The Jesuite countermin'd. Or, An account of a new plot carrying on by the Jesuites: manifested by their present endeavours (under all shapes) to raise commotions in the land, by aspersing his Sacred Majesties counsels and actions. Also the reasonableness of modesty in subjects in judging the concerns of their prince.
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           THE
           JESUITE
           Countermind
           .
           OR
           ,
           An
           Account
           of
           a
           NEW
           PLOT
           Carrying
           on
           by
           the
           IESUITES
           :
           Manifested
           by
           their
           present
           Endeavours
           (
           under
           all
           SHAPES
           )
           to
           raise
           COMMOTIONS
           in
           the
           LAND
           ,
           by
           Aspersing
           His
           
             SACRED
             MAJESTIES
          
           COUNSELS
           and
           ACTIONS
           .
           ALSO
           The
           Reasonableness
           of
           Modesty
           in
           SUBJECTS
           in
           Judging
           the
           Concerns
           of
           their
           PRINCE
           .
        
         
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           .
           
             PLATO
             .
          
        
         
           Odi
           profanum
           vulgus
           &
           arceo
           .
           
             HORAT
             .
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           1679.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           THe
           Jesuites
           by
           their
           undiscerned
           Insinuations
           have
           Bewitched
           the
           People
           into
           such
           a
           suspicious
           ,
           turbulent
           ,
           and
           disloyal
           vein
           ,
           that
           the
           Scenes
           of
           their
           
             Labouring
             Minds
          
           are
           nothing
           but
           the
           supposed
           
             Tyrannous
             Intrigues
             of
             His
             Majesty
          
           ,
           &c.
           their
           Resolutions
           edg'd
           for
           a
           Reformation
           ,
           and
           all
           their
           Discourse
           represents
           to
           the
           life
           their
           
             Inward
             Thoughts
          
           ,
           for
           they
           will
           not
           speak
           a
           good
           word
           of
           
             His
             Majesty
          
           ,
           but
           talk
           altogether
           of
           his
           oblique
           and
           ugly
           Proceedings
           (
           as
           they
           tearm
           his
           
             Royal
             Prosecution
          
           of
           the
           
             Publick
             Good
          
           )
           condemning
           him
           in
           every
           thing
           that
           he
           does
           ,
           if
           the
           Action
           be
           not
           Commensurate
           to
           that
           narrow
           Scheme
           of
           Justice
           and
           Policy
           which
           they
           embrace
           ,
           as
           if
           forsooth
           the
           Vast
           Affairs
           of
           State
           
           must
           needs
           be
           couched
           in
           the
           Module
           of
           every
           Mechanick
           .
        
         
           A
           Reflection
           on
           the
           unreasonableness
           of
           this
           Immodesty
           and
           Censoriousness
           in
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           prompted
           me
           to
           write
           down
           in
           vacant
           Hours
           my
           Thoughts
           of
           it
           for
           my
           own
           private
           satisfaction
           :
           So
           that
           that
           must
           excuse
           me
           for
           Publishing
           it
           in
           such
           a
           disorderly
           Method
           and
           Style
           ,
           the
           confusedness
           of
           the
           former
           and
           the
           tenuity
           of
           the
           latter
           resulting
           from
           my
           being
           Immerse
           in
           prosecution
           of
           my
           Arguments
           ,
           so
           that
           I
           could
           not
           take
           so
           much
           care
           of
           the
           Rules
           of
           Speech
           to
           please
           others
           ,
           but
           let
           it
           go
           at
           random
           in
           those
           words
           that
           seemed
           to
           be
           most
           expressive
           of
           my
           Thoughts
           ,
           whether
           within
           the
           Rules
           of
           Modern
           English
           or
           no
           ,
           't
           was
           all
           one
           to
           me
           :
           For
           my
           end
           in
           Publishing
           it
           ,
           was
           to
           excite
           Modesty
           in
           Subjects
           ,
           so
           that
           if
           any
           by
           perusing
           it
           shall
           learn
           to
           practice
           this
           Vertue
           ,
           I
           have
           my
           desire
           :
        
         
           
             So
             farewel
             ,
             
               J.
               Br.
            
             
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           THE
           JESUITE
           COVNTERMIND
           :
           OR
           ,
           An
           Account
           of
           a
           New
           PLOT
           .
        
         
           THe
           
             Romish
             Polititians
          
           ,
           in
           all
           the
           Efforts
           of
           that
           Zeal
           they
           discover
           in
           their
           Endeavours
           to
           Introduce
           the
           
             Catholick
             Religion
          
           into
           
             Protestant
             Nations
          
           ,
           never
           so
           wholly
           lean
           on
           any
           particular
           means
           they
           use
           ,
           as
           thereby
           to
           be
           either
           disabled
           ,
           or
           discouraged
           from
           betaking
           themselves
           
             [
             upon
             a
             Defeat
             of
             the
             first
             Stratagem
             ]
          
           to
           another
           that
           promises
           equal
           likelihood
           of
           Success
           ,
           but
           are
           ever
           active
           in
           secret
           Ambuscade
           ,
           absconding
           themselves
           in
           the
           
             Dark
             Vmbrages
          
           of
           
             Cruel
             Subtilty
          
           :
           And
           though
           their
           Conspiracies
           may
           seem
           to
           the
           Eyes
           of
           some
           ,
           to
           be
           Extinct
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           Dormient
           ,
           through
           a
           
             Languid
             Faintness
          
           ,
           and
           
             Supine
             Lassitude
          
           resulting
           from
           the
           Frustration
           of
           their
           
             Industrious
             Vigilancy
          
           ;
           Yet
           those
           that
           have
           made
           a
           more
           narrow
           Inspection
           into
           their
           Deportment
           and
           Designs
           ,
           do
           Inform
           us
           ,
           that
           no
           sooner
           is
           even
           one
           of
           their
           Capital
           and
           
             prime
             Plots
          
           unravell'd
           to
           the
           bottom
           ,
           and
           devested
           of
           its
           Closure
           with
           the
           event
           ,
           but
           
             (
             Hydra
          
           like
           )
           up
           springs
           another
           in
           the
           room
           :
           A
           pretty
           
             Infant
             Contrivance
          
           ,
           which
           if
           carefully
           Fomented
           by
           the
           
             tender
             Fathers
          
           ,
           the
           good
           
             honest
             Jesuites
          
           ,
           
           is
           like
           to
           prove
           a
           hopeful
           and
           useful
           Instrument
           in
           time
           to
           promote
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           
             Mother
             of
             Witchcrafts
          
           .
           Nor
           is
           that
           Objection
           of
           any
           Validity
           which
           may
           be
           taken
           from
           the
           Disparity
           between
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           ours
           and
           other
           Nations
           Laws
           .
           For
           ,
           say
           they
           ,
           
             Indeed
             they
             may
             never
             be
             weary
             of
             carrying
             on
             Designs
             in
             other
             Nations
             ,
             where
             there
             is
             no
             such
             care
             taken
             to
             root
             out
             the
             whole
             Race
             of
          
           Ignatius
           
             's
             Followers
             ,
             though
             they
             find
             some
             of
             them
             tardy
             .
             But
             in
             ours
             ,
          
           say
           they
           ,
           
             It
             is
             impossible
             for
             them
             to
             succeed
             any
             more
             ,
             since
             His
             Majesty
             has
             so
             prosecuted
             the
             Business
             home
             ,
             that
             no
             Papist
             can
             live
             in
          
           London
           ,
           
             unless
             he
             take
             the
             Oaths
             of
             Allegiance
             and
             Supremacy
             :
             And
             all
             those
             that
             dwell
             in
             the
             Country
             are
             confined
             to
             an
             impossibility
             of
             meeting
             in
             Consultation
             about
             any
             such
             thing
             :
             Whereas
             the
             late
             Plot
             was
             pursued
             with
             all
             Industry
             ,
             Policy
             ,
             and
             Secrecy
             by
             Potent
             Confederates
             ,
             for
          
           London
           
             abounded
             with
             Papists
             Incorporating
             almost
             whole
             Streets
             into
             Romish
             Societies
             :
             And
             not
             only
             that
             City
             ,
             but
             all
          
           England
           
             swarmed
             with
             Jesuites
             and
             other
             Ecclesiastical
             and
             Secular
             Orders
             .
          
