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;
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OF THE

THIRD VOLUME.

Page

EIKONOCLASTES: in answer to a Book entitled,

Eikon Basilike, the Portraiture of his sacred Ma-

jesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings, Chap. XI.

to the end......

1

A DEFENCE of the People of England, in answer

to Salmasius's Defence of the King..........103

A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes:

showing, that it is not lawful for any Power on

Earth to compel in Matters of Religion.......317

Considerations touching the likeliest Means to

remove Hirelings out of the Church, &c......348

A Letter to a Friend, concerning the Ruptures of

the Commonwealth..

393

The present Means and brief Delineation of a

free Commonwealth, easy to be put in practice,

and without delay. In a Letter to General Monk 398

The ready and easy Way to establish a Free

Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof,

compared with the Inconveniencies and Dan-

gers of readmitting Kingship in this Nation... 401

Brief Notes upon a late Sermon, titled, "The

Fear of God and the King," preached and since

published by Matthew Griffith, D.D. and Chap-

lain to the late King, wherein many notorious

Wrestings of Scripture, and other Falsities,

are observed...

Accedence commenced Grammar: supplied with

sufficient Rules for the Use of such as, younger

or elder, are desirous, without more trouble

than needs, to attain the Latin Tongue; the

elder Sort especially with little Teaching, and

their own Industry..

.441

431

ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΑΣΤΗΣ.

In Anfwer to a Book entitled,

'EIKON

ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ,

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

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;" ufing 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 preserve his fubjects in peace; especially 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 thrust from him both the propofitions and the propounders? He never reckons those violent and mercilefs 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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that