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In this wonderful manner, and with this incredible The conexpedition, did God put an end to a rebellion that had the whole raged near twenty years, and been carried on with all history. the horrid circumftances of murder, devaftation, and parricide, that fire and fword, in the hands of the most wicked men in the world, could be inftruments of; almoft to the defolation of two kingdoms, and the exceeding defacing and deforming the third.

It was but five months, fince Lambert's fanatical army was scattered and confounded, and General Monk's marched into England: it was but three months, fince the fecluded members were reftored; and, fhortly after, the monftrous long Parliament finally diffolved, and rooted up: it was but a month, fince the King's letters and Declaration were delivered to the new Parliament, afterwards called the Convention: on the firft of May they were delivered, and his Majefty was at Whitehall on the 29th of the fame month.

By these remarkable steps, among others, did the merciful hand of God, in this fhort space of time, not only bind up and heal all those wounds, but even make the fcars as undiscernible, as, in refpect of the deepnefs, was poffible; which was a glorious addition to the deliverance. And, after this miraculous restoration of the Crown, and the Church, and the juft rights of Parliaments, no nation under heaven can ever be more happy, if God fhall be pleased to add establishment and per petuity to the bleffings he then restored.

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