           So
           that
           indeed
           they
           might
           have
           some
           probabilities
           of
           accomplishing
           their
           Aims
           ;
           But
           now
           ,
           the
           fore-mentioned
           Alterations
           of
           these
           things
           ,
           deprives
           them
           of
           any
           Means
           of
           bringing
           in
           their
           Religion
           here
           again
           .
           This
           may
           seem
           at
           first
           sight
           to
           have
           some
           shew
           of
           Truth
           ,
           But
           if
           searched
           into
           ,
           is
           but
           a
           meer
           plausible
           Flourish
           :
           For
           their
           Sanctuaries
           at
           Doway
           and
           
             S.
             Omers
          
           ,
           supersede
           all
           the
           Crosses
           and
           Obstructions
           they
           have
           met
           with
           hitherto
           ;
           especially
           if
           we
           consider
           what
           vast
           Contributions
           have
           been
           made
           both
           by
           Foreigners
           and
           Natives
           toward
           the
           carrying
           on
           the
           Plot
           :
           and
           they
           have
           had
           no
           Occasion
           as
           yet
           ,
           we
           may
           presume
           ,
           to
           expend
           so
           great
           a
           Summe
           of
           Money
           ;
           and
           whether
           they
           be
           not
           yet
           aided
           in
           the
           same
           manner
           ,
           and
           their
           Treasury
           encreased
           ,
           we
           have
           no
           assurance
           .
           This
           then
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           account
           given
           by
           Doctor
           Oates
           ,
           in
           several
           Passages
           of
           his
           Narrative
           ,
           and
           the
           Appendix
           thereto
           ;
           and
           as
           the
           Event
           in
           some
           measure
           evinces
           ,
           seems
           to
           be
           their
           
             Second
             Plot
          
           ,
           to
           raise
           Commotions
           and
           Rebellions
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           :
           By
           traducing
           His
           Sacred
           Majesty's
           Counsels
           and
           Actions
           ,
           casting
           Aspersions
           and
           Calumnies
           on
           whatsoever
           he
           does
           or
           intends
           ;
           and
           so
           by
           Consequence
           they
           would
           disaffect
           the
           Kings
           Subjects
           against
           his
           Government
           ,
           suggesting
           to
           them
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           Tyrannically
           dispos'd
           ,
           purposing
           a
           Monopoly
           of
           Arbitrary
           Rule
           :
           Notwithstanding
           His
           Majesty
           has
           in
           all
           His
           Speeches
           ,
           Publick
           Deportments
           and
           Transactions
           ,
           discover'd
           Intentions
           Diametrically
           opposite
           to
           such
           Treacherous
           and
           Uncharitable
           Surmises
           .
           But
           here
           lies
           the
           Ground
           of
           the
           Jesuites
           Hopes
           .
        
         
         
           They
           observe
           ,
           that
           as
           in
           all
           Alterations
           of
           State
           ,
           in
           Wars
           ,
           Sieges
           ,
           Rebellions
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Signal
           Popular
           Calamities
           ,
           the
           Vulgar
           People
           are
           Impregnate
           with
           a
           strange
           Turbulency
           and
           heat
           in
           their
           Spirits
           ,
           which
           is
           apt
           to
           exert
           its
           self
           in
           Various
           Pranks
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           in
           Enormous
           prevarications
           .
           So
           it
           is
           now
           in
           this
           Land
           :
           For
           being
           as
           it
           were
           nettled
           with
           the
           
             late
             Horrid
             Attempts
             of
             the
             Papists
             ,
          
           they
           cannot
           be
           quiet
           ,
           but
           are
           harassed
           in
           their
           Spirits
           by
           an
           unusual
           Fervour
           ,
           and
           this
           differs
           proportionately
           to
           their
           various
           Tempers
           ,
           Educations
           ,
           Converse
           and
           Interests
           :
           Some
           swell'd
           by
           Hypocondriack
           Flatulencies
           ,
           presume
           to
           foretel
           that
           these
           Convulsions
           in
           our
           Land
           are
           certain
           Prodromes
           of
           the
           last
           period
           and
           dismal
           Catastrophe
           of
           this
           
             Lower
             World
          
           ;
           others
           provoked
           by
           
             peccant
             choler
          
           ,
           and
           
             habitual
             Self-conceit
          
           ,
           are
           angry
           with
           every
           thing
           almost
           that
           occurs
           ,
           if
           it
           have
           any
           Reference
           to
           the
           Publick
           :
           Others
           act
           and
           speak
           after
           another
           manner
           ,
           all
           as
           their
           Fancy
           guides
           them
           :
           that
           Faculty
           (
           however
           Tinctured
           with
           peculiar
           Idea's
           ,
           accommodate
           to
           the
           Genius
           of
           each
           Individual
           )
           being
           generally
           Regnant
           among
           the
           inferiour
           Orders
           and
           Ranks
           of
           Men.
           
        
         
           But
           that
           which
           is
           of
           greatest
           Subserviency
           to
           the
           Jesuites
           ends
           ,
           amongst
           the
           several
           Humours
           of
           Plebeians
           ,
           is
           the
           common
           propension
           of
           their
           over-heated
           Heads
           to
           be
           tampering
           too
           busily
           with
           the
           Abstruse
           Mysteries
           of
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           Great
           Affairs
           of
           State.
           
        
         
           
             But
             I
             had
             almost
             forgot
             that
             against
             this
             may
             the
             former
             Objection
             be
             urged
             ,
             and
             that
             the
          
           Jesuites
           
             can
             make
             no
             use
             of
             these
             Extravagancies
             in
             the
          
           English
           People
           ,
           
             since
             ,
             as
             hath
             been
             said
             ,
             without
             taking
             the
             Oaths
             of
             Allegiance
             and
             Supremacy
             ,
             none
             can
             stay
             in
          
           London
           
             of
             their
             Profession
             ,
             nor
             can
             with
             any
             great
             probability
             be
             capacitated
             to
             make
             any
             Disturbance
             in
             the
             Country
             .
             I
             answer
             ,
          
           That
           if
           some
           Officers
           in
           Ireland
           were
           dispensed
           with
           for
           taking
           those
           Oaths
           ,
           upon
           promise
           of
           delivering
           up
           their
           trusts
           upon
           demand
           from
           their
           Contractors
           or
           their
           Substitutes
           :
           It
           is
           as
           rational
           to
           conceive
           ,
           that
           the
           Jesuites
           may
           dispence
           with
           themselves
           ,
           or
           their
           Missioners
           now
           upon
           a
           parallel
           account
           ,
           this
           being
           as
           well
           as
           that
           ,
           subordinate
           to
           the
           Grand
           Design
           of
           Introducing
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           .
        
         
           Let
           it
           be
           granted
           then
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           please
           they
           can
           allow
           (
           according
           to
           their
           Infallible
           way
           of
           reconciling
           Contradictions
           )
           
           Perjury
           in
           this
           case
           to
           be
           no
           Perjury
           ,
           but
           
             Sacramental
             Perfidiousness
          
           to
           be
           
             Holy
             Faithfulness
          
           .
           And
           can
           we
           suppose
           they
           will
           be
           backward
           in
           sending
           their
           Missioners
           ,
           or
           coming
           themselves
           ,
           and
           (
           under
           a
           new
           disguise
           of
           Sanctity
           and
           Loyal
           Obedience
           )
           dwelling
           and
           passing
           for
           well-meaning
           persons
           in
           the
           Nation
           .
           Now
           this
           being
           granted
           ,
           what
           hinders
           but
           that
           they
           make
           use
           of
           the
           two
           fore-mentioned
           Propensions
           in
           the
           Vulgar
           to
           Religious
           and
           Political
           Enthusiasm
           ,
           make
           use
           of
           them
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           accomplishing
           their
           Designs
           .
           For
           as
           to
           the
           first
           ,
           the
           Irregularity
           and
           Fanatick
           Fervour
           in
           matters
           of
           Religion
           ,
           it
           is
           sufficiently
           Notorious
           ,
           how
           easily
           the
           Vulgar
           are
           elated
           into
           Admiration
           of
           those
           of
           their
           Sect
           and
           Faction
           ,
           who
           seem
           Zealous
           in
           some
           trivial
           Matters
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           excited
           by
           a
           Supernatural
           Impulse
           ,
           perhaps
           only
           the
           Effervescency
           of
           predominant
           Choler
           :
           I
           say
           ,
           how
           natural
           it
           is
           for
           the
           lighter
           sort
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           those
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           to
           be
           moved
           into
           a
           Venerable
           Esteem
           of
           these
           Blazing
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           likely
           )
           S.
           
             Judes
             wandering
             Stars
          
           ,
           so
           that
           whatsoever
           they
           dictate
           to
           them
           is
           embraced
           as
           an
           Oracle
           ,
           and
           being
           naturally
           desirous
           of
           ,
           and
           propense
           to
           the
           Advancement
           of
           that
           which
           they
           esteem
           Religion
           ,
           they
           may
           with
           great
           facility
           be
           wrought
           into
           a
           detestation
           of
           whatsoever
           may
           be
           presumed
           to
           be
           an
           Obstacle
           in
           the
           way
           of
           its
           promotion
           .
           Therefore
           here
           wants
           only
           a
           sly
           Jesuite
           to
           step
           in
           ,
           and
           putting
           on
           the
           Vizard
           of
           Holiness
           and
           Zeal
           for
           the
           
             Christian
             Cause
          
           ,
           to
           preach
           to
           them
           such
           Doctrines
           as
           may
           tend
           to
           the
           removing
           all
           Blocks
           and
           Impediments
           ,
           telling
           them
           ,
           
             that
             it
             is
             lawful
             to
             kill
             Kings
             that
             deprive
             them
             of
             their
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
             :
          
           However
           if
           they
           proceed
           not
           to
           so
           high
           a
           pitch
           of
           Audacious
           Villany
           ,
           yet
           to
           be
           sure
           these
           professed
           Regicides
           will
           not
           stick
           to
           wound
           his
           Reputation
           ,
           insinuating
           strange
           Jealousies
           into
           the
           Minds
           of
           the
           People
           :
           And
           ,
           that
           this
           has
           been
           the
           practice
           of
           the
           Jesuits
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           and
           elsewhere
           ;
           I
           think
           there
           wants
           but
           opportunity
           of
           reading
           the
           Narrative
           of
           the
           late
           Plot
           Published
           by
           Doctor
           Oates
           ,
           to
           prove
           it
           .
           And
           why
           may
           we
           not
           suppose
           the
           same
           Instruments
           to
           be
           stirring
           now
           ,
           since
           we
           find
           such
           correspondency
           in
           the
           Event
           ;
           every
           pedling
           Mechanick
           ,
           or
           ill-bred
           Rustick
           presuming
           to
           descant
           on
           the
           Actions
           and
           Counsels
           of
           their
           Prince
           ,
           :
           censuring
           every
           thing
           either
           as
           ill
           intended
           ,
           or
           weakly
           prosecuted
           ,
           Thus
           by
           an
           unavoidable
           Dilemma
           reducing
           whatever
           he
           says
           or
           
           does
           ,
           under
           the
           
             Classis
             of
             Tyranny
             or
             Folly.
          
