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 all forts; that therefore they. ought to be nihed in the molt rigorous manner. Now, if tt can Se pro'ed, in like manner, that the other dire[tor have as pmfidiotdly broken as gntt a truR repofid in them by'the go'ernmenr, xhe nobility, gentry, ar.d commonalty of �ngland; that under pretence of advancing natior. al religion and learning, they have iatroduc'd national irreligion and ighorance; and i,Oead of promoting loyalty and.- peact, have encom d treafon and diflu, bance; that they have debauch d the principles of' youth, infiead of reforming them; that they have embezzel'd or fituandred away great ihms of publick money, and that they have been guilty of wicke." and inmous ra/i'ices of' all forts; ought thO not, likevifi, to ni in the moil rigorous manner? To �, that this b not yet Seen proved. is ridi- culous, till we have had an opportunity of proving itl the iniquities o the $ontb-j direc7ors, as much and as confidently as they were talked of befora the .dent met, were not prov'd till the parliament meet: aud when. the parliament flall be .pleafed, to take the eondu& of the other direrlots into as firic'/ examination, I doubt not that they will rill- cover as great mirmaria ement and as man -- Nothing which I have here laid down in cneral coneem,.'ng eitk'r the soth-a. or tl. Oxfird di- 'e&rs can. be made to incluzle ever} mdMdual of either fort, them are, ! hope, fome-iltle men ot both, tho' I fea, far zut-numbet'd by, the guilty; and therefore roethinks they ought. to pray }ora _pub:ick ferntiny, that their ehara&er$ may no longer rafter in bad company. - From hence it will be eafy to judge, h37 the a- cademical d/re8ors are/b terribly againl (I do not fly afraid of) a =ifitation; namely, for the time mffon that their brethren of the South-ja abhor the name of a/cret cnmittee, This

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