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Title:  A letter to Her Highness the Duchess of York some few months before her death written by the Bishop of Winchester.
Author: Morley, George, 1597-1684.
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either erroneous or superstitious, and consequently, that they had a preparation of mind to believe, and pra∣ctise the contrary Truths, if they had been made known unto them, or rather, if they had not by their false Teachers been concealed from them: and lastly supposing likewise that as they do actually and particularly repent of all their known sins, so they do habitually, or in the general, truly and heartily repent before they die of all their unknown sins also; or of all such sins of theirs which God knows to be sins, though they do not; and consequently of all such Errors and Superstitions as they have ignorantly, and unwittingly, and unwillingly lived in. Although (I say) we have so much Charity for some that have been born, and lived, and died in the Communi∣on of the Church of Rome as not to deny upon the aforesaid Suppositions they may be Saved, not Be∣cause but Notwithstanding they lived and di∣ed in that Church, which is no more than the Cha∣rity which upon the same supposition they have for us, or for those that live and die in our Church: yet we have not, nor cannot have the same Hope for Those that having been born and bred in our Church, and sufficiently instructed in the Doctrine of it, do afterwards become Apostates from it, and Proselytes to the Church of Rome, by renouncing those Truths they were taught in the one, and professing those Falsities they are made to believe in the other: for whom (as I said) we have no such hope, nor indeed any hope at all, unless they do actually and 0