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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

all ages to come Yea after all these old Traitors exemplary condemnations forfeitures executions and hanging up of their Heads Quarters over both Houses of Parl. to deter all others from the like treasonable attempts That though this their late plot was for certain (a) The 2. part of the History of Independency my Epistle to a Seasonable legal historical Vindication My Speech in Parliament p. 107 the Appendix to it originally projected infused into them by Jesuites and Popish Agents yet they openly attributed to themselves both the projecting prosecution accomplishment of this transcendent Treason farr exceeding theirs and proclaimed justified it in sundry of their Remonstrances Ac●s Ordinances Papers as a most heroick Saint-like Christian Honorable and meritorious Act of Justice wherein God himself hath most gloriously appeered bearing witness to and owning it from Heaven by their unparalleld successes not only as a Good but the very best of causes tending to the great advancement of the Throne and kingdom of the Lord Iesus Ch●ist Some of them desiring that the everlasting memory of it may be inscribed on their publike Statues or Monuments For their eternal honour in all succeeding Generations Whereas the very foulest Devils and worst of damned Spirits in Hell would be both afraid ashamed to own or approve such an infernal black cause as this much less to justifie and extoll it in such a prodigious impudent manner as some now doe which exceedingly heightens and aggravates their Impudency Impenitency Guilt and Condemnation Certainly those must have (b) Jer. 3.3 wh●rish forheads brows of brass hearts of steel (c) 2 Tim. 4.2 and conseiences seared with an hot iron who dare to own extoll or espouse such a prodigy or Cause as this And may doe well to remember those two woes which will fall upon them for it Isa 5.18.20 Wo unto them that draw Iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as with a cartrope Wo unto them that call Evil yea the worst of all Evils Treasons Good and good will that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and now call the destruction of their lawfull Soveraign their Native Country kingdom Church the Parliaments of England and their privileges their Good Old cause and (d) Phil. 3.19 glory in these their shamefull Actions e Job 42 6. which should cause them rather to abhor themselves and repent in dust and ashes 7ly The old Gunpowder Traitors only plotted but never actually effected the blowing up of the King Parliament and House of Lords thorugh the providence of f 3 Jac. c. 1. Almighty God who in all ages hath shewed his power and mercy in the miraculous and gratious deliverance of his church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States But our new Salt-peter-men have with an high storng hand fully executed g See their Declaration of 17 March 1648. May 6. 1659. John Godwins Obstructors of Justice Cooks Bradshawes Speeches John Miltons Answer to Salmatius and sundry other printed Pamphlets accomplished whatever they designed and because they miscarried not in it like them but by Gods justice upon them us our King Lords Parliament for all our crying sins have prospered in this Foelix Seelus and brought their wicked devices to pass they glory in it as the Highest Act of Justice the Best of Causes the Greatest Mercy and Deliverance that ever befell the English Nation point blank against the (h) Psal 37 1.7 Ps 73.3 c. Ps 92.6 7. Ps 94.3 4 5. Dan. 11.33.36 Mat. 7.21 Acts 2.33 Pro. 29.19 20 21 22 23. Job 21.7 c. Scriptures and principles of Christian Religion whereby they have involved us in many intestine and forein Wars with our Protestant Brethren and Allies by Sea and Land which they have dyed red and drenchd with precious Christian bloud exhausted our publike treasures destroyed our trade impoverished oppressed quite eaten out the wealth and spirits of our Nation imposed endlesse Egyptian burdens on their backs an Iron Yoak of vassallage on their necks subverted all Liberty property unity amity real piety charity honesty justice divided us into sundry irreconcileable Sects schisms factions fractions perplexed us with sundry manifold fears dangers sodain changes alterations dissolutions of Government Parliaments supreme and subordinate Authorities yea reduced us into a desperate unsetled floating tottering condition without any probable means or hopes of the least setled establishment and brought that severe judgement which God threatned to and inflicted on the Rebellious ten tribes of Israel who revolted from and rebelled against their lawfull Soveraign and right heir to the House of David King Rehoboam (i) Hosea 8.4 c. 13.11 setting up Kings but not by God and making them Princes k Hosea 3.4 and