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lord_n	john_n	justice_n	thomas_n	17,750	5	8.7458	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85342	Good counsel in bad times, or, A good motion among many bad ones being a discovery of an old way to root out sects and heresies and an earnest desire for a complyance with all men to settle peace with justice : as also a relation of a remarkable piece of justice done by Duke William called the Good : likewise an epistle to the reader / by John Musgrave ...	Musgrave, John, fl. 1654.; Baudouin, François, 1520-1573.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1041A; ESTC R36608	23,472	37

GOOD COVNSEL IN BAD TIMES Or a good motion among many bad ones Being a discovery of an old way to root out Sects and heresies and an earnest desire for a complyance with all men to settle Peace with Justice As also a Relation of a Remarkable piece of Justice done by Duke WILLIAM called the Good Likewise an Epistle to the Reader By John Musgrave a Lover of Peace and Justice Published according to Order 2 SAM 8.15 Thus David reigned over all Israel and executed judgement and justice unto all his people PROV 21.3 To do justice and judgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice LONDON Printed for Thomas Watson and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-Lane MDCXLVII To the Reader IN the beginning of these our late troubles and Civil warres I was imprisoned by the Justices of the Peace and Commissioners of Array in Cumberland maintaining the Parliamentary Protestations and opposing the Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government of our corrupt Magistracy and Ministery there after a long and chargeable Imprisonment I was removed by an Habeas Corpus to London and freed by Parliament Authority but upon my returne back into my Countrey I was constrained to undergo a voluntary exile in Scotland most p●●● of two years even till the reducement of that Country to obedience of Parliament hoping to have found such placed in Authorities there as had beene of approved Integrity and men hating Covetousnesse I returned to my Country but contrary to my expectations finding the Militia and Authorities there setled in the hands of such as were the sworne and professed enemies of the Kingdome I and some other exiles for the Parliaments cause by certain Propositions represented our grievances and made knowne to the Parliament Commissioners how the Militia and Authorities with us were intrusted to declared Traitors but the Parliament Commissioners would not redresse our grievances Afterwards Mr Osmotherley and I were sent to London to petition the Parliament in the behalf of the well affected of Cumberland and Westmerland after we had attended the Parliament some four moneths upon a false report of the Chair-man of the Committee I was committed to the prison of the Fleet by an Order of the house of Commons where I have beene prisoner yet in all that time could I never have accesse unto Justice During my restraint here reading the History of the Netherlands I found the rise and growth of the warres and troubles of those Provinces was not so much from the dissenting Opinions in matters of Religion as from pride and covetousnesse of the King of Spaines evil Counsellours and worser Ministers of Justice who under a counterfeit zeale and pretext of setling Church Government abusing this their Princes favour and their authority went about to lay a foundation of their own greatnesse in the ruines of the people and to enrich themselves by impoverishing and subjecting those Provinces to their lawlesse wills and Tyranny and the more easie to bring that people under their Iron yoke they set up the Spanish Inquisition where-from to free themselves they were constrained to take up Arms in defence of themselves and for preservation of their almost overthrown Liberties but finding no reconciliation could be had relying upon the equity and justice of their cause by publique Edict did declare the King of Spain to bee fallen from the Seignory and authority he had in and over those Provinces a good crution for Princes by oppression not to lose the affection of their people In France a fire was kindled which the blood of millions could not quench till free exercise of Religion was granted The bloudy wars and fearful massacres and cruel murthers in Germany upon the denying the Protestants there their Liberty were so great and many as the same indangered the utter devastation of that great Empire If wee take a view of the hot persecutions of the Popish Prelates here in England in Queene Maries dayes wee shall finde the same the very cause and grounds of those severe Lawes enacted by her sister against Papists and their Priests our late Bishops and their Clergy were so puffed up with pride as they could not be contented with their great Lordships and large dominions without they might Lord it over the Consciences of others which proved to bee their ruine and now they be cast out with shame as an abhominable branch Our New Presbyters who so cryed downe their Fathers the Bishops and proclaimed against them for their cruelties and in forcing men to a blinde obedience Are they more moderate Nay These our pretended Reformers since they have beene backed by Authority and set up their great Idol Kingdomes-deviding breaking Covenant by this new forgery they endeavour and threaten to enslave all men to their lawlesse lusts Doe they not cry out No Covenant No Parliament as the Prelates did No Bishop No King every Parish Priest more Lording it then any Prelate ever did surely their destruction will be sudden if they longer persist in these Godlesse courses with our Priests our new State Politicks comply by this new devised Covenant they to hold up their faction have cast off or kept out of all place and office such as bee conscientious or honest but left their Fathers the Prelates in case ever should recover their former power and credit should condemne them in their convocation house for Hereticks these pretenders and great Reformers as they retain their old Names and Offices of Parsons and Vicars so are they zealous observers and maintainers of the old Popish Ceremonies as swearing upon a Book ringing of Bells for the dead sermons reading and praying for and over the dead which to do their dear brethren of Scotland do abhominate having rejected the same as Antichristian But left any should think what I have said touching our Covenanting Magistracy and Ministery to bee out of disaffection to their Cause and not of Truth I know that the great masters of this City who so cry up the Covenant will not admit any the freedome thereof notwithstanding they have served seven years for the same without submitting to Book-swearing the other day the Major and Chamberlaine of this Metropolis put backe and denyed one his freedome because bee would not take the Freemans Oath upon a booke Depositions of witnesses are now disalowed and rejected by our new Reforming Justices without the same be sworn upon a Book as I can prove These our Reformers doe they not discover how ready they will be to face about and willing to bow againe under the Episcopall yoak by their continuing the Statutes in force for not repairing to the Book of Common Prayer the English Masse as the Scots calls it for not repairing to the Common Prayer Booke 34. persons in Cumberland at Midsomer Sessions last were indicted by Order of our Parliaments Justices there In Yorkshire the 15. of June 1647. Mr Worsley had his Oxen and Cowes taken from him for his recusancy in not comming to the Common