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THE

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON;

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

INTERSPERSED WITH

TRANSLATIONS AND CRITICAL REMARKS,

BY

CHARLES SYMMONS, D. D.

OF JESUS College, Oxford.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY LUKE HANSARD, NEAR LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS,

FOR J. JOHNSON; NICHOLS AND SON; F. AND C. RIVINGTON;
OTRIDGE AND SON; T. PAYNE; OGILVY AND SON; CUTHELL
AND MARTIN; VERNOR AND HOOD; R. LEA; J. WALKER;
CLARKE AND SON; J. STOCKDALE; LACKINGTON AND CO.;
LONGMAN AND CO.; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. HARDING;
R. H. EVANS; J. MAWMAN; J. HATCHARD; AND MATHEWS
AND LEIGH.

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MAR 5 1941

ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΑΣΤΗΣ.

In Anfwer to a Book entitled,

'EIKON

ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚ Η,

THE PORTRAITURE OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY IN HIS SOLITUDES AND HIS SUFFERINGS.

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XI. Upon the Nineteen Propofitions, &c.

F the nineteen propofitions he names none in particular, neither fhall the answer: But he infifts upon the old plea of "his confcience, honour and reafon;" uting the plaufibility of large and indefinite words, to defend himself at fuch a diftance as may hinder the eye of common judgment from all diftinct view and examination of his reafoning. "He would buy the peace of his people at any rate, fave only the parting with his confcience and honour." Yet fhows not how it can happen that the peace of a people, if otherwife to be bought at any rate, fhould be inconfiftent or at variance with the confcience and honour of a king. Till then, we may receive it for a better fentence, that nothing fhould be more agreeable to the confcience and honour of a king, than to preferve his fubjects in peace; efpecially from civil war.

And which of the propofitions were "obtruded on him with the point of the fword," till he firft with the point of the fword thruft from him both the propofitions and the propounders? He never reckons those violent and merciless obtrufions, which for almost twenty years he had been forcing upon tender confciences by all forts of perfecution, till through the multitude of them VOL. III.

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