53o ?he HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. III. K Charles I. In purfuance of his majefly's declaration, all books relating to the ar- ;628. minion controverfy were called in by proclamation and fuppreffed, and among others Montague's and Manwaring's, which was only a feint to co- ver a more deadly blow to be reached at the puritans ; for at the fame time Montague and Manwaring received the royal pardon, and were pre- ferred to fome of the beft livings in the kingdom (as has been obferved) while the anfwers to their books, by Dr. Featly, Dr. Goad, Mr. Burton, Ward, rates and Roufe, were not only fuppreffed, but the publifhers que(lioned in the liar-chamber. The king put on the fame thin difguife with regard to papifls ; a pro- clamation was iffued out againft priefts and jefuits, and particularly againft the bifhop of Chalcedon ; orders were alfo fent to the lord mayor ofLondon, to make fearch after them and commit them to prifon, but at the fame time his majeftyappointed commiffioners to compound with them for their recufancy ; fo that inflead of being fuppreffed, theybecame a branch of the revenue, and Sir Richard Welton a notorious papifl, was created earl of Portland, and made lord high treafurer of England. Proceedings When the parliament met according to prorogation January 2 oth, they nfparliament. began again with grievances of religion: OLIVER CROMWELL, Ejo; be- ing of the committee, reported to the houfe the countenance that was gi- ven by Dr. Neile bifhop of Winchejler, to divines who preached arminian and popish dottrine ; he mentioned the favours that hadbeen bellowed upon Montague and Manwaring, who had been cenfured the Taft felons of parliament ; and added, 1f this be the way to church-preferment, what may we expect? Upon debating the king's late declaration, the houfe voted, That the main endofthat declaration was to fupprefi the puritan party, and to give liberty to the contrary fide. Several warm and angry fpeeches were likewifemade againft the new ceremonies that began nowto he introduced into the church, as images of faints and angels, crucifixes, altars, lighted candles, &c. Speech of Mr. Route flood up and laid, " Idefire it may be confidered,what new Mr. Roufe, " paintings have been laid upon the old face of the whore of Babylon, to Rufhw. " make her Phew more lovely. I delire it may be confidered, how the feeof Rome doth eat into our religion, and fret into the very banks and " walls ofit, the laws and ftatutes of this realm. I defire we may confider " the increafe ofarminianifm, an error that makes the grace of God lackey " after the will of man. I delire we may look into the belly and bowels of " this Trojan Norte, to fee if there be not men in it ready to open the gates ". to Romer tyranny, for an arminian is the fpawn of a papist and if Rufhw. " the warmth offavour comeupon him, you (hall fee him turn into one of VoLI.p.byg. " thofe frogs that role out of the bottomlefs pit ; thefe men having kin- dled
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