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A56197	The re-publicans and others spurious good old cause, briefly and truly anatomized. To preserve our native country, kingdom, legal government, Church, parliaments, laws, liberties, privileges of Parliament, and Protestant religion from ruine, scandal, and perpetual infamy; to reform, reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced republicans, officers, soldiers, sectaries, heretofore, or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled good old cause, from any future pursute thereof, and engage them for ever to abominate it, as apparently tending to publike ruin, their own temporal and eternal condemnation, infamy, our religions reproach, in present and succeeding ages. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4052; ESTC R234922	18,673	20

thrust them out of the Parliament House Whitehall laying their elevated Honor in the dust And by their Declaration of August 22. 1653. and A true state of the Common-wealth of England 1654. p. 8. c. not only declared them to be actually finally and justly dissolved from being any more a Parliament by an extraordinary providence power but also branded them to all posterity for a CORRUPT PAKTY carrying on their own ends to perpetuate themselves in their late PARLIAMENTARIE SVPREAM AVTHORITIE never answoring the ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them but exercising an Arbitrary Power over them likely to swallow up all the antient Liberties and Properties of the People and to perpetuate their Vexations and Oppressions in every kind though the multitude of unnecessary Laws and Ordinances many of which were made upon occasion of and to suit with the concernments and interests of partiaular parties tending to the absolute enslaving of the free-born Nation under their perpetual Dictatorship as they there at large remonstrate These New Athenian Republican Tyrants worse than the worst of all our Kings being thus sodainly dismounted by the Army to the general joy and contentment of all three Nations Generall and the Army-Officers seating themselves in the Supream Power which they allawaies retained and actually exercised in reality at their pleasures though their Mock-Porliament had the Title and visible administration therof usurped an absolute Legislative Tax imposing Parliament-modelling electing convening secluding dissolving power at their pleasures and made their Genera under the Title of Lord Protector of the Infant Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland as the Roman-Souldiers did their Generals under the' Titles of Caesar or Emperour a more absolute real though not nominal King over us than any of our antient Kings and themselves as a Counsel of State and Major Generals under him acted more arbitrarily tyranically oppressively as Legislators Military and civil Dictators Iudges or pety Kings under him than any of our Saxon Kings during the Heptarchy or old Counsel-Table Lords or Lord Lieutenants under our late King though branded by them as the worst of Tyrants Whose exorbitant Authorities being in some measure bounded and their Major-Generalships set aside by the Assembly at Westminster 1657. and their first Protector soon after his beloved Daughter sodainly out off by unexpected death and his Son no former Officer in the Army succeeding him calling a New Convention at Westminster in Ianuary 1658. the all-swaying Army-Grandees either fearing or discerning in him an inclination rather to close with the antient Nobility Gentry Lawyers and Prebyterians than with them and to revive the old English Militia of Trained-bands by degrees for the peoples ease in their Taxes as the probablest means for his own and our Nations ease settlement security Thereupon they resolved to set up their new Republick again but finding themselves and the old and new Rebublican Members with whom they confederated over-voted in the House by the Lawyers and Court-party in their design of the reviving their former Common-wealth purposely to set aside their young Protector or reduce him and the Republick too under their own pristine Wardship they fell to their former Policy whereby they dismembred dissolved the long Parliament setting up a new General Counsel of Officers and Agitators of the Army against their Protectors will and the Votes of those they acknowledged to be the Parliament and General Counsel both of England Scotland and Ireland of both which themselves like Ambidexters were Members by which stratagem they engaged the major part of the forces here to side with them against the Parliament and enforced their Protector by a suddain surprise much against his will unexpectedly to dissolve the Parliament to make themselves the present Supream Counsel Dictators and Governors of our three Nations as their subsequent actions every day more and more demonstrate To engage all the old and new Republican Members Sectaries Souldiers others in this their