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 N ? xxxviIi. 7'err, e-ilim 43', reitted to work on, till a more convenient oppor. tunity offers it fell to our governors to crulh them: But violence will not always find Tolemion  the mo,'t extenfive M.ercy may be wearied out with continual provocauons and if the forbearance ot the magittrate is long exercifed in vain, he has afrooral to fttppiy that defe&. Whereas, ihould a popifl idolater become our king, all the grievances and corruptions, which we now complain oL would be fo far from being redretIM and reformed, that new grievances and new corrup- tions would be fuperadded to there i tyranny and op- ?.?ellion would grow every day more infolent, and every evil, which priefi-eraft and bigotry could in- vent, .would be efablifled in our The difcouragements and hardfifips, which the Wmas meet with at Oxvo, for cfpoufing the re/nt government, are nothing in comparifon th6fe which they would !hffer under a govermtnt ';vhich would join with the univerfitie$ againCt them 'they now loti: their degree, their ]11o,flt?t, their; it,refl, and all the common pri,ilege, of focie; ty--- But what is the toii of theti temtral goods to what would bffal them under an arbitrary government, the/ors of their religion, and the hon. dage of their fouls? Perhaps it will be objefed, that the unverfitts, and Oxford e�pecialI, would' have very little favour to expe& from one, whole reputed father was de- prived of his crovon principally by their means, and whom himtIf they have fo often folemnly 'ured. I confe, (for no body can deny this,) that thej3 nffrve obediene gentlemen did, indeed, make a !ttl�  trip in their allegiance at the Rvor.XlO, by op- ?ofing king J.MSl bu their have tverely repented of th:t rranfa&ion with tears, contrition, and-rebel- lion i they/ave poued, they have drunk, they have- prayed,

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