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The true good old cause rightly stated, and the false un-cased.
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Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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for the defence of the King Parliament and Kingdom as shall be appointed by both Houses of Parliament the Committee of both Kingdoms or by Sir Thomas Fairfax The like recitals of this Good Old Cause and ends for which this Army under him and others was raised are used in n A Collection p. 666 667 668 669. other Ordinances If this be not sufficient evidence that Sir Thomas Fairfax and the General Counsel of the Officers and Army under him took up Arms and engaged only for this Good Old Cause and ends and none else thus declared by both Houses of Parliament the very title of their several Remonstrances and Declarations penned by themselves printed by their own order in one Collection London 1647 will resolve the world themlelves and all other Souldiers since incorporated into the Army past all contradiction being thus intituled A Declaration of the Engagements Remonstrances Representations Proposals Desires and Refolutions from his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax and the General Councel of the Army for setling his Majesty in his just Rights the Parliament in their just Privileges and the Subject in their liberties and freedoms Also Representations of the Grievances of the Kingdom and remedies propounded for removing the present pressures by Taxes and Excises And the resolution of the Army for the estabâ—ishing of a firm and lasting peace in Church and Kingdom This being the Title sum of all their Engagements Remonstrances Representations Proposals Resolutions it is superfluous to recite all the particular passages in them tending to these ends only it will not be unseasonable to remind them of this one passage in their Declaration of Septenber 9. 1647. concerning the fundamental authority and government of the Kingdom p. 250. VVhereas a Member of the General Councel of this Army hath publickly declared and expressed himself That there is no visible authority in the Kingdom but the power and force of the Sword the only Good Old Cause now cryed up by some in deeds if not in words we therefore the said General Counsell to testifie how far our hearts and minds are from any design of setting up the Nota. power of the Sword above or against the authority government of the Kingdom and our readiness to maintain and uphold the said Adthority have by a free Vote in the said Counsel no man contradicting judged the said Member to be expelled the said Councel which we hereby thought fit to publish as a clear manifestation of our dislike and disavowing such Principles or practices yet now revived practised This being the right State of the true Good Old cause and only ends for which all the Forces Armies under the forenamed or any other Generals since were first raised Commissioned and hitherto maintained continued at the peoples vast expence as both Houses of Parliament the Kingdomes Parliaments of England Scotland the Generals Officers and General Councils of the Army themselves have thus from time to time remonstrated in print to all the world yea ratified by the Protestation o A Collection p. 203 204 205 425 426 427. the sacred Vow and Covenant the National League and Covenant with othersacred Oaths and Obligations obliging them faithfully constantly and syncerely to defend maintain persevere therein all the dayes of their lives and to promote the same to their power against all Oppositions Lets and Impediments whatsoever according to their power without suffering themselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided withdrawn or make defection from the same Which Covenants Vows Protestations they professed they all made in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same If there be any other Cause now or lately espoused by any Members of Parliament Officers Soldiers English Scots Irish of what ever condition Sect or party inconsistent with or repugnant destructive to this good old Cause or any branch thereof it cannot without an apparent contradiction absurdity falshood be stiled either A Good or Old much less The Good Old Cause for which the Parliament Army Soldiers kingdom or any others adhering to them first took up arms and so long engaged in but rather a Bad a New unrighteous Cause or Gunpowder-plot originally contrived and secretly fomented by Popish Emissaries Jesuits their seduced Disciples Or a Good cause only as VVar is stiled good p Cicero Calepine Holioke Tit. Bellum Bellum quasi Belluinum or minime Bonum And Old only in these respects if conscientiously examined by any who shall either promote or engage in it Because it proceeds originally from the q Rev. 12. 9. c. 20. 2. John 8. 44. Old Serpent and Dragon the Devil a seducer lyar murderer from the beginning the spirit who r Eph. 2. 