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( 16 ) my declaration; I have no ill will to any m in particular, nor, to any order of men general: nor ever did imbibe any n ons or principles againſt the clergy; wha ver therefore theſe inſpired diſcourſes contain in them, that may be conſtrued vere upon that order, (could not be, an know) was not dictated by any previous o nion, or incident intention of nine, as ſearcher of all hearts well knows.

I had four elder brothers, who had ea of them the happineſs of academical edu tion, two at Pembrokehall, and two Magdalen college in Cambrige: but as myſelf, it it well known among my relativ and friends, that I came from Walden Eſſex to London, in the year 1680 bei then ſixteen years of age, having learned farther at ſchool than Virgil, Horace, a a little of the Greek Grammar: for a y after, or thereabouts, I continued to r ſuch Latin books and brought out of t country with me; but my employment which I was put out by my parents, fo turning my thoughts another way, I ne ſince that time read more than a leaf or accidentally of that language; and even th itſelf moſtly as it may have come in my w in reading an Engliſh book: except the about twenty years agone, I attempted read Strada de Beilo Belgico, and findi myſelf unable to underſtand it, after havi gone on in it about forty leaves in one hu dred and twenty, I ſaid it by; whether t