The History Of The Puritans Or Protestant Non Conformists From The Death Of Queen Elizabeth To The Beginning Of The Civil War In The Year 1642 From The Beginning To The Civil War In The Year 1642 To The Death Of King Charles I 1648

Author : Daniel Neal
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334681660
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Puritans Or Protestant Non-Conformists, From the Beginning of the Civil War in the Year 1642, to the Death of King Charles I., 1648, Vol. 3 written by Daniel Neal and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists, From the Beginning of the Civil War in the Year 1642, to the Death of King Charles I., 1648, Vol. 3: With an Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Further Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; And the Lives and Characters of Their Principal Divines The Clo/e of this Volume, which relates the Di/putes he tween the Parliament and rmy; the ill Succe/s of his Majefly's firms and Treaties 3 the Seizure of hzs Royal Per/on a fecond Time by the Army; his Trial before a pretended High Court of Ju icc, and his unparalell'd Execution hefore the Gates of his Royal Palace hy the Mi. Litary Power, is a mo/l melancholy and a etlzng Scene; in which, next to the zlll-di/po ng Providence of God, One cannot but remark the King's in exible Temper, toge ther with the Indifcretion of his Friends, e/pecially his Di vines, at a T me when his Crown was loft hy the Fortune of War, and his very Life at the Mercy of his Enemies nor is the unwarrantahle Stifne/s of the Parliament lefi unaccountahle, when they [aw the vifiorious rmy draw ing towards London u/hed with the Defeat of the Scots and Engllfh Loyalsfis, and determined to fet a de that very Uniformity they were contending for. If his Maje y had yielded at fir/t what he did at loft, with an ppear ance of Sincerity 3 or the two Hon/es had complied with his Conce ions while Cromwel was in Scotland; or if the rmy had been made eafy by a general Indulgence and Toleration, with the Di rzhution of fame Honours and Bounty Money among the Officers, the Crown and Con/li tution might have heen faved hut [0 many miraculous Vol. V. Circum ances contrihuted to his Maje y's Ruin(, Cayspo 258 Lord Clarendon) that Aden might well think that Heaven and Earth con/pzred it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."