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The picture of the good old cause drawn to life in the effigies of Master Prais-God Barebone. With several examples of Gods Judgements on some eminent engagers against kingly government.
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1660
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Wing P2157; Thomason 669.f.25[57]; ESTC R212482
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The Picture of the Good Old Cause drawn to the Life In the Effigies of Master PRAIS-GOD BAREBONE Several Examples of Gods Judgements on some Eminent Engagers against Kingly Government The Portraiture of Mr Praise God Barebone 1. Dorislaus one that had a great hand in the Kings murther was stab'd at the Hague in March 1649. when he was sent to treat with the Dutch in the name of the Free-State or Common-wealth of England 2. Anthony Ascham served in the like manner at Madrid in Spain near the same time being sent from the Rump on the like errand 3. Milton that writ two Books against the Kings and Salmasius his Defence of Kings struck totally blind he being not much above 40. years old 4. Alderman Hoyle of York one of the Juncto and high Court of Justice and though he signed not the Kings Sentence the same day twelve moneth the King was murthered hanged himself in his Chamber at Westminster 5. Sir Gregory Norton died raving mad which by his Physicians was not imputed to the distemper of his body but a troubled disquieted mind He was one of the Kings Judges 6. Lockier once an Agitator in the Army at his late Majesties pretended Triall spit Jew-like in the Kings Face and likewise blew Tobacco-Ashes upon him Afterwards turned Leveller and was shot to death by his Fellow-Rogues in Saint Pauls Church-yard 7. Collonel Ven a Citizen of London formerly a great Professour of Religion but turned with the Times was a Member of the Rump a great Engager against Kingly Government on July the 7. 1650. He going to bed as perfectly well and in health as ever in his life his Wife lying by him he fell asleep by her immediately and slept soundly without complaint of the least distemper but the next morning about 6 a Clock his Wife found him stark dead by her never having made the least groan or spoken one word to her since the day before and thus God banished him first out of the Land of the Living Many more instances may be given but I am loth to be too tedious OUr late modern Saints as if Guy Fawkes stood for a Lubber in our English Calender have canonized themselves in such a Rebrick of blood that the very Enemies of Christian Religion would have relented at and meet humanity regretted such an universal quarrel against Government Order all Divine Institution such impudent affront and bold contempt of Authority and the Sacred Majesty of Kings was never before heard of Nor did the most desperate Heretiques no not that accursed Munster crue or the most savage Heathen ever design or attempt the quarter of the Villanies committed by our godly party within this 20. years Insomuch that they have brought not only the Protestant Catholique Religion but the very Christian Faith Divine Truth it self to contempt and derision Neither have they palliated only these audacious facinorous Practices under the disguise of religion but avowedly maintained their destructive Principles to be consistent and agreeable with it and entitled God and his Providence to all their most Horrid and execrable actions daring the Face of the Sun with their Egyptian darkness and crying liberty and reformation when there was nothing but slavery and confusion The praeludium of these mischeifs was begun by the zealous Puritans they quarrel at the Bishops Surplices and Lawn-sleeves and their sacrilegious brood strip them of their very shirts and rob God and the Church of its revenue and his Ministers of all manner of subsistence From hence came the Title of gifted Brethren when a prevailing corrupt party of the late long parliament divided the spoils of the Church among their Corahs and Abirams it was the corban of Religion that furnished our Holders forth with canting and jugling Doctrines and Uses We had also some of a higher form the Brethren that were above Ordinances people inspired as full of devilish Revelations as any blown bladder this was the seventh Son the lastand worst Devil the very express image and picture of a Non-Conformist that could do miracles all but blowing wind in the Rump to have preserved it from perishing The Person presented here to your view is one or rather all of these sorts that have so much infested and infamed our Age and Countrey was a dispenser during the persecution of the Bishops as they call'd it when Truth ran into their corners and could never be seen again among them and Satan learnt them Profession was as convenient Yea verily beloved this is he although he look like a simple skin he is a Wolf in sheeps cloathing a hide bound covetous Leatherseller but has a Conscience as wide as his windows when it raind stones into them at the funeral Pile of the Rump You would take his cloudy face for a vizard if you knew not his black soul within him and that Nature did her best in it to express him to the life I cannot better pourtrait his mind then by the ensuing Petition where you will find the substance and abridgement of Puritanisme in its natural and compleat dress and this was the Embrio and base issue of his Trayterous design Mr. PRAISE-GOD BAREBONE his Petition as it was presented to the Rump-Parliament Thursday the ninth of February 1659. In behalf of himself and many Thousands With their Answer thereunto To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England c. The Representation and address of the Well-affected Persons Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster and places adjacent being faithful and constant Adherers to this Parliament who are resolved by the assistance of Almighty God to stand by assert and maintain their Authority against all Opposers notwithstanding the present confidence and bold attempts of the Promoters of Regal Interest by the declared Enemies of their Cause and Authority WHereas the good Old Cause was for Civil and Christian Liberty against Oppression and Persecution the Oppressors and Persecutors were chiefly the King his Lords and Clergy and their Adherents who to effect their Designs raised War against the Parliament whereupon the Parliament in defence of Civil and Christian Liberty call the oppressed and persecuted to their aid by whose assistance the oppressors persecutors have been subdued Kingship and Peerage abolished and Persecution checkt by which the number of conscientious friends to the Parliament have been so exceedingly encreased that they are now by Gods assistance in a far more able capacity of keeping down their Enemies then they were in those times when they subdued them Nevertheless so watchful hath the restless Enemy been to make advantage that what time after time he hath lost in the Field he hath endeavoured to regain even in the Parliaments Councel Where because they had not the Face openly to bring in the King with the former Oppressions and persecutions they Shrouded and Vailed themselves one while under a Personal Treaty Another while under a Cloak of Zeal against Blasphemy and Heresie their endeavour being to bring in
