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cause_n	king_n	law_n	lord_n	4,135	5	3.8427	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44408	An ansvver to a scandalous lying pamphlet, intitvled Prince Rvpert his declaration published in the vindication of the honour of the high court of Parliament and their army, from the untrue and malicious aspersions cast on them in the said pamphlet : and dedicated to by their humblest honourer the author, G. H.	G. H.	1642 (1642)	Wing H27; ESTC R1271	3,886	12

nothing escapes its malice It taxes our party for imprisoning those for Delinquents who stand loyall to their Prince Who shall be judge of their loyalty Prince Rupert or the Parliament Surely that which is the originall of our Lawes the fountaine of our municipall constitutions the Parliament is better acquainted with those Lawes and Constitutions then any stranger though it were Lycurgus himselfe and therefore can fullier censure and define when those Lawes and Constitutions are violated For the Earles Judges Lords Bishops Knights and the like that he sayes stuffe the prisons in London are they not open Delinquents or principall Abettors of this Kingdomes miserable distractions Wilde Beasts that it were very fit should be chain'd up lest they should destroy us and yet suffer they no more or stricter imprisonment here then those whom they have as prisoners doe there witnesse Captaine Wingates inthralment and others For the 〈…〉 ling the mouths of the most grave and learn'd Divines or else imprisoning them whom the Prince hath nam'd I will in charity impute it to mis-information the world knowes there is no such matter 'T is true Doctor Heywood and some other of the Arminian faction that preach'd and printed divers things against the peace of the Common-wealth are worthily therefore in durance but for our only countenancing of ignorant and sedious teachers none but those who are the sourses of sedition themselves will cast that unworthy appellation on those reverent and learned Divines For the loosenesse and incivility which the Prince would excuse in himselfe and souldiers with the generality and community of such vices in all great armies it is the onely thing in his Declaration that may seeme to challenge the priviledge of being admitted for a truth were it not immediately attainted by the succeeding falshood viz. His wish that there were no more Papists in the Parliaments Army then in theirs I shall now have occasion to overcome the Prince at his owne weapons and dare him to name one Papist of quality or trust nay one souldier of that sect in all the Parliament Army In theirs Serjeant Major Ashton is conspicuous besides my Lord Herbert who not in the Army is a member of it is a notorious Papist so are divers of his Commanders With my Lord of Newcastle birds of that feather flocke together in numbers and I would faine know of Prince Rupert of what Religion he takes the Earle Rivers to be surely a Church-papist at least in all the worlds opinion For his gracious Majesty none ever durst be so disloyally impious to deny him to be the true and best defender of the Protestant Faith and therefore Prince Ruperts testimony of it to us who already believe it is unnecessary and uselesse And for the trophees the Prince boasts of his owne sufferings for the Protestant Cause in Germany what honours hee refused and what close imprisonment hee was threatned if hee would not change his Religion in Gods name let him injoy the glory of that constancy none will be so malicious to deprive him of the least scruple of his merit yet is this no sufficient proofe that hee fights now for the same Cause as he seemes to intimate For the exercise of his valour against the Irish Rebells I believe every man may joyne with him in his wishes but whereas he maliciously sayes he fights to defend the King Religion and Lawes of a Kingdome against Subjects who are up in armes against their Lord and Soveraigne paralelling the Cause of this Kingdome with that of Ireland there hee shewed all those former aspersions to be but Molehils to this Mountaine of calumny First the Irish are Papists and have beene ever on all occasions rebellious tooke up armes as the sequele hath witnessed to re-invest their owne nation with the Sovcraignty of that Kingdome we are Protestants his Majesties most faithfull Subjects the Parliament here not taking up armes for any other end then to secure their owne lives and the Subjects Liberties the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome nay to preserve the King himselfe and rescue him from those seditious and malignant Councellors who have inthrall'd as it were both his body and mind And so much in answer to Prince Ruperts Declaration wherein if I have not sufficiently vindicated the credit of the Cause from his calumny I submit to censure and hope to meet an indulgent remission for my error FINIS