H ory ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 289 who, I fear, will firain out a Gnat, and fwallow a Camel. What he fays of the King, and his arbi- trary Minifters, is very applicable to his beloved Scots, and darling Houle of Commons; if we may believe Sir Edward Walker, who in his Hiftorical Collections, in anfwer to William Lilly, (p. 244.) puts this Q9ery ; ' Did either one, or both Na- tions ever make good to his Majefty one Particle of all their Oaths, Submiffions, Agreements, Vows, Proteftations or Engagements ; but broke through them all as no longer juft, nor to be ob- ferved, but as they fitted their Turns, or ferved their Occafion?' And in another place, he has the following Words : * ' It may be confidently faid, that there has been, within this four Years, more Money ex- torted by thefe arbitrary and tyrannical Ways, to begin, and continue this Rebellion, than ever the ' Houfes of Commons have granted by Subfidies ' or other Means to his Majefty, or any of his Royal Predeceffors, fence that Body was thought worthy to be admitted as a third Eftate; and more unjuft and illegal Adions have been done by this Faction, to maintain and uphold their ufurped Power, than have been praétifed, either wilfully, or by the Advice of evil Counfellors, ' by all the Kings of this Land, face the Norman Conqueft.' Neal, p. 499. Mr. Fuller fayr [of Dr. Richard Montague] That he was a celebrated Grecian, and Church-Antiquary, well verfed in the Fathers, but a fsperflitious Admirer of Church Ceremonies. Fuller's Words r : ' But all his Diocefe being not fo well skill'd in Antiquity as himfelf, fome charged him with fuperftitious urging of Cere- ' monies.' * Sir Edward Walker's Hiftorical Code&ions, p. 6. 1. Fuller's Church-Hiftory, Book XI. p. 19f. Neal,
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