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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

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