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country_n	call_v	great_a	inhabit_v	1,448	5	9.6227	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96744	A cordial confection, to strengthen their hearts whose courage begins to fail, by the armies late dissolving the Parliament. It is wrapt up in an epistolary discourse, occasionally written to Mr. Ro. Hamon, merchant, by Geo. Wither, Esq; about a week after the said Parliament was dissolved; and is thus communicated by a copy thereof, as very pertinent to these distracted times, and tending to preservation of the common-peace. for (other things of publick concernment, being inter-woven) it truly states the peoples cause (in plain expressions, suitable to the vulgar capacities) and frees it from many scandals. It contains an expedient, (hitherto not heeded, or neglected) whereby Charles Stuart may be settled in peace, if he please: whereby, we may have a better Parliament then we lost, or ever had: whereby, our armies may be kept constant to order, whilst they are needful, and in a short time quite disbanded: whereby, the peoples just freedoms may be recovered and perpetuated: whereby, not onely these nations, but all Christendome also, may be established in a righteous peace; and it hath neither destructive inlet, outlet, or false bottom.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3151; Thomason E763_13; ESTC R207097	68,046	43

People are those Events which have ensued upon mis-understanding our Cause and upon our mis-proceeding therein and those obstructive Objections are cast in and raised partly by the Royalists and partly by some ignorant and malevolent persons among our selves who perceive not from whence those Events do more naturally proceed To make the Peoples Cause appear unjust and therefore their prosecutions thereof unpleasing to GOD and to make the vulgar sort think the Kings claim to be righteous they object that therefore we can settle upon no Government without him and that we have no good and lawful Foundation to build upon and that therefore GOD blasteth all our endeavours from time to time whereas that issues not from the evilness of our Cause but from the imprudence or self-mindedness of the Prosecutors To fright ignorant persons into a belief or suspition of the goodness or lawfulness of our Claim they tell them of one Parliament-man that hanged himself how these and these came to such and such Tragical ends and what befel to some other eminent persons who were Patrons thereof as if that proved the Cause which they owned to be unquestionably evil all which are but Childish Bug-bears and Fanatick Hob-Goblins which are easily charmed into nothing What a ridiculous Argument is it to prove the unjustness of a Cause to alledge that one of the Prosecutors thereof hanged himself There were but twelve Apostles and one of them hanged himself doth that any whit disparage the Apostolick Faith perhaps as these do the malitious Jews made use of it to the like purpose though by his own confession they knew that Judgement fell upon Judas not because he was one of Christs Followers but for that he was a Traitor to his Master and had betrayed an Innocent into their hands There were above 400 Parliament-men of which but one made away himself and we knowing not upon what secret Motive what can be thereupon inferred Indeed if all the 400 or so many of them as owned the peoples Cause had banged themselves except one we might have concluded as our Adversaries do The Conjurers up of those delusive Apparations do not remember that those 18 persons upon whom the Tower fell and they whose blood-Pilat mingled with their Sacrifices were no greater sinners then other men and that they who conceived hardly of them should also perish unless they repented nor do they take notice that the like ends have happened to as many or to more of their own party and that it would be as valid an Argument against their Cause as against ours Nor do they know or else will not know as we do who have observed their actings deportments that most if not all of them on our side who have been particularized as men pursued by Divine Vengeance suffered not by the hand of Common Justice or by a secret Judgment in outward probability for their deserting the Kings Cause or for being instrumental in removing him but for that they were Traytors to them by whom they were trusted and false to the peoples Cause which they seemingly owned and either betrayed it or would have betrayed it if they had not been timely cut off And whereas the many extravagancies relating both to Religion and the depravation of Manners in these times are objected as effects of our evil Cause it is to be considered that those are the usual products in times of War of that licentiousness which is in men of corrupt minds and principles who then discover that pravity which lay hid in them formerly and not from the Cause in Controversie For my part I am not a whit out of heart by the present distractions by the scandalizing of our Cause by the Obstructions it hath met withal by the hazards it is now in by the multitude of powerful Adversaries or by the failings of those that manage it Nor do I judge the goodness of any mans Cause to be more or less by Events whether prosperous or unprosperous at the first lest as David said I may condemn the Generation of the Righteous or justifie the Wicked nor do I judge of any thing by the outward pomp or base aspect which it hath in the eye of the world nor by the continuance which it can plead by Prescription For Tyranny hath been ever since Nimrods raign The Mahumetans Impostures which is an usurped Antichristian power without the Pale of the Church hath tyrannized almost a thousand years The Roman Hierarchy which is the Antichrist in the visible Church of Christ hath persecuted above six hundred years our Norman bondage hath continued above five hundred The Children of Israel when they were brought out of Aegypt where they had been enslaved above three hundred years and then advanced in hope to be made Possessors of a Country inhabited by powerful Nations were doubtless as much derided for that Attempt as we are by our Neighbours and by some among our selves who in derision and scorn call our The Good Old Cause They had as many longings and lookings back toward Aegypt as the greatest part of this people hath at this day to return to their old Task-masters to their Garlick Onyons Flesh-pots and such other Carnal Accommodations as those which we prefer before our Birth-rights and value less then a Mess of Porrage They tempted GOD and provoked him by their Idolatries Fornications Murmurings Rebellions Avarice Backslidings and Self-seekings as we do So they mutined against their Superiors so they discouraged each other by mis-reporting that Good Land to which GOD was carrying them by representing formidably the strength of the high-walled Cities and the mighty Giants who were therein and those discouragements proceeded from some of the most eminent persons among them even from no less then six to one of those who were chosen to spy out the Land so also were they for their unfaithfulness and other sins wasted and delayed as we have been even forty years in the Desarts as we have been almost twenty years already as it were in a Wilderness of Confusions for our prevarications and mis-belief and our Faith and Patience is at this present exercised with many Fears Doubts Wants Troubles and Powerful Adversaries in the Passage toward the recovery of our long-lost Freedoms and yet as theirs was our Cause is nevertheless that Good Old Cause of which we should neither be ashamed or distrustful If we may censure the Righteousness of a Cause by the mean beginning by the outward despicableness by the tedious and difficult progressions by the contemptibleness of the Prosecutors or by the unprosperous successes during many years no Cause in the world might be so●lyable to mis censure as our Christian profession which for many Ages together was the scorn not of the base and foolish but also of the noblest and wisest persons in the Worlds esteem The Professors of it were no better thought of then as Fanatick Dreamers at best and as Vagabonds hunted through all Nations and Countries by ten