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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69468	England's confusion, or, A true and impartial relation of the late traverses of state in England with the counsels leading thereunto : together with a description of the present power ruling there by the name of a Parliament, under the mask of The good old cause / written by one of the few English men that are left in England ...	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3168A; ESTC R59	19,125	24

free that they or a new Parliament called by their advice may upon the secure Terms offered at the isle of wight by the KING and such further reasonable Additions as the Times may require restore us to our Antient Government and put an End to our Giddinesse and Confusion which destroys Trade encreaseth Poor and threatens ruine to our Religion and Laws And let none be any longer deluded with the Bastard Good Old Cause now cryed up by some which is but the setting a self-seeking Generation of Unstable Bloody men in supreme Authority who as zealous as some of them seemed lately in the new dissolved Parliament for the Liberties of the People think now that by their Hypocrisie and Falshood as well as Force they have advanced themselves upon the Ruine of their Countrey that the work is done And though they have cryed down a single Person and another House think you such Fools or Slaves that you will not take Notice that an armed General is a worse single Person and such a Coordinate Senate as they intend by the Proposals of the Army which now are come to the House by way of Petition as if they had not been agreed on before a worse other House than the last which was the worst that England ever saw And this Rump of a cashiered House of Commons taken into service again at Mercy and new dressed by Sir Henry Vane another single person amongst them worse than the late House of Commons which was full and free or than the Long Parliament restored to its Freedom or than any other that may be chosen by the free Votes of your selves and Legally summoned to Sit and Decree our Settlement I shall say no more to you but desire you to consider what I have said to the Army with hearts ready to forgive them and pay them their Arrears with additional Rewards if now at length they Repent and Restore our violated Government and obediently submit to what They and the KING shall Ordain for the Settlement of these Distracted and no otherways to be cured Nations for we see by Experience than one FACTION devoures another and will at length devoure the People and their Liberties in the ways of Sin and Guilt that we are in Let all of you therefore insist on this That the Members of the Long Parliament who have been unjustly imprisoned and secluded may be Restored to Discharge the Trust you have put in them and then we may hope for Settlement which we have tryed almost Eleven yeares that we cannot have without them And if the Army shall again interpose and interrupt you in your Sober and honest Endeavours for Settlement Let them find by your vigorous Appearing against them that you know them to be the Meanest of the People and so Few in Number that they are not One in every Parish in England and many single Parishes have Ten times their Number of PEOPLE 3. Advice to the Members sitting at westminster First remember the volumes of Remonstrances Declarations Votes Ordinances Protestations Oa hs and Covenants wherein you as members of that house with others have held forth to God and the world The good old Cause you ingaged in to be for the defence of the King Parliament Protestant Religion priviledges and liberties of the people and that you renounced all other Causes wherewith you were aspersed and never owned any other till that in March 1649. after you had injuriously joyned with the Army in forcing away the majority of the House of Commons and the whole house of Lords you perjuriously apostatized from the Good old Cause and set up another of A Common wealth or free State opposite to it and which you had ever formerly disowned as a scandal cast on you when you were charged but with an intention that way 2. Remember and be ashamed that you have stuck at no oaths but have taken the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy The Protestation The vow and Covenant The solemn league and Covenant The engagement The Recognition of Protector Oliver The oath to be true and faithful to Protector Richard and have kept these contrary oaths and engagements all alike and now do set men of the same stamp in offices and places of trust instead of men of courage fearing God and hating covetousnesse But do not think all is well when you have advanced your selves and friends rather believe that though returning to what you have so often sworn to maintain you cannot so many of you be Councellers of state Iudges and Officers military or civil yet you may become honest men and Christians which will better become you and bring you more comfort and peace at the last 3. Remember that though by lyes subterfuges men may be deceived and abused for a while God is not mocked Gal. 6 7. but will though he bear long at length wound the hairy scalp of such as go on still in their wickednesse Psal. 28. 21. and pierce you thorow with many forrows 4. Consider how God hath emptied us from vessel to vessel and led us through a wildernesse of changes these eleven yeares of Apostacy and gives no settlement return therefore to December 1648. where you forsook settlement when it was offered by the King and accepted by the Parliament and in doing your first works for King and Parliament in a full and free house God will blesse you and this Kingdome as at the first and the present Protector cannot but rejoyce also to part with his power upon those termes which both he and his brother the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland must needs grudge to have wrested from him by you and his treacherous relations I intended a word also of justification of Mr. Prynne but that his Learned and seasonable writings praise him in the gates and carry such evidence of undeniable truth with them and so clear a testimony from A Martyr for the People against the abominable iniquity and horrid impieties of this iron Age that the Railing Rabsh kahs of the time in what they belch out against him do but as dogs that bark against the Moon and therefore I shall leave him to the cure prescribed by God himself for such tongues in the 120 Psal. v. 3. 4. What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false tongue sharp arrowes of the mighty with coals of Juniper And do depend as I believe Mr. Prynne do●h also upon that Scripture word that in due time the mouth of al● iniquity shall be stopt FINIS