<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2009-01-04</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch Z080711.pdcc.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="OX" ID="A77961">
<STC T="W">B6041</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">45789192</BIBNO>
<VID>172505</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="1"><!-- PDF PAGE 17 -->
<HEAD>TO THE WHOLE ENGLISH ARMY, And to every particular Member thereof, both Officers and Souldiers, Whether of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> or <HI>Ireland;</HI> The&s;e are for them to Read, and Con&s;ider, as whole&s;ome <HI>Animadver&s;ions</HI> in this day of Di&s;tractions.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>FRIENDS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHere is the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> now? and what is become of it? in who&s;e hands doth it lie? and where are they that truly contend for it? as for you, have not you foregone it? and long &s;ince trodden it under foot, and de&s;pi&s;ed it, and only talked of it, but not rightly pro|&s;ecuted it; but your own Cau&s;e, and not Gods have you &s;erved, what do you &s;ay? is the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> cea&s;ed, and clean peri&s;hed? or are you cea&s;ed to contend for it, through your unfaithfulne&s;s? or is your &s;trength betrayed, that you cannot plead for it as formerly? the people of the&s;e Nations thinks that you have buried the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> and quite forgotten it now; for was not the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> for liberty, both in Spiritualls and Temporalls? was it not the <HI>ju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> Freedom</HI> of all People, that was once contended for, and all <HI>Tyranny,</HI> and <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>unju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t Lawes</HI> once contended again&s;t? and you have &s;eemed once to be the a&s;&s;erters of this, and &s;ometimes the vindicators of it, but what is be|come of it now? is your zeal peri&s;hed? and where are the faithful contenders for it, &s;eeing &s;o many of the people of the Lord, and of the free people of this Nation have been, and are at this day grievous &s;ufterers under the Opre&s;&s;ions and Cruelties of men, and under unju&s;t men, and unju&s;t Lawes? can you be Ignorant how many hundreds in the&s;e Nations have wofully &s;uffered &s;ome Impri&s;onment, others whipping, and others bani&s;h|ment, and others have &s;uffered until death, for Con&s;cience take, and without the breach of any ju&s;t Law? and many great Oppre&s;&s;ions are this day abounding in the Nations; and was not the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> once laid down, to be again&s;t all the&s;e things? but becau&s;e of your Treachery and unfaithfulne&s;&s;e, and your forgetting to pro&s;ecute the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> therefore have the&s;e things come to pa&s;&s;e, and the Nations lies like a wil|derne&s;&s;e under groaning Oppre&s;&s;ions, and in Confu&s;ion, and un&s;ettled in the way of peace, which is as a weight and burden of Iniquity in the fight of the Lord; and the guilt of tho&s;e unju&s;t &s;ufferings, and of the pre&s;ent oppre&s;&s;ions and di&s;tractions lies upon you principally, even as much as upon any others; for time and power hath been in your hands to have freed the Nations from bondage, but you have long turned up and down, and about, for earthly Honor and &s;elf-intere&s;ts; &s;erving mens plea&s;ure, and have not rightly followed the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> but the rather forgotten it, and neglected it, and have bowed under the <HI>Lu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">s</HI> and <HI>Ambition</HI> of men, and &s;erved mens private ends, and not the Nations general good; &s;ome|times appearing for one thing and way, and &s;ometimes for another; and changing your way, and have been un&s;table and uncon&s;tant in good things, &s;o that the Nation and the good People in it, cannot any longer tru&s;t you, for there is no con&s;idence to be placed in you; many had good hopes that &s;ome good thing might have been effected by you, when power and time was in your hands; but you have betrayed &s;uch hopes, and are (as) quite changed from the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e;</HI> and the Nation can judge you now, to be little better then a Mercinary Army, that will do any thing for money, and be led about according to the wills of men; but how long will it be e're you con&s;ider of your &s;elves? and how woeful you are fallen, from what you once &s;eemed to be; and when will you remember the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e?