Chap~ IV. 7be HIS T 0 R Y of the P'utnTANS~' 533, them to be very careful that the cavalier partymight have no !hare in the·ci- ,fntervi l or military power. When he reftored the fecluded members, he promifed ~~~~~· the parliamenttotake dfeCluaJcm·e th.rlt tbey jhozdd do no hurt. W hen the com- ~· monwealth's mm expre!Ted thei r fears, and afked the general whether he would join with them againtl the king? he replied, I have iften declared my refolution fo tQ do; 3nd taking Sir Arthur_Hajlert~ge by the hand, he fa id, I do here protejl to you, in tbe prejimce 1!f all theje gentlemen, that I wt!l oppoje to the zttmojl, the fetting up of Charles Stuart, a jingle perfon, or a hovfe cf peers. He then expofl:ulated with them about their fufpicions; Wba t is it I have done in bringing thefe members into the houfe (fays he), are they not the fame that brought the king to the block, though others cut if/ his head, and that jujl!y? And yet this very man, within fix months, condemned thefe perfons to the gallows. N ay further, the general fenc letters to all the regiments, afiuring them that thegovernment jbould continue a COMMONWEALTH, that they had no purpo{e to return to their old bondage, that is monarch)·; and if ar1y made diflurbances in favour if Charles Stuart, be dijired tbey migbt be .fecured. So that if this gentlem.m was in the fecret of reftoring the king from nis entrance into England, or his firtl coming to L ondon , I may challenge all hifl:ory to produce a fcene of hypocrify and diffimulation equal to his conduCt.. Dr. lf'eh~Jood adds, that he aCted the part of a politician much better than Memoi rs. P• that of a chrifl:ian; and carried on the thread of diffimulation with 11 7• 120 • wonderful dexterity. Bifhop Burnet differs from the doCtor, and fays, :"t ~~a, that " though he had both the praife and the reward, yet a very [mall · 7 '' ' " fnarc of the re!l:oration belongo0 to him--The tide run fo !l:rong '' that the general only went into it dexteronfly enough to get much " fame and great rewards--If be had died foon after, he migh t have " been more jufl:ly admired; but he lived long enough to make it " known , how falfe a judgment men are apt to make upon outward ap- " pearance." Bu t before we relate the particulars of the refl:oration, it will be pro- State of epif– per to confider the abjeCt !l:ate of the church of England; and the reli- copacy, .and gion of the young king. If CROMWELL bad lived ten or twelve years of tbe kzng•. longer, cpifcopacy might have been lol1 beyond recovery, for by that time the whole bench of bi(hops would have been dead, and there would have bee~ none to confecrate or ordain for the future, unlefs they could have obtamed a new conveyance fi·om the church of Rome or admitted ~h~ validity of prefbytcri~n or~ination. This was the cafe i1; vie~IJ, which mdnced fame ~f the ant1en ~ ?Ifhops to petition the king to fill up the vacant fees With all expeditiOn , in w 1!ch they were fi1pported by Sir Debates a– '!!-dward Hy~e, chancellor of the exchequer, who prevailed with his ma- bout filling Jefty to nommate certam clergymen for thofe high preferments, and fent tbe vacant· · over;ees.
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