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A56169 The good old cause rightly stated, and the false un-cased Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1659 (1659) Wing P3970; ESTC R219597 8,694 8

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The Good Old Cause rightly stated and the False un-cased By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns-Inne WHen the a wilely Gibeonites attempted to circumvent Iosuah and the Israelites and draw them into a League with them against b Gods express inhibition they accomplished their design with this Stratageme c by carrying along with them old Sacks old rent Wine-bottles old Shoes and Garments and old dry mouldy bread and provisions to the Israelites Camp at Gilgal which they alleged were all new on the day they came forth from their Country but were all becom old by reason of their very far journy which they believing without examination were insnared by them This policy hath for many years past been pursued by Iesuites and other Gibeonites of Rome to circumvent over credulous Protestants to enter into a holy League with them to the shipwrack of their Faith and Souls by crying up their d new Superstitions Relique Errors for the only old Religion and decrying the antient Protestant Religion as a late Novelty first broached by Luther and Calvin Whether this be not the present stratageme of some of their Instruments or Fraternity to engage the Souldiers to joyn in a new confederacy with them to bring our old Religion Government Parliaments Laws Liberties to speedy desolation irrecoverable destruction under the disguise of maintaining the good * old Cause is not unworthy their strictest inquisition most serious consideration which will be evidently demonstrated to them by discovering the only true original Good Old Cause Grounds Ends drawing the Houses of Parliament to raise and continue the Armies under their successive Generals most clearly fully and truly expressed in their own Votes Orders Ordinances Declarations year after year printed at large in two distinct Volums for Edward Husbands 1643. and 1646. by order of the Commons assembled in Parliament which being almost quite forgotten it will be both seasonable and necessary to refresh the memories and awaken the stupid if not seared Consciences of the Nation with a recital of the chiefest of them to countermine the new plots of all seducing Gibeonites The first Original of the unhappy breach between the late King and our long Parliament was (e) his comming personally into the Commons House to demand the five Members 4 Ianuary 1641. whom the day before he had impeached of High Treason and sent a Sergeant at Arms to apprehend This breach of Privilege induced the Houses to require the power of the Militia to be at their disposal for the safeguard of their Persons and Privileges which being denyed by the King who condescended to it very far but not in that latitude as demanded soon after the King departing from the Parliament and setting on foot the Commission of Array for his defence against the Parliament and the Parliament raising the Militia for their safeguard against the King this first engaged them by degrees into a civil bloody war against each other ending in their mutual destruction by the very new Militia they contested for as their only security against each other The sole Cause Grounds Ends of the Parliaments raysing the Militia and after that an Army are thus fully declared by the Lords and Commons in their Prepositions for bringing in Plate and Mony Horse Horse-men and Arms for the defence of the King and both Houses of Parliament printed and published by order of the Lords and Commons 10 Junii 1642. Whereas it appears the King seduced by wicked Counsel intends to make war against his Parl. and in pursuance thereof (f) under pretence of raysing a Guard for his person hath actually begun to levy forces both horse and foot c. so as the orders of Parliament which is the highest Court of Iustice in this Realm are not obeyed and the authority thereof is altogether scorned and vilified and such persons as stand well-affected to it and declare themselves sensible of these publike calamities and of the violations of the privileges of Parliament and common liberty of the Subjects are baffled and injured by several sorts of malignant men who are about the King some whereof under the name of * Cavaliers without having respect to the Laws of the Land or any fear either of God or man are ready to commit all manner of outrage and violence which must needs tend to the dissolution of this Government the destroying of our Religion Laws Liberty and property all which must be exposed to the malice and violence of such desperate persons as must be employed in so horrid and unnatural an act as the overthrowing of a Parliament by force which is the support and preservation of them All which being duly considered by the Lords and Commons how great an obligation lies upon them in honor conscience and duty according to the high trust reposed in them to use all possible means in such case for the timely prevention of so great and irrecoverable evils they have thought fit to publish their sense and apprehension of this imminent danger thereby to excite all well-affected persons to distribute their best assistance according to their Solemn Vow and Protestation to the preparations necessary for the opposing and suppressing of the trayterous Attempts of those wicked and malignant Counsellors who seek to engage the King in so wicked and destructive an Enterprise and to destroy the Privileges and Being of Parliaments 1. They the said Lords and Commons do declare That whosoever shall bring in any proportion of Money or Plate or shall underwrite to furnish or maintain any number of Horse Horsemen or Arms for the preservation of the publick peace and for the defence of the King and both Houses of Parliament from force and Uiolence and to uphold the Power and Privileges of Parliament according to his Protestation it shall be held a good and acceptable Service to the Common-wealth and Testimony of his good affection to the Protestant Religion the Laws Liberties and Peace of this kingdom and to the Parliament and privileges thereof And lastly it is declared That whatsoever is brought in shall not at all be imployed upon any other occasion than to the purposes aforesaid which are To maintain the Protestan● Religion the Kings authority and his person in his Royal Dignity the free course of Justice the Laws of the Land the Peace of the Kingdom and the Privileges of Parliament against any force that shall oppose them And this by direction of Both Houses of Parliament Here you have the Good Old Cause truly clearly and fully stated by both Houses of Parliament in every particular branch thereof when they first ingaged themselves all the well-affected people of the Kingdom and Army in it as they published to all the world in these their Propositions Which how diametrically contrary it is in every branch to the misstaken Good Old Cause now cried up and prosecuted with an high hand to the late practises proceedings counsels papers designs