This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...can ' rarely be avoided in military affairs. Therefore, waving a ' strict inquiry into the causes of these things, let us apply ' ourselves to the remedy; which is most necessary. And I ' hope we have such true English hearts, and zealous affections ' towards the general weal of our Mother Country, as no ' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...can ' rarely be avoided in military affairs. Therefore, waving a ' strict inquiry into the causes of these things, let us apply ' ourselves to the remedy; which is most necessary. And I ' hope we have such true English hearts, and zealous affections ' towards the general weal of our Mother Country, as no ' Members of either House will scruple to deny themselves, ' and their own private interests, for the public good; nor ' account it to be a dishonour done to them, whatever the ' Parliament shall resolve upon in this weighty matter.' III. ON THE SAME DAY, SEEMINGLY AT A SUBSEQUENT PART OF THE DEBATE, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CROMWELL SAID LIKEWISE, AS FOLLOWS: ' Mr. Speaker, --I am not of the mind that the calling of ' the Members to sit in Parliament will break, or scatter our ' Armies. I can speak this for my own soldiers, that they ' look not upon me, but upon you; and for you they will ' fight, and live and die in your Cause; and if others be of ' that mind that they are of, you need not fear them. They ' do not idolise me, but look upon the Cause they fight for. ' You may lay upon them what commands you please, they ' will obey your commands in that Cause they fight for.' f To be brief, Mr. Zouch Tate, Member for Northampton, Rushworth, vi. 4. t Cromwelliana, p. 12. moved this day a Self-denying Ordinance; which, in a few days more, was passed in the Commons. It was not so easily got through the Lords; but there too it had ultimately to pass. One of the most important clauses was this, introduced not without difficulty, That religious men might now serve without taking the Covenant as a first preliminary, --perhaps they might take it by and by. This was a great ease to tender consciences and indicates a deep split, which will grow wider and wider,
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