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A56197	The re-publicans and others spurious good old cause, briefly and truly anatomized. To preserve our native country, kingdom, legal government, Church, parliaments, laws, liberties, privileges of Parliament, and Protestant religion from ruine, scandal, and perpetual infamy; to reform, reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced republicans, officers, soldiers, sectaries, heretofore, or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled good old cause, from any future pursute thereof, and engage them for ever to abominate it, as apparently tending to publike ruin, their own temporal and eternal condemnation, infamy, our religions reproach, in present and succeeding ages. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4052; ESTC R234922	18,673	20

THE RE-PUBLICANS AND OTHERS SPURIOUS Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized To preserve our Native Country Kingdom legal Government Church Parliaments Laws Liberties Privileges of Parliament and Protestant Religion from ruine scandal and perpetual infamy to reform reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced Republicans Officers Soldiers Sectaries heretofore or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled Good Old Cause from any future pursute thereof and engage them for ever to abominate it as apparently tending to publike ruin their own temporal and eternal condemnation infamy our Religions Reproach in present and succeeding ages By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Jer. 6.15 c. 8.12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush Therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time that I shall visit them they shall be cast down saith the Lord. Prov 29.1 He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Zech 7.9 10 11 12 13 14. Execute true judgement c. and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear Yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone lest they should hear the Law and words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former Prophets Therfore came a great wrath frō the Lord of hosts who scattered them with a whirlwind Numb 16.26 27. And Moses spake unto the Congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sins So they gat up from the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side Printed in the Year of our Lord 1659. The Republicans and others spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly anatomised IT is not only an Evangelical counsel but Precept which every consciencious Christian as well in point of conscience as prudence is obliged strictly to pursue 1 Thes 5.21 22. Prove all things hold fast that which is good abstain from all appearance of evil this being the distinguishing character between a real Wise-man and a Fool Prov. 14.15 16. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his goings A wife man feareth and departeth from evill but the fool rageth and is confident This consideration put me upon a serious scrutiny of the Good Old Cause newly cryed up highly magnified and violently pursued not only in sundry printed Pamphlets and Petitions but also in the last convention at Westminster by the confederated Triumuirate of Republicans Sectaries and Souldiers pre-engaged in its pursuit and endeavouring like those old seditious Seducers whom the Apostle beseeched the Roman Saints both to mark and avoyd Rom. 16.17 18. by good words and fair speeches to deceive the hearts of the simple Souldiers People and some of the wiser sort of Members Citizens and Army-Officers yet dissenting from them to engage them to espouse so Good and Old a Cause set out with glorious general words and painted varnishes without acquainting them particularly really and ingeniously what it is When I had not only superficially viewed the outside but considerately penetrated into the true original seminal sourse and intrals of it I discovered it to be in truth the Jesuits old Gunpowder-Traytors most execrable Plot and Cause principally projected and secretly promoted by Popish Cardinals Jesuites Priests Agents of all sorts but visibly carried on and effected by Apostate Republican and Sectarian Members of the late long Parliament Army and their confederates to blow up subvert destroy the King Queen Prince Royal posterity Lords commons Kingdom Government Laws Liberty and Property of the People of England yea the verie constitution freedom power privileges of all true English-Parliaments the church and ministry of England and true Protestant Religion it self formerly established to set up Oligarchy Anarchy Tyranny Oppression Libertinisme Marshal-Government and all kind of Heresies Blasphemies Religions Sects yea Atheisme Popery it self at last in their steads to bring our Kingdoms Churches Nations Religion to inevitable desolation and subject them to the Iron yokes of Rome France and Spain for the future The blackest horridst infernall cause ever yet owned by any Christians or treacherous perfidious Sons of Adam since the Creation This needs no better nor clearer demonstration than the review of all their late treacherous perjurious actings proceedings contrary to all their former Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance Protestation Vow League covenant Declarations Remonstrances new Acts of Parliament yea the very clauses of the Writs Indentures by which they were choosen and retorned Members and the Commissions whereby they were first made Army-Officers not only against the late beheaded King and his posterity but Monarchy it self the * Deut. 17.14 15. Ezech. 