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A88180 England's birth-right justified against all arbitrary usurpation, whether regall or parliamentary, or under what vizor soever. With divers queries, observations and grievances of the people, declaring this Parliaments present proceedings to be directly contrary to those fundamentall principles, whereby their actions at first were justifyable against the King, in their present illegall dealings with those that have been their best friends, advancers and preservers: and in other things of high concernment to the freedom of all the free-born people of England; by a well-wisher to the just cause for which Lieutenant Col. John Lilburne is unjustly in-prisoned in New-gate. Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. 1645 (1645) Wing L2102; Thomason E304_17; ESTC R200315 41,349 51

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more Cordiall freinds then the fighting of all their Armies or the forcing of all their Covenants or the Pressing of all their Souldiers or persecuting all their Sectaries will doe in ten moneths space II. To endeavour to set the City of London right in the enjoyment of her Priviledges being the Metropolis of England that shee may indeed be a true President to all the Cities and Corporations in the Kingdome and a ballance to all the Tyrants or Arbytrary-principl'd men in the same the means to set her right is first for the Commons to get a Copy of their Charters and translate them into English and print them that so every free-man may see and know his own rights and endeavour the more earnestly the exemplary punishment of the infringers and incroachers thereupon III. To rise as one man under faithfull honest experienced constant well-affected Commanders such as those that rise shall chuse to adventure their lives with and beleager all the Kings Garrisons before the storme grow so great in the North that no man dare travell under paine of his life according those honest and good Directions lately printed which are intituled Englands Cordiall Physick IV. To call to a just and strict account all Fingerers and Receivers of money whatsoever even Parliament men as well as others for they are all but the Common-wealths servants and severely according to the greatest pennalty of any declared and unrepealed Law to punish all those that have any wayes cheated and cozened the Common-wealth and unjustly made themselves rich by her treasure now in the time of their great richer and her extreame poverty and for future time to make a Law to punish with death all such grosse transgressors who deserve to have their skinnes flead off and stopt full of straw and hung up publikely in the places where they so unjustly executed their undeserved Offices and deceived their owne Nation to inrich themselves to the terrifying of all such as shall succeed them in their places from the acting of such unchristian yea and worse then Heathen-like Roaguery For I am confident that the portion of all such covetous State-robbers Nationall Fellons mighty thieves and secret Traytors will be such as are described or painted lively in their colours throughout the Twentieth Chapter o● Job from the fourth Verse which I expresse here at large and more Scriptures after them for the use of those that have no B●bles to read they are become so dear and Monopolized like other things as shall yet hereafter appeare the words a●e these Knowest not thus this of old since man was placed upon the earth that the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment Though his Exce●lency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the Clouds yet he shall perish for ever like his owne dung they which have seen him shall say Where is hee He shall flie away as a dreame and shall not be found yea he shal be chased away as a Vision of the night the eye also which saw him shall see him no more neither shall his Place any more behold him His Children shall seek to please the Poore and his hands shall restore their goods His bones are full of the f●rme of his youth which shall lie downe with him in the dust Though wickednesse be sweet in his mouth though hee hide it under his tongue though he spare it and forsake it not but keep it still within his mouth Yet his meat in his bowels is turned it is the gall of aspes within him He hath swallowed down riches and hee shall vomite them up againe God shall cast them out of his belly He shall suck the poyson of Aspes the Vipers tongue shall slay him He shall not see the Rivers the shods the brookes of honey and butter That which he laboured for hee shall restore and shall not swallow it downe according to his substance shall the restitution be and he shall not rejoyce therein Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not surely hee shall not finde quietnesse in his belly hee shall not save of that which hee desired There shall none of his meat be left he shall be in straites every hand of the wicked shall come upon him When he is about to fill his belly God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall raine it upon him while he is eating He shall flie from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through it is drawne and commeth of the body yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall terrours are upon him all darknesse shall be hid in his secret places a fire not blowne shall consume him it shall goe ill with him that is left in his Tabernable The heaven shall reveale his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him the increase of his House shall depart and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage appointed unto him by God Cnsider and apply these Judgements to your selves yee wicked Lawyers if you apprehend your selves to be guilty of the blood and of grinding the faces of the poor by your professions and especially you grand Lawyers who are out of your element in the House of Commons by your practises And as the Psalmist saith well of wicked men Psal 73.5 c. They are not in trouble as other men neither are they plagued like other men their eyes stand out with fatnes they have more then their heart can wish they are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression they speake foolishly they set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth therefore the people returne hither and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them And they say bow doth God know and is there knowledge in the Most High Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world they increase in riches But in the 18. verse it is said Surely thou O Lord didst set them in slippery places thou castest them down into destruction And in the 49. Psal 16 hee saith Bee not thou afraid when one is made rich when the glory of his house is increased for when hee dieth hee shall carry nothing away his glory shall descend after him c. And in the 50. Psalm 16 c. But unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to doe with my statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee When thou sawest a thief then then consentedst with him and hast been partaker with Adulterers Thou givest thy mouth to evill and thy tongue frameth deceit Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother thou slanderest thine owne mothers sonne These things hast thou done and I have kept silence thou thoughtest that I