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s �, Terra-Fiiius. 8 9 ca�e flys, that if complaint be made .?gainlt any mon to the vice-chancellor upon reaj?t:able ground of fufpicion (ab aliqito rationabilem fuf?icioni? eat?m a erente) that it contains any thin difagreeable or contrary to the do&r, ne, or d,fc;phne of the church of �?:,gland, the vice.chancellor fi?all demand an exa& copy of the f?rmon, and call to his affiflance fix other do&ors of divinity, (of whom the Regitzs project, ff he heard the �ermon, fha!l be one,) who are to conrider whether the complaint is )uiti and if it is, to punifh the offender with prohibition, (to preach within the precincts of the univerfity,) or with recan. tation: but, flys the ttatute, if the t?rmon is p? ec- ted to tend tofidition, that then the vice-chancellor, with only one more do&or of divinity, fl?all puni(h the offender by fine,!?ublick recmtatio?, or imFi?n. But the misbrrune of the {tatute is, that if the vice-chancellor ea#not fie Jedition in a fermon, tM be{? eyes in the wofifi beffles avail nothing; which was our particular misfortune in the care of our rioration. preacher. The vM. chanceLtor having ref'ui?d to proceed on a eneral complaint thou h, as i obf'erved, hedk'i . g _ ( g

n the cal? of Mr. blaurke) the complainant drev?,

up the fo. ll.o. wing charge,. and delivered it in wfi.Sng to the vt?e �bav?eltor, v ?z. "I Charge it upon Mr. lift.---on, that the gane- '? ral fcope and defign of his late fermon was to ". afperFand blacken the adminiltration of his ma- ".lefty King G?o,as, by a partial and wrelted re-_ "pret?ntation of all the a&ions and circumttances "the refint Rei n, as arallel to what ha ned du- . p ?. p?pe .. 'r rm the ufur anon of' C?o?,?w�r.t,. I char e _.g. p g . "1,kew?�e with maintainin t?veral pofitions tend- "rag: to arraign the julhce of the late glorious Revo- .'?!uiivn, and-to rubyeft the foundation on which