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cause_n	good_a	great_a	lord_n	5,077	5	3.6205	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77961	To the whole English army, and to every particular member thereof, both officers and souldiers, whether of England, Scotland, or Ireland; these are for them to read, and consider, as wholesome animadversions in this day of distractions / E. Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6041; ESTC R229357	3,099	1

TO THE WHOLE ENGLISH ARMY And to every particular Member thereof both Officers and Souldiers Whether of England Scotland or Ireland These are for them to Read and Consider as wholesome Animadversions in this day of Distractions FRIENDS WHere is the Good Old Cause now and what is become of it in whose hands doth it lie and where are they that truly contend for it as for you have not you foregone it and long since trodden it under foot and despised it and only talked of it but not rightly prosecuted it but your own Cause and not Gods have you served what do you say is the Good Old Cause ceased and clean perished or are you ceased to contend for it through your unfaithfulness or is your strength betrayed that you cannot plead for it as formerly the people of these Nations thinks that you have buried the Good Old Cause and quite forgotten it now for was not the Good Old Cause for liberty both in Spiritualls and Temporalls was it not the ju●● Freedom of all People that was once contended for and all Tyranny and Oppression and unju●t Lawes once contended against and you have seemed once to be the asserters of this and sometimes the vindicators of it but what is become of it now is your zeal perished and where are the faithful contenders for it seeing so many of the people of the Lord and of the free people of this Nation have been and are at this day grievous sufterers under the Opressions and Cruelties of men and under unjust men and unjust Lawes can you be Ignorant how many hundreds in these Nations have wofully suffered some Imprisonment others whipping and others banishment and others have suffered until death for Conscience take and without the breach of any just Law and many great Oppressions are this day abounding in the Nations and was not the Good Old Cause once laid down to be against all these things but because of your Treachery and unfaithfulnesse and your forgetting to prosecute the Good Old Cause therefore have these things come to passe and the Nations lies like a wildernesse under groaning Oppressions and in Confusion and unsettled in the way of peace which is as a weight and burden of Iniquity in the fight of the Lord and the guilt of those unjust sufferings and of the present oppressions and distractions lies upon you principally even as much as upon any others for time and power hath been in your hands to have freed the Nations from bondage but you have long turned up and down and about for earthly Honor and self-interests serving mens pleasure and have not rightly followed the Good Old Cause but the rather forgotten it and neglected it and have bowed under the Lu●●s and Ambition of men and served mens private ends and not the Nations general good sometimes appearing for one thing and way and sometimes for another and changing your way and have been unstable and unconstant in good things so that the Nation and the good People in it cannot any longer trust you for there is no considence to be placed in you many had good hopes that some good thing might have been effected by you when power and time was in your hands but you have betrayed such hopes and are as quite changed from the Good Old Cause and the Nation can judge you now to be little better then a Mercinary Army that will do any thing for money and be led about according to the wills of men but how long will it be e're you consider of your selves and how woeful you are fallen from what you once seemed to be and when will you remember the Good Old Cause but alas you are divided and broken in pieces some for one thing and some for another some for an Old Parliament and some for a New and some for a Protector like as if the names and titles of men and Governments were sufficient to redeem a Nation from oppressions and miseries and so being divided about self-interests and names and for persons you have all left the thing it self Worthy to be contended for and the Good Old Cause is lost and now you are for men and you turn about at their pleasure and are about things of no value in respect of the Good Old Cause once laid down by you to wit even the perfect freedome of the Nations and you are under a great reproach at this day among good men and your glory is fallen in the sight of the Nations and your terror lost and your shame appears And because of your hypocrisie and unfaithfulness the Lord hath reproved you and suffered a check to your ambition and brought you under the reproof of hard-hearted men Oh that you may learn the Justices of the Lords Judgement upon you and may repent that your present affliction may prove to correct and amend you and not no destroy you utterly you are fallen from your first integrity and therefore are you under shame and just reproof and it may be enquired what is become of that zeal that once was in you is it wholly perished out of your hearts And shall the Lord utterly lay you aside and never make more use of you Is there no hope of your return to the Good Old Cause When will you begin to appear for things for perfect freedome and liberty and cease to be for names and men while the good Cause it self is lost and the interest of oppression seems to be promoted Therefore consider Oh! what an excellent thing would it be if you would sincerely return to the Good Old Cause and if you could agree among your selves few or many of you to state the Good Old Cause once more in clear and plain principles and positions and if you could lay down right things worthy to be contended for and upon which you could engage your lives viz. even the perfect liberty of all people and then say here is the Good Old Cause and here is the freedome of the Nations laid down and perfect liberty asserted unto all people whatsoever both as men and as Christians and these things we will vindicate these things we will have brought to pass and for these things we will only stand that they may be accomplished and neither for Old Parliament nor New nor any other man nor men but as they directly are for these things even for the establishing of Righteousness Mercy and Truth in the earth and taking off all oppressions and as they proceed upon and forthwith endeavour the effecting these things and whoever are for these things we are for them and they for us and whosoever are against the Good Old Cause and perfect freedome whether Old Parliament or New or any others whatsoever we are against them and will ingage our lives against them Oh! if it were in the heart of every Officer and private Souldier in truth of heart thus to say and do and to proceed you would doubtless be blessed whether many or few and receive Victory and Honor both if that you assert and prosecute right things for the general good of all that Peace and Righteousness may be set up and no longer serve the wills and pleasures of men nor respect them no nor give obedience to them any further than they prosecute the just freedome of the Nations for what is it worth to be for a Parliament Old or New a Protector or any other sort of men when they do not prosecute the right Cause of freedome and liberty to the Nations Therefore consider in your selves for if you serve your Nations treacherously the Lord will meet with you one time or other in Judgement and confound you one against another and you shall fall and never rise Therefore were it not wisdome for you once more to state the Good Old Cause and to go through with it and them that are Enemies to it be you Enemies to them whether Old Parliament or New or whomsoever and hereby should you prosper and the Lord should be with you when you truly appear in uprightness of heart on Gods behalf and for the ends aforesaid then should the presence of the Lord be in your Councels and your former valour and dread should be with you and the desires of all good people should be for you and their Councel should be extended forth on your behalf and the servant of the Lord should pray for you and till then you can never prosper and this shall you witness for ever From a Lover of Justice and true Freedome but a Sufferer under Oppression and one that is grieved for the Oppressed Nations sake E. Burrough London the fourth of the eleventh Moneth 59. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-Spread-Eagle at ●●e West-end of Pauls