A DECLARATION Of Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN LILBURN To the Freeborn People of ENGLAND.  
AND His Speech to the Parliament, on Tuesday last; in Answer to the Sentence denounced against him by Mr. Speaker, by special Order and Command Together with his Resolution (come life come death) not personally to yield active submission to the said Sentence. And divers other remarkable things, worth the knowledge of all the Freemen, not only of London, but of all England.  
Subscribed, JOHN LILBURN.  
London, Prlnted for C. HORTON, 1651.   

THE REMONSTRANCE OF Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn, to the Freeborn people of England; and His Declaration and Speech to the Parliament on Tuesday last, in answer to the Sentence denounced against him at the Bar.  
ON Tuesday last (being the 20 of this instant January) Lieut. Col. John Lilburn was brought before the Parliament (being attended by the Sergeant at Arms) and being come to the Bar, Mr. Speaker (in the Name of the whole House) made a learned and excellent Oration to him, Wherein he minded him of the Parliaments former favour and clemency, and of their gracious and free remittance of his bypast errors & transgressions; but now falling into a further Relapse, whose fact and crime, were of so sad and dangerous consequence, that it extended to a high breach of the privileges of Parliament; in order whereunto Mr. Speaker declared, that he was commanded by the Parliament to denounce the Judgement of the House against him; whicd was, That he should pay the fine of 7000 l. & be banished out of England, Scotland, and Ireland, & the Dominions thereof, within the space of 30 days; and in case he shall ever return, or be found in any of the aforesaid Dominions, then to be tried as a Felon, and to suffer the pangs of death.  
A dreadful sentence, replied Mr. Lilburn, but not in the least terrifying to a good conscience; And Mr. Speaker, give me leave, I beseech you, and the rest of the members here present; to declare, That as bondage and liberty are two contraries, so you cannot consider the one, but you must reflect your eyes upon the other: For though one be so destructive to the being of the other, that where the one is, the other cannot be; yet, each by other is more eminently distinguished: and look how the one is exceeding the other, by so much the other is deficient, and loseth of its property; and therefore if you will cast your eyes upon the glory and beauty of the one, your ears must be open to the cries and complaints of the other. As for my part, I am resolved, that as in heart I defy all injustice, cruelty, tyranny, and oppression, all arbytrary Usurpation and Usurpers whatsoever, so in person (come life, come death) I will not be so treacherous to myself, to my wife and children, and especially to this Nation (the Land of my Nativity) in general, as personally to yield my active submission for exilement. But being remanded from the Bar, a period was put to his allegations; and a place of Confinement provided, under the power and command of the Sergeant at Arms.   

Lieut. Col. John Lilburn's Remonstrance to the Freemen of England.  
Beloved Brethren, and Countrymen,  
IT was the lot and portion of our only Lord and Master Jesus Christ, to be persecuted, reviled, reproached, and counted a Troubler of the World, and one not fit to breathe therein: And this even by his own Countrymen and friends; And if we his servants meet with the same measure, he hath commanded Us not to be dismayed or troubled; and the reason is, because the servant is not above the master: And withal, that we might go on cheerfully in bearing the yoke of our master, he hath engaged himself to bear part of it with us, and takes all that is done to us for adhering to him, as done unto himself, Act. 9.4. And therefore, saith the spirit of God, in all their afflictions, he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved him, Esay 63.9. Paul, Peter, and John, found these say of their Master true, and had their portions in afflictions in an extraordinaay manner, but yet tasted largely of the faithfulness of their Master's promise, which was to be with them, and in them; which made Paul glory in his tribulations, and to say, That as his afflictions did abound, so much more his consolations; and Paul's portion in these expressions and enjoyments, I myself have been made partaker of, in my great and pressing tribulations, which I underwent in the Bishop's days, and have had a large portion of sorrows all along both before and since, throughout my pilgrimage in this present Veil of tears. And having had my spirit mightily refreshed and carried above the world, and the lash of my bitter adversaries, by calling to mind my bypast experience and refresh, that I have enjoyed from that Fountain of fullness, that hath for many years together been my sensible enjoyed portion: And amongst all the Writings and Declarations of God's Love and Kindness manifested to me in my sorrows, this hath most affected, and taken my spirit with greatest content, That it is the work of the Saints, to encounter with difficulties in the Cause and Quarrel of their Lord and Master, and not to be afraid of bonds nor imprisonments. A good Conscience had rather run the hazard of cruelty, then to abate an hairs breadth of contestation against illegality. This was the saying of Mr. Overton, in his late Case, depending in the House of Peers; for, saith he, As their Lordships in their arbytrary capacity found Warrants; so should they find Legs to obey them; for I was resolved mine should not be enslaved to that their Usurpation to do their Arbytrary Drudgery; I would rather lose my life, then in that kind to do them that vassalage: My Legs were born as free as the rest of my Body, and therefore I scorn that Legs, or arms, or hands, should do them any servicer; for as I am a freeman by Birth, so am I resolved to live and die, both in heart, word and deed, in substance and in show.  
In a word, my earnest desire is, That all those that love their just interest, may have cause to say, Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an Enemy; which task shall be one earnest and cordial endeavours of him that is a true lover of England's happiness and prosperity.  
JOHN LILBURN.  
FINIS.