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THE SCOPE OF THE FOURTH BOOK,
ENTITULED
CHRYSEOMYSTES.
The Author having, in the two preceding books, very orderly pro-
ceeded from the manifestation of the huge log of flagitators lying in his
way, to the displaying of pregnant reasons why the said impediment should
be removed, for the weal of the whole Isle whose literature by his endea-
vours he is to improve ; in this fourth book of his Introduction he maketh
mention of another block, which, though not of so immense a bulk, ought
neverthelefs, for its repugnancie with the proposed end, be as well laid
aside as the former, and that is, the unjust decrees wherewith the Presby-
terian Commilsion hath robbed him of a great deal of his rents. He, for
compendiousnefs sake, begins with the figure of Apophasis, to say he in-
tends not to expostulate for the injurie sustained by that Kirkomanetick
tyrannie which despoyled him of his right of patronage to his churches,
and from thence descendeth to a plain narration, how, contrary to an esta-
blished Union by Act of Parliament, and in opposition to seven relevant
reasons, to any one whereof they would not daigne to make answer, the
Commilsion of the Kirke, without giving any hearing to the Author's