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 God had predetermined for their Lot, and to elect at their pleasure what themselves thought fit in lieu of such their Lot; Some Lands were with-held from Survey, because in our friends possession; Others of the same nature being exposed to it, Cum multis aliis ; which I take no pleasure to Enumerate, until I am lawfully called thereunto; I say it was not for any of these specious Reasons, although these were those fair pretences upon which the honest Army in general was brought to fight against my poor self: These were the invisible Knives wherewith Designers did cut out the very Kidneys of the well-meaning Souldiers, and made them skream out for Justice against they knew not whom, nor for what.  Whereas indeed and in truth, the business was a private design of a very few persons, viz. of some to asperse the Lord Lieutenant as a Countenancer of most monstrous male-administrations in his respects to me, and to be revenged of him, because he did not cocker those Diotrephesses in all their wanton Lusts, and because he took warning by other Mens mischiefs, not to be betrayed by Sir