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The time-serving Proteus, and ambidexter divine, uncased to the vvorld: : containing two letters of M. John Dury (the great champion for the new ingagement, faithfully extracted out of the originalls under his own hand.) The first, to Joseph Hall, late Bishop of Exeter; the second, to William Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterbury. Wherein he expresseth the reasons which moved him, not onely to scruple and dislike, but in some sort to renounce his ecclesiasticall orders, and ministeriall function formerly conferred on him in the Reformed Churches beyond the seas; because not given by a dioecesan bishop, but by particular men, whereof none is above the degree of a priest; and in point of conscience to crave and receive a reordination, and new orders from our English bishops; that so he might enter by the door into the sheepfold: whose superiority in degree over other ministers, and sole jurisdiction in conferring orders, he asserts to be jure divino; professing withall, his consicentious o