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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 Neceffity 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 Encroachments 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 different, as tbe Confidence of ſpeaking Truth, and the Impudence of. a. Lie,) cur Government 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. hy jel 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.