1 2 3. now rules in the Children of Disobedience to engage them in this cause Because it suits with and proceeds issues from the Å¿ Ephes 4. 22. 22. Rom. 6. 6. Col. 3. 9. Old man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts which they have not yet crucified nor put off with his deeds after all their Fastings Humiliations Prayers Because it strongly relisheth of the t 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. Old leven of malice and wickedness which they have not yet purged out that they might be a new lump and is carried on with a despitefull and revengefull heart to destroy whatever they formerly engaged to preserve as the true good old cause because of the u Ezek. â—5 15. Old Hatred Because they perceive that this new pretended good Cause they have set up and pursued now decayeth and waxeth x Heb. 8. 13. Old and is ready to vanish away unless they put all their might and the strength of the whole Army to support it Because it is the y Job 22. 15 16. old Way which wicked men the old Gunpowder Traitors have formerly trodden which were cut down out of time whose foundation was overflown with a floud Or finally because it was first set on foot and promoted z Jude 4. by certain men crept in unawares into the Army and Nation from Jesuitical Seminaries J. Leydons who were before oâ— Old ordained to this condemnatioÌ„ ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ at lestwise in their works as Jude and Paul inform us by an unerring divine Spirit a Titus 1. 16. being abominable Disobedient to all their lawfull Superiors and Parliaments themselves and to every good work reprobate Yea b 2 Tim. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6. lovers of their own selves covetous proud boasters blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankfull unboly without natural affection Truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good Traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof who have made these last dayes of ours perillous times as St. Paul of old predicted If then the false good OLD CAUSE lately and now cried up and prosecuted upon serious Inquisition of any already engaged or sollicited to engage therein shall upon c De Consideratione lib. 1. St. Bernards threefold inquiry An liceat an deceat an expediat which every Christian ought to make into every Action before he undertake it clearly appear to be the old and The good Old Cause only in these respects which render it most desperately Wicked Ill and New totally inconsistent with professedly repugnant to subversive of that real good Old Cause wherein they first engaged nere truly stated Let all Officers Soldiers of the Army and others who have any remainders of Conscience Ingenuity Honesty or indeared affections left in them to the Peace Welfare Safety Settlement fundamental Laws Government Parliaments Liberties Weal Prosperity of our endangered shaken subverted Church State Parliaments eternally renounce this Spurious Imposture and Gibeoniâ—ish stratagem inevitably to destroy them all And remember the genuine true Good Old Cause here rightly stared d Rev. 2. 5. from whence they have fallen and repent and do their first works lest Christ come upon them quickly and remove both them their and our Candlestick out of its place except they and we repent And let all such Commanders Officers of the Army and their Confederates who against their Commissions Trusts Duties Covenants Declarations and Solemn Engagements first mutinied the Army against the Houses Members of Parliament for the defence of whose Persons Privileges and Session they were principally raised and secluded secured the Members dissolved both Houses and the Parliament it self one after another and have since bin kept and thrust out of the Parliament House secured dissolved themselves by their Fellow-Officers and Soldiers directly or indirectly several times now seriously consider How God hath scourged them with their own blackrod and president of Disobedience taken them in their own snare That e Judges 1. 6 7. Adonibezeck-like as they have done to others so God hath requited them f Ps 137. 8. recompenced unto them the deed they did to us That g Luke 6. 38. with the same measure they meeted to others it hath been and shall be measured to them again If any of them or their Confederates have an ear to hear let him hear this further irreversible Decree of the immutable God and Soveraign Judge of all the Earth Rev. 13. 10. He that leadeth into Captivity shall go into Captivity He that killeth with the sword shall be killed with the sword Here is the patience and Faith of the Saints And if any engaged in the new fictitious against the real true good old Cause believe and tremble not at the consideration thereof he hath neither the faith nor patience of the Saints though he usurp and engross the name of a Saint to himself shall find it experimentally verified in conclusion as many others have already done who â—ow like Fools repent too late of what is past their skill and power to redress FINIS