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people became so fanatic, as to believe the Bishops to be Antichrist, and the 

 only obstructors of God's discipline ! and at last some of them were given 

 over to so bloody a zeal, and such other desperate delusions, as to find out a 

 text in the Revelation of St. John, that Antichrist was to be overcome by the 

 sword. So that those very men, thjt began with tender and meek petitions, 

 proceeded to admonitions : then to satirical remonstrances : and at last 

 having, like Absalom, numbered who was not, and who was, for their cause 

 they got a supposed certainty of so great a party, that they durst threaten first 

 the Bishops, and then the Queen and Parliament, to all which they were 

 secretly encouraged by the Earl of Leicester, then in great favour with her 

 Majesty, and the reputed cherisher and patron-general of these pretenders to 

 tenderness of conscience ; his design being, by their means, to bring such art 

 odium upon the Bishops, as to procure an alienation of their lands, and a large 

 proportion of them for himself: which avaricious desire had at last so blinded 

 his reason, that his ambitious and greedy hopes seemed to put him into a. 

 present possession of Lambeth House. 



Of the Restoration. From the " Life of Sanderson " 



Towards the end of this year, 1659, when the many mixed sects, and their 

 creators and merciless protectors, had led or driven each other into a whirl- 

 pool of confusion : when amazement and fear had seized them, and their 

 accusing consciences gave them an inward and fearful intelligence, that the 

 god which they had long served was now ready to pay them such wages, as 

 he does always reward witches with for their obeying him : when these 

 wretches were come to foresee an end of their cruel reign, by our King's 

 return ; and such sufferers as Dr. Sanderson and with him many of the 

 oppressed Clergy and others could foresee the cloud of their afflictions would 

 be dispersed by it ; then, in the beginning of the year following, the King 

 was by God restored to us, and we to our known laws and liberties, and a 

 general joy and peace seemed to breathe through the three nations. Then 

 were the suffering Clergy freed from their sequestration, restored to their 

 revenues, and to a liberty to adore, praise, and pray to God in such order as- 

 their consciences and oaths had formerly obliged them. 



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