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cause_n	great_a	lord_n	word_n	2,981	5	3.8029	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75549	Arguments inviting all faithfull marriners to ingage cheerfully in Englands honourable and just cause, against the Irish rebells and their adherents, now robbing at sea, and about to invade this nation.		1649 (1649)	Wing A3645; Thomason 669.f.14[19]; ESTC R211102	2,577	1

ARGUMENTS Inviting all Faithfull Marriners to ingage cheerefully in Englands Honourable and Just Cause against the Irish Rebells and their Adherents now Robbing at Sea and about to Invade this NATION NOW my brave Blades my Brethren and Seamen if ever now is the time for you to stand to your tackle The great and glorious God of Heaven calls you forth to bring you to honour and purchase for you are to fight the Lords battell by Sea as your Brethren in the Army have done by Land and you have as much cause to expect happy and speedy successe as they for these reasons I. The cause you fight for is the same though the Element be changed and God is Lord of the waters as well as of the Land being Lord of all Hosts and God you know hath owned the Cause by many signall Victories II. The Persons against whom you are to fight are of the same stampe Sons of Belial Plunderers Murderers and Irish Rebels and among them such as have beene already conquered by your Friends and being let goe upon their words not any more to molest this Nation doe now most basely and perfidiously break their Parrolls and some of them being English men and of English extractions doe Vypour like endeavour to teare out the very Bowels of their Mother and therefore God cannot in justice blesse them but being a most just God commands you now to goe and scourge them III. Observe their basenesse and treachery how they take all aswell Friends as Foes honest Merchants trading for their Countreys good and to get a poore Living by much hazard are by their depredations spoyled and them and their Families thereby exposed to ruine nay and many of them too as Malignant as themselves so that you may see their resolution is to make all Fish that comes to Net with them and if they presume to doe such out-rages now when as they have but a little power what will they not doe if they Conquer you IV. Consider that the Nation unto which such wicked Imps are joyned is not onely a Barbarous but a bloody people witnesse their unparrallell'd butcheries of hundreds of thousands some few yeares past of poore Protestants Men Women and Infants Massacred by them in Ireland the cry of whose Innocent blood is got into Heaven and hath prevailed with God to move the hearts of his sons the Seamen of England with much compassion to goe forth in glorious Fleets the like whereof England never yet set out to take vengeance on those Murtherers and Traytors and to procure unto your selves and your posterities eternall Fame and Glory V. Take notice that your enemie is dying already and does as dying men doe take hold of any thing for preservation any twig any Nation French Spanish Irish though Atheists Papists c. These be the broken Reeds on which they leane by which you may perceive their lost and forlorne condition VI Ponder seriously what is like to become of you and yours in case such wretches should prevaile who are like to be your Governours what a mixture of vatlets are to have dominion over you really no people under the Sun would be such slaves as you would be unto these Caniballs And now I have shewne you your enemies a generation most horrid most deformed enough to raise courage in any but a Female heart to pull downe subdue and vanquish such vile creatures I le now shew you your Friends who are in Conjunction with you I. Heaven and all the powers therein the Almighty God even the Lord Jesus at whose very word onely Armies fall backward a God Omnipotent Omniscient who can take away the courages of your enemies and give animosities to you II. A Parliament that have continually advanced your wages endeavoured to make you a free people that you and yours may live cheerfully who hath eased you of Councell-Tables High Commission Courts Star Chambers Monopolies and Tyrannie whereby your comforts increase and sorrows decrease a Parliament who watching night and day that you may sleep who take all the care that you may have all ease the freest Parliament that ever England had now freely Voting the same righteous things they would have formerly done had they not been over Voted by a corrupted Party so farre from being a selfe-seeking Parliament that they lend vast sums of money out of their private Estates to carry on the Worke least it should miscarry and all for youre welfare That after the Conquest when you shall returne each with a prize or two you may sit downe with joy recounting the great things God hath wrought by you and for you and that by the wise dome and direction of this Parliament III. You have all the godly of the Land who night and day poure forth their prayers to God to ruine your enemies and to blesse and protect you and to prosper this very designe in hand and therefore you have strong nay assured hopes of Victory IV. You have the Lawes of God Nature and Nations on your side all teaching and requiring to defend your own and to protect the Innocent to relieve the oppressed Brethren V. Lastly you have a glorious and Victorious Army vigilant to defend the Land in case of Invasion or Insurrection at home while you are preserving the honour of the Seas abroad who are so forward to manifest their former love to their Country that in case you need and have a mind to it will venture their persons with you at Sea as some of you have bravely done with them on Shoare By all that hath been sayd it seems to me that Heaven and Earth conspire to Crown your heads with Lawrels and to fil your hearts with courage The Enemy braggs that you intend basely to betray your trust and to adhere to them But they are of their Father who was a Lyer from the beginning we know you are confiding men therefore we trust you with all our strength and wealth we have had experience of your past fidelity at Goree where you did something and much more would have done had others actions jumpt with your desires And now laying aside the thought of your Enemies not worthy your remembrance recollect the dignity of your Associats a good Cause an Almighty God a faithfull Parliament a Victorious Army all the godly in the Common-wealth and the Lawes of God Nature and Nations and then see what an heap of arguments you have able to bring courage into the hearts of Cowards If you will be valiant you will be happy if you will neglect your duties God will stirre up others a little Gideons Army to performe the businesse God never wanted Instruments to doe his worke but blessed be God you have meanes enough if you doe not trust too much in them which sin of all things you must beware of and put your confidence in him who then will protect you More might be sayd but more were losse of time now 't is a time for action methinks I see your forward steps advance for Service each to out-sayle his Fellow I feare each Line seemes to retard your passage therefore I le say no more but wish your prosperous gales a flying Enemy or a submitting one God's gone before you follow close the Chase will be successefull All 's your owne London Printed in the Yeare 1649.