Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	people_n	3,792	5	4.4298	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87903	Rump enough: or, Quære for quære, in answer to a pamphlet, entituled, No nevv Parliament, or, Some quæres, or considerations, humbly offered to the present Parliament-members.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1300; Thomason E1017_15; ESTC R207995	3,682	8

RUMP ENOUGH OR QUAERE for QUAERE In Answer to a Pamphlet ENTITULED NO NEVV PARLIAMENT OR Some Quaeres or Considerations humbly offered to the present PARLIAMENT MEMBERS LONDON Printed for any man that loves Peace March 14. 1659. RUMP Enough c. ALthough That Pamphlet which Occasions This considered in it self is not Worth a Reply Yet in regard of the Contrivers and of the End it tends to it may deserve one I look upon it as nothing else but the Phanatiques late Petition sliced into Quaeres by some unskilfull hand and with a Harmless kind of Simple Malice directed to elude the Justice and Necessity of their great Patrons Dissolution I shall not much Insist upon the businesse beyond the Obligation of a Formal Answer but I shall take such heed to That as to leave little place for a Return and in the rest make the old saying good that one Fool may ask more Questions than Twenty Wise men can Answer The Quaere's are as follows 1. Whether this be not the Parliament and these the Persons who began the War with the late King And if so whether it do not highly and neerly concern them even for their own sakes to be the Parliament that shall take up and Cloze the Quarrel and not leave it to others especially if as the general voice goes the Kings Son must be brought in Ans This is not the Original Parliament That was compos'd of Three Estates King Lords and Commons Further these very Persons now sitting Declar'd the King a Party with them in the Quarrel beginning the War in the Kings name For Him not with that is as it lies here Against Him If thus the House must be Divided as well now in the Question as formerly it was so in the War The Parliament even in the Quaerists sense were those that suitably to their Duties and Engagements Voted a peace in order to the pres●rvating of his Majesty but there was a Faction too that contrary to Honour Faith and Conscience did forcibly seclude their Honester Fellowes by much the Major Part and prosecute and put to Death the King Those that have been Honest are safe nay and so should those be too that will at last be so by my consent but I demand Quaere What Equity or Reason is there that those Persons who murthered the Father and are still professed Enemies to the Son should have an Equal Benefit with Others that were Affronted for their Loyalty to the Former and are at present upbraided as if 't were Criminal for their Affection to the Latter If the King's Son must be brought in whether they will or no what have we to doe further with those People that declare they 'll keep him Out if they can 2. Whether this Parliaments first undertaking and prosecuting the War with the late King were Just and upon good and Warrantable Grounds If it were as no doubt it was and God having by his Providence after a long Interruption of some of them and a longer Seclusion of the rest restored them to their Trust whether they ought not now to stand to their first Good Principles maintain their first Good Cause and secure all the good people that have been engaged with them and by them Ans. The war was just in that part of the Parliament which declared for the King and acted accordingly but unjust in those that swore to preserve him and intended to murther him That the Parliament ought to stand to their first good Principles we are agreed In so doing they are to bring to condigne punishment the infrringers of their Privileges the introducers of Arbitrary power the Obstructors of successive Parliaments The murtherers of the late King the subverters of the establish'd Government c. I grant you further that they are obliged to secure all the good people that engaged with them and by them but not consequently all those that acted violently against and without them now my Question Quaer. How is it possible for those that began upon Principles of Contradiction as the saving and destroying of the King c. to stand to their first Principles 3. Whether this be not that Parliament and these the very persons who by the good esteem they had among the people of their Integrity Faithfulness and Constancy whether I say this be not the Parliament who by these and other means engaged the Honest and Well Affected of the Land in the aforesaid War And if so whether this Parliament having new power in their hands are not obliged in Duty and good Conscience to secure all the said honest and well affected people for this their Engaging and Acting under them and not leave them as a prey to their prof●ssed enemies nor their terms of Peace to be made by they know not whom Another Parliament which there is too great cause to fear will be too much made up of such as neither have been nor are friends to the Parliaments cause nor to those that engaged in it Answ 'T is not the gaining of a good esteem but 't is the Practice of Integrity that recommends a worthy Person I may believe well of a cheat and ha' my pocket pick'd But after that I think I should deserve a yellow coat ever to trust that fellow again though he should plead he had my good opinion formerly Some I confesse are yet in Being of those whose Interests raised the War but these are not the men our Quaeristmeans and beside the most considerable of that number are in their graves For the rest to wave his Argument from power to Conscience Those people that dare not stand to the Test of a Free Legal Parliament must not presume to act themselves as an Authority without Law or Limit In fine If this be the same Parliament that sirst engaged them Quaere Why should the Secluders and their Adherents Those which by Force of Arms Baffled this very Parliament in 48 scape better then the Cavaliers that fought against it in 42 4. Whether this be not the Parliament who by many Declarations and Remonstrances by Protestation and Vow by Solemn League and Covenant have declared and engaged themselves before God Angels and Men and have thereby drawen in and therewith engaged all honest People to assert and defend their just undertaking and one another therein whether as things now stand when this just Cause which through Gods assistance could not be won from us in the field is in great danger to be stoln from us by the dark contrivances of its and our adversaries if this Parliament should dissolve at such a time as this and leave all both Cause and all engaged by them in it to another Parliament the greatest part whereof may be no friends but enemies or at least strangers or but little concerned in the first undertaking whether this would not be exceeding contrary to all those former Declarations Remonstrances Protestation Vow and Solemn League and Covenant Answ I doe allow the Members of this