           This
           is
           the
           first
           sort
           of
           Men
           whom
           the
           Jesuites
           seduce
           :
           There
           are
           another
           kind
           of
           
             State
             Fanaticks
          
           also
           whom
           they
           Inveagle
           ,
           and
           by
           puffing
           them
           up
           into
           Self-conceit
           ,
           cause
           them
           to
           speak
           great
           swelling
           Words
           of
           Vanity
           ,
           doting
           on
           their
           own
           Imposturous
           Suggestions
           as
           the
           Original
           Patterns
           of
           Policy
           ;
           whereas
           in
           truth
           they
           are
           but
           the
           delirious
           Hallucinations
           of
           their
           own
           corrupted
           Fancies
           .
        
         
           And
           here
           though
           I
           have
           seemed
           to
           be
           general
           in
           my
           Accusation
           ▪
           I
           would
           not
           be
           understood
           without
           due
           Restrickions
           ,
           neither
           do
           I
           think
           this
           malignant
           censoriousness
           is
           altogether
           so
           predominant
           at
           present
           as
           it
           hath
           been
           of
           late
           ;
           mistake
           not
           my
           design
           which
           is
           not
           to
           build
           a
           Rant
           against
           Men
           out
           of
           a
           moer
           angry
           ,
           quarrelsome
           humour
           ,
           but
           rather
           to
           prevent
           the
           danger
           which
           may
           be
           feared
           to
           result
           from
           the
           Continuance
           of
           so
           horrible
           a
           Vice
           as
           this
           Civil
           Blasphemy
           is
           ,
           in
           the
           eyes
           of
           all
           Sober
           men
           .
           So
           that
           I
           desire
           pardon
           if
           I
           have
           already
           ,
           or
           may
           hereafter
           in
           the
           following
           Pages
           of
           this
           Treatise
           ,
           let
           fall
           any
           Passage
           tinctured
           with
           too
           much
           Disdain
           and
           Indignation
           :
           for
           I
           assure
           you
           ,
           such
           Reproachful
           Terms
           proceed
           from
           my
           being
           so
           Immerse
           in
           a
           Vivid
           Resentment
           of
           the
           odiousness
           of
           this
           Crime
           ,
           which
           also
           is
           exploded
           in
           the
           Sacred
           Lines
           with
           Expressions
           of
           great
           Detestation
           .
        
         
           To
           Resume
           therefore
           the
           Line
           of
           my
           Discourse
           ,
           it
           being
           Conceded
           that
           it
           is
           no
           Groundless
           
             Panick
             fear
          
           ,
           that
           the
           Jesuites
           are
           the
           Cherishers
           of
           these
           Censures
           and
           Calumnies
           which
           have
           been
           ,
           and
           no
           doubt
           still
           are
           Vomited
           forth
           ,
           by
           the
           rash
           and
           heedless
           Vulgar
           .
           The
           next
           thing
           I
           have
           to
           do
           is
           to
           shew
           the
           unreasonableness
           of
           this
           Immodesty
           in
           Subjects
           :
           And
           after
           that
           the
           danger
           of
           it
           to
           themselves
           and
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ,
           if
           not
           speedily
           amended
           .
        
         
           First
           therefore
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           unreasonableness
           of
           Immodest
           Hastiness
           ,
           and
           peremptory
           Dogmatizing
           concerning
           
             Princes
             Actions
          
           :
           It
           may
           well
           be
           presumed
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Mysteries
             of
             Government
             are
             far
             above
             the
             Capacities
             of
             Plebeians
             ,
             who
             confining
             their
             Disguisitions
             to
             the
             more
             sensible
          
           Phoenomena
           
             in
             the
             State
             ,
             their
             Conceptions
             of
             the
             subtle
          
           Cabbala's
           
             thereof
             ,
             are
             like
             the
             Rustick
             Apprehensions
             of
             Astronomy
             ,
             rude
             and
             incongruous
             .
          
           Indeed
           the
           Necessities
           and
           Contingencies
           appendant
           to
           their
           several
           respective
           Callings
           and
           Conditions
           in
           the
           World
           by
           Ingulphing
           all
           their
           Thoughts
           and
           Projects
           reject
           them
           into
           a
           fatal
           Inability
           to
           take
           notice
           of
           the
           Collateral
           
           and
           private
           Figurations
           ,
           which
           Providence
           in
           her
           constant
           Inrotation
           makes
           on
           the
           Stream
           of
           Political
           Affairs
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           there
           are
           some
           ordinary
           and
           vulgar
           Marks
           ,
           by
           which
           mean
           Understandings
           (
           though
           they
           be
           already
           as
           it
           were
           absorpt
           by
           the
           inferiour
           Objects
           of
           Sense
           and
           Domestick
           Contrivance
           )
           may
           yet
           trace
           the
           Motions
           of
           that
           great
           Master-wheel
           ,
           that
           Matchless
           Engine
           of
           Divine
           Wisdom
           ,
           so
           as
           not
           only
           to
           be
           able
           to
           govern
           their
           own
           Affairs
           with
           Discretion
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           make
           some
           suitable
           Conjectures
           of
           the
           Publick
           Interest
           :
           but
           when
           they
           once
           go
           beyond
           these
           ,
           they
           have
           ventured
           out
           of
           their
           Sphere
           ,
           and
           are
           most
           commonly
           bewildered
           ,
           and
           like
           Children
           apt
           to
           be
           frighted
           with
           their
           own
           Shadows
           ,
           those
           dark
           stalking
           Images
           in
           the
           Phantasie
           ;
           for
           being
           not
           used
           to
           see
           the
           various
           Springs
           which
           set
           a
           going
           the
           Admirable
           Harmony
           in
           Humane
           Affairs
           ,
           they
           take
           every
           thing
           for
           a
           Bugbear
           that
           makes
           a
           great
           Noise
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           either
           Heaven
           or
           Hell
           they
           think
           must
           have
           an
           immediate
           hand
           in
           such
           Exotick
           Digressions
           ;
           whereas
           these
           Discords
           do
           more
           enhance
           the
           Melody
           to
           a
           Judicious
           and
           Contemplative
           Mind
           ,
           who
           knows
           that
           the
           greatest
           and
           loudest
           Exorbitancies
           in
           State
           Affairs
           are
           onely
           the
           
             Periodical
             Invariations
          
           of
           that
           Nemesis
           that
           is
           by
           God
           interwoven
           in
           the
           very
           Texture
           of
           the
           Vniverse
           .
           Such
           an
           One
           trusting
           only
           to
           the
           Calmness
           and
           Serenity
           of
           Reason
           ,
           not
           to
           the
           garish
           Impostures
           of
           Fancy
           ;
           is
           (
           as
           a
           consequence
           of
           exquisite
           and
           curious
           Observation
           )
           very
           diffident
           in
           these
           Matters
           ,
           and
           indeed
           in
           most
           things
           else
           that
           are
           Invested
           with
           such
           mutable
           Circumstances
           and
           Accidents
           :
           So
           that
           he
           does
           not
           so
           often
           expose
           himself
           to
           such
           gross
           mistakes
           as
           naturally
           result
           from
           the
           hasty
           and
           perfunctory
           glances
           of
           the
           vulgar
           shallow
           Rhodomonts
           ,
           but
           with
           wary
           yet
           as
           zealous
           Industry
           ,
           as
           those
           that
           keep
           a
           greater
           clatter
           ,
           he
           traces
           the
           various
           Minute
           Rivulets
           that
           silently
           insinuate
           into
           the
           grand
           Current
           of
           Affairs
           :
           he
           traces
           them
           I
           say
           ,
           as
           neer
           as
           he
           can
           to
           their
           Spring-heads
           ,
           and
           then
           returning
           again
           ,
           narrowly
           observes
           their
           several
           Intercourses
           ,
           Conjunctions
           ,
           and
           progressive
           Advancements
           ;
           and
           this
           nice
           Scrutiny
           causes
           humility
           and
           meekness
           of
           Conversation
           ,
           so
           that
           he
           does
           not
           pass
           rash
           and
           immature
           Censures
           on
           any
           thing
           ,
           but
           mildly
           and
           rationally
           concludes
           that
           it
           is
           prudence
           to
           suspend
           his
           Judgment
           ,
           in
           Cases
           not
           throughly
           condescending
           to
           his
           Understanding
           ,
           and
           such
           certainly
           
