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    Art . L—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 , con-, taining an Account of the Parliament of 1654 ; from the Journal of Ghiibon Goddard , Esq ., M . P ., also now first printed . Edited and Illustrated with Notes Historical and Biographical , by John Towiil Rutt . 4 Vols . 8 vo . London . 1828 .

    Regarding the value of this work as chiefly consisting in the mass of materials which it affords for the historian in estimating the views and characters of the men who were associated , though in no very cordial relations , with Cromwell in the government of the Commonwealth , our object will be to make some selections which will shew the tone and mode of thinking of

    some of the principal actors . The work of editing the Journal must have been one of great labour , and it has fallen into the hands of a person whose pursuits and acquirements well fitted him for the task . The notes have added a . great variety of biographical and historical particulars , and they breathe throughout that spirit of liberty and religious independence which has always characterized their esteemed compiler .

    The first great topic attracting attention is the report of the lengthened debates on Nayler ' s case , which are not very creditable either to the understandings or the Christian spirit of the majority of the House . Cromwell in his speech at the opening of the Parliament , now first published by Mr . Rutt , had thus expressed himself , in his usual strain of oratory , on the subject of religious liberty : " As to those lesser distempers of people that pretend religion , yet from the whole consideration of religion , which would fall under one of the heads

    of reformation , I had rather put it under this head , and I shall the less speak to it , because you have been so well spoken to this day already . I will tell you the truth , that , that which hath been our practice since the last Parliament , hath been , to let all this nation see , that whatever pretensions be to religion , if quiet peaceable , if enjoyed conscience , and liberty to themselves , and not to make religion a pretence for arms and blood ; truly , we have suffered them , and that cheerfully , so to enjoy their own liberties . Whatsoever is contrary , let the pretence be never so specious , if it tend to combination , to interests , and factions , we shall not care , by the grace of God , whom we

    meet withall , though never so specious , though never so quiet . And truly , I am against all liberty of conscience repugnant to this . If men will profess , be they those under baptism , be they those of the Independent judgment simply , and of the Presbyterian judgment , in the name of God , encourage them , countenance them , while they do plainly hold forth to be thankful to God , and to make use of the liberty given them , to enjoy their own consciences j for , as it was said to-day , undoubtedly , this is the peculiar interest all this while contested for .

    " Men that believe in Jesus Christ , ( that is the form that gives the being to true religion , faith in Christ , and walking in a profession answerable to that faith , ) men that believe the remission of sins , through the blood of Christ , and free justification by the blood of Christ * and live upon the grace of God j those men that are certain they are so , are members or Jesus Christ , and arc to him as the apple of his eye ; whosoever hath this faith , let his form be what

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/24/