foreplotted New-Confederacy they did in sundry printed papers at the beginning of the last Convention since its dissolution and in several Speeches in the House extoll The Good Old Cause in which they formerly engaged and what that was themselves in some of their Speeches motions for their indemnity and justification therein have discovered to wit the impeaching and beheading of the late King in an illegal new High Court of Justice against the Votes of both Houses the Presidents of all former Ages the Laws and Statutes of the Land their own Declarations Remonstrances Commissions Oaths Vows Protestations Covenants yea the very Writs and Indentures by which some of them were elected Members of the long Parliament all obliging them in precise terms to defend the Kings Person Crown and lawfull Authority as well as both Houses of Parliament their Members privileges against all violence conspiracies and attempts whatsoever To disinherit his royal posterity to sel divide among themselves all or most of the antient Lands Rents Revenues Treasure of the Crown which formerly defrayed the ordinary expences of the Realm without taxing the people to dissolve the whole House of Lords impeach seclude secure imprison close imprison the majority of the House of Commons opposite to their new spurious Good Cause at their pleasure and to create the small remainder of the Commons confederated with the Army an absolute Parl. and the Supreme Authority of the Nation without King or House of Lords or the major part of their secluded Fellow-Commoners to metamorphose our Old Kingdom into a new Infant Republick Oligarchy under themselves alone to disinherit all secluded Members and other English Freemen of their hereditary Laws Liberties Franchises and put them into a new Praemunire without any legal Indictment or Conviction disabling them to sue in any Court or enjoy receive any office or preferment whatsoever unless they shall perfidiously abjure all former Oaths Protestations Vows Covenants and engage to be true and faithfull to them and their new-minted Republick without a King or House of Lords to new-modle our Nations Parliaments Government subvert our old fundamental good Laws Liberties Properties imprison banish condemn execute our persons sequester confiscate our Lands Offices real personal Estates ransack our Houses Studies papers and create new Treasons forfeitures of our Freeholds at their arbitrary Lordly pleasures to repeal the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance suspend all penal Executions against Jesuits and Romish-Seminaries give a free toleration protection to all sorts of Sects and Religions whatsoever to hold intimate correspondency with Popish Princes Cardinals Jesuits Jesuited Papists and maintain justifie their most abominable treasonable principles as they did in their preceedent concurrent and subsequent to in and after the proceedings against the King Members erection of their new Free-state the worst of all Arbitrary Tyranies All which nought else but this is the only Good Old Cause they now extoll are to act over again perchance to the

all ages to come Yea after all these old Traitors exemplary condemnations forfeitures executions and hanging up of their Heads Quarters over both Houses of Parl. to deter all others from the like treasonable attempts That though this their late plot was for certain (a) The 2. part of the History of Independency my Epistle to a Seasonable legal historical Vindication My Speech in Parliament p. 107 the Appendix to it originally projected infused into them by Jesuites and Popish Agents yet they openly attributed to themselves both the projecting prosecution accomplishment of this transcendent Treason farr exceeding theirs and proclaimed justified it in sundry of their Remonstrances Ac●s Ordinances Papers as a most heroick Saint-like Christian Honorable and meritorious Act of Justice wherein God himself hath most gloriously appeered bearing witness to and owning it from Heaven by their unparalleld successes not only as a Good but the very best of causes tending to the great advancement of the Throne and kingdom of the Lord Iesus Ch●ist Some of them desiring that the everlasting memory of it may be inscribed on their publike Statues or Monuments For their eternal honour in all succeeding Generations Whereas the very foulest Devils and worst of damned Spirits in Hell would be both afraid ashamed to own or approve such an infernal black cause as this much less to justifie and extoll it in such a prodigious impudent manner as some now doe which exceedingly heightens and aggravates their Impudency Impenitency Guilt and Condemnation Certainly those must have (b) Jer. 3.3 wh●rish forheads brows of brass hearts of steel (c) 2 Tim. 4.2 and conseiences seared with an hot iron who dare to own extoll or espouse such a prodigy or Cause as this And may doe well to remember those two woes which will fall upon them for it Isa 5.18.20 Wo unto them