THE

WORKS OF JOHN MILTON

IN EIGHT VOLUMES

VOL. V.

PROSE WORKS. VOL. III.

John Dilton

IN VERSE AND PROSE

PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS
WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY
THE REV. JOHN MITFORD

PROSE WORKS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

THE Hiftory of Britain, That part especially now called England.

From the firft Traditional Beginning, continued to the Norman

Conqueft. Collected out of the Antientest and best Authors

thereof

Note. The bracket which appears at the beginning of the

line in page 94, and that at the end of the line in page 101,

enclose that part of the Hiftory which was expunged by the
licenser on the first publication in 1670.

A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclefiaftical Causes: Shewing that

it is not lawfull for any power on earth to compell in matters of

Religion. To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of Eng-

land with the dominions therof

Confiderations touching the likelieft Means to remove Hirelings

out of the Church. Wherin is alfo Difcours'd, Of Tithes,

Church-Fees, and Church-Revenues, &c.

Brief Notes upon a late Sermon, titled The Fear of God and the

King; Preach'd, and fince publifh'd, by Matthew Griffith,

D. D., and Chaplain to the late King. Wherin many noto-

rious wrestings of Scripture, and other falfities are observ'd

A Letter to a Friend, concerning the Ruptures of the Common-

wealth.

Of True Religion, Herefie, Schifm, Toleration, and what best

means may be us'd against the growth of Popery

400

406

The ready and easy Way to establish a Free Commonwealth, and

the Excellence therof, compar'd with the Inconveniences and

Dangers of readmitting Kingship in this Nation

The Prefent Means, and brief Delineation of a Free Common-

wealth, Easy to be put in Practice, and without Delay. In a

Letter to General Monk

420

455