</HI> but alas, you are divided and broken in pieces, &s;ome for one thing, and &s;ome for another; &s;ome for an <HI>Old Parliament,</HI> and &s;ome for a <HI>New;</HI> and &s;ome for a <HI>Protector,</HI> like as if the names and ti|tles of men and Governments, were &s;ufficient to redeem a Nation from oppre&s;&s;ions and mi&s;eries; and &s;o being divided about &s;elf-intere&s;ts, and names, and for per&s;ons, you have all left the thing it &s;elf <HI>Worthy</HI> to be contended for, and the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> is lo&s;t: and now you are for men, and you turn about at their plea&s;ure, and are about things of no value in re&s;pect of the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> once laid down by you; (to wit) even the per|fect freedome of the Nations; and you are under a great reproach at this day among good men, and your glory is fallen in the &s;ight of the Nati|ons, and your terror lo&s;t, and your &s;hame appears: And becau&s;e of your hypocrifie and unfaithfulne&s;s, the Lord hath reproved you, and &s;uffered a check to your ambition, and brought you under the reproof of hard-hearted men: Oh that you may learn the Ju&s;tices of the Lords Judgement up|on you, and may repent, that your pre&s;ent affliction may prove to correct and amend you, and not no de&s;troy you utterly; you are fallen from your fir&s;t integrity, and therefore are you under &s;hame and ju&s;t reproof, and it may be enquired what is become of that zeal that once was in you, is it wholly peri&s;hed out of your hearts? And &s;hall the Lord utterly lay you a&s;ide, and never make more u&s;e of you? Is there no hope of your return to the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e?</HI> When will you begin to appear for things for perfect freedome and liberty, and cea&s;e to be for names and men, while the good Cau&s;e it &s;elf is lo&s;t, and the intere&s;t of oppre&s;&s;ion &s;eems to be promoted: Therefore con&s;ider, Oh! what an excellent thing would it be, if you would &s;incerely return to the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e:</HI> and if you could agree among your &s;elves, few or many of you, to &s;tate the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> once more in clear and plain principles, and po&s;itions; and if you could lay down right things worthy to be contended for; and upon which you could engage your lives, (<HI>viz.</HI>) even the perfect liberty of all people, and then &s;ay here is the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> and here is the freedome of the Nations laid down, and perfect liberty a&s;&s;erted unto all people what&s;oever, both as men and as Chri&s;tians; and the&s;e things we will vindicate, the&s;e things we will have brought to pa&s;s, and for the&s;e things we will only &s;tand, that they may be accompli&s;hed, and neither for <HI>Old Parliament</HI> nor <HI>New,</HI> nor any other man nor men, but as they directly are for the&s;e things, even for the e&s;tabli&s;hing of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Mercy, and Truth in the earth, and taking off all op|pre&s;&s;ions: and as they proceed upon, and forthwith endeavour the effecting the&s;e things; and whoever are for the&s;e things, we are for them, and they for us; and who&s;oever are again&s;t the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> and perfect freedome, whether <HI>Old Parliament</HI> or <HI>New,</HI> or any others what&s;oever, we are again&s;t them, and will ingage our lives again&s;t them.</P>
<P>Oh! if it were in the heart of every <HI>Officer</HI> and private <HI>Souldier</HI> in truth of heart, thus to &s;ay, and do, and to proceed, you would doubtle&s;s be ble&s;&s;ed, whether many or few, and receive Victory and Honor both, if that you a&s;&s;ert and pro&s;ecute right things for the general good of all, that Peace and Righteou&s;ne&s;s may be &s;et up, and no longer &s;erve the wills and plea&s;ures of men, nor re&s;pect them; no, nor give obedience to them, any further than they pro&s;ecute the ju&s;t freedome of the Nations: for what is it worth to be for a <HI>Parliament, Old</HI> or <HI>New,</HI> a <HI>Protector,</HI> or any other &s;ort of men, when they do not pro&s;ecute the right Cau&s;e of freedome and liberty to the Nations? Therefore con&s;ider in your &s;elves, for if you &s;erve your Nations treacherou&s;ly, the Lord will meet with you one time or other in Judgement, and confound you one again&s;t another; and you &s;hall fall, and never ri&s;e. Therefore, were it not wi&s;dome for you once more to &s;tate the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> and to go through with it; and them that are Enemies to it, be you Enemies to them, whether <HI>Old Parliament,</HI> or <HI>New,</HI> or <HI>whom&s;oever?</HI> and hereby &s;hould you pro&s;per, and the Lord &s;hould be with you, when you truly appear in uprightne&s;s of heart on Gods behalf, and for the ends afore&s;aid; then &s;hould the pre&s;ence of the Lord be in your Councels, and your former valour and dread &s;hould be with you, and the de&s;ires of all good people &s;hould be for you, and their Councel &s;hould be extended forth on your behalf, and the &s;ervant of the Lord &s;hould pray for you, and till then you can never pro&s;per; and this &s;hall you witne&s;s for ever.</P>
<CLOSER>

<SIGNED>From a Lover of Ju&s;tice and true Freedome, but a Sufferer under Oppre&s;&s;ion, and one that is grieved for the Oppre&s;&s;ed Nations &s;ake. <HI>E. Burrough.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>London, <DATE>the fourth of the eleventh <HI>Moneth,</HI> 59.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Giles Calvert,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the <HI>Black-Spread-Eagle</HI> at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e We&s;t-end of <HI>Pauls.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
