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 N'"xrv, Yerre. Filius. drink' King GroRGv.: But I ws told roundly, that it vas. an ant to the corn?any; and that I ought to drink vhat roes pro]os',l to m'e. 'Thi., you may be lure, occafion'd a diFpute upon got vaRly the worft of' it in numbers, whatever might do in .,4rgumet; howeve b if they confuted me, they.did not convert me i nor could they, with all their united 1ogick and lungs, make me believe, that there was no harm in lwcaring to a King whom they thought an' uprper; nor in ab/uring, in the molt folemn terms, a pertbn, who, in their opinion, was po/l'efs'd of all the light that God could invefl: him with. Thek di�?utes were renewed aimoft every night with more het and violence on both tides, and ex- torted ,rorn me (in-the fineere, indignation of my heart agaiaf[ fuch principles anti fuch prac"tices) veral warm exprelfions, which render'd me obnoxi- ous to the greter pat of the ctlege, and particu- larly to the �refidet and l>,iov fellors. ! was in their language a turbulent, contumaci ous, uogover,;able wretch, an undutiful fen of the univertityi in my own confcience an hone3 lad, a detefter o perjury, and an unfeigned lover of King Gu_o_ and the prteftant Not long ater this,. the' fame)us centreretry tween the Bifiop of Bangor, Dr. $nape and others, broke out; in which,, from the beginning, I unhap- pily embark'd my fell, and with great freedom, from ume to tme, &der d m} �entments o� there matter, which I thought to he the fcntiments of every conill'rent Proteflat, and o� every [bble m in the world. This engaged me in other difputes, with fryetel orthodcx perfens, about Religion and the Chtarch; in. which I fired. iuft like the reft of my brethren, who defended the BtfiJop, gaining. thereby a great deal of ill-will, and a geat deal ol am.ny i I.was before rut&lent, connamacious,, but; i

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