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A48454	The Christian mans triall, or, A trve relation of the first apprehension and severall examinations of Iohn Lilbvrne with his censure in Star-chamber, and the manner of his cruell whipping through the streets : whereunto is annexed his speech in the pillory, and their gagging of him : also the severe	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. Work of the beast.	1641 (1641)	Wing L2089; ESTC R1513	44,603	44

that you be not partakers of her sinnes and that you receive not of her plagues for her sinnes have reached unto heaven and God hath remembred her iniquities Here is the voyce of God himselfe commanding all his chosen ones though they have lived under this Antichristian slavish power and estate along time yet at last to withdraw their obedience and subjection from it My brethren we are all at this present in a very dangerous and fearefull condition under the Idolatrous and spirituall bondage of the Prelates in regard wee have turned traytors unto our God in seeing his Almighty great name and his heavenly truth troden under foot and so highly dishonoured by them and yet wee not onely let them alone in holding our peace but most slavishly and wickedly subject our selves unto them fearing the face of a piece of dirt more than the Almighty great God of Heaven and Earth who is able to cast both body and soule into everlasting damnation Oh repent I beseech you therefore repent for that great dishonour you have suffered to be done unto God by your fearefulnesse and cowardlinesse and for the time to come put on couragious resolutions like valiant souldiers of Iesus Christ and fight manfully in this his spirituall battell in which battell some of his souldiers have already lost part of their blood and withall study this Booke of the Revelation and there you shall find the mysterie of iniquitie fully unfolded and explained and also you shall see what great spirituall battels have beene fought betwixt the Lambe and his Servant and the Dragon the Divell and his vassals and some are to fight Therefore gird on your spirituall armour spoken of Ephes. 6. that you may quit your selves like good and faithful souldiers and feare no colours the victory and conquest is ours already for wee are sure to have it I doe not speake of any bodily and temporall battell but onely of a spirituall one and be not discouraged and knocked off from the study of it because of the obscurity and darknesse of it fore Lord hath promised his enlightening Spirit unto all his people that are laborious and studious to know him aright and also hee hath promised a blessing and pronounced a blessednesse unto all that reade and labour to keep the things contained in this booke Rev. 1. 3. My Christian brethren in the bowels of Jesus Christ I beseech you doe not contemne the things that are delivered to you in regard of the meannesse and weakenesse of me the instrument being but one of the meanest and unworthiest of the servants of Jesus Christ for the Lord many times doth great things by weake meanes that his power may be more seene for we are too ready to cast our eye upon the meanes and instrument not looking up unto that Almighty power that is in God who is able to doe the greatest things by the weakest meanes and therefore out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings he hath ordained strength Psal. 8. 2. And he hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen yea things which are not to bring to nought things that are 1 Cor. 1. 27. 28. And he gives the reason wherefore he is pleased so to doe That no flesh should glory in his presence So you see God is not tyed to any instrument and meanes to effect his owne glory but hee by the least instrument is able to bring to passe the greatest things It is true I am a young man and no Scholler according to that which the world counts Schollership yet I have obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithfull and bee by a divine providence hath brought mee hither this day and I speake to you in the name of the Lord being assisted with the spirit and power of the God of heaven and earth and I speake not the words of rashnesse or inconsideratenesse but the words of sobernesse and mature deliberation for I did consult with my God before I came hither and desired him that hee would direct and enable me to speake that which might be for his glory and the good of his people And as I am a souldier fighting under the banner of the great and mighty Captain the Lord Iesus Christ and as I looke for that crowne of immortality which one day I know shall be set upon my temples being in the condition that I am in I dare not hold my peace but speake unto you with boldnesse in the might and strength of my God the things which the Lord in mercy hath made knowne unto my soule come life come death When I was here about there came a fat Lawyer I doe not know his name and commanded me to hold my peace and leave my preaching To whom I replyed and said Sir I will not hold my peace but speake my mind freely though I be hanged at Tiburne for my paines It seems he himselfe was galled and touched as the Lawyers were in Christs time when he spake against the Scribes and Pharisees which made them say Master in saying thus thou revilest us also So he went his way and I think complained to the Lords but I went on with my speech and said My brethren be not discouraged at the wayes of God for the affliction and crosse that doth accompany them for it is sweet and comfortable drawing in the yoake of Christ for all that and I have found it so by experience for my soule is fild so full of spirituall and heavenly joy that with my tongue I am not able to expresse it neither are any capable I think to partake of so great a degree of consolation but onely those upon whom the Lords gracious afflicting hand is And for mine owne part I stand this day in the place of an evill doer but my conscience witnesseth that I am not so And hereabout I put my hand into my pocket and puld out three of worthy Dr. Bastwicks Books and threw them among the people and said There is part of the Bookes for which I suffer take them among you and reade them and see if you find any thing in them against the Law of God the Law of the Land the glory of God the honour of the King or State I am the sonne of a Gentle man and my friends are of ranke and qualitie in the Countrey where they live which is 200. miles from this place and I am in my present condition deserted of them all for I know not one of them dare meddle with mee in my present estate being I am stung by the Scorpions the Prelates and for any thing that I know it may be I shall never have a favourable countenance from any of them againe and withall I am a young man and likely to have lived well and in plenty according to the

