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this contrary effect and operation, that they add authority 

 to error, and destroy the authority of that which is well 

 invented: for question is an honour and preferment to 

 falsehood, as on the other side it is a repulse to truth. But 

 the errors I claim and challenge to myself as mine own: 

 the good, if any be, is due tanquam adeps sacrificii} to be 

 incensed to the honour, first of the Divine Majesty, and 

 next of your Majesty, to whom on earth I am most bounden. 

 ^ Isaiah xliii. 24. 



DEO GLORIA 