           are
           the
           abstruse
           Mysteries
           of
           State
           ,
           as
           his
           Experience
           can
           witness
           :
           And
           not
           onely
           his
           ,
           but
           others
           also
           who
           have
           been
           better
           Capacitated
           ,
           as
           one
           would
           think
           ,
           to
           know
           the
           Mysteries
           at
           Court
           :
           and
           yet
           even
           these
           had
           not
           interest
           enough
           to
           discern
           the
           true
           Secret
           of
           Counsels
           ,
           as
           appears
           from
           the
           frequent
           disparity
           and
           not
           unusual
           contrariety
           that
           is
           discovered
           in
           several
           Narratives
           of
           the
           same
           State
           Transaction
           made
           by
           Persons
           highly
           ,
           yet
           not
           equally
           ,
           qualified
           for
           a
           Commodious
           Information
           in
           those
           Matters
           :
           nay
           sometimes
           so
           well
           qualified
           ,
           as
           even
           to
           have
           a
           Concern
           in
           the
           Business
           they
           profess
           to
           give
           an
           account
           of
           ,
           and
           yet
           it
           seems
           one
           of
           them
           must
           be
           mistaken
           .
           And
           can
           we
           think
           that
           if
           the
           Jesuites
           were
           glad
           to
           allow
           Fifty
           pounds
           a
           year
           to
           a
           subtle
           Critick
           ,
           that
           so
           by
           his
           watchfulness
           and
           inquisitive
           Diligence
           ,
           they
           might
           have
           a
           true
           account
           but
           of
           some
           of
           the
           Kings
           Words
           and
           outward
           Behaviour
           :
           Can
           we
           think
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           that
           the
           inferiour
           sort
           of
           the
           People
           can
           attain
           to
           any
           probable
           certainty
           of
           having
           a
           true
           account
           of
           such
           of
           His
           Majesties
           Concerns
           as
           neither
           are
           Committed
           to
           the
           Press
           ,
           nor
           delivered
           in
           any
           Authentick
           Manuscript
           ?
           And
           if
           they
           can
           have
           a
           true
           Account
           of
           them
           ,
           yet
           how
           can
           they
           judge
           of
           them
           ,
           since
           they
           so
           far
           transcend
           their
           Capacities
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           vast
           distance
           (
           in
           Situation
           and
           Magnitude
           )
           of
           their
           several
           respective
           Spheres
           ;
           so
           Great
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           were
           supposed
           to
           be
           searched
           into
           with
           the
           greatest
           Advantage
           the
           Plebeians
           are
           capable
           of
           ;
           such
           as
           are
           Acuteness
           of
           Parts
           ,
           the
           perusal
           of
           Histories
           ,
           good
           Intelligence
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           :
           I
           say
           ,
           suppose
           the
           Vulgar
           to
           be
           Priviledged
           with
           all
           these
           Helps
           ,
           yet
           some
           have
           concluded
           they
           will
           be
           able
           to
           discover
           no
           more
           of
           the
           true
           Byass
           ,
           and
           secret
           Tendency
           of
           these
           Profound
           and
           Recondite
           Counsels
           ,
           than
           a
           skilful
           Astronomer
           assisted
           by
           all
           the
           Writings
           of
           Men
           Famous
           in
           that
           Science
           ,
           by
           his
           own
           dexterous
           Sagacity
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           exquisite
           Opticks
           ,
           can
           discover
           the
           dark
           Intrigues
           in
           the
           Moon
           :
           though
           by
           the
           fore-mentioned
           helps
           he
           can
           sufficiently
           inform
           himself
           of
           the
           Habitableness
           of
           that
           Adjacent
           Planet
           ,
           and
           can
           discern
           the
           difference
           of
           Land
           and
           Water
           ,
           nay
           and
           will
           perhaps
           venture
           at
           the
           proportion
           of
           her
           Hills
           by
           their
           Shadows
           :
           Yet
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           for
           all
           this
           he
           is
           not
           able
           to
           give
           any
           Rational
           Account
           of
           what
           is
           done
           by
           the
           Inhabitants
           there
           ;
           but
           must
           needs
           by
           pretending
           to
           such
           Knowledge
           ,
           incur
           the
           just
           Imputation
           of
           Indiscreet
           Folly
           ,
           
           and
           come
           off
           as
           ridiculously
           as
           the
           Virtuoso
           ,
           that
           would
           delight
           himself
           with
           fine
           long
           Harangues
           concerning
           the
           Interest
           and
           Actions
           of
           a
           certain
           Monarch
           there
           ,
           who
           by
           him
           was
           affirmed
           to
           be
           Marching
           at
           the
           Head
           of
           a
           Great
           Army
           .
           Thus
           deluding
           himself
           with
           Phantastick
           and
           imaginary
           Scenes
           of
           War
           ,
           pourtray'd
           (
           't
           is
           like
           )
           on
           his
           flexile
           Mind
           by
           a
           Pencil
           dipt
           in
           the
           Moist
           and
           Lunatick
           Illapses
           from
           that
           adjacent
           Planet
           .
           And
           this
           is
           the
           case
           of
           the
           unstable
           and
           empty
           Vulgar
           ,
           who
           gaping
           after
           News
           ,
           do
           commonly
           Imbibe
           the
           Droppings
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           though
           very
           much
           sophisticated
           and
           imbitter'd
           with
           the
           Cholerick
           Exsudations
           of
           intermediate
           persons
           .
           Thus
           puffing
           up
           his
           frantick
           Mind
           with
           strange
           uneasie
           Forms
           ,
           cheating
           himfelf
           with
           a
           Belief
           ,
           that
           his
           Anxious
           Soul
           with
           Labouring
           Steps
           has
           gone
           through
           all
           the
           Labyrinth
           of
           the
           State-Councels
           ,
           unravell'd
           the
           whole
           System
           of
           true
           Policy
           ;
           whereas
           ,
           poor
           man
           !
           he
           has
           only
           been
           dragg'd
           through
           the
           Phantasms
           of
           his
           
             heated
             Brain
          
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           it
           was
           a
           
             waking
             Dream
          
           which
           presented
           to
           his
           busie
           Thoughts
           ,
           the
           KING
           and
           COVNCIL
           Acting
           thus
           and
           thus
           ,
           Involved
           in
           Dark
           and
           Tyrannous
           Intrigues
           :
           When
           ,
           alas
           !
           were
           the
           man
           well
           awaked
           into
           a
           due
           pitch
           of
           Sobriety
           ,
           he
           would
           easily
           discern
           that
           his
           Vast
           Distance
           from
           the
           
             ROYAL
             SPHERE
          
           ,
           must
           needs
           engage
           him
           in
           as
           
             Idiotick
             Conceits
          
           of
           what
           's
           done
           there
           ,
           as
           the
           Vulgar
           have
           of
           the
           Moon
           ,
           which
           they
           are
           apt
           to
           fancy
           
             to
             be
             a
             fine
             Bright
             Frame
             with
             the
             Picture
             of
             a
             Man
             in
             it
             ,
             having
             a
             Bundle
             of
             Sticks
             on
             his
             Shoulders
             .
          
           I
           say
           ,
           as
           gross
           would
           be
           the
           Fancy
           of
           Plebeians
           ,
           of
           what
           's
           Transacted
           at
           the
           Council-Boord
           ,
           were
           they
           not
           priviledged
           with
           some
           broken
           
             Adulterate
             Narratives
          
           of
           those
           things
           ;
           which
           yet
           may
           in
           a
           Parallel
           Degree
           delude
           them
           ,
           to
           what
           the
           above-nam'd
           
             Virtuoso's
             Opticks
          
           do
           him
           in
           gazing
           on
           the
           Moon
           ,
           insinuating
           false
           Hypotheses
           into
           his
           Frothy
           Credulous
           Soul.
           
