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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

and bringing them to passe they must be tendered to the Parliament by the wel-affected in petitions For what way is so meet for the people as petitioning and what can those that are in Authority do lesse then grant them just things that every mans judgment calleth good And here is one of the great Masterpeeces of his craft and subtilty viz. in the framing ordering and managing their Petitions First the Phrase Stile and Dialect of these Petitions must be always harsh unpleasant in case if denied menacing and provoking representing the Petitioners froward imperious passionate furious positive and implacable men of low and mean birth breeding and quality proud heady high-minded vain-glorious giving out themselves to be alwaies the wel-affected party by whom cheifly and mainly if not onely the Parliament have bin chosen maintained preserved as if the whole burthen of the charges and service of the Wars was undergone by them and by none else Secondly The matter of those Petitions must not contain apparent good things in themselves onely but always mingled with some things very doubtfull and questionable causing many disputes debates and meetings hereabout Thirdly They must alwaies be clog'd and fild with such things which though in themselves desireable and were they attained hopeful and promising to the welbeeing of honest men and the interest of the Nation yet unseasonable being of the greatest and remotest probability as things stand to be procured insisting with most importunities in plainness peremptoriness of words upon such things not contenting themselves with those which are directly previous and infallibly conducing thereunto but having a special eye either at the present incapacity of the House by reason of diversities of judgments amongst themselves the inabilties of the Nation in general the variety of the providences of God in ordering the affairs of the Commonwealth to grant such things though happily they themselves desire it yet with much impetuousness they commandingly pray and proudly petition for the same now his game is started and he merrily pursues it First He hath divided the quondam united petitioning party by the framing phrasifying and ordering these Petitions some being for others against the same now heat jealousies differences arise one party censuring the other with hard words for cowardice dastardliness and baseness of spirit these are our prudentialists our wise moderate men that can never finde a season to do good for their Country Is it not time to speak out shall we always be meal-mouth'd and never speak plain If this be not a season when will it be are not the things just we desire if they will not grant them we may see what to expect from them Again the other party looks upon them as rash heady incogitant fiery furious spirited men that are like to bring all to ruine and confusion c. Secondly the house is hereby unwillingly precipitated and hurried upon one of these inevitable rocks either by granting their Petitions they must obnoxiate themselves to the disgust displeasure and irritation of the generality of all sorts of the people of the Land as also to the dangerous consequences of the pride and ambition of these men puft up with their vain and vapouring conceipts that they must not be denyed though their Petitions be never so peremptory positive and commanding or else Secondly by den●ing them they must undergoe the hard uncivill and unworthy Censures of these hot spirited Petitioners viz The Parliament what is it a company of base self-seeking fellows a pack of knaves as reall Tyrants as the King and his Patentees a generation that will never do good to this Nation that deserve no better at the hands of the people then Weezils or Polecats this Mr. Walwin himself discoursing with others about modelling and framing Petitions so as to induce the Parliament to give a gratious answer profest to this purpose that it would be better for the people that the Parliament should deny then grant their Petitions for then they would discover themselves what they are and what the people must expect from them if any man shall revise all those Petitions whose modell was the birth of his brain he shall find them spirited with such provocations as have the greatest extention to all considerable Parties throughout the Nation that the Magistrates may be provoked their power must be taken away the rigour of the Lawes abated as incons●stent with the liberties of a free people they must have no power to impresse or constraine the people to armes by Sea or Land c. in short leaving them nothing but the bare ayrie empty title of a Magistrate without power and this pleaseth the rude and vicious sort of people again the Ministers must be provoked and thereby the Pulpits fieted by taking away their maintenance under the name of Tythes no other way or means propounded to encourage the preaching of the Gospel whereby this ayrie vain empty thing so reputed by this man called Religion may be exploded and expell'd the Nation this pleaseth the ignorant simple and covetous Party the Lawyers