16 13 14. Jer. 17.25 c. 21.3 4. best of Governments being that of (a) Ps 10.16 Ps 29.10 Ps 47.7 1 Tim. 1.17 God himself over the whole World and of (b) Ps 2.6 ps 24.9 10 ps 45 14 15. ps 149. 2. Is 32.1 c. 33.17.22 Dan. 7.14 Lu. 1.23 Mat. 2.2 c. 21.5 c. 25 34 40. Rev. 15.3 c. 17.14 1 Tim. 15. Christ himself in over his Church of which they prophesied ordained Kings to be the chief nursing Fathers Protectors Ps 72.10 11. Ps 138.4 Psal 148.11 Is 46.7 33. c. 60.3 10 11 16. c. 62.2 against the successively impeached restrained secluded secured Members of both Houses of Parliament and the whole House of Lords not only most insolently and illegally voted down but professedly engaged against by the Tayle of the garled commons House when they had forcibly thrust out the Majority of their Fellow-Members Burgesses which made it no legal House and usurped to themselves by a new Self-creation without a new Election not only the name of the Parliament of England when they had totally destroyed the Parliament it self but the Supream Authority of the Nation Antichristianly * 2 Thes 2.4 exalting themselves above all that is called God or worshipped exercising a more transcendent lawlesse boundlesse Arbitrary power than any Parliament of King Lords and Commons all united in one ever formerly claimed attempted both in their Westminster-Conventicle its several Committees their new High-courts of Injustice their Counsels of State at Whitehall their City and Country Sub-committees set forth in their proper coulors in the History of Independency their own printed new Knacks Remonstrances Engagements Iohn Lilburnes Englands New Chaines his printed Letter to the Speaker July 6. 1649. and other Pamphlets In so much that after their near five years exorbitant Tyranical Domination the very General and Officers of the Army by whose power assistance they undermined destroyed the King Lords former Parliament and constituted themselves alone the Parliament and Supream Dictators over our three whole Nations by way of just Retaliation forcibly dissolved shamefully

ruin or their late Protectors as well as K. Charles his posterity if they prevail This their Good old cause and Republike is in truth the old pernicious project of Father Parsons the Jesuit his confederats in their high Court of his Memorials for Reformation for England at Sevil in Spain An 1590 as (c) In his Quodlibets p. 92 94 95 233 286 305 c. 306 307 308 330 332. See my Epistle before my Historical and Legal Vindication of the Fundamental Laws Liberties Privileges of all English Freemen where all this is largely evidenced And before my Jus Patronatus Will Watson a secular Priest at large relates and of Tho Campanella an Italian Friar De Monarchia Hispanica c. 25. p. 204. where he informs the K of Spain That nothing will so much conduce to weaken the English forces as dissention discord sowed amongst them perpetually nourished which may best be effected by these 2. means 1. By instigating the swaying men in the Parliament of England Vt Angliam in formam Keipublicae reducant in imitationem Hollandorum to reduce England into the form of A Common Wealth in imitation of the Hollanders 2ly If that could not be effected then either by making it an Elective Kingdom or by setting up Kings of another Family in opposition to the true hereditary royal line To effect which good old cause and plot the Pope Parsons and other Jesuits engaged the old Gunpowder Traitors to blow up both the King royal issue Lords and Parliament Anno 1605 as the History of their Arraignment Speed the Statutes of 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5. relate which then proving abortive the Pope Jesuits and Cardinal (d) Romes Masterpeace Richelieu of France whiles living revived prosecuted this good cause to destroy our King Monarchy and turn it into a Republike or else into an Elective Kingdom to put by K. Charls his progeny and (e) Historia de Conte Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato Venis 1648. p. 175 176. recommended it in writing to the French King his Successor Cardinal Mazarine with whom our Grandees of late years have held intimate correspondency in prosecution of this good old cause vigorously to prosecute after his death who accordingly accomplished it by the old Republican Members and Parliaments own Army seduced instigated assisted in it by the Spanish French and Jesuits Agents Ol Cromwell Pro himself publikely declaring in his printed Speech to his Parliament at Westminster Septemb 4. 