he knew it not whom God took away in his wrath The children of Israel shall abide many days without a King and without a Prince c. l Hosea 10.2 3 4. c. He hath divided their heart now shall they be found faulty For now they shall say and I wish we all would consider it say so too We have no King no true Parliament neither because we feared not the Lord What then should a King or Parliament do to us to help us in our confusions and extremities They have spoken lying words swearing falsly in making a Covenant thus judgement springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field one Judgement of God one trouble war change confusion oppression upon the neck of another and many complicated Judgements together So that Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel now her King is cut off as the fome upon the water and the High places wherein they seated themselves destroyed and all their New Modles of Goverments Parliaments destroyed by themselves they being now disuniting undermining one another more than ever never free from new Troubles plots fears jealousies perplexities since they undertook this New Good Old Romish Cause blow up King Lords Parliaments since they m 1 Kings 21 19. killed and also took possession and like those rebellious wicked H. sbandmen in the n Mat. 21.38.39 1. u. 19.27 c. 20.14 15 16. Gospel said among themselves when the son came to dem and the fruits of his Fathors vineyard from them and cast him out of the vineyard this is the Heir Come let us kill him and seise upon the Inheritance and it shall be ours which ended in the miserable destruction of those wicked men and taking away their usurped vineyard which was let out to other Husbandmen who would render the fruits thereof in due season All which considered our new Powder mens Guilt crime as far transcends the old Powder Traytors as actual Murder destruction of the King Parliament kingdom Laws Liberties and ill consequents thereof exceed only intentionall without effect Theirs unsetled nothing and did no mischief to the publike whereas their actual accomplishment of

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

Conspiracies Practises Regicides Powder-plots against our Protestant Princes Parliaments Kingdom Church Religion other forein Kings Churches States now exceeded by them 5ly An inexpiable scandal infamy to the profession zealous Professors of the Protestant Religion as now more treacherous perfidious disloyal seditious covetous rebellious bloody hypocritical faithlesse apostatical diabolical atheistical than the worst of Papists Pagans Turks Infidels 6ly A base contempt scorn derision infamy dishonour even of Parliaments themselves their lurisdiction Privileges Members Proceedings Votes Ordinances quite trampled under feet and made the song and by-word of every common Souldier Sculler Fidler Drunkard 7ly A perpetual dishonour obloquy disgrace upon the whole English Nation in all forein States Countries Kingdoms who now scorn us as the most slavish sottish unfaithfull unpolitick unprovident vilest perversest foolishest variablest Nation under Heaven 8ly An indeliable infamy upon the very profession of a Souldier and whole Parliament Army who have verified this old Adage to the uttermost * Lucan Nulla fides pietasve viris qui castra sequntur 9ly A present incomparable dearth and losse of all sorts of Trade Traffique by Land or Sea a present confusion unsettlement in our Government Counsils and all publick Affairs a general discontent fear dispondency in all sorts of people a greater fraction dis-union of all domestick publick interests and stricter combination of our forein Enemies against us to work our ruine and wreck their malice and revenge upon us than ever heretofore 10ly A fresh occasion and advantage to all our Popish Adversaries not only to traduce deride reproach blaspheme our Protestant Profession and Religion as * Milliere his victory of Truth 1654. some of them have done in print as a mere Seminary of Treason Rebellion Sedition Hypocrisie perjury Disloyalty and all sorts of Villany but to combine together in a holy League to * Hospinian Jesuit l. 2. p. 213 214 215. Lud. Lucius Hist Jesuitica l. 2. c. 2. p. 186 187 188 l. 4 c. 1. p. 346. extirpate it and all professors of it out of the World now thus divided from engaged against each other exhausted weakned dis-united from eachother and almost totally ruined one by another through their long intestine bloody wars feuds and infinite Sects Factions endeavouring to undermine weaken destroy and not daring to trust each other (b) Mat. 12.25 A very sad presage or fore-runner of our approaching ruine (c) Lucan lib. 1. En que discordia Cives porduxit miseros d Lam. 2.13 What shall I equal unto thee O Virgin Daughter of our distracted English Zion that I might comfort thee for thy breach is great