q 8 The L I EE of the - L><t3.I. The twoDefigns ofCromwellto make himfelf great, were, I. To Cry up Liberty of Conlcience, andbe very tender of Men differing in Judgment, by which he drew all the Separatifts and Anabaptiíls to him,with ma- ny loberer Men. 2. To fet there felf- efteething Men on work to arrogate the Glory of all Suc- ceffes to themfelves, and cry up their own A&ions, and deprefs the Honour of the Earl of Manebefter, and all others ; though Men of as much Godlinefs at leaft as they : fo that they did proclaim the Glory of their own Exploits,till they had got the fame of being the moll valiant and Vietorious Party. The truth is they did much, andthey bodied ofmore than they did. And theee things made the new modelling of the Army to be refolved on. But all the Queftionwas how to effeet it, without furring up the Forces againft them which they intended to disband: And all this was notably difpatcht at once,by One Vote, which was called the Self -denying Vote, viz. That becaufe Commands in the Army had much pay, and Parliament Men lhould keep to the Service of the Houfe , ;therefore no Parliament Men lhould be Members of the Army. This pleafed the Soldiers, who looked to have the mere pay to themfelves; and at once it put out the two Generals, the Earl of Effix and the Earl of Manchefter, and alfoSir William Waller a godly valiant Major General of another Army ; and a1fo many Colonels in theArmy, and in other parts of the Land, and the Gover- nour of Coventry, and of many other Garrifons : and to avoid all Sufpicion Cram. well was put out himfelf. When this was done, themext Queltion was, Who fhould be Lord General,and what new Officers lhould be put in, orold ones continued? And here the Polièy of Vane andCromwell did its bell : For General they choie Sir Thomas Fairfax, Son to theLord FerdinandoFairfax, who had been in the . Wars beyond Sea, and had fought valiantly in Terkfhire for the Parliament, though he was overpowered by the Earl of Newcagle's Numbers. This Man was chofen becaufe they luppofed to find him a Man of noquicknefs of Parts, of no Elocution, of no fufpicious plotting Wit, and thereforeOne that Cromwell could make ufe of at his pleafure. And he was acceptable to fober Men, becaufe hewas Religious, Faithful,Valiant, andof a grave, fober, refolvedDifpoftion ; very fit for Execution, and neither too Great nor too Cunning to be Commanded by the Parliament. And when be was chofen for General, Cromwell's menmuff not be without him: fo valiant a Man mutt not be laid by: The Self-denying Vote mull be thus far only difpenfed with : Cromwell only, and noother Member of either Houfe, mull be excepted, and fo he is made Lieutenant General of the Army: and as many as they could get of their Mind and Party, are put into Inferiour Places, and the belt of the old Officers put into theref. But all the Search-men (except only Ad- jutant Crey) are put out of the whole Army, or deferredit. 4 70. And here I mull digrefs to look back towhat I had forgotten, of the Scott Army and the Covenant : When the Earl of Newcafllehad over-powred ehe Lord Fairfax in the North, and the Queen had brought over many Papiffs Soldiers from beyond Sea, and formed an Army under General Ring a Scot, and the King had another great Army withhimfelf under the Command of the Earl ofForrh,another old SeottifbGeneral ; fo that they had three great Field Armies , befrdes the Lord Gering's in the Weft, and all the CountyParties, the Parliament were glad to delire Alfiftance from the Scots; (whofe Army waspaid off and disbanded before the Eng- lift, Wars). The Scots contented ; but they offered a Covenant to be taken by both Nations, for a refolved Reformation, againit Popery, Prelacy , Schifo, and Pro- púanenefs, (the Pepifls, the Prelatifs, the SesBaries, and the Prophane, being the four Parties which they were againi.) This Covenantwas propofed by the Parliament to the Confideration of the Sy- nod at Wet4minfter: The Synod Bumbled at fome things in it, and efpecially at the word [Pre/acy.1 Dr. Burger the Prolocutor, Mr. Gataker, and abundance more declared their Judgments to be for Epifcopacy, even for the ancient mode- rate Epifcopacy, in which oneBated Prefident with his Presbytery, governed eve- ry Church though not for the EngliflsDiocefan frame, in which one Bilhop, with- out his Presbytery, did by a Lay - Chancellour's Court, governall the Presbyters and Churches of a Diocefs, being many hundreds ; and that in a Secular manner by abundance of upllart Secular Officers, unknown to the Primitive Church. Here- upon grew fome Debate in the Affembly fome being againß every. Degree ofBi- (hops, (efpecially the Scottifb Divines,) and others being for a moderate Epifcopa- cy. But thereEnglilh Divines would not Subfcribe the Covenant , till there were an
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