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 from some particulars amongst them, I know many of them so rationall and square, as I fear nothing unhandsome from them, being such men as I verily believe will rebuke their fellow Church-Members, for what they [sic] have done against me. You may remember, I have these passages of them.

(c) ''That their design was but to disable me from publique Employment. That they were urged thereunto by the miscariage of some Phaetons, their professed Enemies; and for that they mistook me, for an Engine of their harm: (b) I said I was unconcerned in their unnecessary disputes; equally civill and serviceable to them as to any others. That it was their own rash jealousie and unbelief, which put me at all upon publique business, Me defendendo. I praid God to forgive them. I professed my belief, That many of those I named, page (89) knew not what they did, but were abused by a very few designers whom God would discover. Moreover, page (90) I do not attribute what they have done to their opinion in Religion; I said, (c) I believed, that all other new Religionaries in their several like seasons, had done to their respective''