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A70119	The Good old cause explained, revived, & asserted and the Long-Parliament vindicated in a remonstrance to His Excellency the Lord Fleetwood and councel of officers : being the sense and earnest desires of many thousands honest well-affected persons of the army and people in this nation : with several expedients humbly offered, 1. for the settling and securing of our civil and spiritual rights and freedoms, and the publique peace of the nation, 2. for the speedy raising of moneys to pay the arrears of the army and navy, and future supply of other publique ingagements, as the most probable and visible way and means now under God left to accomplish the same, and preserves us from that inevitable confusion and destruction which hangs over and threatens the three nations.		1659 (1659)	Wing G1078; ESTC R7873	7,948	8

The Good Old Cause Explained Revived Asserted AND The Long-Parliament Vindicated IN A Remonstrance to his Excellency the Lord Fleetwood and Councel of Officers Being the Sense and earnest Desires of many thousands honest well-affected Persons of the Army and People in this Nation With several Expedients humbly offered 1. For the settling and securing of our Civil and Spiritual Rights and Freedoms and the publique Peace of the Nation 2. For the speedy raising of Moneys to pay the Arrears of the Army and Navy and future supply of other Publique Ingagements as the most probable and visible Way and Means now under God left to accomplish the same And preserve us from that inevitable Confusion and Destruction which hangs over and threatens the three Nations THe things contended for with the late King in the late Warr wherein there was great effusion of Christian bloud and vaste Treasure spent Consisted principally of these particulars 1. That our Persons and Estates might not be disposed of at the Arbitrary will and pleasure of the King and his evill Counsellours and other his loose adherents But secured and protected according to Magna Charta the Petition of Right and other wholesome Lawes made for the Defence and Safety of the People against Tyranny Oppression and Arbitrariness which in those dayes were too often exercised 2. To have our Spiritual Rights and Freedoms secured unto us and the honest conscientious people preserved from the Rage and Fury of the Bishops and their adherents who grievously persecuted many for differences in Judgment in point of Form and Ceremonies and for not conforming to their Canons against the dictates of their own Consciences though holding forth and agreeing in Fundamentalls warranted by Scripture 3. Upon the whole to have a thorough Reformation of Religion Laws and Manners And to have Prophaneness Licentiousnesse and Loosenesse of Conversation discountenanced and suppressed and true Piety Sobriety and Uprightnesse of Conversation Righteousnesse and Peace encouraged and maintained 4. And lastly to have the Militia of the Nation secured and disposed of in such Hands as might exercise the same for the Defence and Common Preservation of our Lives Liberties Rights and Proprieties And to prevent the future use thereof for the introducing and support of Tyranny Slavery and Arbitrarinesse in matters Civil and Spiritual so highly attempted by the late King and his Party And it pleased the Lord of Hoasts after many sharp Contests and bloudy Battels fought betwixt the King and Pa●liament concerning the premisses to decide the Quarrel on the Parliaments side by the total vanquishing of the King and his Party whereby the Parliament who could by no other means prevail with the King to a reasonable Condiscention to the just things demanded from him were now by the hand of Providence put in a capacity without him to effect the same and accomplish the premisses being the earnest and longing desires and fervent prayers of the good People of the Nation who freely hazarded their Lives and Fortunes in this Good Old Cause which no good Man hath cause to renounce or be ashamed of We say GOOD Because it hath a tendency to the advancing of Gods glory the maintenance and Reformation of the Essentials and Body of Religion in its purity according to the Word of God in opposition to Popery Atheism Superstition and Prophaneness and the securing of the Peoples just Rights Liberties Properties Priviledges and Immunities against Tyranny Arbitrariness and Oppression OLD Because Anciently and Originally all Power was in the People and the design of setting up all Governments and Governours was alwayes professed for the good of the People who primarily had the power and choice of Electing both But lost it by the craft policy and sinister contrivances of aspiring-persons whose Ambition reached as high as the Heavens and their pride would admit of no Equal on Earth The regaining our Liberties and Rights and the re-investing the Supream Authority in the Peoples Representatives in Parliament hath for many scores of years been the great