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 particular cases which may give warrant unto such or such a person to transplant himselfe, and which apply the former generall grounds to particular persons.

First, if soveraigne Authority command and encourage such Plantations by giving way to subjects to transplant themselves, and set up a new Commonwealth. This is a lawfull and expedient case for such particular persons as be designed and sent: Matth. 8. 9. and for such as they, who are sent, have power to command.

Secondly, when some speciall providence of God leades a man unto such a course. This may also single out particulars. Psal. 32. 8. I will instruct, and guide thee with mine eye. As the childe knowes the pleasure of his father in his eye, so doth the childe of God see Gods pleasure in the eye of his heavenly Fathers providence. And this is done three wayes.

First, if God give a man an inclination to this or that course, for that is the spirit of man; & God is the Father of spirits: Heb. 12. 9. Rom. 1. 11, 12. 1 Cor. 16. 12. Paul discerned his calling to goe to Rome, by his, his ready inclination to that voyage; and Apollos his loathnesse to goe to Corinth, Paul accepted as a just reason of his refusall of a calling to goe thither. And this holdeth, when in a mans inclination to travaile, his heart is set on no by-respects, as to see fashions, to deceive his Creditours, to fight Duels, or to live idly, these are vaine inclinations; but if his heart be inclined upon right judgement to advance the