1654 p. 16 17. That he knew very well that Emissaries of the Iesuits never came over in those swarms as they have done since these things were on foot and that divers Gentlemen can bear witness with him that they had a Consistory Counsel abroad that * Nota bene rules all the Affairs of the things in England and had fixed in England in the limits of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the Particular * Quaere whether the Instrument of Government took not its Title thence Instrument an Episcopal power with Archdeacons and other persons to pervert seduce and deceive the people yet never capitally executed the penal Lawes against any of them This being the true Original progress state anatomy of this Good old cause wherewith the old Republican Members Sectaries Army Officers Souldiers are so much enamoured and some would have enforced all Members of the last Convention publikely to justifie and subscribe to under pain of being secluded To draw off and divorce their affections if not henceforth to engage them cordially against it for their own and the publike good I shall further Anatomize and paint out the horrid deformity and infernal execrableness blackness thereof by parallelling it with the old Gunpowder Traytors Plot and Cause which it farr exceeds in monstrosity exorbitancy treachery and matchless flagitiousness though justly stiled by the Parliament and Statute of 3 Jacobi ch 2. The most wicked barbarous execrable and abominable Treason that ever could enter into the heart of most wicked men and such as was never before heard of though now gilded over with the glorious Title of The Good Old Cause as these 8. circumstances will demonstrate 1. That Good old Cause and Treason to destroy the King Parliament Kingdome was originally (h) 3 Jac. c. 2 4 5. Speeds History 3 Jac. contrived in the years 1604. 1605. by English Spanish Jesuits acted by discontented Jesuited Papists abetted by the Pope and other forein papists all inveterate professed Enemies to our Protestant Princes Parliaments Kingdom Church Religion But those who lately prosecuted visibly ingaged in actually accomplished it in the years 1647 1648 1649 and still pursue it professe themselves the most zealous Protestants Puritans Saints the greatest Opposites to the Roman Pontiff Church Religion Jesuites Seminaries and Papists of all others and the best affected people to our Parliaments and their privileges 2. The old Gunpowder Traytors (i) 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5 Speed contrived that good old Cause Treason beyond the Seas and in private secret conventicles here of none but Jesuits Papists obliged by an Oath of Secrecy to conceal it and were so afraid so ashamed of it that they pursued it only in the night acted it under ground in a dark vault under the Lords House wherein their train of gunpowder was secretly hid with Fagots and other materials But those who since espoused it consulted about promoted avowed it in open General Councils of the Army and known publike Meetings Committees of Republican Members of the Long Parliament Army and others confederating with them in England London and Westminster it self in the very day-time and then presented it in the name of the Counsil and Army it self to the Parliament House at the Commons barr in their Remonstrance from St. Albans 16 Novemb. 1648 and (k) The 2. Part of the Historie of Independency J Sedgwicks Justice on the Armies Remonstrance other precedent and subsequent papers which they printed divulged in a most insolent manner to all the world 3. They plotted prosecuted their Old cause by the instigation of the (l) 3 Jac. c. 2 4 5. Pope Jesuits and Popish Priests their ghostly Fathers who confederated with and encouraged them therein and that from the (m) Parsons Philopater §. 2. Tresham de Officio Principis Christiani c. 5. Hospinian Historia Jesuitica l 3. Ludovicus Lucius Hist Jes l. 2. c. 4. Speculū Jesuiticum p. 156 157. c. principles of their own Antichristian trayterous bloudy Romish Religion which assured them that it was not only just lawfull necessary expedient but a most heroike and meritorious Christian Act to destroy subvert ruin all Protestant Kings Princes kingdoms churches Parliaments declared by the Pope to be Hereticks Enemies or Schismaticks from the Church of Rome and assure them of a saintship on Earth a crown of glory in heaven for such an heroick attempt But those who since took up their good old cause

1648. and 1649. and would now revive it by their instigation did it against the dehortations of [n] The 47 London Ministers Petition Dr. Hamonds Address others sundry godly Protestant Ministers the [o] The Homilies of Disobedience and Rebellion Deus Rex 3 Jac. c. 4. Dr. John Whites Sermon at Pauls Cross 1615. Defence of the Way ch 6.10 Samuelis Bocharti Epistola Parisiis 1650. dehortations of their most indeared Protestant Friends the Votes of their Fellow Members the very principles of the Christian and Protestant Religion they professed and publike doctrine of the Church of England whereof they were Members and the Common and Statute Laws of the Realm all declaring and branding it as an infernal Jesuitical Popish Antichristian practise and most detestable matchless High Treason deserving the highest temporal Punishments eternal torments and condemnation in this and another world 4. The (p) 3 Jac. c. 12. and Speed old Popish powder Traitors contrived their treason against the King and Parliament meerly out of envy against the flourishing estate and true profession of the Protestant Religion in our 3. Realms under King James the continuing of which happiness and profession to all posterity by reason of his most hopefull and plentifull Progeny they much fearing and maligning thereupon most horribly and trayterously conspired ● to blow up the King Queen Prince with all the Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons when assembled in the Upper House of Parliament Nov. 5. 