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those passages forty times over, and never have 

 found out that the author of them, by any thing 

 there said, was involved in the censure de- 

 nounced in the second canon against those that 

 deny the king's supremacy ; for I should have 

 reckoned, that the second canon was only a 

 clinching of the Jirst, by adding an ecclesias- 

 tical censure against those that set up a foreign 

 jurisdiction, to the prejudice of the rights of the 

 imperial crown of this realm (which Dr. Atter- 

 bury, I dare say, never thought of), as is set 

 forth by that first canon. 



" I must confess further to you, that now 

 that I see your objections against Dr. Atter- 

 bury's doctrine, I can see nothing that he hath 

 asserted but what is capable of a fair construc- 

 tion. And though he may not have expressed 

 himself so accurately as he might have done 

 (and perhaps would have done, if he had liad 

 no other thing in his view but the king's supre- 

 macy, as it is taught in the first and second 

 canon) ; yet even in this point he hath been 

 guilty of no other slips but such as a candid 

 reader would be inclined to pass by, without 

 much censure, in most of the authors he reads, 

 especially where they treat of a thing kv rrapepyoj. 



" As for those consequences which your lord- 

 ship insists upon as flowing from Dr. Atter- 

 bury's principles, I must in this also beg your 



