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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."