Oliver Cromwell Or England in the Past Viewed in Relation to England in the P
Oliver Cromwell Or England in the Past Viewed in Relation to England in the P
J Denham Smith
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Laws, liberties, and religion are of little worth if that power gains the ascendancy. The wolf was upon the fold with a vengeance. The time was now come for the man who had cursed Elizabeth, who had warmed his hauds at the fire which had burned John Huss ; who had illuminated the Castle of St. Angelo OLIVER CROMWELL. 49 for very joy when the faggots were blazing at Smith- field, Oxford, and Winchester, where Protestant flesh and blood melted like wax in the furnace. The time, too, was come for ...the friends of liberty the die is cast. It is evident that the Protestant interest must be victorious against this foe, or perish. With that event liberty would expire ; religion itself, the religion of the Bible, would, so far as England was concerned, become extinct. In this responsible epoch are life and death. We feel that our own lives and liberties are deeply interested. Do you not, then, long for deliverance? Do you not as it were pray to the God of Heaven for a deliverer ? Without a deliverance England must become a huge Golgotha of Protestants ; the favoured isle of the Reformation must become an island grave, with its head at one sea and its foot on the other ; whilst on its gloomy stone would be chiselled the terrible inscription, " Here lie the Puritans.
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