[The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 CHAPTER I 17/45
The text was Psalm cvii.
7, "And He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation"; and Peters, in discoursing on this text, drew from it the assurance of a happy settlement of the Commonwealth at last.
"With his fingers on the cushion," says Dr. Price, "he measured the right way from the Red Sea, through, the Wilderness, to Canaan; told us it was not forty days' march, but God led Israel forty years through the Wilderness before they came thither; yet this was still the Lord's right way, who led his people _crinkledum cum crankledum_." Monk's present march was to be one of the last of the windings.[1] [Footnote 1: Skinner's Life of Monk, 175-199; Phillips, 677-680; Parl.Hist., III.
1574 (quotation from Dr.Price).] While Monk is at St.Alban's, we may inquire into his real intentions.
They connect themselves with the purport of those addresses with which he had been troubled along his whole route.
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