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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

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

Letter from Bedford 30 July 1647. His and the Armies Remonstrance 8. August 1647. Treasonable act and force for which they pressed speedy exemplary Justice to be executed against the chief Actors in and abettors of it to prevent the like attempts and force for the future Then doubtless by all these Judgements and Resolutions the Martching up of the Officers and Soldiers of the very Parliaments own Army purposely raised by themselves for their defence against all force and violence whatsoever offered unto them as Members in an hostile manner against their Duties Trusts Commissions protestations Covenants both Houses Votes Orders and express commands several times one after another to impeach secure seclude imprison eject what Members of the Lords and Commons House they pleased to garble purge the houses themselves to enforce them to repeal their former Votes Orders Odinances their bringing up the whole Army to London and Westminster against the Houses commands removing their very Guards out of their Quarters their forcible taking the kings person out of the custody of the Committee of Parliament and disposing of him as they pleased contrary to both Houses direction their securing and imprisoning above 40 Members and secluding above 100 more at once by whole Regiments of Horse and Foot besetting all passages to the Houses Their suppressing the whose House of Lords and setting Guards upon the small remainder of the Commons House to force them to vote and un-vote what they pleased their beheading the King the Head of the Parliament and sundry Protestant Lords but not one Popish Lord Briest Iesuite though the principal Incendiaries and promoters of these wars and so * Exact Collection p. 816 817 819 826 827 662 438 662 664 664 666 336 637 637 907 to 916. A Collect. p. 218 227 240 704 705 706. declared by both Houses who were Members of the Lords House against the Houses votes in strange High Courts of Iustice which they forcibly set up their dissolving the Parliament it self by force against an expresse Act of Parliament to omit the like force since upon some of their own created Mock-Parliaments transcending all presidents of former ages and secluding mcself and other Members afresh May 7. 1659. contrary to all their Obligations Trusts must needs be a more Capital Treason in all respects than the bare successeless plot of the old Guno powder Traytors and a more treasonable actual levying war against the Parl. it self than the late beheaded kings Lords or any sequestred disabled Cavahers for which they deserve all the capital Iudgements execution penalties forfeitures sequestrations and disabilities for ever to elect or to be elected Members in any suture Parliament which they and their Confederates have denounced against others for farr lesser Offences and not so direct and professed Wars immediately against the Parliament it self and its Member as themselves are by their own Declarations Remonstrances and printed Papers most really guilty of in a farr higher degree than the late King or any Cavaliers still impenitently justifie applaud persist in without the least remorse and now stile their Good Old Cause I shall therefore earnestly desire all persons ingaged in this whorish bastard old Cause now seriously and sadly to consider how their often forcing Ruptures of the houses Members privileges of Parliament their absurd frequent new-modelling of our Government Parliaments according to their own whymsical fancies present interests and designs carried on with prayers mock-fasts and humiliations for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse * Isa 58.2 3 4 5 c. c. 1.10 to 24. c. 66.3.4 most execrable unto God have produced these deplorable effects 1. A justification and verification of all the late Kings Declarations Proclamations Prophetical predictions grounds reasons fears * Exact Collection 618 657 658 893 895 320 325 322. A collection p. 28 38 39 116 117. That this Army was raised by a factious ambitious prevailing party in the Houses of Parliament whatever they pretended to the contrary to depose murder and destroy the Kings person life Crown dignity posterity and Monarchy it self the whole frame of Government both in Church and State the Rights Privileges and Freedom of English Parliaments to subvert the true established Protestant Religion the Law of the Land the Properties Laws and Liberties of the Subject to introduce Democracy and Parity and subject them all to an Arbitrary Military and Tyrannical power of Anabaptists Brownists and of a few Seditious Factious Covetous and Ambitious persons who by being seized of all the Armes Ships and strong places of the kingdom if they should happen to prevail in this war against his Majesty would in despite not only of the people but of their present Rulers if they should be willing to divert them extirpate the Law rent and branch alter the whale Frame of Government introduce Democracy Independency Parity and leave neither King Church Lord nor Gentleman distinguish between those who assisted them but a little not out of zeal and out of fear and those now called Moderate man they will then call Malignant and the Inequality Injustice and Oppression they will then indure will too late discover to them to their costs That they have undone themselves with too much Discretion and obtained nothing by their unjustifiable cautious Compliance but to be destroyed last * Exact Coll. p. 320 321 322. And by this means the most excellent Constitution of our Government moulded out of a mixture of the three kinds of Government amongst men Absolute Monarchy Aristocracy and Democracy by the experience and wisdom of our Ancestors to give to this Kingdom so farr as humane prudence can provide the conveniences of all 3 without the inconveniences of any one of them as long as the ballance runs even between them and they run joyntly in their proper channels which bath made this Nation for many years both famous and happy even to a great degree of envy shall by this means end in a dark equal Chanos or confusion and the long Line of our Noble Ancestors end in a Iack Cade or a Wat Tyler Upon which reasons alone the King professed he took up arms for his own necessary defence and prevention of all these predicted mischiess now really and truly accomplished in every point worthy our saddest contemplations 2ly It hath produced a falsification of all the long Parliaments and Armies Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Vows Covenants to the contrary in answer or opposition to the Kings Declarations and Proclamations 3ly A translation from the Kings and his parties heads souls upon the Armies and some of the late Parliaments heads souls the guilt of all that Christian bloud shed in our intestin wars against the King and his party by turning their pretended just defensive into an unlawfull offensive invasive destructive war against their lawfull King Parliament too 4ly A justification or extenuation of the Popes Jesuits and papists most treasonable Positions principles