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The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists
The History of the Puritans Or Protestant Nonconformists Author:Daniel Neal Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and other loyalists, and even by the king himself, of burying all past offences under the foundation of the Restoration ; bat when they were lifted into the Hudd... more »le, tlie liuste they made to shew how little they meant by their j, ,mi-(',. exceeded the rules of decency as well as honor— Voiding would satisfy, tiil their adversaries were disarmed, and in a manner deprived of the proteetion of the government; the terms of Conformity were mnde narrower and more exceptionable than before the civil wars, the penal laws were rigorously executed, and new ones framed almost every session of parliament for several successive years.; the n.m-ennformist miniMers were banished five miles from all the corporations in oj.-lain!. and thcir people sold for sums of money to carry on the king's unlawful pleasures, and to bribe tive nation into popery and slavery; till the House of Commons, awakened at lust with a sense of the threatening danger, grew intractable, and was therefore dissolved. . I .i majesty, having in v; in attempted several other representatives of the people, determined some time before his death to change the constitution, and govern by his sovereign will and pleasure; that the mischiefs, which could not be brought upon the nation by eon - sent of parliament, might be introduced under the wing of the prerog. a1ive : but the Roman catholies, not satisfied with the slow proceedings of a disguised Protestant. or apprehending that the discontents of the people and his own love of ease might indnee him .some time or other to change measure), resolved to have a prince of thcir own religion, and more sanguine principles, on the throne, which hastened the crisis of the nation, and brought forward that Glorious Revolution of King William and Queen Mary, which put afinal period to all thei...« less