        
         
           I
           would
           not
           by
           this
           seem
           to
           put
           a
           Curb
           on
           Mens
           Understandings
           ,
           and
           lead
           them
           by
           the
           Nose
           into
           a
           Supine
           Acknowledgment
           ,
           
             That
             whatever
             Kings
             do
             is
             Infallibly
             Just
             and
             Prudent
          
           ;
           this
           were
           to
           make
           
             Civil
             Popes
             of
             them
          
           :
           And
           yet
           here
           I
           must
           needs
           confess
           ,
           that
           I
           think
           as
           their
           being
           Men
           has
           subjected
           them
           to
           those
           Frailties
           of
           Lapsed
           Humane
           Nature
           ,
           which
           by
           a
           
             Divine
             Nemesis
          
           are
           in
           different
           Measures
           and
           Degrees
           the
           Lot
           of
           all
           Men
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Various
           Obliquity
           of
           their
           Fall
           :
           So
           also
           that
           High
           Place
           they
           
           possess
           amongst
           Men
           ,
           and
           their
           great
           subserviency
           to
           the
           mysterious
           Designs
           of
           Providence
           ,
           Entitles
           them
           to
           more
           frequent
           and
           plentiful
           Assistance
           from
           Heaven
           :
           And
           the
           Superiour
           Orders
           in
           the
           Universe
           ,
           if
           not
           a
           special
           Energy
           from
           the
           Deity
           ,
           makes
           good
           their
           claim
           by
           Ennobling
           them
           with
           Vast
           and
           Comprehensive
           Intellects
           ,
           suitable
           to
           their
           Noble
           Emploiment
           ,
           and
           the
           otherwise
           inextricable
           Difficulties
           which
           attend
           on
           it
           ,
           and
           these
           sublime
           Acquisitions
           ,
           may
           be
           discovered
           by
           a
           cautious
           Observer
           in
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           Princes
           and
           other
           high
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           if
           there
           be
           not
           some
           Impediment
           in
           Nature
           ,
           or
           gross
           flaw
           in
           their
           practise
           ,
           which
           last
           made
           the
           
             Royal
             Psalmist
          
           ,
           after
           the
           Retirement
           of
           the
           Divine
           Influence
           upon
           the
           Commission
           of
           Murder
           ,
           implore
           the
           Restauration
           of
           that
           Celestial
           Favour
           ,
           that
           so
           his
           enervated
           understanding
           might
           recover
           strength
           ,
           and
           (
           to
           express
           it
           in
           the
           common
           translation
           of
           his
           own
           words
           )
           
             That
             he
             might
             be
             established
             with
             a
             free
          
           and
           (
           as
           One
           adds
           )
           
             a
             Princely
             Spirit
          
           ,
           a
           Mind
           Impregnate
           with
           Illapses
           of
           Eternal
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           so
           capacitated
           to
           produce
           deep
           Counsels
           and
           Heroick
           Actions
           befitting
           his
           Royal
           Dignity
           ,
           and
           suitable
           to
           the
           vast
           and
           otherwise
           unalleviated
           pressures
           of
           the
           State.
           So
           that
           this
           great
           and
           pious
           King
           prayed
           but
           for
           what
           he
           had
           deprived
           himself
           of
           ,
           his
           former
           illuminations
           from
           Heaven
           .
           And
           truly
           it
           seems
           very
           Congruous
           ,
           that
           the
           Mysterious
           Whispers
           of
           the
           Invisible
           World
           ,
           are
           in
           a
           more
           intimate
           manner
           communicated
           to
           Pious
           Princes
           ,
           whose
           Immense
           Minds
           cannot
           but
           by
           their
           ever
           active
           and
           strong
           Vibrations
           (
           like
           Unisons
           in
           Musick
           )
           snatch
           into
           Sympathy
           some
           Courteous
           Angel
           ,
           who
           
             (
             Deo
             favente
          
           )
           holding
           back
           the
           Veil
           ,
           must
           needs
           degurgitate
           upon
           them
           full
           and
           penetrant
           Coruscations
           from
           the
           Abyss
           of
           that
           otherwise
           Inaccessible
           Light
           :
           Thus
           tincturing
           their
           Counsels
           and
           Actions
           with
           that
           Wisdom
           that
           may
           render
           them
           weighty
           and
           unsophisticate
           .
           But
           lest
           I
           should
           incur
           the
           Imputation
           of
           
             Rosicrucian
             vanity
          
           ,
           in
           thus
           pompously
           ascribing
           Divine
           Illumination
           to
           the
           Ministery
           of
           Angels
           ;
           I
           will
           crave
           leave
           to
           digress
           a
           word
           or
           two
           to
           prove
           my
           Assertion
           :
           It
           will
           be
           easily
           granted
           I
           hope
           ,
           that
           if
           many
           of
           the
           Prophets
           were
           Illuminated
           in
           this
           manner
           in
           the
           Old
           Testament
           ,
           God
           has
           not
           Innovated
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           this
           Favour
           in
           the
           New
           :
           But
           that
           in
           many
           cases
           ,
           I
           do
           not
           say
           in
           all
           ,
           Divine
           Light
           may
           be
           communicated
           to
           men
           by
           the
           hands
           of
           Angels
           .
           That
           it
           was
           thus
           under
           the
           
           Law
           ,
           many
           of
           the
           Hebrew
           Masters
           do
           attest
           ,
           Maimonides
           is
           full
           to
           this
           purpose
           ,
           both
           in
           his
           
             De
             Fundamentis
             Legis
          
           ,
           and
           
             More
             Nevochim
          
           :
           I
           will
           instance
           one
           place
           for
           all
           .
           But
           
           this
           is
           a
           Digression
           ,
           yet
           such
           an
           one
           as
           may
           well
           enough
           square
           with
           my
           intent
           in
           the
           foregoing
           Considerations
           ;
           for
           in
           thus
           proving
           in
           what
           an
           Illustrious
           manner
           the
           Prophets
           were
           of
           old
           Inspired
           ,
           I
           do
           more
           then
           tacitely
           subindicate
           the
           Excellent
           Prerogative
           of
           Princes
           also
           ,
           the
           latter
           being
           called
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           former
           ,
           and
           that
           Title
           onely
           belonged
           to
           those
           Favourites
           of
           Heaven
           ,
           whose
           Souls
           (
           if
           not
           obnubilated
           with
           Vice
           )
           were
           permitted
           to
           bask
           under
           the
           more
           Glorious
           Irradiations
           of
           Divine
           Light
           :
           And
           this
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           was
           ,
           and
           upon
           the
           same
           tearms
           is
           still
           ,
           the
           Priviledge
           of
           Kings
           as
           well
           as
           of
           Priests
           and
           Prophets
           .
           And
           consequently
           it
           is
           very
           Irrational
           for
           ordinary
           ignorant
           Plebeians
           ,
           whose
           Domestick
           mean
           Imployments
           could
           never
           permit
           them
           to
           cultivate
           their
           Understandings
           with
           any
           other
           knowledge
           ,
           save
           what
           they
           have
           gained
           by
           Experience
           ,
           in
           their
           trivial
           Converse
           with
           men
           of
           the
           same
           Rank
           with
           themselves
           ,
           and
           some
           few
           Superficial
           Observations
           concerning
           the
           Publick
           :
           It
           is
           irrational
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           and
           argues
           much
           self-conceit
           in
           them
           ,
           when
           they
           take
           upon
           them
           so
           boldly
           and
           rashly
           to
           censure
           and
           condemn
           the
           Actions
           of
           their
           Prince
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           too
           common
           for
           them
           to
           do
           ,
           when
           to
           better
           weighed
           men
           those
           very
           Actions
           carried
           the
           appearance
           of
           sound
           Policy
           and
           sedulous
           care
           for
           the
           Publick
           :
           and
           if
           they
           did
           not
           seem
           so
           pleasing
           to
           them
           in
           that
           particular
           posture
           they
           behold
           them
           in
           ,
           yet
           even
           an
           Implicite
           Recumbency
           in
           such
           cases
           were
           very
           commendable
           in
           the
           Vulgar
           ;
           who
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           for
           some
           few
           innate
           Ideas
           and
           common
           Notions
           floating
           up
           and
           down
           in
           their
           Minds
           ,
           surviving
           the
           shipwrack
           that
           was
           made
           of
           the
           rest
           of
           those
           precious
           Jewels
           in
           their
           Apostacy
           and
           fall
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           for
           a
           few
           Sparks
           of
           Reason
           left
           ,
           they
           seem
           to
           verge
           exceeding
           near
           to
           the
           Brutes
           in
           their
           Sentiments
           of
           things
           ,
           and
           therefore
           certainly
           it
           is
           very
           decorous
           ,
           that
           in
           Political
           Matters
           whose
           Scheme
           is
           very
           abstruse
           and
           curious
           ,
           they
           should
           rely
           on
           the
           judgment
           of
           their
           Supreme
           Governours
           ,
           whom
           for
           the
           most
           
           part
           ,
           Heaven
           ,
           Nature
           ,
           Education
           ,
           and
           Experience
           have
           bless'd
           with
           comprehensive
           ,
           quick
           ,
           and
           profound
           Understandings
           .
           We
           may
           also
           take
           notice
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           frequently
           endued
           with
           many
           other
           Gifts
           and
           Accomplishments
           ,
           such
           as
           that
           which
           Illustrates
           the
           Majesty
           of
           our
           
             Gracious
             Sovereign
          
           ;
           viz.
           His
           power
           of
           
             Curing
             by
             a
             Touch
          
           that
           malignant
           and
           inveterate
           Disease
           called
           
             The
             Kings
             Evil.
          
           All
           that
           I
           would
           intimate
           by
           what
           is
           said
           ,
           is
           this
           ,
           That
           by
           the
           Laws
           and
           Polity
           of
           the
           Superiour
           Invisible
           Orders
           ,
           or
           by
           what
           other
           indispensible
           Conditions
           of
           the
           Creation
           ,
           we
           know
           not
           :
           there
           is
           a
           peculiar
           Mark
           set
           on
           Princes
           ,
           they
           are
           Signaliz'd
           with
           Extraordinary
           Advantages
           of
           Mind
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           more
           Conspicuous
           Residence
           of
           Divinity
           in
           them
           ,
           their
           persons
           are
           made
           Sacred
           ;
           so
           that
           by
           arrogant
           or
           irreverent
           detractions
           to
           depretiate
           Royalty
           ,
           is
           but
           a
           lesser
           kind
           of
           Profaneness
           ,
           and
           a
           very
           suspicious
           Prodrome
           of
           flat
           Blasphemy
           and
           Atheism
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           will
           not
           anticipate
           what
           is
           hereafter
           to
           be
           spoken
           concerning
           the
           Religious
           Obligation
           that
           lies
           on
           all
           Subjects
           to
           be
           modest
           in
           this
           case
           ;
           to
           proceed
           therefore
           in
           the
           discovering
           the
           Ineptitude
           of
           Censoriousness
           .
        