they must be provoked by pretending the uselesness of them in a Common-wealth which pleaseth the irregular quarrellous and offensive part of the people The Merchants must be provoked by complaining against their Monopolizing of Trade in their own hands and not admitting a free people to a free trade it would be no hard matter clearly to discern an ●●asperating irritating and irascifying spirit in all their Petitions whose apt natural and genuine tendencies are to kindle flames distempers divisions jealousies and discontents amongst all sorts whatsoever Whether these former Considerations do not meerly demonstrate his designe of mischief to the honest and wel-affected party let any mans reason determine as for the interest of the people the freedom and Liberties of the Nation the great desire of his soul and the travel of all his conceptions if you will beleeve him when any man shall seriously observe that the bent and natural genius of all his foli●itation● are the division of the honest party the alienation of their hearts from and malignifying of their opinions against yea the utter ruine and destruction of the successful and faithful instruments of deliverance and safety to the Nation his uniform hindering and obstructing by his manifold wiles the happy progress of the compleat interest deliverance and freedom of the people when the Pa●● and Army are in a hopefull capacitie thereunto his constant re●arding and endeavours of preventing the execution of those very things when in a hopeful way thereunto which he formerly seem'd most eagerly and withall his soul and might to pursue his constant quarrelling with and exciting his followers against those that at any time since this Parliment began have the publick rule in their hands he I say that shall impartially and in the exercise of his reason observe these and many the like uniform certain and constant proceedings of this man needs not be to seek how

to stand as it were at his right hand to receive his impressions and orders which you must still believe are in order only to the publique good common freedom and safety of the free-born people of England to the pulling down of Oppressors Tyrants he hath his severall works and employments for them all according to every mans aptnesse and fitnesse for the same Those whom he observes men of parts witty and good language quick apprehensions able to bridle passions free from heat and choller of a compos'd deportment and behaviour and withall retensive in keeping secrets c. these are of his intimate society commerse and familiarity and shall be employed in observing the fitnesse and aptnesse of men for their proper employments these shall be of the whispering house close Cabinet and privie Councell and their worke shall be the encreasing of that Party in the City and Country whose Letters by the advantage of a pollitique and crafty Pen may propagate and help on their work in the severall Counties Those that are of more bould p●●emptory pertenacious conceipted Spirits of fierce daring and provoking language apt to heat choller and passion and withall shallow weak and injudicious not able to see skin deep into state affaires and presuming themselves the best Common-wealths men the greatest Statists the onely lovers of their Countries Liberties the freest men from self-interest and therefore the fittest for places of authority and trust These shall trumpet out matter of discontents jealousies and pretended miscariages of those that are in Authority how basely things goe what oppressions taxations and vexations the poor people doe endure how this poor betraied Nation is bought and sould how the cutting off of some Tyrants doe alwaies make way for more and worse to succeed them how nothing is done for the Common-wealth how basely the Treasure of the Kingdom is imbezeled how Parliament men vote monies out of the purses of the poor ridden people into their own how they share the riches of the Nation amongst themselves how to day they vote this Parliament man into a great Office and to morrow another and how they do nothing for the Common-wealth but vote one another into places of power and profit how that though to abuse and cast a mist before the eies of the people they make a self-denying ordinance yet suffer no man to put it in execution how they promote their kindred and alies into great places every where if any use be for men in Custom house in Excise-office or in any other places of profit this and that Parliament mans friends or brothers or sons or nephews must be the men nay Parliament men and their Alies have place upon place and office upon office as if they had severall bodies to be employed at one and the same time What 's become of the infinite summs the unconceivable treasure of the Nation the late Kings Customs Ship-money Coat and Conduct monies Monopolies c. were nothing to the Customs Excise Taxations Free quarter Sequestrations Papists monies Bishops lands Revenues of the Crown besides all the Plate and Monies lent freely by the people and yet nothing done nay how many for their zeale and good will to the State have lent freely and bountifully thereby beggering and undoing themselves and