the King upon any tearms to cherish the persecuting Party and to Brow-beat their most conscientious Opposers Upon which pretences nevertheless they have through tract of Time and the unsettledness of Government prevailed so far as under the Notion of a Moderate party to get the subtillest of their Friends into many places of Trust and Command both Civil and Military through whose countenance and encouragement albeit the Parliament upon good grounds Voted the Government by Kings and Lords useless burthensome and dangerous and declare very largely for Liberty of Conscience yet of late a general boldnesse hath bin taken to plead a necessity of returning to the Government of King and Lords a taking in of the Kings Son or which is all one for a return of the justly secluded Members or a Free Parliament without due Qualifications whereby the good Old Cause of Liberty and Freedom so long contended for against Regal Interest with the expence of much blood and Treasure and the Assertors thereof will be prostituted to satisfie the Lusts of the Enemies of the Common-wealth wherein they have prevailed so far that unless all conscientious persons in Parliament Army Navy and Common-wealth do speedily unite and watchfully look about them as the Sword will certainly though secretly and silently be stollen out of their hands so also will they find all Civil Authority fall suddenly into the hands of their enraged Enemies and a return of all those Violences Oppressions and Persecutions which have cost so much Blood and Treasure to extirpate The serious apprehensions whereof hath stirred up your cordial Friends to desire you to use all possible endeavours to prevent the Common-wealths Adversaries in this their most dangerous Stratagem And as the most effectual means thereunto We pray 1. That you will admit no person or persons to sit or Vote in this or any future Parliament or Council of State or to be in any Office or Judicatory or any publick Trust in the Common-wealth or Command in the Army Navy or Garrisons or to be a publick Preacher to the people at Sea or Land or any Instructer of Youth except such only as shall abjure or by Solemn Engagement renounce the pretended Title or Titles of Charles Stuart and the whole Line of the late King James and of every other person as a single person pretending or which shall pretend to the Crown or Government of these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland or any of them and the Dominions and Territories belonging to them or any of them or any other single person Kingship Peerage or any power co-ordinate with the peoples Representives in Parliament And all coercive power in matter of Religion according to a Vote of a Grand Committee of the 11. of September 1659. 2. We further pray that it may be Enacted That whosoever shal move offer or propound in Parliament Councel or in any other Court or Publick Meeting any matter or thing in order to the introducing of Charles Stuarts or any of that Family as aforesaid or any other single Person House of Lords coercive power in matter of Religion or any power co-ordinate are with the peoples Representatatives in Parliament may be deemed and adjudged guilty of high Treason and many suffer the pains and penalty thereof And that whosoever shall in Parliament Councel or any other publique Court or Meeting move for or propose the Revocation of this Law when by you enacted may be deemed and judged guilty of high Treason and suffer the pains and penalties thereof In prosection whereof we shall stand by you with our Estates and Lives to assert and maintain your Authority against all Oppositions whatsoever notwithstanding the present Confidence and bold Attempts of yours and our Enemies Signed Praise-God Barebone with the promise of the Subscriptions of many Thousands Resolved by the Parliament that the Petitioners have the Thanks of the House for uheir Expressions of their good Affections to the Parliament The Petitioners being again called in M. Speaker gave them this Answer Gentlemen The House have read your Petition and they do find that you have been such as have constantly born them good Affections and that your Affections are the same still and for the Expressions of your good Affections the House hath commanded me to give you Thanks in their Names I do give you Thanks accordingly It is desired That all such as are Lovers of the Good Old Cause do send in their Subscriptions to this Petition unto the place appointed in those Papers that come to their Hands Yea and with all the speed that may be to testifie their Zeal to the Good Old Cause by their being in readiness to assert it See here the Quintessence of Treason not to be parallell'd in any times or persons but this did King James prophetically intimate in that usual Saying of his no Bishop no King as also is to be seen in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 directed to his Son Hen. Prince of Wales In King James's Basileon Doron in these words he advises his Son p. 41. 42. Take heed therefore my Son of these Puritans the very Pests in the Church and Common-wealth whom no deserts can oblige neither Oaths nor promises bind breathing nothing but Sedition and Calumnies aspiring without measure railing without reason and making their own imaginations without any warrant of the word the Square of their Conscience I protest before the great God and since I am here as upon my Testament it is no place for me to lye in that you shall never finde with any High-land or Border-Theeves greater ingratitude and more lyes and viler perjuries then among these PHANATICK Spirits and suffer not the Principals of them to brook your Land if you list to sit at rest except you would keep them for trying your patience as Socrates did an evil wise and in p. 40. He saith I was often calumniated in their popular Sermons Not for any vice or evil that was in me But because I was a King which to them is the highest evil 'T is not to be doubted that any the most specious Pretences of Religion any seeming extraordinary piety shall ever be able to shake our Allegiance or that late posterity will not with Horrour and Amazement read the History of our Age and yet it is questionable whether they will wonder more at these mens Treasons and detestable Impieies or his most Sacred Majesties Mercy and Clemency afforded in his General Pardon to which this wretch hath already betaken himself London Printed And are to be sold at divers Book-sellers Shops 1660.