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1 John Lilburne, Agreement of the Free People of England, Tendered as a Peace-Offering to This Distressed Nation 1 (1649)

handle is hein.cow/freepeo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AGREEMENT
OF THE
Fr ee People of England.
Tendered as a 9'a'e- Ojf'rin~g to
this difireifed Naior.
BY
tieutenant.Colonel 14      iisLi~birne, Mafter  illiam Walwyn Maerf
ss Prince.. and Mafter Richrdoverren, Prifoners in the Tow.
er of London, May he J. 1649.
Matd& 5. v=f9. Rlefedfare the Peacue-  akersfor tsePJai be called- the
children of God.
A Preparitive to all forts oflpeople.
1- affliHions makc mcr wifeand wifdom dire& to happincife, then certainly this Nati-
on is nor t r from t'rucl a degree therofas may compare if not far cxeedzany part of the
W, word:having for faindyearisby paft, demak deep of the Cyp of milety and forro(.
We bleife Gp,%dout'cgnfcience arLe cleefromnaddling;iaffliaiontoaflia,havinge-yet
Jaboured from the beginning,of our publick diffradionsrte compofe'And reconcile them; &
thould eficem it the Crown of all our remp6ral fetdty that yet we might be infirunqptall
ingrocating the pce a id properitybothis Comion-wealth the land of our Nativity.
Ana thcrefore according to our promifeititulateManifeflion of the 14of April
x410. (bcing pcrfwaded of the ncccffitieand juineffic thereof) asa Pease-Offering to  bc
Free peopl of this Nation, e teOOr this nfiliig Agrement, not knowing any more cf-
fcauailmcanstopus a finalil petiod to all oureagrcs and troubles.
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