8.12 The HIS TORY of the PURITANS. Chap. XII. K. Charles I..f by this means the conflitution was broken, andthe ordinary courts ofjuflice rt necejfarily interrupted. If there werefundrygrievancesfill to be redreffed, and the king relayed toJhelter himfelfunder the laws in being, and to make . no further concejions. If there were jull reafons to fear, with bifhop Burnet and father Orleans, that the king would abide bythe late laws no longer than be was under thatforce that brought them upon him. In a word, if in thejudgment of the majority of lords and commons, the kingdom was in imminent danger of the return of popery andarbitrary power, and his majefty would not condefcend fo much as to a temporary fecurity for their fatisfaélion ; then we muff conclude, that the caufe of the parliament, at the commencement of the war, and for fome years after, was not only juftfable, but commendable and glorious ; efpecially if we believe their own moft folemn proteftation, in the prefence of almighty God, Rvlhw, to the kingdom and to the whole world; " That no private paflion or Vol. II. " refpea, no evil intention to his majefty's perfon, no defigns to the pre- part 3d. " judice of his juft honour or authority, had engaged them to raife for z6. p' " ces, and take up arms againft the authors of this war in which the " kingdom is inflamed." APPENDIX
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