" They were not ignorant either (they say) of my Contrivances " to remove the Jurisdiction of this matter to another Judicature." W^hat is this Jurisdiction that I would decline ? If they mean their own, they are in the right of it, and I am not in the wrong, since they are my Adverse Party, and I hope no body will blame me for this. What is that other Judicature whither I would carry the affair 1 One may see plainly that they have here his Excellency in view, who cannot be obliged to them for thus disputing his Right of Judicature. For why shall not any one apply to him, in case the affair be proper for him to take notice of? And why should not I apply myself to him, if there is occasion, because it may be thought he has entertain'd some favourable Dispositions towards me 7 especially since I ask him no Favour, but only Justice ?

They Reproach me afterwards, being prompted by their own Passion and Hatred against me, with having Heat, arid a violent Temper ; I will not make any Apology for my own Temper, which I think needless, and indecent in any man to do. But I advise them rather to look back upon themselves, and consider their

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own Faults more than those of their Neighbours, that they may not incur the Censure whicli our Saviour Jesus Christpronounceth in the Gospel against all proud Keprovers of others ; Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy Brothers Eye, but consider est not the Beam that is in thy own Eye ? or how vnlt thou say to thy Brother, let me pull out the Mote out of thine Eye, and behold a beam is in thine own Eye ?