Chap. IX. 'lbe HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS,' 6gr Prefented a fecond addrefs, infifiing upon a full and fatisfaCl:ory ,11furance, Ki11g 11 d · 1· er · · h b d · I Charles IT. that his majeny's con uCl: m t JIS aua1r m~g t not e rawn mto examp e 1673 • for the future, which at length they obtamed. ~ The parliament was now firft difpofed to difl:inguilh bctwe6n pro- .llld. Love in teflant dilfenters and popijh recu[ants, and to giv~ eafe to .the former wit~l- ~t: ~ij'}c:/1:.~ out including the latter, efpectally when the ddTenters m the houfe dtf- renounces tht avowed the dijjm?fing power, though it had been exerciled in their fa- diJPenfing vour. Alderman Love, member for the city of London, ftood up,Powet·, and in a handfome fpecch declared, that he had rather g@ without his 071112 dejired liberty, than have it in a wayJo deflrutlive qf the liberties qf his country, and the proteflant interl(/l; and that this was the Jenfe if the main body qf di/!enters. Which furprized the whole houfe, and gave a turn to thofe very men, who for ten years together had been loading the non-conformifl:s with one penal law after another: But things were now at a crifis ; popery and flavery were at the door; the triple alliance broken ; the protefl:ant powers ravaging one another; the exchequer lhut up; the heir apparent of the crown an open papifl:; and an army encamped near London under popifl1 officers ready to be tranfported into Holland to compleat their ruin. When the diiTenters at fuch a time laid alide their refentments againft their perfecutors, and mnounced their own liberty for the fafety of the proteflant religion, and the liberties of their country; all fober men began to think, it was high time to put a mark of diftinCI:ion between them and the roman catholics. But the king was of another mind, yet being in want of money, he T~eking . was eafily perfuaded by his mifl:reiTes to give up his induigmce, contrary f.'':J'~ up IJIJ to the advice of the CABAL, who told him, if he would make a m ugence, bold ftand for his prerogative, all would be well. But he came to the houfe March 8, and having preiTed the commons to difpatch the money bill, he added, --"If there be 2ny fcmple yet remaining with you, '' touching the fufpenfion of the penal laws, I here faithfully promi{e " you, that what has been done in that particular, G1all not for the fu- " ture be drawn into example and confequence; and as I daily expect " from you a bill for my fupply, fo I aiTure you I (hall as willingly re- " ceive and pafs any other you lhall offer me, that may tend to the giv- " ing you fatisfaCl:ion 111 all your juil: grievances." Accordingly he called for the declaration, and broke the feal with his own hands, by which means all the licenfes for meeting-h0utes were called in. Our hiflo. Shaftlbury rians obferve, that this proceeding of the king made a furprizing change ~f';ts the in lord Shqftjbury, who had been the foul of the Cabal, and, the mafl:er E;cl~!·rd , , builder of the fcheme for making the king ab/o!ute; but that when his p. 89o, 89r, majefly was fo unfteady as to defert him in the projeCt of an induigence, f3urn~, 4 T 2 afterP· 34 •
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