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A90975	VValwins vviles: or The manifestators manifested viz. Liev. Col. John Lilburn, Mr Will. Walwin, Mr Richard Overton, and Mr Tho. Prince. Discovering themselves to be Englands new chains and Irelands back friends. Or the hunting of the old fox with his cubs and the picture of the picturers of the Councel of State. Declaring the subtle and crafty wiles the athiesticall blasphemous, soul-murthering principles, and practises of Mr William Walwin, in plentifull instances, confirming the same with some advertisements to Liev. Col. John Liburn, and Mr Tho. Prince. / By a lover of the present and eternall interest of man-kinde. April. 23. 1649. Imprimatur, Henry Whalley.	Price, John, Citizen of London.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3351; Thomason E554_24; ESTC R205778	28,417	40

abolish the House of Lords c. That the sending over Forces to Ireland is for not●●●● else but to make way by the blood of the Army to enlarge 〈…〉 territories of power and Tyranny That it is an unlawful War ● cruel and bloody work to go to destroy the Irish Natives for 〈…〉 Consciences though they have kil'd many thousand Protestants for their Consciences and to drive them from their proper natural and native Rights though they have done the like to many thousand Protestants who though English had as true natural and native right to their Lands and ●●heritances as the Irish had We say who is so blind as not to see that the true design of all these chantings is to divide the Army and break it in pieces by jealousies and discontents to hinder the happy and hopeful relief of Ireland to betray these poor Protestants that lie trembling and panting between hope and fear not knowing whether yet they shall live or dye break the Parliament and Councel of State and consequently by the utter and irrecoverable loss of Ireland ruin of the Army crushing the presēt Authority dividing the honest party the Irish Rebels may come with all their Powers from all parts abroad and in this Nation like a mighty Torrent sweeping all befor them and put themselves into a capacity of putting into execution their bloody cruel tyrannical and revengeful thoughts against the honest party in the Land We have ever observed that this Mr Walwyn in all viciscitudes and turns of affairs hath still withstood the present Government yea though model'd according to his former pretended desires which argues a hidden design in all his pretences T is true when Magisterial Power ●●asheth against Divine and men in authority ●ight against God by oppression and tyranny they shall be broken in pieces as a glass against a Rock for though the fountain of Government springs from the People and the end thereof ●● their only benefit yet while the Power in the People is uncontracted and their own Authority is untransfer'd it is like shall we say a tallent hid in the earth without uses ●ay rather as the inordinate heat in a stack of corn firing it self with its own heat Where all men are alike Rulers none will be ruled and then into what precipices should we run To live together is the Law of Nature and how can this be when every mans lust shall be every mans Law For then every mans will shall be every mans wants and no man will content himself with what he hath While he hath not that which his neighbor hath the best of Governments cannot secure each individual from oppression but where there is no Government so many men are so many Tyrants each to others The worst of Governments is good for some but no Government can be good for none Where is no Government there can be no Agreement and certain destruction attends division Valiant Sirs be not deceived by these Arch deluders neither be divided amongst your selves Union hath preserved you Division will destroy you God hath made you terrible by Union the Jesuite would make you contemptible by division your enemies despair to overcome you by Power revive not their hopes to do it by policy they could not cudgel you let them not cajole you you have wrested their swords their spears their trophies their banners out of their hands let them not cheat them out of your hands again they tell you your Officers would lift up themselves by your blood but have not you better experiences of your Officers then they Have not they stuck to you as well as you to them in the day of battel What though men have not regarded you as you deserved will not God be faithful though men are not Will not he be true when they are lyars Are you afraid to receive your wages your rewards from the immediate hand of God alone That your honor shall be too great your Crown too heavy at the great pay day He hath made you famous in England and famous in Scotland and is it your fear that he will honor you in Ireland that any of you should be disswaded from that happy work are you unwilling to be possessed of that good Land that Land that floweth with milk and honey Hath not God fed you with former Victories to the amazement of all that he might steel you against all future difficulties that you ●●●●t withal The people of God in England in Scotland 〈…〉 vis●n up and called you blessed for your help to them in the day of trouble and shall your poor Brethren in Ireland receive ●● favour from you We beseech you by the Womb that b●● a you and the Paps that gave you suck by the honor of Englis● men by all the experiences of the presence of God with you while you stuck ●● the Interest of God his people and your native Country that you pl●●● off the Vizors of those Jesuitical Whifflers that creeping in among you like the Serpents spawn under the green gr●ss spy ●●● your liberty envy your approaching happiness and would ●ow destroy you by your own selves the just Liberties of the Nation the Freedom of the Gospel the Interest of England the joy of all good men are in the fruitful Womb of your former faithfulness which is now ready to bring forth if you help in the how of tr●●●l howsoever that the happy work of God begun in these three Islands of England Scotland and Ireland shall go on and prosp●● by the honored Instruments of Gods own choice is the faith and prayer of Your faithful Friends and Brethren your dayly Remembrancers at the Throne of Grace William Kiffin David Lordell John Price Richard Arnald Edmund Rosier Henry Foster Henry Burnet Errata P. 7. l. 25. for first regal r. fort royal p. ibid. l. 36. for ●arster-like r. master-like p. 8. l. 16. for contradictions opinions r. contradictions opinions With several other which the presum'd ingenuity of the Reader will correct and pardon VValwins VViles OR The Manifestators Manifested THe greatest Hypocrisie is often palliated with the most specious pretences of the plainest sincerity and the cheefest use that some men make of Religion and the language thereof is after the similitude of Satan with our first Parents to muffle the understandings of over-credulous and flexible men and then to cheat them under a guilded bait of their seeming good into such actions that are most conducible to their certain misery It is the great unhappiness of ingenious and plain-hearted people to be made instrumental to the disguised design of maskt enemies and to have their Integrity imposed upon by the deceitful policy of those that dare not own their own actions lest they should allarum them whom they dayly deceive and hinder the increase of that party by which they expect the accomplishment of their secret projects to open the windows of this dark Cabinet and to discover the methods of th●se

