Chap. vr. ne HIs T 0 R y of the PuRITANS.· 633 their honfes from the fociety of their friends ; and what was yet more Killg ' Charles If. affecting, from all their ufefnlnefs, though. they had. merited much of 1662 , the king, and laboured indefatigably for I11S reftoratwn. The former ~ were men of another faith, and owned a foreign head C?f the church ; whereas thefe were of the fame faith with the ellablifhed church, and differed only about rites and ceremonies. It has beeri faid, that greater numbers were ejected in the late times upon the foot of the covenant; but if this were true, it was in a time of war, when the civil and religious differences between the king aQd parliament were fo inte~mixed, that it was impoilible to feparate one f~:om the other; the whole natwn was in confufion, and thofe who fuffered by the covenant, fuffered more for their loyalty, than their religion; for when the war was ended, the covenant was relaxed, and fuch would live peaceably returned to their vacant cures, or were admitted to others. Befides the ingratitude of the high churchmen upon this occafion And tban.th~ ou~h.t t~ be take1~ no:ice o~ .. '' Who can a.n~wer for the violence and ~{,11:1~',/,; " 111JU!bce of actwns 111 a CIVll war (fays a d!vme of the church of Eng- civil wars. " land)? Thofe fufrerings were in a time of general calamity, but thefe C f PI ' • .n. d 1 · · f b · f · 11 h 011 • ea ' were ejeue not on y 111 a time o peace, ut a tune o JOY to a t e for non·con..; " land, and after an act of oblivion, when all pretended to be reconciled form. · " and made friends, and to whofe common rejoicings thefe fuffering mi- p. 12, 13. " nifters had contributed their earneft prayers and great endeavours.'.' Another divine of the fame church writes, •t I mull: own, that in my " judgment, however both fides have been exceilively to blame, yet that " the feverities ufed by the church to the dilfenters are lefs excufable " than thofe ufed by the dilfenters to the church. My reafon is, that " the former were ufed in time of peace, and a fettled government, " whereas the latter were inflicted in times of tumult and confuGon ; " fo that the plundcrings and ravagings endured by the church minijlers, '' were owing (many of them at leafl:), to the rudenefs of the foldiers, " and the chances of war; they were plundered not becaule they were '' conformifis, but cavaliers, and of the king's pJrty. The allowing of " the fequeftered minifters a fifth part of their livings was a chrifl:ian act, " and what, I confefs, I fhould have been glad to have feen imitated at " the relloration, . But ~10 mercy was to be fhewn to thefe unhappy fuf- " ferers, though lt was 1mpoilible on a fudden to fill up the gao that was " made by their removal." ' Bifhop Burnet fays, the old clergy, now much enriched, were defpifed, Diffculty if but t~e young cl~rgr wh.o came fro.m the nniverlity did good fervice. Butfi~ling t!woa– tboug? ~11 t~e llnphngs m both umverfities were employed, a great many c nczes. poor liVIngs 1n the country had no incumbents for a conliderable time. '!he author of the jive groans. if the church, a very ftrict conformill:, VoL. II. 4 M com-
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