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 dayes of Queene Mary; who removed to France and Germany in the beginning of her Reign, upon Proclamation of alteration of religion, before any persecution began.

Secondly, there be evills to be avoided that may warrant removeall. First, when some grievous sinnes overspread a Country that threaten desolation. Mic. 2. 6. to 11 verse: When the people say to them that prophecie, Prophecy not; then verse 10. £rise then, this is not your rest. Which words though they be a threatning, not a commandement; yet as in a threatning a wise man foreseeth the plague, so in the threatning he seeth a commandement, to hide himselfe from it. This case might have beene of seasonable use unto them of the Palatinate, when they saw their Orthodoxe Ministers banished, although themselves might for a while enjoy libertie of conscience.

Secondly, if men be overburdened with debts and miseries, as Davids followers were; they may then retire out of the way (as they retired to David for safety) not to defraud their Creditors, (for God is an avenger of such things, 1 Thess: 4. 6. ) but to gaine further opportunity to discharge their debts, and to satisfie their Creditors. 1 Sam. 22. 1, 2.

Thirdly, in case of persecution, so did the Apostles in Acts 13. 46, 47.

Thirdly, as these generall cases, where any of them doe fall out, doe warrant removeall in generall: so there be some speciall providences or