now cannot receive one penny to buy them bread but may lye beging petitioning and starving at their doores and cannot be heard nay it may be have nothing but course hard and cruell language from them how one faction teares the Common-wealth and share it among themselves one while and another another while neither of them regarding the ease or greevances of the poor people al this while what have they done since this purge and that purge they have voted the continuance of Tythes the laying of more Taxes and Rates they imprison honest men c. these and the like charges are belched out from day to day by these men this is the main● matter of their discourse writing Printing c. never considering how far true or false what may be said in answer to any of these things but blowing and blazing these clamours and complaints in all companies and places where they come and where they can by writings or other waies spread them abroad and for this purpose they have a very singular advantage of the good will and affection of our weekly news-mongers the Tuesday-Moderate the Fryday-Occurrances who were easily intreated to spread abroad their late Manifestation that their simplicity piety and innocency and the Parliaments Oppression Cruelty and Tyrrannie might be the better known to the whole Kingdome and Malignants hopes revived again that at last these may restore them c. This raiseth up a spirit of contempt envie and malice anger and discontent against the Parliament and all that they doe For those that are poor indigent and low in the world these likewise must spread abroad their complaints the deadnesse of tradeing the dearth of the times the great burthens assessments and taxations These are all through the neglect and by-meanes of the Parliament all burthens rates and services are laid upon them they bear the heat and burthen of the day but they are trampled upon and is a peece of policy in men of great places to keep the poor low and needy in the world and that this course must not be suffered c. These and the like have been the particular ways of this cunning Artist in abusing simple-hearted honest men briefly the seeming tendency drift and scope of all his Agitations have carryed the face of many fould designe First to root our Religion and the Principles and power thereof out of the judgments and consciences of those that hearken unto him witnesse those former Methods and Instances given in order thereunto Secondly to root out the generation of honest godly religious consciencious sort of people when he pretends to love above others by putting them upon such waies and projects which if they take place would render them the most unsufferable generation in the world not fit indeed to live in a Common-wealth And what can his designe herein be but to precipitate them into their own ruine and destruction and these are his Methods to that purpose First to propose singular good things and very promising to the Common-wealth And indeed either he receives his instructions in some underhand way from others for we are not without ground to suspect such a thing as shall be declared as occasion serves or else he hath a politick and crafty head in contriving pretending ordering and mannaging Propositions of that kind This advanceth and magnifieth him in the thoughts and opinions of his seduced Disciples for a man of admirable good affections to the Common-wealth to publique liberty and universal good and withall of admirable parts capacities and abililities and therefore very fit for places of government and worthy to be listned and hearkned unto Secondly for the effecting of those things

to make a most probable i● not indubitable judgement upon him in that point I shall onely in a word adde one thing more and leave him and that is his constant endevor to hinder the relief of Ireland by exhibiting arguments and reasons in justification of that bloody rebellion and in puzzling the judgements and Consciences of those that otherwaies would promote that happy work arguing that the cause of the Irish Natives in seeking their just freedoms immunities and liberties was the very same with our cause here in endeavouring our own rescue and freedom from the power of oppressors waving the consideration of that damnable bloody and unparallel'd Massacring murthering and starving so many thousands of poor Protestants whose blood it seems this devout Manifestator Mr. Walwin judgeth not worthy so much as to be enquired after but God I hope hath and will so discover the folly falseness and deceits of this man that he shall proceed no further in seducing and deceiving the honest and plain hearted people that have been apt to hearken to him As for L. C. Jo Lilburne I am very apt to beleeve and hope that there are yet some seeds of God remaining in him which though for the present very strangely subdued and kept under the clods of ambition heat and choller passion frowardnesse and heigth of spirit pride vain glory and affectation rendring him for the present feirce heady high-minded lofty peevish revengfull implacable very unlovely and unlike our Lord Jesus to whose service he doth pretend will notwithstanding all this at last break forth