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Page 120
... Army , which had won the war for them . Parliament held up the payment of arrears to its soldiers , and obviously hoped to reduce the Army in numbers and to submission without paying up . The Army had no mind to be played with , refused ...
... Army , which had won the war for them . Parliament held up the payment of arrears to its soldiers , and obviously hoped to reduce the Army in numbers and to submission without paying up . The Army had no mind to be played with , refused ...
Page 121
... Army . The Presbyterian magnates were too late . Two days later they were ' purged ' by the Army we have become familiar again with revolutionary ' purges ' in our time . Only some ninety members were left on the rolls ; of these a ...
... Army . The Presbyterian magnates were too late . Two days later they were ' purged ' by the Army we have become familiar again with revolutionary ' purges ' in our time . Only some ninety members were left on the rolls ; of these a ...
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... Army , under the working of God's Holy Spirit - as I thought , and still hope well - had been so far wrought to Christian humility and self - denial as to confess in public their backsliding from the Good Old Cause , and to show the ...
... Army , under the working of God's Holy Spirit - as I thought , and still hope well - had been so far wrought to Christian humility and self - denial as to confess in public their backsliding from the Good Old Cause , and to show the ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
Copyright | |
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