         
           Many
           and
           various
           Topicks
           I
           might
           make
           use
           of
           ,
           to
           Illustrate
           and
           Fortifie
           my
           Assertions
           ,
           and
           to
           prove
           that
           want
           of
           Resigned
           Understandings
           in
           the
           inferiour
           Plebeians
           ,
           when
           the
           Object
           is
           any
           ways
           appertaining
           to
           Policy
           ;
           as
           a
           Princes
           management
           of
           Affairs
           ,
           is
           the
           most
           absurd
           ,
           incongruous
           thing
           in
           the
           World
           :
           the
           ultimate
           Vote
           in
           such
           matters
           ,
           being
           not
           only
           by
           right
           the
           peculiar
           Prerogative
           of
           the
           
             Supreme
             Powers
          
           ,
           but
           also
           must
           at
           last
           of
           necessity
           be
           cast
           upon
           them
           ,
           else
           the
           
             Order
             of
             Nature
             must
             needs
             be
             inverted
             ,
          
           the
           
             Oeconomy
             ,
             happiness
             and
             safety
             of
             the
             Civil
             World
             distorted
             and
             dwindled
             into
             Confusion
             ,
             irreconcileable
             Enmity
             and
             endless
             Contention
             :
          
           As
           to
           the
           Confusion
           that
           will
           result
           from
           this
           Epidemical
           Censoriousness
           .
        
         
           It
           must
           be
           considered
           ,
           that
           unless
           the
           King
           make
           himself
           a
           very
           Proteus
           in
           his
           Counsels
           ,
           moulding
           them
           into
           as
           many
           Shapes
           as
           there
           be
           several
           Opinionists
           in
           his
           Realms
           :
           he
           had
           as
           good
           do
           nothing
           ,
           for
           every
           one
           will
           still
           be
           so
           conceited
           of
           those
           Models
           of
           Policy
           ,
           that
           float
           up
           and
           down
           in
           his
           shallow
           Brains
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           very
           hardly
           be
           brought
           to
           yield
           an
           Inch
           to
           any
           that
           shall
           contradict
           him
           :
           and
           't
           is
           a
           thousand
           to
           one
           if
           there
           be
           a
           thousand
           in
           the
           
           whole
           Kingdom
           ,
           that
           agree
           in
           the
           same
           Opinion
           exactly
           ;
           where
           then
           shall
           the
           business
           be
           decided
           ?
           I
           mean
           ,
           who
           shall
           determine
           what
           form
           of
           Policy
           is
           best
           ,
           this
           mans
           ,
           or
           that
           mans
           ?
           Or
           whether
           the
           Kings
           is
           not
           to
           be
           preferr'd
           before
           them
           all
           ?
           Here
           is
           no
           Tribunal
           ,
           or
           
             Infallible
             Chair
          
           to
           resort
           to
           for
           Satisfaction
           ,
           for
           each
           person
           is
           so
           Incrustate
           in
           his
           own
           Conceit
           ,
           that
           you
           had
           as
           good
           endeavour
           to
           break
           the
           Adamant
           ,
           as
           to
           expect
           any
           impartial
           condescention
           from
           his
           hardned
           Soul
           :
           No!
           he
           scorns
           to
           be
           guilty
           of
           such
           base
           Incurvation
           of
           his
           erect
           and
           sublime
           Intellect
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           cringe
           to
           anothers
           obtruded
           Notions
           :
           The
           King
           himself
           shall
           not
           curb
           his
           free-born
           Mind
           .
           This
           or
           something
           Analogous
           to
           it
           would
           be
           the
           humour
           of
           all
           those
           ,
           who
           are
           thus
           settled
           upon
           the
           Lees
           and
           gross
           dregs
           of
           turbulent
           Pride
           and
           darkness
           ,
           whensoever
           they
           are
           a
           little
           stirr'd
           and
           troubled
           ;
           nothing
           can
           be
           drawn
           from
           them
           ,
           but
           muddy
           ,
           partial
           ,
           and
           tenacious
           Obstinacy
           ,
           and
           contradictory
           Inconsistences
           .
           What
           is
           to
           be
           done
           in
           this
           unhappy
           Juncture
           ?
           Where
           is
           the
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           of
           true
           Policy
           to
           be
           found
           ?
           Why
           in
           this
           Aenigmatical
           Repository
           ;
           every
           where
           ,
           and
           yet
           no
           where
           :
           Every
           man
           would
           be
           Judge
           ,
           but
           no
           mans
           Sentence
           shall
           be
           Authentick
           with
           other
           men
           :
           Here
           is
           a
           verbal
           Anarchy
           ,
           and
           ten
           to
           one
           but
           the
           next
           Morning
           brings
           forth
           a
           real
           one
           .
        
         
           The
           most
           natural
           Method
           therefore
           of
           reducing
           things
           to
           their
           proper
           Order
           again
           in
           such
           cases
           ,
           is
           to
           place
           the
           King
           in
           the
           
             Seat
             of
             Judgment
          
           ,
           resolving
           all
           to
           stand
           to
           his
           Verdict
           in
           
             Political
             Matters
          
           ;
           and
           though
           he
           should
           seem
           to
           them
           to
           deviate
           from
           Wisdom
           and
           Fidelity
           ,
           yet
           modesty
           should
           take
           away
           their
           prosumption
           of
           the
           former
           ,
           and
           Charity
           should
           null
           their
           suspicion
           of
           the
           latter
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           I
           am
           fallen
           upon
           the
           mention
           of
           Charity
           ,
           methinks
           it
           is
           very
           congruous
           ,
           that
           that
           
             Sweet
             Ingenuity
          
           ,
           that
           
             Benign
             Candor
          
           in
           Christians
           ,
           which
           should
           put
           a
           Check
           on
           their
           over-hasty
           judging
           their
           Brother
           ,
           should
           much
           more
           exert
           it self
           in
           this
           case
           ;
           where
           besides
           the
           Obligation
           of
           Natural
           Affinity
           between
           all
           men
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           supervening
           and
           more
           intimate
           tye
           of
           Gratitude
           from
           Subjects
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           to
           whose
           Vigilancy
           they
           owe
           the
           Security
           of
           their
           Quiet
           and
           Ease
           :
           and
           upon
           that
           account
           ,
           should
           be
           very
           tender
           of
           His
           Honour
           ,
           by
           never
           daring
           to
           broach
           or
           countenance
           in
           others
           any
           Aspersions
           ,
           or
           contemptuous
           harsh
           Reflections
           
           which
           may
           seem
           to
           touch
           his
           
             Sacred
             Person
          
           ,
           and
           his
           
             Management
             of
             Affairs
          
           .
           And
           it
           is
           as
           much
           the
           Duty
           of
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           an
           Argument
           of
           Generosity
           ,
           thus
           to
           deport
           themselves
           in
           reference
           to
           their
           Soveraign
           ,
           for
           the
           
             Supreme
             Monarch
          
           of
           the
           World
           has
           joyned
           in
           one
           Command
           ,
           the
           due
           payment
           of
           his
           own
           and
           Caesars
           Tribute
           ;
           but
           certainly
           his
           own
           would
           not
           in
           his
           esteem
           be
           discharged
           ,
           especially
           that
           part
           of
           it
           which
           consists
           in
           a
           reverent
           Behaviour
           and
           Usage
           of
           all
           things
           belonging
           to
           him
           ,
           should
           men
           be
           continually
           grumbling
           and
           quarrelling
           at
           the
           Inscrutable
           Methods
           of
           his
           Providence
           in
           Governing
           the
           World
           ;
           and
           because
           they
           could
           not
           comprehend
           throughly
           its
           profound
           Intrigues
           :
           therefore
           they
           should
           upon
           some
           seeming
           Exotick
           Digressions
           and
           uncouth
           Meanders
           of
           Divine
           Wisdom
           ,
           presently
           suspect
           and
           presumptuously
           divulge
           their
           Jealousie
           that
           God
           was
           carrying
           on
           a
           Design
           to
           gull
           all
           Mankind
           into
           horrible
           Servitude
           and
           Misery
           :
           Whereas
           these
           mistaken
           Symptoms
           of
           such
           a
           Plot
           ,
           were
           only
           the
           reserved
           Traces
           of
           the
           
             Great
             Council
             of
             Heaven
             ,
             in
             order
             to
             the
             Good
             of
             the
             World
          
           ;
           only
           not
           condescending
           to
           the
           narrow
           researches
           of
           Humane
           Understandings
           :
           and
           sure
           it
           is
           but
           a
           lesser
           degree
           of
           that
           cloudy
           malicious
           Surmise
           ,
           when
           Subjects
           so
           impudently
           presume
           to
           Snort
           at
           the
           Actions
           of
           their
           King
           ,
           especially
           in
           a
           time
           of
           peril
           to
           the
           
