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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 347, page id 1030877386:0347
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may peradventure thin Thav: net used the Bistrap erich et at re–
Spect Lonohe, or ritont disadvantaze of my canse Lmi let have
done; for which Lam to mate a Bort Apolorie. A li rle b Tore
the last Parliament os the late Kins, nhen everr man spatze frec
ey acainst the thenpresens Government, Y thon ehr it worthmy
study to consider the gronnds and consequences of such bel aviour.
and mhether it vere consormable or concrary to reason and to the
rrord ofGod; andaster some time; I did put in order and publisti
my thouchesthercos, first in Latine, and thenacain the same in
Finelis, ehere Pendearonred to prove bochby reason and Scrip-
ture. Thar rher rho have once submitted themselves t0 any So-
veraien Covernour cuher by express acknom le dement of his porver
or by receivins protection from his Laiis, are obliged to berrue and
faithful tohim, and ro astenimledse noother supreme poiver but
him in any maiter, or question rhaisoever, cither civill or Lccle-
pasticat. In which B0ols oF mine L pursued my subject, mirhont
tatine notice of any particular mon chat held any opinion contra
ry to that which Tihen rorit; oncly in ecreral l maintaine d that
the office ofche C tersy in respect of the supreme civil porver, Was
noc Macisterial, buc Ministerial; and tat th ir teachine of the
Dcople was founded up.n ro other Authorit, il en that o thecivit
Severaien; and al chis withont an mo d tendine tothe diserco
cither of Episcopacy or of Presbytery. Wevertheless L find since
iha: aivers of them, Whereof th. Bist op of Derry is one, have taken
offence especially at erothines; cne, that lmake the supremacy in
matrers of Relision to reside inthe civil Soveraien; the other, that
beine no Clerey. man i deliver Doctrines, and oronnd ther ANOn
Words of the Scripeure, hich Poctrines they beine by protession
Divines have nevertansbr. And in this rheir displeasure d. vers
ofihor inrbeir Boses and Sermons, ritheut an, w. rins any of my
Tremments, have n. 1on. ly excl.. i ned acainst my Doctrine but
revild me and endeavour dro make e harefulier to’erhines,
for which (if they tener their ovon and the Y ubl: ck 500d) 1h. y
onebtroh. ve civenme rhantes. Th.r. is also one o: them thatta
hine offence at me for blaminz in part the Discipline instirulea
hererosore, and reeulate d by ihe Auctoriey os the P’ope inthe C ni-
versucies, not on. ly rans me aronest t ose menthat monld h v
the Revenne os che niversiries dirirished, and sayes pl inly L
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