40 2 Mr. NE AL'S IP Vol. of the daily where Treafon and Rebellion were the main Drift of the Difcourfe) nor defire him to print his Sermon, or return him Thanks for the great Pains he took, according to Cullom : a Favour that I am Confident was fcarce ever refuted to any one before, in the Compafs of fevers Years as appears from a compleat Colleélion of the Sermons before the two Houfes, from November 1640, to February 1 648, now in the publick Library at Cambridge. And Yohn Milton contradi&s Mr. Baxter's AfI'er- tion, in his Tenure of Kings andMaifirates: *'They ' [viz. the Presbyterians] were n oft zealous to take Arms againft the King, to diveft and difanoint him ofhis Dignity ; nay, to curfe him in all their Sermons, and Pamphlets over the Kingdom, where - of there remain numerous Monuments ftill to be produced.' Neal, p. 607. A Spirit of Englifh Liberty had been growing in the Nation for fome Tears, and the 'late Opprefons, inflead of extinguing it, had only kept it under ground, till having collet edmore Strength, it broke out with greater Violence. The Patriots of the Conlitution watched all Opportunities -to recover ál ; and when they obtain'd a Parliament by the In terpofition of the Scots, were ready to take too fevere a Revenge upon their late Oppreffcrs, and to enter upon too violent Meafures, in order to prevent the return of Power into thofe Hands that hadfo fhamefully abu/ed it. Lord Hollis, who was one of the five impeach'd Members, and confequently nó High Flyer, gives the following Inftance of Patriotifin, in Mr. Neai's Parliament of Pátriots., j The Houle of Lords, (fays he) in the Summer after the beginning of our Troubles, in 1643, having refolved to deli- ver themfelves and the Kingdom from this./Egyp- Milton's Life before his Profe Works, p. 14. 1- Memoirs, p. 9. flag
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