched out his hand and drew his sword and stroke a servant of the High Priests and smote off his ear that this spiritual King Lord and Master cured the wounded man although he was his i Luke 22. 50 51. enemy commanded his servant Peter to put up his sword again in his place further saying to him For all they that take the Sword mark it well shall perish with the k Mat. 26. 51 52 53. see Gen. 9.6 Rev. 13.10 Sword Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father and he shall presently give me more then twelve l A constituted full Roman Legion of souldiers at this time as I remember the Roman Histories was reputed to be commonly about 7 or 8000. men Legions of Angells And therefore all the whole Laws of his inward and spiritual Kingdome are made in quite opposition against the Laws of the meer glorious out-side kingdoms of the God and Paince of this world unto which two Masters or Kings or Law-givers it is impossible for any man in the world or upon this globy earth to be a servant to them both at one and the same m Mat. 6.24 Luke 16.13 time but he that commits sin is the servant of sin and so the servant of the n Joh. 8 34.4i 42 44. Rom. 6. 16. 2 Pet. 2. 19. 1 John 3. 8. 10. devil and he that is the servant of sin is free from Righteousness and so from being a servant or subject unto o Rom. 6. 17 18 20 21 22 23 1 Joh. 1. 6. cap. 3. 3 4 5 6 9. 5. 1 2 3 4 13 19. Joh. 7. 17. 8. 31 32. 9.31 12.26 14.15.21 23 24. 15 4.7.10.14 Christ And therefore the Spirit of Christ this spiritual inside King dwelling in the Apostle Paul declares that there is no fellowship betwixt righteousness and unrighteousness nor no communion betwixt light and darkness nor no concord betwixt Christ and Belial nor no harmony betwixt the true believer that knows p Joh. 17. 3. God and the infidel and such are all they that truly knows not q 1 Thess 4 5. See Tit. 16. Ex. 5.2 Psal 79.6 Jer. 10. 25. Ro. 1.19.21 Eph. 4. 17 8 19. God and there he further demands what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for ye are saith he to the true knowers of God in Corinth the temple of the living God as God hath r Levit. 26.12 said I will dwel in them and walk in them and I wil be their God and they shall be my people wherefore come out from among them and be ye s Isa 52.11 separate saith the Lord and touch not mark it well the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto t Jer. 31. 1. you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord u 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16 17 18. Almighty And therefore it is that the very same Divine Spirit that dwells in this Spirituall King Jesus speaking in the Apostle Iohn requires all his Spirituall and true Subjects not to love the world neither the things that are in the world for if any man love the world that Kingdom of Satan the Prince of Darkness as the lusts of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world and the world and the vanities and empty pleasures of it passeth away and the lusts thereof but he that doth the will of God abideth for w 1 Joh. 2. 15 16 17. ever Yea the contrariety is so great betwixt the foresaid two Kings and Masters that whatsoever in the King or Ruler in the Kingdom of the world or falne or unrenewed man and the Subjects thereof is esteemed highly or excellent is an abomination in the sight of x Luke 16. 15. See chap. 6.24 25 26. Mar. 13. 13. Job 5. 41. 44. 7. 17 18. 8. 50. 54. 10. 42 43. 15. 19. 16. 35. God And therefore this spiriual King having purchased all his Subjects and Servants with a glorious price as the greatest