like the Sea who can heal thee O that the serious consideration of all these deplorable effects might now at last effectually work upon the iron steeled hearts the intoxicated brains seared consciences rebellious spirits perverse wills reprobate senses disorderly passions self-seeking affections of all Army-Officers Souldiers Republicans Sectaries and others heretofore or now engaged in the pursute of this Good Old Cause to bring them to a speedy repentance of all the evils they have acted occasioned by and under the specious mask of Religion Justice Liberty Zeal Necessity Publick safety Self-preservation the setting up Christs Kingdom propagating the Gospel reformation of Abuses and maintaining their Good Old Cause And that this Anatomy of their Good Old Cause the principle end of its publication according to their fresh printed * Misdated April 6. for May 6. being made in hast Declaration May 6. 1659. might lead them to look back and examine the true cause of the Lords late withdrawing his wonted presence and GOOD SPIRIT which formerly appeared among them from them and where they first turned out of the way in forsaking their first espoused Good Old Cause to commit Whorcdom with the old whore of Romes cause their many back-slidings from which by wandring divers wayes FROM RIGHTEOUS AND EQUAL PATHS hath as themselves ingenuously confesse put the Publick concernments of this Common wealth through a Vicissitude of dangers into that sad unsetled state and posture wherein they now stand and rendred all their essaies to obviate the dangers and to settle these Nations in peace and prosperity utterly ineffectual the only wise God in the course of his providence disappointing all their endeavours therein since they secured secluded the old honest members and House of Lords from the exercise and discharge of their trusts and owned their new Old Cause and purged Republican Conventicle for the only Parliment without their Fellow-Members King or House of Lords whom they now call in again against their former Declaration upon which they case them out It shall be my prayer to God that the serious perusal of the premises intended only for their information reformation not perdition may at last induce them for ever hereafter to stop both their ears against the enchanting songs of all Romish Syrens and open both their ears and hearts cordially to embrace this sacred counsell of God himself they have so long obstinately trampled under feet Prov. 24.21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with Changers or those who are given to change for their calamity shall sodenly arise as we have seen by many late experiments in the very making acting of all our late publick changes and who knoweth the ruine of them both FINIS

their old plot hath brought actual destruction on them all and endlesse miseries distractions ever since to our Three whole Nations Churches and God only knows not man what sodain and final ruine it may bring upon them all And is it then a good old cause as they now proclaim it to all the world afresh May 7. 1659 8ly The Gunpowder Traytors engaged in their pretended Good old Cause never passed any solemn Iudgement and condemnation against it before or after its undertaking which those who espoused this new misnamed Good old cause have often done against it themselves and all such who appeared in it Not to press or insist upon the antient Resolutions Statutes of 4 E. 3. rot parl n. 1. 25 E. 3. c. 2.21 R. 2. c. 22. 1 H. 4. c. 10.31 H. 6. c 1. i E. 6. c. 12. 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5. positively declaring resolving the levying of war against the King or Parliament the plotting compassing the death or destruction of either of them by any open Acts to be High-Treason The Republican Members of the long Parliament and Army did together with the rest of the members in sundry Ordinances resolve declare particularly in the o Exact Coll. p. 576. Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament printed and published by their special Order August 8. 1642. to the end that no man might be misled through ignorance That all such persons who shall upon any pretence whatsoever assist the King in making war against the Parliament with Horse arms plate or money are Traytors to His Maiesty the Parliament and the Kingdom and shall be brought to condign punishment for so high an Offence Upon which ground alone the Lords and Commons by their Ordinance of Apr. 1.1643 sequestred the estates of all such persons Ecclesiastical or Temporal as Traytors and Notorious Delinquents who have raised or shall raise Armes against the Parliament p A Collection of Ordinances p. 13. 