Chap. X. 'Ibe HIS T 0 RY of the PuRITANS. 361 The prelatical clergy lay fiill, either becaufe they could not aifemble in a K. Charles!· body, or b~caufe they apprehended they could do no fervice by appearing;~ but Dr. Gauden, afterwards bi(hop of Exeter, publi(bed a protej!ation Dr. Gau– agoinft the declared purpofes and proceedings of the army, and others, about den and D;. · d J · • • fl · 1 d 1 · 1 • d d J d Hammond s tr)'mg an aeltrovnw our overetgn tOr t!Je ·tmzg, ate anuary 5· an 1 .a 1 · ./' .1 o . . , I f pro e 1• a IOIZ, fent it to a co!ontl to be prefented to lord Fazrjax at the counc1 o war. Dr. Hommond fent an bumble addrefs a!fo to the general and council qfwar, to prc·vent the horrid defign oj putting tle king to deatb, dated Jan. I 5· Both the(e papers infifl:ed on the divine right of kingly government, and that to call the king before the tribunal of the peoille, was contrary to the laws of the land. The famous Mr. Prynne, one of the fecluded members, publiilied a brief memento to the prejimt unparliammtaryjunto, touching tbeir prefent intmtiom and proceediugs to dcpofe and execute CHARLES STEWART, their la~vful king ifEnglanJ, dated from the King's Head in the Strand, Jan. I. 164H. The officers of the army attempted by their creatures to gain over the And if the Londonminifl:ers to their meafur(s, or at leafl: to perfuade the:n to a neu- whole b,dy of I . H l p f h · h 1 · r h · [the pre!bytetra ny. ug~ eters one o t e1r c ap ams, was 1ent to t e remams o rian minijlers the a./Jembly of di7Jines at Wejlmirfler for this purpofe, but they declared if London. unanimou.Jly for the relea}i! of the king. He then invited feveral of the London minifiers, as Mr. Marjhal, Calamy, Whitaker, Sedgwick, .Ajh, &c. to a conference with fome officers of the army, upon the fubjeCl: qf the coercive power of the magijlrate in matters of religion, which was foreign to the prefent purpofe; but infiead of meeting them, thefe divines affembled with their brethren at Sion College, and publiilied a paper, in titled aJerious andfaithful reprifentation of the judgment of the miniflers qf the gojpel within the province of London, whoje n.1mes are Jubfcribed, contained in a letter to the general, and his council of ~var, deliver– ed to hiJ excellency by .fome of thefit~ji:ribers, Jan. 18. I 648. In this addrefs, after affigning reafons why they would not confult with the officers upon matters of religion, they complain of their -imprifoning the members of parliament; " we remember (fay they) that Fol. Pamp. " when the king with a multitude of armed men demanded but a fmall N° 52~ " number of the members of parliament, it was deemed an unparallel'd " breach of the privilege of parliament, and was one reafon that an army " was raifed by their authority, and for their pre(ervation; but that this " vc;:ry army !110uld fo far exceed that act, which was then efieemed " without parallel, is what we could not believe, had not our ey,:s been " witnelfes of it! " ." A~d though both houf~s of parliament faw reafon to take up arms 111 the1r own defence, and m defence of the protefiant religion, and the "'' fundamental laws of their country, yet this cannot be pleaded in jufl:iVot. II. Aaa fication
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