OF THE PURITAN S, OR PROTESTANT NON-CONFORMISTS, FROM THE BATTLE OF EDGE-HILL, TO THE DEATH OF KING CHARLES I. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR PRINCIPLES; THEIR ATTEMPTS FOR A FURTHER REFORMATION IN FIVE VOLUMES. BY DANIEL NEAL, M. A. A NEW EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED, BY JOSHUA TOULMIN, D. D. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, SOME MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR. VOL. III. WITH A SUPPLEMENT. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not con- PUBLISHED BY CHARLES EWER, BOSTON; AND WILLIAM B. ALLEN & co. NEWBURYPORT, MS. Wm. B. Allen & Co. Printers. From the Battle of Edge-Hill to the calling of the Assembly of Divines THE king pursues his march to London. Motives of it. Remarks. Encouraging prospect of the king's affairs. Ordinance of the parlia- ment exhorting to repentance. Treaty of Oxford. The parliament's propositions. Bill against innovations: for punishing scandalous cler- gy: against pluralities and non-residence. The king's proposals.- Death and character of Dr. Crisp. Lord Brooke's death. Tomkins's plot. A new oath or covenant. Proclamation against the city of Lon- don. The people reduced to great hardships. Success of the king's af- fairs-Sufferings of the puritan clergy, and of the episcopal. Commit- tees for religion: for scandalous ministers. Cases of the Rev. Mr. Sy- monds, Rev. Mr. Squire, and Rev. Mr. Finch. Committee for plunder- ed ministers: their proceedings censured. Country committees: their instructions Quality of the persons ejected: sequestration of their es- tates: a further explanation of it. Abjuration oath. The effects of this ordinance The king makes reprisals. Vacant benefices filled up. Strict observation of the sabbath. Manner of keeping the month- ly fast. Occasional fasts. The king dissolves the parliament fast, and appoints another. Removal of monuments of superstition: ordi- nance for that purpose: manner of the execution of it. Orders for From the calling the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to the Oxford Ordinance for calling an assembly of divines. Names of the lay- |