PETERS. 359 " good will, and seems to enlarge his heart towards us, and " care of us for many. other things.-Mr. Peters hath been " twice at Bergh, and hath spoke with the cardinal (Maza- " rin),three or four times, I kept myself by, and had a " care that he did not importune himwith too long speeches. " He returns loaders with an account of all things here, and " hath undertaken every man's business.". Mr. Peters returned to England at the above period, bringing an abundant storeof intelligenceto the government. January 29, 1660, when General Monkwas on his march from Scotland towards London, he was appointed to preach before him on a fast-day at St. Alban's; when, it is said, " he troubled the general with a long fast sermon ; and at night too he supererogated, and prayed a long prayer in the general's quarters." Our author gives the following account of the sermon on this occasion :-" As to the ser- mon, he managed itwith some dexterity at the first, allow- ing the cantings of his expressions. His text was Psalm cvii. 7. He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a cityof habitation. With his' fingers on the cushion he measured the right way from the Red Sea, through the wilderness to Canaan ; said it was not forty days march, but God led Israel forty years through the wilderness, before theycame thither ; yet this was still the Lord's right way, who led his people crihcledunz cum crancledum. He particularly descended into the lives of the patriarchs, how they journeyed. up and down, though blessings and rest were promised them. Then he reviewed our civil wars, our intervalsof peace, and freshdistractions, and hopes of rest. But though the Lord's people," he said, " were not yet come to a city of habitation,.he was still leading them on the right way, howdark soever his dispensations might appear to men: '+ May the 16th, in the above year, an order passed the house of commons, now modelled in favour of loyalty, " That the books and papers in the hands of John Thurloe and Hugh Peters, heretofore belonging to the library of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, be forthwith secured." Huth does not appear from our author whether any such books were found in their possession.t. After the king's restoration, Mr. Peters being apprehended and committed tO prison, his. majesty sent a warrant to Sir John Robin- son, lieutenant of the Tower, to obtains information of his Thurioe's State Papers , vol. vii. p. 223, 249. -/ Kennet's Chronicle, p.36. t Ibid. p. 150.
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