2I4 the L I FE of the L I B. I i. Were ihe:Croh, Surplice, and Restriction to kneeling in receiving the Eucharist enioyned by Peter or Paul, or any in the fi fi -Age ? (or fecond either, or many after ? ) If you fay, that fomeForm of Prayer war f d, though not ours: I answer, r: Prove it ufed, and impofedas nece/fary to the Exereofe of the Minifry: and that any was enjoyned to Sub /tribe to it, and ufeit onpainof Deprivation or Excommunication. 2. If the fir(E ( fuppofed) Book ofPrayers was neceffary in Specie, for continuance, we malt have it , and cast away thin that's pleadedfor : If it were not, then why mayyou not as well d f enfe with thin, and change it, feeingyou cannot pleadit more immutable than the (fuppofed ) Apoftolical, or Primitive Prayer BOA? 3. When Forms of Liturgy came up, bad they not divers in thefame Empire, and álfo changedthem inparticular Churches ? (oar the Con.- ?Amalie between Bafrl and the Church of Neoceofarea fhews, &c.). And why then may not at much be grantednow in England? at leaf to procure Unity and Peace in other things, after fo long unçharitableAlienations, anddoleful Effed, of them in the Church and State? N. B. That the forefaid Exceptions againft imposing the Suhfcription of the 39 Articles, are urged ad hominem; becaufe though the DoEtrinal Part of chofeArticles be filchas thegenerality of the Presbyterians would Subfcribe to, yerl fee not how the Reverend Brethren on theother 'fide can pofGbly. Subt¢ribe them as reconcileable to the Principles publifhed by many of them. § 67. Shortly after this, when Sir George Booth's Riling failed, Major General Monk in Scotland, with his Army, grew fo fenfible of the Info - March co. 1659. A Petition lencies of Vane andLambert, and the Fanaticks in England and was font upfrom WoreJterp»re, to Ireland, who fet up and puli'd down Governmentsas boldly as have had the Long Parliament if theywere making a Lord of a Ma ame, and were raf fate, till they had done that for Y y$ $ P- Bing, and Church, and Country, ing all the Power intotheir ownHands ; fo that he prefently which they were restored for : fecured the Anabaptilts of his Army, and agreed with the rest, But it was not delivered, becaufe to refill thefe Ufurpers ; who would have England the Scorn monk, that recalled them, was of all theWorld. At firft when he drew near to England, he otherwise bent. declared for a Free Commonwealth. When he came in, Lam March 16. The Long Parlia- ment Dlffotvedirtelf. bent marched against him, but his Soldiers forsaking him, and March a9. Dr. Hammonddied.. Sir Arthur Hafelrigge gettingPortfi'uoutb,'and Col.Morley llrength- ning him, and Major General Berry's Regiment, which went to block it up, revolting to them, the Clouds rofe every where at once, and Lam- bertcould make no refiltance ; but inllead of fighting , they were fain to treat And whileMonk held them Treating, hisReputation increafed, and theirs abated, and their Hearts failed them, and their Soldiers fell off: and General Monk con- faked with his Friends, what to do ! Many Countreys feat Letters of Thanks and Encouragement to him. Mr. Tbo. Bampfield was Pent by the Gentlemen of the Well ; and other Countreys did the like ; fo that Monkcame on, but flill decla- red for a Commonwealth, againfe Monarchy : Till at lait, when he faw all ri- pened thereto, he declaredfor the King. Thechief Men (as far as I can learn ) that turnedhis Refolution, to bring inthe King, were Mr. Clarges and Sir Wil- liam Morrice, his Kinfman , and the Petitions , and Affebtions of the City of London, principally movedby Mr. Calamy and Mr. Afh, two ancient, leading, able Ministers ( with Dr. Bates, Dr. Manton, Dr. yacomb, and other Minillers of Lon don who concurred) : And thefewere encouraged by the Earl of Manchester , the LordHollis, the ( late) Earl of Angle/ey,and many of the (then) Council of State : And the Members of theOld Parliament that had been formerly ejected, being re- called, did Diffilve themfelves, and appoint the Calling of a Parliament which might Re-call the King. When General Monk firft cameinto England, molt Men rejeoîed, in hope to be deliveredfrom the Ufurpation of the Fanaticks (Anabap- tilts; Seekers, &c.) AndI was my fèlffo much affeEted with the ftrange Provi- denceof God,that I procuredthe Ministers to agree upon a Publick Thanksgiving to God. And I think all the Vi6tories which that Army obtained, were root more wonderful than their Fall was, when Pride and Errour had prepared therm for .it. It Teemed wonderful to me, that an Army that had got fo many great and mar. vellous Vi6tories, and thought themfèlves unconquerable, and talktof nothing but Dominion at home, andmarching up to the Walls of Rome, lhould all be broken and brought into Subjection, and finally Disbanded,, without one blow ftricken, or one drop of Blood flied ! and that by fo final) a power. as. Monk's Army in the Beginningwas : So Eminent was the Hand of God in all this Change ! 1 68,
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