Necessity Has No Law.

I Desire Not To Keep My Place In This Government An Hour Longer Than I May Preserve England In Its Just Rights, And May Protect The People Of God In Such A Just Liberty Of Their Consciences.

What Is All Our Histories, But God Showing Himself, Shaking And Trampling On Everything That He Has Not Planted.

My Prayer Is That God Give Me No Longer Life Than I Shall Be Glad To Use Mine Office In Edification, And Not In Destruction.

Because I Fear God, I Have No Man To Fear.

I Was By Birth A Gentleman, Living Neither In Any Considerable Height, Nor Yet In Obscurity. I Have Been Called To Several Employments In The Nation - To Serve In Parliaments, - And ( Because I Would Not Be Over Tedious ) I Did Endeavour To Discharge The Duty Of An Honest Man In Those Services, To God, And His People's Interest, And Of The Commonwealth; Having, When Time Was, A Competent Acceptation In The Hearts Of Men, And Some Evidence Thereof.