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A90676 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. 1660 (1660) Wing P2157; Thomason 669.f.25[57]; ESTC R212482 4,637 1

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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.