He wrote them some polemical letters, in which he maintained the chief points of the Independent theology.

He took care likewise, to retort on them their favorite argument of providence; and asked them, whether the Lord had not declared against them.

But the ministers thought that the same events which to their enemies were judgments, to them were trials, and they replied, that the Lord had only hid his face for a time from Jacob.
But Cromwell insisted that the appeal had been made to God in the most express and solemn manner; and that, in the fields of Dunbar, an irrevocable decision had been awarded in favor of the English army.[**] * Sir Edward Walker.
* This is the best of Cromwell's wretched compositions that remains, and we shall here extract a passage out of it.

"You say you have not so learned Christ as to hang the equity of your cause upon events.

We could wish that blindness had not been upon your eyes to all those marvellous dispensations which God hath wrought lately in England.