An Historical and Critical Account of Hugh PetersG. Smeeton, 1818 - 41 pages |
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Page 13 - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach...
Page 20 - Cromwell, and who had spent the best part of his life in the service of the anti-royalists. But yet Milton was preserved as to life and fortune...
Page 32 - the greatest audience then in the world : and in that sermon the preacher had this passage : " I have lived in a country where in seven years I never saw a beggar, nor heard an oath, nor looked upon a drunkard.
Page 13 - Inquisition, A mungrel breed of like pernicion. And growing up, became the sires Of Scribes, Commissioners, and Triers ; Whose business is, by cunning sleight, To cast a figure for men's light, To find, in lines of beard and face, The physiognomy of Grace ;* And by the sound and twang of nose, If all be sound within disclose ; Free from a crack or flaw of sinning, As men try pipkins by the ringing...
Page 13 - I had access to the king, — he used me civilly ; I, in requital, offered my poor thoughts three times for his safety ; I never had hand in contriving or acting his death, as I am scandalized, but the contrary, to my mean power...
Page 15 - had been Oracles ; though he was known to be " infamous for more than one kind of Wickedness. A: " Fact, which Milton himself did not dare to deny, " when he purposely wrote his Apology, for this very " End, to defend even by Name (as far as was possible) " the very blackest of the Conspirators, and Hugh " Peters among the chief of them, who were by Name " accused of manifest Impieties by their Adversaries.
Page 6 - ... Bachelor of Arts in 1616, and of Master in 1622. He was licensed by Dr. Mountain, Bishop of London, and preached at St. Sepulchres with great success. Meeting with some trouble on account of his nonconformity, he went to Holland, where he was five or six years ; from whence he removed to New England, and after residing there seven years, was sent into England by that colony, to mediate for ease in customs and excise. The civil war being then on foot, he went into Ireland, and upon his return...
Page 7 - He came from the army to the house, and made them a narration of the storming and taking of Dartmouth, and of the valour, unity, and affection of the army, and presented several letters, papers, crucifixes, and other popish things taken in the town. — It is plain from these quotations, that Peters must have been in favour with the generals, and that he must have made some considerable figure in the transactions of those was much valued by the parliament, and improved his interest with them in the...
Page 33 - How these late mercies and conquests might be preserved and improved ? VII. Why his name appears in so many books, not without blots, and he never wipe them off? • * . .In this pamphlet he observes, p. 14. that he had lived about six years near that famous Scotsman, Mr. John Forbes ;
Page 13 - I was often advised with by some of this committee, and none •was more active in the business than Mr. Hugh Peters, the minister, who understood little of the law, but was very opinionative, and would frequently mention some proceedings of law in Holland, wherein he was altogether mistaken."—Whitelock, p.