N ? xxxviIi. 7'err, e-ilim 43', reitted to work on, till a more convenient oppor?. tunity offers it fell to our governors to crulh them: But violence will not always find Tolemion ? the mo,'t extenfive M.ercy may be wearied out with continual provocauons? and if the forbearance ot the magittrate is long exercifed in vain, he has afrooral to fttppiy that defe&. Whereas, ihould a popifl? idolater become our king, all the grievances and corruptions, which we now complain oL would be fo far from being redretIM and reformed, that new grievances and new corrup- tions would be fuperadded to there i tyranny and op- ?.?ellion would grow every day more infolent, and every evil, which priefi-eraft and bigotry could in- vent, .would be ef?ablifl?ed in our The difcouragements and hardfifips, which the Wmas meet with at Oxvo?, for cfpoufing the ?re/?nt government, are nothing in comparifon th6fe which they would !hffer under a gover?mtnt ';vhich would join with the univerfitie$ againCt them 'they now loti: their degree?, their ]?11o?,fl?t?t, their; i?t,refl, and all the common pri?,ilege, of focie; ty--- But what is the toii of theti temt?ral goods to what would bffal them under an arbitrary government, the/ors of their religion, and the hon. dage of their fouls? Perhaps it will be objefed, that the unverfitt?s, and Oxford e�pecialI , would' have very little favour to expe& from one, whole reputed father was de- prived of his crovon principally by their means, and whom himt?If they have fo often folemnly ?'ured. I confe?, (for no body can deny this,) that thej3 ?nffrve obediene gentlemen did, indeed, make a !?ttl� ? trip in their allegiance at the R?vor.?XlO?, by op- ?ofing king J.?M?Sl bu? their have t?verely repented of th:?t rranfa&ion with tears, contrition, and-rebel- lion i they/?ave p?oued, they have drunk, they have- prayed,
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