desires of the good people of this Nation to accomplish the ends aforesaid being wearied with the former Oppression and Slavery under Kings Lords and B●shops which long before the late Warrs many thousands of the Nations would which many of them often declared and suff●red for it willingly have shaken off but could not effect the same untill it pleased the Lord out of his Almighty providence after the total suppressing of the power and interest of that party in these Nations to put it into the hearts of that good old Parliament to settle the Government in the way of a FREE STATE which sort of Gove●nment is neither New nor Strange The Venetians the Bullwark of Christendome having for many hundreds of years lived happily and Victoriously in the way of a Common-wealth And our Neighbours the States of Holland since they shook off the Spanish Yoake have lived very plentifully and comfortably and highly improved their Trade and Interest whose freedome in the Exercise of their Religion doth in no sort obstruct or disturb the Government or peace of that State Nor would it probably prove otherwise in this Nation if once the peoples Spiritual and Civil Rights Liberties and Proprieties were effectually settled and established So that this Good Old Cause is of far longer standing and hath its essence and beginning before the ten years times prefixed in a late printed paper and long before the Author or his great Grandfather were born And in order to the securing the ends of this Good Old Cause See their Declaration of 17 March 1648. the Parliament Declared the Grounds of their late proceedings And of settling the Government in the way of a FREE STATE Which being seriously considered is sufficient to satisfie every honest conscientious well-affected man touching that affair The Office of Kingly Power or under any other Name in a single Person being well weighed and the Vaste Charge to support it and the manner and exercise thereof in these Nations duly considered will appear to have served mostly to satisfie their own boundless Ambition Pride and Cruelty grinding the faces of the people and prodigally spending Christian Bloud and the Treasure of the Nations upon punctillioes of Honour personal Titles and particular revenge and dislastes and other sinister ends under pretence of State-Policy Assuming to themselves that Supremacy in all matters which none may question much lesse punish how illegal arbitrary or unwarrantable soever their actions may be And their greedy Courtiers attendants and adherents trampling upon and oppressing the Gentry and poor Commonalty with their new invented Rates Taxes and Monopolies of all sorts and other Court-Inventions Cum privilegio And their Courts have been frequently observed to be the Patterns Nurseries and protectors of covetousnesse pride ambition and loosenesse The Excesse of the Court their relations and attendants proving an intolerable charge and burthen on the People The Ends and Designs for which the Long

Parliament did thus change the Government from this Tyranny into a Free-State appears in their said printed Declaration to be 1. To prevent a new and further expence and effusion of the Treasure and Blood of England 2. To establish a firm and safe peace and an oblivion of all Rancor and ill-Will occasioned by the late troubles The establishing the Government in any one single Person or Family under what name or qualification soever serving only to intayle a war on us and our posterities to maintain personall interests inconsistent with the good and welfare of the Nation 3. To provide for the due Worship of God according to his word the advancement of the true protestant Religion and for the liberall and certain maintenance of godly Ministers 4. To procure a just Liberty for the Consciences Persons and Estates of all men conformable to God's glory and their own peace 5. To endeavour vigorously the punishment of the cruell Murtherers in Ireland the restoring of the honest Protestants and this Commonwealth to their rights there and the full satisfaction of all Engagements for this work 6. To provide for the setling and just observing of Treaties and Alliances with forraign Princes and States for the encouragement of Manufactures for the increase and flourishing of Trades at home and the maintenance of the poor in all places of the Land 7. To take care for the due Reformation and Administration of the Law and publique Justice that the evill may be punished and the good rewarded 8. To order the Revenue in such a way that the publique charges may be defrayed the souldiers Pay justly and duely setled that free quarter may be wholly taken off the People be eased in their Burthens and Taxes and the debts of the Commonwealth be justly satisfied 9. To remove all grievances and oppressions of the People and to establish peace and righteousnesse in the Land The Parliament passed an Act for the abolishing of the House of Lords that grand Badge and Relique of the Norman Conquest 