Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

After that, they cast out and imprisoned the Major par, which was the House of Commons, and cast out all the House of Lords; then by these they made the People take an Engagement against the old Form of Government, To be true to the Commonwealth, as then Established, without a King and House of Lords: They ordered the Sequestring of all Ministers that would not Fast and Pray before, and give Thanks after, for their Victories in Scotland. They then pulled down this Remnant of the Commons, and called themselves without the Peoples Choice, Two out of each County, and called them a Parliament. These put it to the Vote, Whether all the Parish-Ministers in England, should not be put down at once, and as credible Report went, it was carried against them but by three Voices. These gave up their Commissions to Cromwell. He now becomes the Defender of the Ministers: The Government is again Changed, and he made Protector, and Fundamental Laws made among themselves, by we know not whom; Parliament Lords made by him: Parliaments called, and broken at his pleasure. The Government of the Counties put into the Hands of Major Generals. After the Death of Oliver, his Son set up, and his Parliament first pulled down (in which the Reverend Author, n•w opposed, told me, he was an Agent) and next himself. Then the Commons, called the Rump, were made Sovereign again. Then they were pulled down again, and a Council of State out of the Army that did it, is set highest: Till at ⟨p. 28⟩last, by God's most remarkable hand, this conquering Army dissolved utterly without one drop of blood, and the King restored without opposition.

After that, they cast out and imprisoned the Major par, which was the House of Commons, and cast out all the House of Lords; then by these they made the People take an Engagement against the old Form of Government, To be true to the Commonwealth, as then Established, without a King and House of Lords: They ordered the Sequestring of all Ministers that would not Fast and Pray before, and give Thanks after, for their Victories in Scotland. They then pull'd down this Remnant of the Commons, and called themselves without the Peoples Choice, Two out of each County, and called them a Parliament. These put it to the Vote, Whether all the Parish-Ministers in England, should not be put down at once, and as credible Report went, it was carried against them but by three Voices. These gave up their Commissions to Cromwell. He now becomes the Defender of the Ministers: The Government is again Changed, and he made Protector, and Fundamental Laws made among themselves, by we know not whom; Parliament Lords made by him: Parliaments called, and broken at his pleasure. The Government of the Counties put into the Hands of Major Generals. After the Death of Oliver, his Son set up, and his Parliament first pull'd down (in which the Reverend Author, nw opposed, told me, he was an Agent) and next himself. Then the Commons, called the Rump, were made Sovereign again. Then they were pull'd down again, and a Council of State out of the Army that did it, is set highest: Till at