Quote #40

You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.

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  2. That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Const…
  3. Truly, though kingship be not a title but a name of office that runs through the law, yet it is not so ratione nominis, but from what is si…
  4. I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a Government as this is.
  5. We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
  6. I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.
  7. Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, toget…
  8. It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

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