Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659: Now First Published from the Original Autograph Manuscript. With an Introduction, Containing an Account of the Parliament of 1654; from the Journal of Guibon Goddard, Esq. M.P., Also Now First PrintedHenry Colburn, 1828 |
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Page iii
... question being propounded , whether the maintenance of ministers by tythes , shall be continued after the third day of November next . And the question being put , that that question be now put , it passed in the negative . † Wednesday ...
... question being propounded , whether the maintenance of ministers by tythes , shall be continued after the third day of November next . And the question being put , that that question be now put , it passed in the negative . † Wednesday ...
Page xxii
... question should be put for putting of the question ; and that the Government should be the first business should be taken into consideration the next morning . * The same day , in the afternoon , I attended the Committee of Privileges ...
... question should be put for putting of the question ; and that the Government should be the first business should be taken into consideration the next morning . * The same day , in the afternoon , I attended the Committee of Privileges ...
Page xxiii
... question their freedom would be to lose it or to weaken it , and to question that which was never doubted , but attested by the known law and privilege of Parliament , and therefore , could not be strengthened by such a declaration as ...
... question their freedom would be to lose it or to weaken it , and to question that which was never doubted , but attested by the known law and privilege of Parliament , and therefore , could not be strengthened by such a declaration as ...
Page xxiv
... question , stated the day before , the House might be turned iuto a Com- mittee of the House , which was strongly opposed , and being put to the question , it was carried in the affirmative . + Mr. Nathaniel Bacon had the chair , the ...
... question , stated the day before , the House might be turned iuto a Com- mittee of the House , which was strongly opposed , and being put to the question , it was carried in the affirmative . + Mr. Nathaniel Bacon had the chair , the ...
Page xxv
... question , as if it were not Parliamentary , nor for the honour of the House , to approve of any thing which takes not its foundation and rise from themselves . It was pressed , likewise , that there might be a transpo- sition of some ...
... question , as if it were not Parliamentary , nor for the honour of the House , to approve of any thing which takes not its foundation and rise from themselves . It was pressed , likewise , that there might be a transpo- sition of some ...
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Page clxxvii - I will hear what God the LORD will speak : For he will speak peace unto his people, And to his saints : But let them not turn again to folly.
Page clxxv - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page clxxvii - Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ; that glory may dwell in our land.
Page cxix - The holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the word of God, the only rule of faith and obedience.
Page 389 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words — I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Page clxxvii - Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Page 409 - There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship ; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges — that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers or...
Page clxxviii - GOD is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page cxxxi - The government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging.
Page xxxv - for my own part,' to retire to a private life. I begged to be dismissed of my charge ; I begged it again and again; — and God be Judge between me and all men if I lie in this matter...