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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
Section 7 › Part 1: 1. Matters of Fact to be foreknown, to the true understanding of the Cause.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
25. But the attempts being renewed, at the same time, the division of the Opposers (the Army and the Commonwealth Members) shook them all to pieces, and ruined them, and the new closure of the Old Parliamentarians, and the Royalists, and the Presbyterians, and other Ministers with the Episcopal, strengthened them, and restored the King: The Presbyterian Officers and Soldiers of General Monk's Army concurring with the rest, and Sir Thomas Allen then Lord Mayor (many London Ministers on their part counselling him thereto) with the Aldermen and others, inviting General Monk to join with the City herein against the Opposers; from which very day, the scales were turned, and all went on without any considerable stop, and the old ejected Members of Parliament first, and the Council settled pro tempore after, prepared for His Majesties return; and Dr. Gauden, Mr. Calamy, and Mr. Baxter Preaching at the Fast of the next Parliament, (as their Printed Sermons show) the King the next morning was voted to return, and to be invited to his Fathers Throne.
25. But the attempts being renewed, at the same time, the division of the Opposers (the Army and the Commonwealth Members) shook them all to pieces, and ruined them, and the new closure of the Old Parliamentarians, and the Royalists, and the Presbyterians, and other Ministers with the Episcopal, strengthened them, and restored the King: The Presbyterian Officers and Souldiers of General Monk's Army concurring with the rest, and Sir Thomas Allen then Lord Mayor (many London Ministers on their part counselling him thereto) with the Aldermen and others, inviting General Monk to joyn with the City herein against the Opposers; from which very day, the scales were turned, and all went on without any considerable stop, and the old ejected Members of Parliament first, and the Council setled protempore after, prepared for His Majesties return; and Dr. Gauden, Mr. Calamy, and Mr. B•xter Preaching at the Fast of the next Parliament, (as their Printed Sermons shew) the King the next morning was voted to return, and to be invited to his Fathers Throne.
26. In preparation for this, some Ministers now silenced, had treated with some Gentlemen firm to the King, and with Bishop Usher, Bishop