             Church
             and
             State
          
           ,
           if
           he
           do
           not
           keep
           on
           the
           broad
           High-way
           ,
           as
           these
           silly
           conceited
           Plebeians
           are
           prone
           to
           esteem
           those
           Models
           of
           Policy
           they
           have
           familiariz'd
           :
           I
           say
           ,
           if
           a
           Prince
           does
           not
           obviate
           the
           imminent
           danger
           just
           in
           the
           same
           manner
           as
           those
           
             Mighty
             Polititians
          
           would
           have
           him
           ,
           is
           it
           not
           notorious
           Insolence
           in
           them
           to
           defame
           him
           ,
           and
           so
           contemptuously
           to
           traverse
           his
           
             Deep
             Counsels
          
           ?
           though
           the
           supposed
           Irregularities
           and
           extravagant
           deflections
           from
           the
           vulgar
           beaten-path
           ,
           proceed
           but
           from
           a
           certain
           knowledge
           and
           fore-sight
           ,
           that
           in
           such
           cases
           the
           Proverb
           is
           true
           ,
           which
           informs
           us
           ,
           
             That
             sometimes
             the
             longest
             way
             about
             is
             the
             nighest
             way
             home
             :
          
           For
           in
           thus
           seeming
           to
           abandon
           ,
           or
           negligently
           to
           manage
           the
           
             Publick
             Welfare
          
           ,
           he
           indeed
           more
           closely
           ,
           but
           more
           warily
           withal
           ,
           prosecutes
           it
           :
           perhaps
           he
           may
           fetch
           a
           larger
           compass
           then
           these
           slow-pated
           Gentlemen
           can
           tell
           how
           to
           trace
           him
           in
           ;
           But
           it
           is
           only
           to
           remove
           some
           foreseen
           Obstacles
           ,
           or
           anticipate
           a
           fly
           Machination
           ,
           perhaps
           he
           may
           a
           while
           stand
           still
           ,
           when
           a
           more
           steddy
           and
           full
           prospect
           of
           his
           Business
           may
           expedite
           the
           Accomplishment
           
           of
           his
           well-intended
           Aims
           :
           And
           yet
           these
           seeming
           Statick
           and
           retrograde
           Postures
           of
           Princes
           may
           sometimes
           arise
           from
           a
           mistake
           somewhat
           Analogous
           to
           theirs
           ,
           who
           think
           the
           Planets
           really
           go
           back
           and
           stand
           still
           ,
           when
           that
           delusive
           Phaenomenon
           arises
           only
           from
           the
           several
           Stations
           of
           the
           Earth
           
           in
           its
           Annual
           motion
           .
           He
           that
           understands
           Copernicus
           his
           Scheme
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           will
           best
           relish
           the
           Comparison
           :
           For
           so
           these
           Plebeians
           moving
           in
           a
           narrower
           Sphere
           ,
           cannot
           keep
           pace
           with
           the
           vast
           Orb
           of
           Polititians
           ,
           and
           yet
           measuring
           their
           
             Stately
             Motions
          
           by
           the
           
             Superficial
             Ideas
          
           in
           their
           delirious
           Fancies
           ,
           will
           be
           apt
           to
           think
           the
           others
           stand
           still
           and
           go
           back
           ,
           when
           the
           fault
           lies
           only
           in
           their
           Inconstant
           Skulls
           ,
           and
           over-hasty
           propension
           to
           censoriousness
           .
           But
           however
           suppose
           these
           disparate
           Motions
           of
           Princes
           to
           be
           real
           ,
           yet
           't
           is
           Idiotick
           to
           murmure
           all
           this
           while
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Matter
           was
           in
           the
           Suds
           ,
           as
           they
           say
           :
           for
           these
           Oblique
           Transcursions
           and
           Statick
           postures
           ,
           do
           but
           help
           to
           resume
           his
           way
           more
           prosperously
           ,
           now
           encouraged
           by
           the
           defeat
           of
           the
           prevised
           Obstructions
           :
           In
           this
           not
           much
           unlike
           that
           Glorious
           Monarch
           of
           the
           Day
           ,
           the
           Sun
           ,
           who
           for
           all
           that
           Heavenly
           Labyrinth
           and
           Learned
           Perplexity
           he
           seems
           to
           be
           intangled
           in
           ,
           when
           beheld
           in
           an
           Astronomical
           Scheme
           ,
           yet
           nevertheless
           rejoyces
           as
           a
           Giant
           to
           run
           his
           course
           ,
           breaking
           through
           all
           those
           seeming
           Difficulties
           ,
           which
           are
           only
           the
           Product
           of
           busie
           Minds
           .
           Such
           is
           the
           Zodiack
           of
           Policy
           wherein
           Princes
           move
           ,
           and
           their
           Postures
           and
           Motions
           ,
           seem
           they
           never
           so
           oblique
           or
           obscure
           ;
           nay
           though
           they
           should
           (
           like
           that
           Great
           Light
           )
           seem
           to
           the
           Vulgar
           to
           stand
           still
           ,
           yet
           their
           Course
           is
           steady
           and
           regular
           ,
           ever
           tending
           toward
           the
           accomplishment
           of
           their
           Scope
           ,
           and
           he
           that
           should
           deny
           this
           ,
           because
           by
           reason
           of
           several
           interposing
           hindrances
           ,
           he
           could
           not
           precisely
           trace
           their
           Footsteps
           ,
           deserves
           to
           be
           counted
           as
           much
           a
           Fool
           or
           Mad-man
           ,
           as
           he
           that
           should
           think
           the
           Sun
           went
           not
           forward
           ,
           because
           he
           could
           not
           at
           that
           time
           discern
           his
           progress
           when
           some
           Clouds
           intercepted
           his
           sight
           ,
           or
           suppose
           the
           Air
           serene
           and
           clear
           ,
           yet
           the
           vast
           distance
           of
           the
           Solar
           Sphere
           rejected
           all
           Terrestrial
           Gazers
           into
           an
           unavoidable
           inability
           to
           descry
           his
           seeming
           minute
           ,
           though
           really
           prodigious
           ,
           steps
           in
           the
           Ecliptick
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           
             Ptolomaick
             Hypothesis
          
           ,
           which
           I
           may
           make
           use
           of
           here
           for
           the
           Comparisons
           
           sake
           ,
           though
           I
           discard
           that
           almost
           obsolete
           Opinion
           ,
           when
           I
           hearken
           to
           the
           Dictates
           of
           severer
           Reason
           .
        
         
           I
           would
           not
           by
           these
           more
           Lax
           Considerations
           of
           the
           vast
           distance
           between
           a
           Prince
           and
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           seem
           to
           set
           up
           ,
           as
           I
           said
           ,
           a
           kind
           of
           State-Pope
           ,
           whose
           Actions
           must
           not
           be
           questioned
           or
           scann'd
           as
           being
           Infallibly
           Excellent
           and
           without
           Fault
           .
           All
           that
           I
           mean
           is
           this
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           all
           
             Political
             Transactions
          
           are
           in
           their
           own
           nature
           Intricate
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           Essentially
           involving
           Labyrinths
           and
           Meanders
           in
           their
           very
           Constitution
           ,
           but
           acquire
           a
           greater
           inextricableness
           ,
           by
           the
           numerous
           and
           assiduate
           Contingencies
           that
           emerge
           from
           the
           various
           events
           of
           Peace
           and
           War
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           That
           upon
           the
           account
           of
           these
           inseparable
           Difficulties
           that
           attend
           the
           Management
           of
           State
           Affairs
           ,
           none
           can
           be
           presumed
           fitter
           to
           conquer
           them
           ,
           and
           dispatch
           the
           Concernsof
           a
           Nation
           with
           Safety
           ,
           Honour
           ,
           and
           Immunity
           from
           subsequent
           Disasters
           that
           may
           result
           from
           perfunctory
           Attempts
           to
           cure
           present
           Diseases
           :
           I
           say
           none
           can
           be
           supposed
           to
           be
           in
           a
           better
           capacity
           to
           do
           this
           ,
           than
           he
           whose
           very
           Birth
           entituled
           him
           to
           the
           Priviledge
           of
           being
           initiated
           (
           when
           adult
           )
           into
           the
           Rudiments
           of
           true
           Policy
           ,
           whose
           Education
           made
           good
           his
           Native-claim
           ,
           and
           both
           were
           seconded
           with
           adventitious
           Light
           and
           Conduct
           from
           the
           Celestial
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ;
           And
           such
           an
           one
           is
           every
           pious
           Prince
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           That
           therefore
           the
           Prince
           with
           his
           Council
           ought
           to
           be
           esteemed
           
