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THUS have I in all humbleness and sincerity of 

 heart, to the best of my understanding, given your 

 Majesty tribute of my cares and cogitations in this 

 holy business, so highly tending to God s glory, your 

 Majesty s honour, and the peace and welfare of your 

 states : insomuch as I am persuaded that the papists 

 themselves should not need so much the severity of 

 penal laws, if the sword of the Spirit were better 

 edged, by strengthening the authority, and suppress 

 ing the abuses in the Church. 



To conclude, renewing my most humble submis 

 sion of all that I have said to your Majesty s most 

 high wisdom, and again, most humbly craving par 

 don for any errors committed in this writing ; which 

 the same weakness of judgment that suffered me to 

 commit them, would not suffer me to discover them, 

 I end with my devout and fervent prayer to God, 

 that as he hath made your Majesty the corner-stone, 

 in joining your two kingdoms, so you may be also as 

 a corner-stone to unite and knit together these dif 

 ferences in the Church of God ; to whose heavenly 

 grace and never-erring direction, I commend your 

 Majesty s sacred person, and all your doings. 



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