219 220. or have been are or shall be in actual Arms against the same or have contributed or shall contribute voluntarily any money plate horse arms ammunition or other ayde or assistance for or towards the maintenance of any forces raised against the Parliament and of all such as have joyned or shall joyn in any Oath or Act of Association against the Parliament or have imposed or shall impose any Tax or Assessment upon his Majesties subjects For or towards the maintenance of any forces against the Parliament Upon this only ground they afterwards condemned executed Mr. Tomkins and Mr. Chaloner in the year 1643. as Traitors for receiving a Commission from the late King dated h A Collection p. 199 200 201. March 16. An. 18 Caroli to raise forces in about London to force the Parliament and seise upon some of the principal Members of it though they never put it in actual execution nor offered the least force to the Parliament to either of the houses or their Members Since which sundry others were elsewhere condemned and executed as Traitors upon the same account of levying war against the Parliament Yea both i A Collection p. 905 906 907 908. Houses in their last Propositions to the King exempted some particular persons frō any pardon for their lives or estates perpetually banished and confiscated the estates of others and put all the rest to great Fines only for levying warr against the Parliament See the 2. part of the History of Independency which they declared to be High Treason Yea the Republican members sitting after the others seclusion and Army-Officers themselves in their late High courts of Justice impeached condemned beheaded our late King * Charls himself the Head of the Parliament the Marquess of Hamilton the Earl of Holland the Lord Capel others of the Lords House and divers Commoners and condemned executed Sir Charles Lucas with others in and by a bare Councel of War at Colchester confiscating most of their real and personal estates as Rebells Traytors and publike Enemies only for levying war and taking up Arms against both Houses of Parliament Since which the Army-Officers and those in late yea present power in and by their Instrument of Government 1653. and contradictory Humble Petition and Advice 1657. disabled all persons who had formerly taken up arms and levied any war against the Parliament at any time since the year 1641. and given no signal testimony of their good affection to the Parliament in taking up Arms for its defence to be disabled to be chosen Members of Parliament or to give their voice in the election of any such Members Yet neither the King himself nor any of all these beheaded execcuted excepted sequestred disabled Lords Citizens Souldiers Gentlemen ever actually assaulted the Parliament it self or either of the Houses of Parliament or any Member or Members thereof sitting in entring into or returning from the Houses nor secured secluded them by any Gards put upon the Houses only for speaking their Consciences or discharging their duties in the Parliament as they did but only waged war against the Parliament and Members thereof at a great distance by levying war against the forces raised by them neither did the King or his Forces in any of their Proclamations or Declarations ever affirm that they took up arms against the Parliament it self or its Members to dissolve secure seclude force or interrupt their proceeding k An Exact Coll. p. 349 350 351 to 357. 451 455 470 472 620 621. which they utterly disclaimed but only to defend the Kings person his just Royal authority and those adhering to him against the Parliament Army to preserve and maintain the just Power Rights privileges of Parliament and the loyal Members therein the Laws of the Land the Liberty and Property of the Subjects against the usurpations of a prevailing Faction who had as they affirmed raisod Forces to destroy the King Mo●●rchy it self the very Freedom Rights and Privileges of Parliament and the Liberty Property of the Subjects which they constantly asserted in all their printed Papers to the very end of the War If they then not withstanding all this were thus capitally and criminally proceeded against sentenced executed sequestred disabled by the Votes Resolutions Judgements Instrument Declarations of the Republicā Members Officers Soldiers themselves now crying up this Good old cause as Traytors and publike Enemies for levying war against the Parliament only thus mediately indirectly consequentially and secundarily because they waged war against the forces raised for the Parliaments defence and safeguard and if the unarmed London Apprentices and other disorderly persons coming unarmed to the Commons House dores and there in a tumultuous manner pressing some Members to pass a Petition and some Votes they desired without seising securing or secluding any one Member of either House though an unarmed force was presently so resented by the General and Officers of the Army that they immediaty declared it to be a l The Generals