dable Application of the Munificence of Founders and Benefactors: and at all times, in proportion as I can apprehend these great Ends to be thus promoted, will I equal the warmeft of your friendly wishes, in favour of the Individuals who occafion it. But to ftigmatize all for Enemies to the Univerfity, who difapprove of the principles of a fet of perfons happening to have the direction of its Favours, is as vague and indeterminate a clamour as ever was that of the Church's being in danger,

which might be the fame under any Religion, or in any Country under the fun. I firmly believe, That a great Majority in the University of Oxford, at this time, think very differently from you, concerning the obligation of their Oaths. But yet if perfons of rank and influence, tho' fincerely loyal in themselves, thro' timidity, ill-judged delicacy, or factious difpofition, deceive the youth, by appearances, into actual Difloyalty; or, by their filence and inactivity, fuffer the whole to be branded with the ignominy fully due but to a few: All these deserve to rank as enemies to the University. As to those bold Incendiaries, who can trample upon the most folemn Obligations, and defy the ALMIGHTY to his face, by calling him to witness Engagements they have viously refolved to violate: in whatever place SUCH are found, all good men will

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think of them with horror, and detest them as the scandal of human nature. May SUCH be expelled from every Society in the World:

from the fociety of Mankind; and learn by their fufferings here, what the heinoufnefs of their guilt, if unrepented of, will bring upon them hereafter: And may OXFORD flourish,-to the latest day, the Queen of Univerfities, the School of pure Religion, and the Glory of our Country, is the ardent prayer of,

SIR,

Your Moft Injured Friend

and Humble Servant,

Wellminster, April 7, 1755.

RICHARD BLACOW.

ANSWER

B. ТО А

PAMPHLET,

ENTITLED

Pietas Oxonienfis,

OR

A FULL and IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT of the Expulfion of Six Students from St. Edmund-Hall, Oxford.

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LETTER to the AUTHOR.

By THOMAS NOWELL, D. D. PRINCIPAL of St. Mary Hall, and PUBLIC ORATOR of the University of OXFORD.

Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the Spirits, whether they be of God; because many falje Prophets are gone out into the world.

OXFORD,

At the CLARENDON-PRESS.

MDCCLXVIII,

Sold by Daniel Prince. And by John Rivington in St. Paul's

Church-yard, London.

SIR,

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HE act of difcipline exercised upon fix members of St. Edmund-Hall by the Vice-Chancellor, in consequence of a solemn appeal made to him, as Visitor of that Hall, however commendable in itself, and pleafing to the true friends of learning and religion, yet could not fail to draw upon him, and his affeffors, the indignation and refentment of a fet of men, who are enemies to both. Their views of filling the church with their votaries have by this seasonable interpofition been disappointed; and the plan, which they have for some time been labour. ing to accomplish, is at prefent difconcerted at leaft, if not entirely defeated. The rage of their disappointment has vented itself in the common News-papers in foul invectives, and railing accufations; which, as they carry with them their own confutation, are best treated with neglect, and paffed over in filence.