Memoirs of the Most Renowned James Graham
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In all cases, he said, and particu- larly in public affairs, his principal concern had been to act as became a good Christian, and a faithful subject, and he had done nothing of which he was ashamed, or had cause to repent. He con- fessed frankly, that he had engaged in the first or national covenant, and had complied with it, and with those who took it, as long as the ends for which it was ordained were observed ; but when he discovered, what was soon evident to all the world, that some privat...e persons, under the pre- tence of reforming some errors in religion, and preserving public liberty, intended to abridge and take away the king's just power and law- ful authority, and assume it themselves, he had then withdrawn himself from that engagements MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 389 and when, in order to disappoint these men, and to clear themselves from being concerned in such base designs, the honest part of the nation thought it necessary to enter into an association for the security of religion, and the preservation of the royal authority, he likewise joined in it and subscribed it : that, as to the so- lemn league and covenant, he had never taken it, and never could approve or acknowledge it as a just and lawful confederacy ; and therefore could not be accused of having broken it : and how far religion, which is now split into innumerable sects and parties, hath been advanced by it, and what horrible mischiefs and dreadful tragedies it hath occasioned, these three distressed kingdoms bear an abundant testimony : that when their late king, of ever blessed memory, had almost subdued his re- bellious subjects in England, and a faction of this kingdom, under colour of their solemn league, had sent in very powerful succours to their assistance, it pleased his majesty to send him into th
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In all cases, he said, and particu- larly in public affairs, his principal concern had been to act as became a good Christian, and a faithful subject, and he had done nothing of which he was ashamed, or had cause to repent. He con- fessed frankly, that he had engaged in the first or national covenant, and had complied with it, and with those who took it, as long as the ends for which it was ordained were observed ; but when he discovered, what was soon evident to all the world, that some privat...e persons, under the pre- tence of reforming some errors in religion, and preserving public liberty, intended to abridge and take away the king's just power and law- ful authority, and assume it themselves, he had then withdrawn himself from that engagements MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 389 and when, in order to disappoint these men, and to clear themselves from being concerned in such base designs, the honest part of the nation thought it necessary to enter into an association for the security of religion, and the preservation of the royal authority, he likewise joined in it and subscribed it : that, as to the so- lemn league and covenant, he had never taken it, and never could approve or acknowledge it as a just and lawful confederacy ; and therefore could not be accused of having broken it : and how far religion, which is now split into innumerable sects and parties, hath been advanced by it, and what horrible mischiefs and dreadful tragedies it hath occasioned, these three distressed kingdoms bear an abundant testimony : that when their late king, of ever blessed memory, had almost subdued his re- bellious subjects in England, and a faction of this kingdom, under colour of their solemn league, had sent in very powerful succours to their assistance, it pleased his majesty to send him into th
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