VValwins VViles OR The Manifestators Manifested VIZ. Liev. Col. John Lilburn Mr Will. Walwin Mr Richard Overton and Mr Tho. Prince Discovering themselves to be Englands new Chains AND Irelands back Friends OR The hunting of the old Fox with his Cubs And the Picture of the Picturers of the COVNCEL of STATE Declaring the subtle and crafty Wiles the Athiesticall blasphemous soul-murthering principles and practises of Mr William Walwin in plentifull instances confirming the same with some advertisements to Liev. Col. John Lilburn and Mr Tho. Prince By a Lover of the present and Eternall interest of Man-kinde April 23. 1649. Imprimatur Henry Whalley LONDON Printed for H. C. and L. L. TO THE NOBLE and SUCCESSFUL Englands Army UNDER The Command of his Excellency Thomas Lord General Fairfax Gentlemen Souldiers IT is hard to say whether God hath appeared more gloriously with you in breaking the powers or blasting the policies of your enemies as he hath been your strength unto the one so your wisdom unto the other by whose presence with you neither wisdom nor weapon have prevaild against you the great contention between Christ and the Devil and the seed of either is to destroy each others work in the world and although the issue thereof shall be the mortal crushing of the head of the o●● yet shall the heel of the other be bruised thereby Noble Sirs the m●d●lling and managing making and maintaining preserving and prosperi●g your happy Army ●● such a transparent work of God in the world that it dazels the eyes of all spectators the presence of God and the prayers of his people have always attended your valiant attempts by means whereof your ones have chased tens and your hundreds have put thousands to flight it is too true you have met with hardship abroad and unkindness at home but your honor it is that neither the one or the other hath made you bow unto a base unworthy and sinful deportment God hath subdued the common Enemy by you this he may do more for others then your own sakes but when he subdues your enemies within you it is more for your own th●●other mens sakes that he doth in love to others this in love to you that as he makes you executioners of his fierce wrath this as he makes you the objects of his free love When you conquer men you conquer flesh and so one beast may conquer another but when you conquer sin you conquer spirit and this is the work of none but Christ the blood of your Enemies may feed the root of your present power but the blood of your sins doth water the root of your eternal happiness that an Army should be humble under victories meek under injuries patient under provocations fear no men yet tremble before God should be a terror to the wicked and a tower to the Saints should be Lions in fields and Lambs in families this imports your powerful hamering by the hand of the spirit upon the anvil of Truth into a blessed battle-ax compleatly aptified for the hand of God unto the breaking in peeces the envious enemies of his Son and his Saints according to the predict counsels of his holy Word and hence it is that the Antichristian where is filld with fears that you are the men cōmission'd by God to execute upon her the Judgment written to stain her glory and spoil her beauty 〈…〉 bastards brains against the stones to give her blood for blood to drink to burn her flesh with fire for the prevention whereof that you may not torment her before her time she hath summon'd the Princes of the earth that have committed fornication with her with their sons of whoredom to band their might and strength against you but the Lord that raised you and called you to his foot Isa. 41. 2 gave the Nations before you making you Rulers over Kings and Princes giving them as dust to your sword and as driven stubble to your bow making you to eat up the Nations your enemies to break their bones and pier●● them through with your arrows and then causing you to couch down like a Lion none daring to sti● you up but this w●●rish Dalilah perceiving your might by breaking her forces like Sampsons coards i● trying her tricks to find● out your strength and the seat thereof and well perceiving that it lies in your hair r●●ted together in your head we mean in your Vnion with Christ and each with other s●e hath applyed her self in her several Instruments by her enticing words to cut you from him and then to divide you each from other whose curi●●● cunning in that unhappy work is here set forth in one of her supposed faithful factors Mr Willi●m W●lwyn whose various manners in corrupting and dividing by himself and others the honest and true-hearted party to Religious and the Kingdome interest in the Army City and Country i● truly declared having received satisfaction touching the truth of th●se particular instances given concerning him though we kn●w his profest principle is to say or do any thing whatsoever against him whom he thought engaged against him to destroy him yet we cannot but subscribe our own Observations and Experiences of his general course in all his ways as they are here set forth As for Mr Richard Overton we know him not but by his Pen the complexion whereof hath quit our desires of any further acquaintance with him Mr Lilburn and Mr Prince we verily hope are for better in their ends and aims then in their game in hitting their marks viz. the real Interest of their native Country though we must confess we look upon them as simple-hearted so simple-headed to be drawn as they are into such ways as they walk For although in words they profess yet in works they deny and destroy the Interest of England for who seeth not not that these clamorous Complaints ins●●●ated into the Army and spread abroad in the City and Country Vi● That the People assembled at Westminster are not a lawful Parliament but there 〈…〉 by the power of the Sword to over-awe and tyranni●● over the free-born people of England That it is against the Laws of the Land that there should be any Mar●●●● Discipline over Souldiers in time of peace though there should be an Army under pay 〈…〉 as if we were all in peace which we are not like to be while such 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 are kindled by them that the design of the House at Westminster 〈…〉 Councel of State c. is to keep down the people under 〈…〉 and Slavery by an Army as if it was possible a● the 〈…〉 stands to settle this Common-wealth without an Army 〈…〉 the Commons of England whom in their several Papers they have acknowledge● to be the Supream Authority of the Nation must be tyed to govern by the known Laws not to alter the Government viz. to establish a Councel of State and yet have power to take away the life of the King and to