19. March 1648. which served only for a Negative voyce against the Peoples just rights and liberties being the great obstructors of good Lawes and supportors of the arbitrary unlimited will and pleasure of Princes It was Enacted 19. May 1649. That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging be constituted made established and confirmed to be a Common-wealth and Free State and shall he henceforth governed as a Common-wealth and Free S●ate by the Supreme Authoritie of the Nation the Presentators of the People in Parliament And by such as they shall appoint Officers and Ministers of the good of the People And that WITHOUT ANY KING OR HOUSE OF LORDS 14. May 1649. And it was Enacted That if any person shall malitiously publish by writing printing or openly declaring that the Government of the People by its own Representatives or Nationall méetings in Councel is Tyrannicall usurped or unlawful Or that the Commons in Parliament Assembled are not the Supreme Authority of the Nation Or plot contrive or endeavour to raise force against the present Government or the subversion or alteration of the same And shall declare the same by an open Déed every such offence shall be adjudged HIGH-TREASON Which Acts are yet unrepealed That the Parliament though they were famous for their Heroick and worthy Acts not giving satisfaction to all men in all things were by some as is conceived unadvisedly interrupted 20 April 1655. who have many of them since on serious consideration of the ill consequence thereof and the hidden designs and private ends of some amongst them heartily repented them thereof and openly confessed and declared the same and their other backslidings and fallings off from that good old Cause By reason of which interruption the Parliament were obstructed and dis-enabled from accomplishing the good things hoped for and by them promised and intended to have been wrought for the People And since that time What great changes have hapned both in the Government and Governours what daubings with untempered mo●ter and flattering applications have been made and apparent violations of all former Oaths Covenants Promises Declarations and Ingagements deserting of their good old Professions and Principles even by many who before were eminent and precious men for their piety and integrity And all to patch a Government distastful and abominable to God and good men and so repugnant to the Judgements Consciences and affections of the honest well affected unbiassed people of the Nations and this good old Cause that their spirits were grieved and tormented their hearts trembled their bowels did yearn within them for these great abominations and high breach of faith and trust committed in the face of the Nation who by the ambitious and covetous designs of carnall men displeasing to God are brought low the Trade Treasure and Honour of the Nation being decayed lost and exhausted and excessive debts contracted on them But to adde iniquity to sin and aggravate these their transgressions How many godly honest and w●ll-affected people have been since persecuted imprisoned executed banished and oppressed for a good Conscience their Goods and Estates taken from them contrary to the known Lawes of the Nation and liberties of the People which the Actors thereof so often vowed promised and declared to maintain What Inquisitors were set-up to block up and obstruct the wayes of the righteous How many men of loose principles and carnal ends were approved and intrusted with the work of the Ministry How many good men put by and their mouthes stopped And how many wayes were used to suppress the Good old Cause and the reall pro●essors and patterns of true Religion and Piety We leave it to the good people of the Nation to judge of The Lord having eminently born witness and testified his high displeasure against these iniquities and abominations And that which is wonderful in the eyes of all men With what violence and inconsiderateness the LAWYERS and other disaffected ambitious persons in the late Parliament did carry on the Design of Kingship And the re-establishing of King Lords and Bishops tending to the re-investing of Charls Stuart and his party How ready they were to give away the Militia Strength and Treasure of the Nation into the hands of a single-Person contrary to the aforesaid Act and all fo●mer Declarations Propositions and Ingagements pleading for and earnestly contending to inslave themselves and their Posterity And at one breath to give away all the rights freedoms and liberties of the People which during many years Warre with the price of so much Blood and Treasure they had gained But the Lord our God having stirred your Spirits to put a stop to these exorbitant and unsafe proceedings and once more to give the opportunity to advance the Kingdom of Christ To propagate the Gospel and to countenance and support the profession and professors thereof To repair and heal our breaches To regulate the Lawes and Courts