The Liar Confounded, Title page – Dedication
THE LYAR CONFOUNDED OR A Briefe Refutation of John Lilburnes miſerably-miſtated-Caſe, miſtaken-Law; Seditious Calumnies, and moſt malicious Lyes againſt the High Court of PARLIAMENT, the Honourable Committee of Examinations, Mr Speaker, with other Members of the Commons Houſe; and Mr William Prynne; wherewith he hath ſeduced many ignorant overcredulous People. Manifeſting the Parliaments extraordinary Clemency towards him, their Juſtice in their Commitment of, and proceedings againſt him; for which he ſo ingratefully and falſely taxeth them, with Tyranny and Injuſtice
By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Lincolns Inne, Eſquire.
John 8. 44.
Yee are of your Father the Devill, and the luſts of your Father will yee do: he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, becauſe there is NO TRVTH IN HIM: when he speaketh a Lye he speaketh of his owne; for he is a LYAR, and the FATHER OF IT.
Eph. 4. 25.
Wherefore puting away Lying, ſpeake every man TRVTH to his Neighbour: for wee are members one of another.
Prov. 12. 19.
The lip of truth ſhall be establiſhed for ever, but a LYING TONGVE is but for a moment.
LONDON, Printed by John Macock; for Michael Spark ſenior. 1645.
TO The Honourable William Lenthall Eſquire, Speaker of the Honourable Houſe of COMMONS and Maſter of the ROLES.
Sir,
I Here preſent you with a Briefe Relation and Refutation, of John Lilburnes Notorious Lyes, and forged Calumnies, againſt the Parliament, and whole Houſe of Commons in Generall, the Committee of Examination; Your ſelfe; ſome other Members of both Houſes, your Brother Sir John Lenthall, and My ſelfe in ſpeciall: Whereby the whole Kingdome may diſcerne his (and his confederates) Impudent Falſities, Forgeries, Lyes, groundleſſe Slanders; and Your Ʋntainted Innocencies, triumphing gloriouſly over them. The truth of his Caſe, miſreported by him, rightly ſtated; the Legality of Your Proceedings againſt, commitment of him, demonſtrated; his miſtaken Law, refuted; and the ſeeds of Mutiny, of Sedition ſowen among the Ignorant Ʋulgar, in his ſeditious Printed Papers (ſcattered abroad by one Leaner and others, among the Kentiſh Malignants and the Male-contents in other parts) extirpated, to prevent all Popular, Inſurrections againſt the Parliaments Soveraign Authority.
Your ſpeciall Intereſt in the Subject matter of this Relation, hath (among other motives) induced me to ſelect You for its Patron, in the Dedication, to whoſe Protection I commend it, and Your ſelfe to Gods; deſiring really to expreſſe my ſelfe upon all juſt Occaſions,
Your moſt Affectionate Friend to ſerve You, William Prynne.