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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85381	Anti-Cavalierisme, or, Truth pleading as well the necessity, as the lawfulness of this present vvar, for the suppressing of that butcherly brood of cavaliering incendiaries, who are now hammering England, to make an Ireland of it: wherein all the materiall objections against the lawfulness of this undertaking, are fully cleered and answered, and all men that either love God, themselves, or good men, exhorted to contribute all manner of assistance hereunto. By Jo: Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1146; Thomason E123_25; ESTC R3123	51,456	53

is or ought to be deare and precious unto us and in our miseries and ruines to render our posterities more miserable then we and have advanced their designe this way to that maturity and heighth which we all know and tremble to think of Give me leave in that which remaines to excite and stir you up from the greatest to the least both young and old rich and poore men and women to quit your selves like men yea and if it be possible above the line of men in this great exigency and stresse of imminent danger that hangs over your heads and threatens you every houre Oh let it be as abomination unto us as the very shadow of death to every man woman and child of us not to be active not to lie out and straine our selves to the utmost of our strength and power in every kinde as far as the Law of God and nature will suffer us to resist that high hand of iniquity and blood that is stretched out against us to make our lives and our liberties and our Religion good against that accursed Generation that now magnifieth themselves to make a prey and spoyle of them to make havock and desolation of them all at once if the Lord shall yet please to deliver us out of their hands Let not our Lives our Liberties our Estates be at all precious or deare unto us in this behalfe to expose them be it unto the greatest danger to prevent the certaine and most unquestionable ruine of them otherwise Let us resolve to put all into the hands of God to prevent the falling of all or any thing into the hands of these men There is neither man nor woman of us neither young nor old but hath somewhat or other more or lesse a Mite or two at least to cast into the Treasury of the Publike safety Men that have strength of body for the War and fingers that know how to fight let them to the Battell and not feare to look the enemy in the face Men and women that have only Purses and Estates let them turne them into men and swords for the Battell Men that have heads but want armes and hands for outward execution let these study and contrive methods and wayes of proceedings Head-worke is every whit as necessary in such a time and exigent as hand-work is They that have neither hands nor heads nor estates let them finde hearts to keep the Mountain of God to pray the enemies downe and the Armies of the Lord up Let them finde tongues to whet up the courage and resolutions of others This is a service wherein women also may quit themselves like men whose prayers commonly are as masculine and doe as great and severe execution as the prayers of men As for little Children that know not the right hand from the left and so are uncapable of exhortation or putting on this way by their weaknesse and innocency innocency I meane as concerning the enemies and giving them the least cause or colour of their bloody intendments as likewise in respect of the crying sins and horrid provocations of other men they doe every whit as much towards the furtherance of the service as men doe by their strength by their wisdome by their estates or otherwise as we see in the case of Gods sparing Niniveh The sixscore thousand Children that knew not their right hand from the left were the great intercessors and chiefe mediators in the behalfe of the City with him Yea the bruit beasts themselves the Cattell their case and condition working upon the goodnesse and graciousnesse of God were contributors too in their nature towards this service As is to be seen in the last clause of the place cited from the Prophet Jonah And should not I spare Niniveh c. and also much Cattell Therefore now I beseech you that are capable of the great evils and dangers that threaten you and are even at your doore be not you wanting and backward in any thing that is in your hand to doe if it be possible and as far as in you lyeth redeeme your lives with your lives your estates with your estates your Religion with your Religion out of the hands of those men set them all to work for their own maintenance and preservation yea if you know how to create more strength then you have or to improve your selves seventy times seven fold above the proportion of any your present abilities I beseech you doe it at least be willing as the Apostle beares the Corinthians witnesse they were in a case not altogether unlike above that you are able that so you may be sure to give out your selves to the utmost of your ability the more freely Give me leave to set an edge upon you to quicken and encourage you to strengthen your hand to the worke by the tender only of two motives or considerations unto you 1. Consider that the cause wherein you are desired and exhorted to appeare and to engage your selves to the utmost is like unto the Law of God it selfe in those excellent qualifications of it it is just and holy and good there is nothing in it that should make you ashamed either before God or justly-judging men nothing that needs make you tender or holding off in point of conscience You are to stand up in the defence of your Lives your Liberties your Estates your Houses your Wives your Children your Brethren and that not of this Nation only but of those two other Nations likewise united under the same government with this in the defence of those Religious and faithfull Governours that Honourable Assembly of Parliament whose power and priviledges you stand bound by your solemn Vow and Protestation unto God besides many bands of conscience otherwise to defend and maintaine with your lives power and estates Yea in defence of his Majesties royall person honour and estate all which are now in eminent danger to suffer by that accursed retinue of vile persons that are gathered about him as Ivie about an Oake which never suffers it to thrive or prosper till it be torne off from it This men that have their eyes open may easily see and discerne though others make a mock and a scorn of such an assertion as ridiculous But so did Lots sons in Sodome by that saying of his unto them That the Lord would destroy the place and City where they were Gen. 19. 14. which yet was a serious and solemne truth Yea and further you are exhorted to stand up in defence of the true Protestant Religion for the name and honour of your God your Ordinances and which ought to be of very deare and precious consideration to you for the safe conveyance of that great treasure of the Gospel over unto your posterities that are yet unborne Here is nothing in all this but what the manifest Law of God and the common light of nature not only warranteth and alloweth in all men but even leadeth perswadeth yea urgeth