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 '', as these have done to me. I expresly make it my business, page (92) to excuse them; And I avow the discoursing as I did, to have been by me used as a remedy against my railing or ranting against them. Insomuch as upon the whole matter, I verily hope the respective Churches will censure their particular members for what they have been faulty in towards me, who have been so tender of them; Especially when they shall know, that these Explanations were written after the news of the Cheque given them in Ireland, by the wisdome and vigilancy of Sir Hardress Waller, Sir Charles Coote, Sir Theoph. Jones'', and other good Patriots, and when many of the eminent of that party were obscured, and at a time when some others (if used as I have been) would insolently have insulted over all, for the sake of a few.

If I intended any such thing, I would have done it as a work by it self, and not by a few squinting glances. If I have