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Meanwhile "the hill men," the adherents of Renwick, in October 1684, declared a war of assassination against their opponents, and announced that they would try malignants in courts of their own. A test the abjuration of the criminal parts of Renwick's declaration was to be offered by military authority to all and sundry. Refusal to abjure entailed military execution.
And taking the definition of malignants, given by the declaration of both kingdoms joined in arms, anno 1643, to be just, which says, "such as would not take the covenant, were declared to be public enemies to their religion and country, and that they are to be censured and punished, as professed adversaries and malignants;" it cannot be refused, but that the prelatical party in England, now joined with, are such.
He describes the mob as being made up, as London mobs generally are, rather of the unruly and dissolute than of fanatical malignants, and he vehemently opposed any concessions by Parliament to the spirit of intolerance which had first kindled the blaze.
"Even so," replied Southwold; "and many is the time that is, in the olden time, before I was regenerated many is the day of revelry that I have passed there; many the cup of good ale that I have quaffed." "And thou shalt quaff it again," replied the leader. "Good ale was not intended only for Malignants, but for those who serve diligently.
The stoppage of the coach; the Protector half stunned; the chaplain paralysed with fear; the Trainbands in a frenzy half of terror, half of strong drink firing off their pieces hap-hazard at the windows, and shouting out that this was a plot of the Papists or the Malignants; the crowd surging, the Body-Guard galloping to and fro; the poor standard-bearers tripping themselves up with their own poles, all this made a mad turmoil in the street without Ludgate.
The forces of the western counties, notwithstanding the imminent danger which threatened their country, were resolute not to unite their cause with that of an army which admitted any engagers or malignants among them; and they kept in a body apart under Ker. They called themselves the protesters; and their frantic clergy declaimed equally against the king and against Cromwell.
The Remnant now formed itself into organised and armed societies; their conduct made them feared and detested by the majority of the preachers, who longed for a quiet life, not for the establishment of a Mosaic commonwealth, and "the execution of righteous judgments" on "malignants."
Sae, come awa, come awa; the family hae had eneugh o' your testimony to mind it for ae while." So saying he dragged off Mause, the words, "Testimony Covenant malignants indulgence," still thrilling upon her tongue, to make preparations for instantly renewing their travels in quest of an asylum.
"For their crimes have not only been connived at, but dispensed with and pardoned, and themselves received into intimate fellowship, intrusted with counsels, admitted into parliaments, and put in places of power and authority for managing the public affairs of the kingdom; whereby, in God's justice, they got at last into their hands the whole power and strength of the kingdom, both in judicatories and armies, and did employ the same unto the enacting and prosecuting an unlawful engagement in war against the kingdom of England, notwithstanding the dissent of many considerable members of parliament, who had given constant proof of their integrity in the cause from the beginning; of many faithful testimonies and free warnings of the servants of God; of the supplications of many synods, presbyteries, and shires; and the declaration of the General Assembly and their Commissioners to the contrary; which engagement, as it was the cause of much sin, so also of much misery and calamity unto this land, and held forth the grievousness of our sin, in complying with malignants in the greatness of our judgment, that we may be taught never to split again upon the same rock, upon which the Lord hath set so remarkable a beacon.
Lack-a-day! a great mercy a glorifying mercy a crowning mercy a vouchsafing an uplifting I profess the malignants are scattered from Dan to Beersheba smitten, hip and thigh, even until the going down of the sun!" "Hear you aught of Colonel Thornhaugh's wounds?" "He is dead," answered Wildrake, "that's one comfort the roundheaded rascal!
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