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the management of public offices, whether military or civil, (for he was a man not only of a pious and liberal education, but of an estate and capacity fit to serve the publick,) he did nothing but what carried an air of justice and equity in it, and a general good will towards all; insomuch, that though he did most heartily embrace the Reformed Religion, yet he would persecute no sect upon the score of religion, not even the Papists, and that in Ireland too, where they had, through their cruelty and perfidy, made such horrible havock of the Protestants. This and other things of this nature, certainly shew us that we ought to impute this gift of his curing diseases, not to the simple, but regenerate nature, since we find so many, and manifest steps and marks of the regenerate man in him; nor could I ever discover any thing in him that was contemptuous or immoral towards the spirtual, or secular magistrate, and truly be