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 17g A PPEi DI X. " For there fr years that I ha/e undertak "tle Reformation of the to univeties, I have "med to my gf to have N< alking through "a large field of } Briars and Thorn% in hopes "of arriving at a beautiful country beyond it; of "which, at my firff tting out, I'thought I had "a yet nar prot&' but, goM God ! with wat "weaq fieps, wth wt bardflrule, wth what "exueme hzrd of 1ofing evy Rag of cloaths ' off my back, ve I tofi'd and fweat, to get "throh tNs horrid brake t the thicket impene- "trable t the pth untrod! I have been teiz'd, "p?!ex'd, prick'd, firatch' torn, wounded, di- "gur'd I No fn= have I been able to dmgage "my fell on one fide, than I have been entangkd "on the other. In the mid of this perplexity  and diefi, nothing kept up my fpnts more, than an =rne dq;?e of do:rig the good at "was tcfo me i a thorough ?eOafion of the "[ncrefiSdn of Perfeerance, d an utter con- "t%mpt"of the unrOneble opption I met with: "for I confidered that it =oti onl t om Briart "and t,. which, however the might  p- s' mirted, for a we,  triumph in ctaing a "little Page zc6, Alluding to ttmt paflge in our. excellent tiaatiler, eartb at an ig ftb Jut weeds, nettle, bramble{, 9. feco  of c rI of an. This 11emy  ed by rome rfons, ro contain a fecret fae on  gentSmen ct Et college, v{. Mr. hra,

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