The British Plutarch Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen Patrio
The British Plutarch Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen Patrio
Persis F Chase
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" He added, " I do "-call God to witnefs, that the afterting of a Com- * 4 mon wealth is the only intent of my heart; and I defire, if poilible, to avoid the fhedding of ' blood ; and delire and entreat you that there may *' be a good undeiilanding between parliament and 44 army : bat, if they will not obey your commands, 4 * I will not defer t you, according to my duty and * l promife, " And, in a letter of the fame date to Fleetwood, he " takes God to witnefs, that he had * { no farther ends ...than the eftabliihing of parlia* " mentary authority, and thofe good laws that our 44 anceftors have purchased with fo much blood, " the fettling the nations in a free Commonwealth, ^7 ' 41 and the defence of godlinefs, and godly men, " though of different judgments*' 7 In a difcouiie \vhich v>as afterwards read by h is direction at Whitehall, on the 2ift of February, 1659-60, to t/iC members who had been fccludcd from parliament, but were then permitted by his means to take their feat?, Monk expreiTed himfelf very ftrongly in behalf of a Commonwealth-govern- ment.
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