Hä/1or.yofthe Puritans, examin'd. 389 Neal, Ibid. It is not true, (faÿs this Divine) that they flirred up People to War, there was hardly one filch Man in a County ; tho' they diked the late Inno- vations, and were glad the Parliament was attempt- ing a Reformation : They might inveigh too freely in their Sermons againft the Vices ofthe Clergy, and the Severities ofthe late Times; but in all the Fall-Ser- mons that I have readfor force rears after the begin- ning of theWar, Ihave met with no Refletlions upon the Perfon of the King, but aReligious Obfervation of that Political Maxim, The King can do no wrong. Mr. Baxter's Authority can't fire be admitted a- gainfl FaEF. I have read over molt of the Publick Fall-Sermons, &c. before the two Houles, from the Year 1640, to the taking off the King's Head, and could produce him hundredsof Inftances for the dif- proof of Mr. Baxter's Affertion; and will give him a Specimen from the Sermons of the molt popular, and leadingMen of thofe Times. Right Honourable, confider this, thofe Per- Ions, who have negle&îed the Execution of Juftice ' upon their molt implacable Enemies, when God has given them into their hands ; thofe God has ' left to perifh bafely and miferably. See it in A- ' hab, God gives Benhadad into .Ahab's hands ; Be. caufe thou haft let a Mango, that Ihad appointed to defiruttion, therefore thy Life Jhall be for his Life. So concerning Saul's fparing 1lgag, he ' would fhift off the Command, and therefore God íhifted him out of the Kingdom ; when he neg- ' le ted to do Juftice to n implacable Enemy, when God had given him into his hands.' rho. Brook's Faft-Ser on before the Com- mons, December 26. 648. p. 18. [a Mem- berof the Affembly of Divines.] Benhadad's Life was once in Ahab's hands, and he ventures God's Difpleafure to let him go: But fee how Benhadad rewards him: Fight neither a- C c 3 gainf
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