Download or read book The History of the Puritans, Vol. 4 written by Daniel Neal and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Puritans, Vol. 4: Or, Protestant Non-Conformists, From the Death of King Charles I. To the Act of Toleration by King William and Queen Mary, in the Year 1689; With an Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Further Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; And This Volume brings the History of the Sufferings of the Puritans down to its period; for though the Protestant Dissenters have since complained of several difficulties and discouragements, yet most of the Penal Laws have been suspended; the prosecutions of the Spiritual Courts have been considerably restrained by the kind interposition of the Civil Powers, and Liberty of Conscience enjoyed without the Hazard of Fines, Imprisonments, and other Terrors of this World. The Times now in review were stormy and boisterous: Upon the Death of King Charles I. the Constitution was dissolved: The Men at the Helm had no legal Authority to change the Government into a Commonwealth, the Protectorship of Cromwel was an Usurpation, because grafted only on the Military Power, and so were all the mishapen Forms into which the Administration was cast till the Restoration of the King. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.