that draw Iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as with a cartrope Wo unto them that call Evil yea the worst of all Evils Treasons Good and good will that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and now call the destruction of their lawfull Soveraign their Native Country kingdom Church the Parliaments of England and their privileges their Good Old cause and (d) Phil. 3.19 glory in these their shamefull Actions e Job 42 6. which should cause them rather to abhor themselves and repent in dust and ashes 7ly The old Gunpowder Traitors only plotted but never actually effected the blowing up of the King Parliament and House of Lords thorugh the providence of f 3 Jac. c. 1. Almighty God who in all ages hath shewed his power and mercy in the miraculous and gratious deliverance of his church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States But our new Salt-peter-men have with an high storng hand fully executed g See their Declaration of 17 March 1648. May 6. 1659. John Godwins Obstructors of Justice Cooks Bradshawes Speeches John Miltons Answer to Salmatius and sundry other printed Pamphlets accomplished whatever they designed and because they miscarried not in it like them but by Gods justice upon them us our King Lords Parliament for all our crying sins have prospered in this Foelix Seelus and brought their wicked devices to pass they glory in it as the Highest Act of Justice the Best of Causes the Greatest Mercy and Deliverance that ever befell the English Nation point blank against the (h) Psal 37 1.7 Ps 73.3 c. Ps 92.6 7. Ps 94.3 4 5. Dan. 11.33.36 Mat. 7.21 Acts 2.33 Pro. 29.19 20 21 22 23. Job 21.7 c. Scriptures and principles of Christian Religion whereby they have involved us in many intestine and forein Wars with our Protestant Brethren and Allies by Sea and Land which they have dyed red and drenchd with precious Christian bloud exhausted our publike treasures destroyed our trade impoverished oppressed quite eaten out the wealth and spirits of our Nation imposed endlesse Egyptian burdens on their backs an Iron Yoak of vassallage on their necks subverted all Liberty property unity amity real piety charity honesty justice divided us into sundry irreconcileable Sects schisms factions fractions perplexed us with sundry manifold fears dangers sodain changes alterations dissolutions of Government Parliaments supreme and subordinate Authorities yea reduced us into a desperate unsetled floating tottering condition without any probable means or hopes of the least setled establishment and brought that severe judgement which God threatned to and inflicted on the Rebellious ten tribes of Israel who revolted from and rebelled against their lawfull Soveraign and right heir to the House of David King Rehoboam (i) Hosea 8.4 c. 13.11 setting up Kings but not by God and making them Princes k Hosea 3.4 and he knew it not whom God took away in his wrath The children of Israel shall abide many days without a King and without a Prince c. l Hosea 10.2 3 4. c. He hath divided their heart now shall they be found faulty For now they shall say and I wish we all would consider it say so too We have no King no true Parliament neither because we feared not the Lord What then should a King or Parliament do to us to help us in our confusions and extremities They have spoken lying words swearing falsly in making a Covenant thus judgement springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field one Judgement of God one trouble war change confusion oppression upon the neck of another and many complicated Judgements together So that Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel now her King is cut off as the fome upon the water and the High places wherein they seated themselves destroyed and all their New Modles of Goverments Parliaments destroyed by themselves they being now disuniting undermining one another more than ever never free from new Troubles plots fears jealousies perplexities since they undertook this New Good Old Romish Cause blow up King Lords Parliaments since they m 1 Kings 21 19. killed and also took possession and like those rebellious wicked H. sbandmen in the n Mat. 21.38.39 1. u. 19.27 c. 20.14 15 16. Gospel said among themselves when the son came to dem and the fruits of his Fathors vineyard from them and cast him out of the vineyard this is the Heir Come let us kill him and seise upon the Inheritance and it shall be ours which ended in the miserable destruction of those wicked men and taking away their usurped vineyard which was let out to other Husbandmen who would render the fruits thereof in due season All which considered our new Powder mens Guilt crime as far transcends the old Powder Traytors as actual Murder destruction of the King Parliament kingdom Laws Liberties and ill consequents thereof exceed only intentionall without effect Theirs unsetled nothing and did no mischief to the publike whereas their actual accomplishment of