Note 542 — Chapter VI · FALL OF THE KING.
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Ludlow, Memoirs i. 267: ‘I could not consent to the counsels of those who were contented to leave the guilt of so much blood upon the nation, and thereby to draw down the just vengeance of God upon us all.’ The text of Scripture quoted by him (Numb. xxxv. 33) has in reality a totally different application.