in beauty and strength in much sorrow repentance and humiliation in much humility meekness and sweetness of spirit in much gentleness patience and long-suffering in 〈…〉 ch wisdom prudence and lowliness of minde which will at l●st grow up and ripen unto a rich and plentifull 〈…〉 est of honour and praise unto God of much complacency satisfaction and con●●ntment to his greived and offended brethren of much inward comfortable and contentfull communion and followship with the holy Spirit and of his eternall peace life and salvation with God hereafter which the Judge of all hearts doth know is the longing of my soul in his behalf As for Mr. Prince I have no acquaintance at all with him but have heard a good report of him and am very apt to beleeve the same for he is not the first good man that hath been seduced by the sleights of men and therefore the cognizance that I have of Mr. Lilburne and the reports I heare of Mr. Prince have encouraged me as presuming if I am not deceived in the one and the other to tender to them some few considerations confidently beleeving that the serious and christian contemplation thereof by vertue of that Spiritualis tastus that I hope is upon their hearts will prove through the blessing of God a means of meekning softning and framing their spirits unto a pe●●●able quiet and amiable disposition life and conversation Omitting then the consideration of the violent ●●ious and fiery language especially of Mr. Lilburne together with the roughness rigidness and licentiousness of his tongue and pen in abusing ●naving and rascallizing after a most ●●rious and unchristian manner those that have given as ample testimony of their integrity and faithfulness to this Nation as ever any that was bred therein as also of their innocen●y in th●se very things viz. self-seeking self-interest c. whereof they are accused having as great advantages seasons and opportunities here●●to ●● ever men had by the many and great Victories successes and forces vouchsafed unto them and under their command whereby they have through the presence of the Lord with them pull'd downe the pride and power of the enemy and might have h●d what 〈…〉 they pleased for the particular advantage of themselves and 〈…〉 lies would they thereby have bin w●●●d per 〈…〉 ded and wrought upon to 〈…〉 and unworthy comp 〈…〉 the ●●stre brightnesse and glory whereof 〈…〉 most pow 〈…〉 break through all those clouds fogs and mist● ascending from the rancko● malice and discontents 〈…〉 ours falsities and scandalous tongues and pens of these men to the generall satisfaction of wise observing and considering men having not onely the testimony of God their own consciences but even of those whose occasion● condition and conversation have given them an opportunity of a peculiar dayly and constant inspection and observation of their waies by means whereof they can laugh to scorn those irrational accusations against them from day to day I say omitting these things which may be insisted upon Consider whereas you are still complaining of oppressions sorrows and troubles of the nation that we cannot upon any rationall and Scripturall ground expect a complea● full absolute and perfect freedom from all kind of pressures and greevances in the Land surely a naturall and compleat freedom from all sorrowes and troubles was fit for man onely before he had sinned and not since let them look for their portion in this life that know no better and their kingdom in this world that beleeve no other to what end are the graces of Faith patience and self-deniall vouchsafed unto us what need would there be of the ordinances of Prayer of the promises of the comforts of the Holy Ghost what should we make of those sayings of Christ asserting That in the world we shall have tribulation That through many afflictions w● must enter into the Kingdom of God That here we have no conti●uing City but we look for one that is to come c. if we might expect perfect freedom here below Again consider whether your tongues your pen● your books should not as well favour of the sence of mercy received ●● of complain●● of what is wanting though the sorrows troubles and grie 〈…〉 of the Nation be great yet have we no cause of thankfulnesse to God and men for his mercy and their assistance what had become of this Nation had not God stirr'd up those very men which are the men of your complaint to interpose betweene it and the power wrath and 〈…〉 e of the contrary 〈…〉 y and is it not hard measure when ●●● all their hazarding and 〈…〉 ing their lives ●●●●e high p●●ce● 〈…〉 all disadvan●● of numbers powers and strength as you know they did that you 〈…〉 you 〈…〉 en of their own Party should 〈…〉 them as now you do could you beare it your selves Again consider that the best of men are but men at best and will you give no allowance for flesh and blood doubtless these men of your anger have their spots for they are but men but have not you yours if they are such as you give them out to be viz. base tyrranicall false and rotten hearted men will not God find them out as he hath done in our eyes yes verily and so will he find you out if you be like them but if you think they are upright in the main pitty