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ft fa obedience to Him who said , Tit cbriverms ct&tfirma fratres , not to St . Peter onty , bat to all men : Bei ng encouraged also to it by tbe goodness of the cause , wkicfo is able to make a weak man
strong . To the belief hereof I was not led partially , or by cbance , as many are , by the prejudice and prepossession of their country , education , and such like inducements ; which ^ if they lead to truth in one place , perhaps lead to errour in a hundred ; but
having with the greatest equality and indifferencyy made inquiry and search into tKe grounds on both sides , I was willing to impart to others , that satisfaction
which was givejn to myself . For ray inscribing to it your nfajesty's sacreS iiatney I should labour much in niy excuse of it from
high presumption , had it not some appearance of title to your' majesty ' s patronage * and protection , as feeing icldpf ^ ce ofUhat book , which by special order from your
majesty -was . written somer $ ears since , chiefly for the gepejraf good , but pefadventure ;; riot without some aim at the recovery-of one of your meanest subjects from a dangerous deviation ; and so due Antony our
majesty , . asahe frok of your ^^ vn Wgh humility and most royal chanty . Besides , it is in a manner nothing els ^ but a pursuance of and ^ a si * perstr UQfton upon that blessed doctrine ^ wfcerewith I have ^ Awroed , and armed the
frontispiece of r my : book , Which was so earnestl y recommended by you r toyal- father of happy memory , *• all the lovers of , truth and P ^ ce ^ r that is , ta all that were 2 *« "himself , as the only hopeful 7 ** n 8 ofheaKngthe breaches of ^ rf ^ ttdoia * Whereof the enemy
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of souls makes such pestilent ad . vantage * The lustre of this 'blessed doctrine I have here endeavoured to uncloud and unveil ,
and to free it from those mists and fumes which have been raised to obscure it , by ofie of that order , which envenoms even poison itself , and makes the Roman
religion much more malignant and turbulent than otherwise it would be : whose very rule and doctrine obliges them to make all men , as much as Ires in them , subjects unto kings , and servants unto Christ , no farther than it shall
please the Pope . So that whether your majesty bejconsidered , either as a prous son towards your royal father King James , or as a tender * hearted and compassionate son towards your distressed mother .
the Catholic church , or as a king of your subjects , or as a servant unto Christ , this work ( to which I can give no other commenda . tion , but that it was intended to do you service in all these
capacities ) may pretend , not unreasonably , to y our gracious acceptaace . Lastly , being a defence of that whole church and religion you profess , it could not be so proper to any patron as to the great deit
fen ^ ter of ; which style your majesty bath ever so exactly made good , both in securing it from all dangers , and in vindicating it ( by the well-ordering and rectifying this church ) from all the foul
aspersions both of domestic and foreign enemies , of which they car * have no ground , but their own want of judgment , or want of
charity- But it is an argument of a despairing and lost cause , to support it 9 elf with these impetuous outcries and clamours , the faint refuges of thos ^ e that waut better
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/17/
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