Proceedings of a Powerful Man, and the Oppreſſions which one of our Univerſities groan'd under, were become inſupportable; Redreſs was loudly, tho' humbly, ſued for, in a Repreſentation of the State of that Univerſity made publick by a late eminent Lawyer; and in a moſt pathetic Letter from a learned and truly reverend Divine, to his Patron, poſſeſs'd of a high Station in the Adminiſtration of Juſtice. And tho' they did not ſucceed in their intended Reformation, by bringing a Royal Viſitation on that Univerſity, (the Diſtraction of thoſe Times then probably preventing, and the after Behaviour of that Body perhaps averting it) yet were the commendable Labours of thoſe Gentlemen amply rewarded, by the ſignal Honours which each in his reſpective Profeſſion received; beſide that innate Happineſs, which diffuſes itſelf thro' the Soul when conſcious of having done, or attempted to do a good Action. This laſt, whatever may be my Expectations of the former, will certainly be my Portion, and abundantly make up for whatever Malice may be conceived againſt me by thoſe whoſe Deeds being evil, ſhun the Light.
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