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  of my Sufferings, though but a è millibus unum; which if you compare with my above-mentioned Charge and Answers, you may perhaps wonder how such fruits could grow upon such a Tree, and indeed so should I my self, did I believe they did so: which, because I do not, I shall in the insuing part of this trouble, I give you, propose some other conjectures as to the true and very cause of this my unhappiness.  For Examples, a wicked Chyrurgion that would out of evil design exhaust his Patients vital Blood, and yet not be seen to intend or permit it, needs but find out some small Wen, Wart, or Kernel, for the extirpation whereof some incision is necessary; For then he can so perform such an incision as may, in seeming to cure that Kernel, destroy the whole: There was something in me inconsistent with the interests of some designs and persons; The removall of me was not eo nomine, to be avowed and owned; wherefore the business was but to find out some Kernels about me, and to administer the Cure by Incision upon some Artery: The which operation might be so performed,