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To the Reader
in the Reproof and Cenfures of ber Extra»
veg meies, if be bad not nick’d the Opportus ¬
nity of doing it at fuch a Time, and under
{uch Circumſtances, as. when the more profefsd . &
Attack of Luther, and bis Adberents in.
Germany, imposd on her a Prudential Ne¬
ceffity of not. difobliging ber Friends, that |
fhe might have an undifiurbed Leifure, and |
more united Strength, to oppoſe the common . |
Enemy 5 fo that under that Fundure She was
ford patiently to put up, what at any other
Seaſon ſhe would bave beinoufly reſented : As
Princes engaged in a hazardous. War are
oblivd to connive at fome. little Encroach¬
ments from their Subje&s, or Provocations
from their Allies, wbich in a. more fetiled
Poflure they would [corn 10 bear, or comply
with : Thus (as the Reaſons of each are
parallel, though the Cafes be as -widely dif¬
ferent, as tbe Confidence of ſpeaking Truth,
and the Impudence of. a. Lie,) cur Govern¬
ment can now find Courage enough to Sentence ¬
and Supprefs ſuch Treafonable and Seditious |
Tibels, which nor fo loug fince. perk'd up
with undaunted Forebeads, and. fiared even
dy itfelf out. of Countenance.
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Jer however our Anthor was not queflioned
by Publick Authority, we. are. fure that be
De PAT H Š > 7 ;
hereby gall’d and chaſed feveral;, not oniy of |
his LT
mate.