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justification instead of all other, out of the justifications of 

 Job. For, after the clear submission and confession which 

 I shall now make unto your lordships, I hope I may say 

 and justify with Job, in these words: I have not hid 

 my sin as did Adam, nor concealed my faults in my bosom/ 

 This is the only justification which I will use. 



&quot; It resteth, therefore, that without fig-leaves I do 

 ingenuously confess and acknowledge that, having under 

 stood the particulars of the charge, not formally from the 

 house, but enough to inform my conscience and memory, 

 I find matter sufficient and full both to move me to desert 

 the defence, and to move your lordships to condemn and 

 censure me. Neither will I trouble your lordships by 

 singling those particulars, which I think may fell off, 



Quid te exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una ? 



Neither will I prompt your lordships to observe upon the 

 proofs, where they come not home, or the scruples touching 

 the credits of the witnesses ; neither will I represent unto 

 your lordships how far a defence might, in divers things, 

 extenuate the offence, in respect of the time or manner of 

 the gift, or the like circumstances, but only leave these 

 things to spring out of your own noble thoughts and 

 observations of the evidence and examinations themselves, 

 and charitably to wind about the particulars of the charge 

 here and there, as God shall put into your mind, and so 

 submit myself wholly to your piety and grace. 



&quot; And now that I have spoken to your lordships as 

 j udges, I shall say a few words to you as peers and prelates, 

 humbly commending my cause to your noble minds and 

 magnanimous affections. 



&quot; Your lordships are not simple judges, but parlia 

 mentary judges; you have a further extent of arbitrary 

 power than other courts ; and, if your lordships be not tied 



