sh counsels, and on such depending hitherto for subsistence?
Especially, what can this last Parliament expect, who, having
revived lately and published the Covenant, hare re-engaged
themselves never to readmit Episcopacy? Which no son of Charles
returning but will most certainly bring back with him, if he regard
the last and strictest charge of his father, _to persevere in not
the Doctrine only, but Government, of the Church of England, [and]
not to neglect the speedy and effectual suppressing of Errors and
Schisms_,--among which he accounted Presbytery one of the chief.
Or, if, notwithstanding that charge of his father, he submit to the
Covenant, how will he keep faith to _us_ with disobedience to
_him_, or regard that faith given which must be founded on the
breach of that last and solemnest paternal charge, and the
reluctance, I may say the antipathy, which is in all kings against
Presbyterian and Independent Discipline?"

Perhaps the most striking instance of _omission_ in the new
edition of matter that had appeared in the first is in the paragraph
on the subject of Spiritual Liberty to which reference has been made
at p. 653. He retains in that paragraph nearly all that related to
Liberty of Conscience generally, but he carefully removes the two or
three sentences in which he had intimated his individual opinion that
there could be no perfect Liberty of Conscience without abolition of
Church Establishments and dissolution of every form of connexion
between Church and State. There was practical sagacity in this
omission at the moment at which he was re-issuing his pamphlet. It
was no time then to be obtruding upon the public, or upon the
Presbyterians that were flocking in to the new Parliament, his
peculiar Disestablishment notion, however precious it might be to
himself. His real business was to stir up all, by any means, to the
defence even yet of the Republican form of Government; in such an
argument, addressed mainly to Presbyterians and other zealots for a
State Church, the question of Disestablishment was rather to be
avoided; nay, for himself, that question had faded into
insignificance for the time in comparison with the vaster question
whether the Republic should be preserved or the Stuarts brought back,
and most willingly would he have been, assured of the preservation of
the Republic even though a State Church should continue to be part
and parcel of it, and the special battl