the Scorpions of the earth have power to hurt and undoe men as the Prelates daily doe and also Revel. 13. 2. And the Beast which I saw saith Saint Iohn was like unto a Leopard and his feete were as the feete of a Beare and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion and the Dragon that is to say the Divell gave him his power his seat and great authoritie and verse 15. 16 17. And whether the Prelates as well as the Pope doe not daily the same things let every man that hath but comon reason judge For doe not their daily practises and cruell burthens imposed on all sorts of people high and low rich and poore witnesse that their discent is from the Beast part of his state and kingdome So also Revel. 16. 13 14. all which places doe declare that their power and authoritie being from the Pope as they themselves confesse therefore it must needs originally come from the Divell for their power and callings must of necessitie proceed either from God or else from the Divell but it proceeds not from God as the Scriptures sufficiently declare therefore their calling and power proceeds from the Divell as both Scripture and their owne daily practises doe demonstrate and prove and as for that last place cited Rev. 16. 13. 14. If you please to reade the second and third parts of Doctor Bastwicks Letany you shall finde hee there proves that the Prelates practices doe every way suit with and make good that portion of Scripture to the utmost For in their Sermons that they preach before his Majestie how doe they incense the King and Nobles against the people of God labouring to make them odious in his sight and stirring him up to execute vengeance upon them though they be the most harmelesse generation of all others And as for all these officers that are under them and made by them for mine owne particular I cannot see but that their callings are as unlawfull as the Bishops themselves and in particular for the callings of the Ministers I doe not nor will not speake against their persons for I know some of them to be very able men and men of excellent gifts and qualifications and I perswade my selfe their soules are very deare and pretious in the sight of God Yet notwithstanding this proves not their callings to be ever the better as it is in civill government If the King whom God hath made a lawfull Magistrate make a wicked man an officer hee is as true an officer and as well to be obeyed comming in the Kings name as the best man in the world comming with the same authority for in such a case hee that is a wicked man hath his calling from as good authoritie as the godliest man hath and therefore his calling is as good as the others But on the other side if hee that hath no authority make officers though the men themselves be never so good and holy yet their holinesse makes their calling never a whit the truer but still is a false calling in regard his authority was not good not lawfull that made them and even so the Ministers be they never so holy men yet they have one and the same calling with the wickedest that is amongst them their holinesse proves not their callings to be ever the truer seeing their authority that made them Ministers is false and therefore they have more to answer for than any of the rest by how much the more God hath bestowed greater guifts upon them than upon others and yet they detaine the truth in unrighteousnesse from Gods people and doe not make knowne to them as they ought the whole Will and Counsell of God And againe the greater is their sinne if their callings be unlawfull as I verily believe they are in that they stil hold them and do not willingly lay down and renounce them or they do but deceive the people and highly dishonour God and sin against their own soules while they preach unto the people by vertue of an Antichristian and unlawfull calling and the more godly and able the Minister is that still preaches by vertue of this calling the more hurt he doth for the people that have such a Minister will not be perswaded of the truth of things though one speake and informe them in the name of the Lord but will be ready to reply Our Minister that preaches still by vertue of this Calling is so holy a man that were not his calling right and good I doe assure my selfe he would no longer preach by vertue thereof And thus the holinesse of the Minister is a cloake to cover the unlawfulnesse of his calling and make the people continue rebels against Christ his Scepter and Kingdome which is an aggravation of his sinne for by this meanes the people are kept off from receiving the whole truth into their soules and rest in being but almost Christians or but Christians in part But Oh my brethren it behoves all you that feare God and tender the salvation of your owne soules to looke about you and to shake off that long security and formality in Religion that you have laine in For God of all things cannot endure Lukewarmnesse Rev. 3. 16. and search out diligently the truth of things and try them in the Ballance of the Sanctuary I beseech you take things no more upon trust as hitherto you have done but take paines to search and find out those spirituall and hidden truths that God hath enwrapped in his sacred Booke and find out a bottome for your owne soules for if you will have the comforts of them you must bestow some labour for the getting of them and you must search diligently before you finde them Prov. 2. Labour also to withdraw your necks from under that spirituall and Antichristian bondage unto which you have for a long time subjected your soules lest the Lord cause his plagues and the fiercenesse of his wrath to seize both upon your bodies and soules seeing you are now warned of the danger of these things For he himselfe hath said Rev. 14. 9. 10 11. That if any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his marke in his forehead or in his hand the same shall drinke of the wine of his wrath which is powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shall he tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lambe and the smooke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the marke of his name Therefore as you love your owne soules and looke for that immortall Crowne of happinesse in the world to come looke that you withdraw your selves from that Antichristian power and slavery that you are now under even as God himselfe hath commanded and injoyned you in Rev. 18. 4. saying Come out of her my people