N o Terrae-Filius. ,riz'd that Whiggifm declines with' the conflitutioJ? c?ub in Oxx=o?t?, when we behold people 1t,gmauz cl in this Blztk-Book, and excluded fro? their d.ogree} [br j3berly rejoicing ul0ol! king G?.oRia?'s birth-nigh? and drinking-hls majefly's health. ' Under the prefeni/rollors, we need be under ?o a??rehenfions5 one of whom (the reverend Mr.
- .ar?l) [ have the honoiar to know, and i know him
�to be a perfort of the molt unbias'd integrity and iramoveable zeal againt! all forts of tyranny and cor- r.ptio?i he deteffs all inartrell pra&ices himfell =, and will not join with thoj}, who ddi ht in plundei' g =nd rapine3 his own hands are clean, and he will ?not communicate with the unclean! I'doubt not that his colleague deferve? the fame chara?eri �o that I am per?e?ly eafy under their idmini?ration i but in othhr left unpolluted hands, what mi�chie�s and oppreffions in the republick of learning may not Inch a terrible engine bring forth ? But �uppofing that a perfon has the good fortune ?o live thrYe or }our years in the univerlity, without incurring the di�plea�ure of either of the ?'ro?/0r.? i yet it he has difoblig'd any other perfon, who is a memo. her of the �tnvoca5on, his catb is little better ? every f?ch member having it in his power to deny an/' candidate his grate twice, without giving any reaf�fo.r it; anti if l?e can trump up any idle 1tory a. gain? ?h?:n, which is an eafy matter) he can pur h?m by .. ( ms degree for a whole year. This is the molt arbitrary method of proceeding in the world i for why fl?ould it be in the power o? any man to refufea perton his gra?e tvoi?e (which rlt�cm'd a fcandalous thing. up. on the candidate ) with- out any reafon? This puts ?t into his power to Wreak h?.? malice upon whom he leat?s, and deters all thb juntors o? the umverfiry from riffMing In opmlon . or pt ol:etllon flora their )qnivrs, who ha?/� fuch an advantage bvcr th?n.' Indeed, no perfort can deny' Vo,.. II, E any
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