The Constitutional Experiments of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Years 1649-1660 |
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Page 72 - Which who can tell how soon God may fit the People for such a thing? None can desire it more than I! Would all were the Lord's People; as it was said, "Would all the Lord's People were Prophets.
Page 110 - Petition and Advice of the knights, citizens and burgesses now assembled in the Parliament of this Commonwealth.
Page 7 - Really a Justice of the Peace, — he shall by the most be wondered at as an owl, if he go but one step out of the ordinary course of his fellow Justices in the reformation of these things!
Page 62 - ... as is the proportion or balance of dominion or property in land, such is the nature of the empire.
Page 75 - Whereupon, adds the same Rhadamantine Record, ' the House rose ; and the Speaker, with many of the members of the House, departed out of the House to Whitehall : where they, being the greater number of the Members sitting in Parliament, did, by a Writing...
Page 138 - ... the parliament re-admitted to sit, or a council of state allowed of by the army, since they only now have the power. The terms to be stood on are, liberty of conscience to all professing Scripture to be the rule of their faith and worship ; and the abjuration of a single person.
Page 93 - A Declaration of the free and well-affected People of England now in Arms ' (or shortly to be in Arms) ' against the tyrant Oliver Cromwell...
Page 64 - I knew it. And, so far as I could discern, when they were dissolved, there was not so much as the barking of a dog, or any general and visible repining at it!
Page 105 - ... fundamental constitutions, shall be laid and inviolably observed, as the conditions upon which the whole body so represented doth consent to cast itself into a civil and politic incorporation, and...