Hillary of thePuritans, examin'd. 283 uneffay'd to fatisfy their Jealoufies and Fears t. How careful he was to prevent a Rupture in the Nation, not only his great Conceffions prove, but his conífant Offers of Treaty, even when Things went profperoufly with him, demon ftrate. * ' For his Fidelity in obferving his Treaties, I have already mentioned force Paffages, how re- ' ligioufly he refolved to obferve them ; and his refuting to ferve his Intereft by Promifes, which, how ufeful foever they might have been to him, yet, fince he could not with a good Confcience obferve them, he would not make them ; thews how facred he accounted all his Promifes. Our Royal Martyr depended upon God, ' and fubmitted to his Will, in all his Councils, both in Peace and War : and when it pleafed God, for the Punifhment of his People, to expofe him to the Cruelty and Malice of his Enemies, even then he proved more than Conqueror : Nor would he exprefs the leaft Meannefs of Spirit when brought loweft. He would neither give up the Rights of the Church, nor Crown, nor People, nor Parliaments, to their infulting Pride; whet trampling upon all Laws, Sacred and Human, had made themfelves the facrilegious Matters of his Perlon and Power.' See more to the fame purpofe, in his four Con- ferences, printed at Glafgow, p. 24!. Nay, there is a remarkable Inftance to our pur. pofe ; for the very Night before he was feized by the Army, and removed fromNewport to Hurft- Cafile,. (of which Defign he was fully apprized, as well as the Duke ofRichmond, Earl ofLindfey, and Colonel Ib. p. r r. * Ib. p. 19, Ib. p. 23. Cooke,
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