1605. purposely concluding to do it in that House that where sundry necessary and religious Laws for the preservation of the Church and State were made which they falsly and slanderously termed Cruel Laws enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter ruine of the whole kingdom and subversion of the whole State had it been effected But the Republican Members Army-Officers and chief Actors in this new Good old cause had no such inducements to engage them against the King his royal issue the true Protestant Religion Parliament or kingdom of England whose flourishing estate welfare prosperity safety and defence against these Romish Enemies forces conspiracies and the making executing of new severer Lawes against them passed by both Houses and assented to by the King in the last Treaty were the principal things they pretended they contended and fought for in all their printed Remonstrances Declarations protestations and Solemn League and Covenant as the printed Collections of both Houses the Armies Declarations irrefragably manifest And so most powerfull arguments to diswade them from and engage them against this their Good old cause which yet notwitstanding they wilfully prosecuted to the utter overthrow and subversion of the late King kingdom Parliament House of Peers which they quite blew up the Royal posterity and thereby the Church of England and Protestant Religion much scandalized defamed by it in a great measure 5. All those who lately engaged in this good old cause were Members of Parliament or of the Parliaments Army commissioned raised payed (q) Exact Coll. p. 339 340 342 456 457 932. A Collection p. 43 44 305 406. to 430 598 606 623 668 669. obliged by their Writs and Indentures of election their Oaths of Supremacy Fealty Allegiance Protestations Vow Covenant League with their manifold Declarations Remonstrances which they all made as Members of Parliament or the Army and other sacred and civil obligations inviolably to preserve defend the Kings person crown dignity posteritie the kingdom Church of England the Parl. with its Members privileges the fundamental Laws Liberties and Government of the Nation who yet notwithstaning most perfidiously treacherously atheistically subverted and destroyed them all one after another contrary to all these most sacred multiplied oathes and strictest obligations beyond all presidents of the worst and most treacherous Monsters since the creation whereas all the Gunpowder Traitors as the (r) Lud. Lucius Hospinian Hist Jesuitica l. 3. p. 204 l. 4. p. 264. Speeds History Jesuits by their Oaths the rules of their Order the commands of their Superiors the rest by a particular Oath Guy Faux the Low-country Souldier who was to set fire to the train and others were purposely hired employd thus to blow up destroy our old King Parliament Religion kingdom and had no such obligations oaths to restrain them from it as these New conspirators had which aggravates their Guilt and makes them ten thousand fold worse yea more execrable to God and all good men than they 6. The Gunpowder Traytors had their plot taken effect were yet so ashamed of it yea so farr from justifying or owning it as a good old cause (ſ) Speeds History p. 1241. The Arraignment of Traitors that they agreed before-hand to cast the Imputation thereof on the Puritans to make them more odious And some Jesuits and Papists soon after published in sundry Books (t) Ludovicus Lucius Historia Jesuitica l. 2. c. 4. p. 208 209. that there was no such plot as this really contrived by them but that it was a feigned plot devised by the Puritans to render them and their Religion infamous and odious to all posterity Yea the Jesuits of Colen most impudently asserted that this Gunpowder Treason was plotted only by the Calvinists and not by any Catholick that no Jesuit had any hand in or knowledge of it and that Henry Garnet the Jesuit was only executed for his Religion not for this horrid Treason of which he was not found guilty as (u) Andreas Eudemon Johannes Apologia pro Henrico Garneto Endaemon Johannis and (x) Opus Chronographicum totius Orbis p. 309. Laurentius Beyerlincke most falsly published to the world against the Indictment Verdict Evidence and Iudgement against him by which he was most clearly found guilty thereof But those Republican Saints Zealots and over-grown Puritans who lately prosecuted their good old Gunpowder plot and cause executing far more than they durst project are so farr from being ashamed of disowning abominating this most execrable impious treacherous monstrous powder treason and that after y 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5 7. Jac. c 4 6. sundry Acts of Parliament Proclamations Histories Treatises publike annual solemn thanksgivings and thousands of excellent Sermons preached printed on the Fifth of November for above 40 years space yet continued in most places and still observed by many of themselves setting forth the matchless devillish infernal monstrous barbarousness of that old abominable Treason the transcendent Treachery Execrableness of those unnatural Traitors and the odiousness of that Antichristian Religion whose Faith is but meer faction rebellion whose practice is the murdring of souls bodies that engaged them therin to their everlasting * 3 Jac. c. 1. infamy by a special Act of Parliament that so it and our thankfullness for being delivered from it may never be forgotten but had in perpetual Remembrance in