             the
             ORACLE
             of
             the
             STATE
          
           ;
           and
           he
           who
           over
           boldly
           pries
           into
           their
           Consultations
           ,
           or
           rashly
           censures
           their
           Actions
           ,
           forseits
           his
           Modesty
           ,
           Gratitude
           ,
           Duty
           and
           Reason
           ,
           and
           discovers
           a
           Mind
           intoxicated
           with
           self
           conceit
           ,
           hardened
           with
           base
           Unthankfulness
           ,
           and
           sunk
           into
           gross
           Folly
           ,
           and
           Irreligion
           :
           So
           that
           I
           might
           very
           well
           pass
           on
           to
           another
           part
           of
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           were
           I
           not
           invited
           to
           pursue
           my
           present
           Theme
           more
           closely
           ,
           and
           to
           reduce
           Matters
           to
           particulars
           ,
           for
           fear
           of
           the
           spreading
           contagiousness
           and
           regency
           of
           this
           Disease
           .
           Not
           to
           mention
           how
           cunningly
           the
           poyson
           is
           imbib'd
           when
           taken
           by
           men
           who
           in
           plain
           words
           own
           the
           Preheminence
           of
           Royalty
           ,
           yet
           by
           their
           Jesuitically
           Oblique
           Reflections
           on
           its
           Proceedings
           ,
           are
           taught
           to
           embrace
           and
           easily
           learn
           to
           give
           to
           others
           injurious
           and
           irreverent
           thoughts
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           deprive
           it
           of
           the
           most
           suitable
           means
           to
           justifie
           it self
           ,
           and
           
           disabuse
           them
           ;
           which
           means
           consists
           in
           its
           being
           handled
           with
           that
           due
           modesty
           and
           ingenuous
           Reservedness
           ,
           that
           its
           fore
           ▪
           named
           app
           ndant
           Circumstances
           require
           :
           And
           not
           only
           those
           ,
           but
           others
           also
           ,
           which
           I
           will
           enumerate
           immethodically
           ,
           as
           they
           occur
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           be
           considered
           therefore
           ,
           that
           one
           vast
           disadvantage
           accrues
           to
           the
           Vulgar
           in
           judging
           of
           State.
           Affairs
           from
           their
           unacquaintedness
           in
           a
           multitude
           of
           particulars
           relating
           to
           the
           Alliances
           ,
           Leagues
           ,
           Correspondencies
           ,
           and
           several
           other
           Transactions
           between
           a
           King
           and
           the
           Princes
           of
           Foreign
           Nations
           :
           not
           to
           mention
           his
           private
           Concerns
           at
           home
           ,
           whether
           at
           the
           Court
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           parts
           of
           his
           Realms
           ,
           between
           him
           and
           his
           Nobles
           :
           All
           which
           perhaps
           may
           be
           extraneous
           to
           the
           main
           engrossing
           present
           Affair
           of
           the
           Publick
           ,
           and
           yet
           he
           must
           be
           allowed
           to
           prosecute
           them
           with
           as
           much
           perhaps
           more
           vigour
           and
           alacrity
           ,
           then
           at
           that
           time
           is
           requisite
           to
           the
           management
           of
           that
           other
           great
           Affair
           :
           Whence
           it
           will
           fall
           out
           ,
           that
           now
           and
           then
           they
           will
           force
           him
           to
           make
           an
           Eruption
           into
           some
           Publick
           Actions
           ,
           whose
           coherence
           with
           ,
           and
           dependance
           on
           those
           fore-mentioned
           private
           Concerns
           not
           being
           understood
           ,
           or
           so
           much
           as
           dream'd
           of
           among
           the
           Vulgar
           ;
           it
           must
           needs
           follow
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           take
           upon
           them
           to
           judge
           of
           those
           Actions
           ,
           they
           will
           still
           imagine
           they
           bear
           a
           respect
           to
           that
           part
           of
           the
           Publick
           Affairs
           which
           fall
           under
           their
           Cognizance
           ,
           and
           so
           will
           make
           a
           false
           Construction
           of
           the
           Scope
           and
           Tendency
           of
           such
           Actions
           ,
           which
           probably
           may
           not
           have
           any
           Affinity
           with
           the
           Publick
           Affair
           ,
           but
           only
           are
           performed
           in
           order
           to
           the
           accomplishment
           of
           his
           own
           private
           .
           But
           here
           when
           I
           make
           a
           difference
           between
           a
           Prince's
           publick
           Actions
           and
           his
           private
           ;
           I
           mean
           only
           this
           ,
           that
           the
           management
           of
           some
           of
           their
           Concerns
           does
           not
           imply
           so
           immediate
           and
           direct
           a
           relation
           to
           the
           present
           great
           engrossing
           Affair
           of
           the
           Publick
           ,
           though
           they
           may
           have
           a
           real
           Aspect
           on
           it
           ,
           as
           to
           their
           Remote
           tendency
           ,
           by
           an
           exquisite
           Cadency
           of
           Events
           falling
           in
           with
           the
           Stream
           .
           Sometimes
           also
           they
           act
           with
           a
           direct
           Aspect
           on
           the
           Publick
           ,
           but
           yet
           their
           Design
           is
           hid
           from
           the
           Vulgar
           .
           As
           sometimes
           a
           Prince
           may
           be
           Negotiating
           with
           an
           Ambassadour
           concerning
           the
           present
           Great
           Matter
           in
           Publick
           Quest
           ,
           and
           yet
           his
           Subjects
           may
           not
           dream
           of
           any
           such
           thing
           ▪
           this
           private
           Negotiation
           may
           cause
           the
           Prince
           to
           run
           out
           into
           extraordinary
           Actions
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           to
           the
           Vulgar
           who
           were
           ignorant
           
           of
           what
           pass'd
           between
           him
           and
           the
           Ambassadour
           ,
           may
           seem
           exotick
           ,
           if
           not
           worse
           :
           so
           easie
           is
           it
           for
           the
           Vulgar
           to
           commit
           gross
           Errours
           ,
           if
           they
           presume
           to
           descant
           on
           every
           unusual
           Phaenomenon
           in
           the
           management
           of
           
             State
             Affairs
          
           ,
           when
           oftentimes
           they
           are
           raised
           from
           Causes
           so
           remote
           from
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           that
           unless
           we
           suppose
           them
           not
           only
           to
           be
           well
           skill'd
           in
           the
           Histories
           of
           Neighbour
           Nations
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           Court
           Proceedings
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Histories
           of
           our
           own
           Land
           ;
           but
           also
           versed
           in
           many
           unpublished
           Narratives
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           all
           those
           Passages
           in
           them
           which
           relate
           the
           several
           Alliances
           ,
           Leagues
           ,
           Titles
           ,
           and
           other
           Circumstances
           wherein
           our
           Soveraign
           either
           upon
           his
           own
           or
           his
           Ancestors
           account
           may
           be
           engaged
           :
           To
           some
           of
           which
           these
           unusual
           Publick
           Carriages
           of
           a
           Prince
           may
           have
           reference
           ;
           I
           say
           ,
           unless
           we
           will
           suppose
           the
           Vulgar
           to
           know
           all
           this
           ,
           which
           is
           all
           one
           as
           to
           suppose
           them
           of
           the
           Kings
           Cabinet-Council
           ;
           it
           must
           needs
           follow
           ,
           that
           they
           will
           be
           guilty
           of
           gross
           Hallucinations
           ,
           when
           ever
           they
           take
           upon
           them
           to
           censure
           such
           Actions
           and
           Publick
           Deportments
           of
           a
           Prince
           :
           their
           narrow
           thoughts
           not
           being
           able
           without
           those
           fore-mentioned
           helps
           ,
           perhaps
           scarce
           with
           them
           ,
           to
           pursue
           the
           vast
           and
           intricate
           Designs
           of
           Princes
           through
           all
           the
           Elaborate
           Tracts
           of
           Policy
           .
        
         
           And
           this
           Consideration
           will
           I
           presume
           carry
           greater
           force
           with
           it
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           but
           considered
           how
           many
           of
           the
           Ordinary
           Passages
           and
           Transactions
           between
           Neighbours
           in
           the
           same
           Town
           are
           not
           fully
           understood
           by
           others
           in
           the
           same
           Corporation
           (
           and
           perhaps
           men
           of
           competent
           judgment
           in
           such
           Affairs
           )
           onely
           by
           reason
           of
           their
           not
           being
           acquainted
           with
           the
           grounds
           of
           such
           Transactions
           which
           cannot
           be
           known
           without
           a
           satisfactory
           Information
           in
           several
           particular
           Circumstances
           relating
           to
           the
           Condition
           of
           the
           persons
           concerned
           and
           their
           Kindred
           ;
           Many
           of
           which
           Circumstances
           ,
           or
           all
           of
           them
           may
           be
           pointed
           at
           in
           such
           Transactions
           :
           and
           if
           such
           Dilucidations
           be
           necessary
           to
           make
           Neighbours
           understand
           one
           anothers
           business
           ,
           though
           its
           utmost
           Aspect
           may
           perhaps
           be
           confined
           to
           persons
           dwelling
           in
           the
           same
           Town
           ,
           we
           must
           needs
           think
           that
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           a
           Princes
           Affairs
           as
           to
           their
           scope
           and
           tendency
           ,
           is
           lost
           to
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           since
           they
           have
           oftentimes
           an
           intimate
           connexion
           with
           things
           done
           in
           very
           remote
           Regions
           ,
           some
           hundreds
           of
           years
           ago
           ,
           amidst
           Circumstances
           to
           many
           of
           which
           we
           are
           
           wholly
           strangers
           .
           'T
           is
           no
           wonder
           therefore
           that
           many
           Actions
           of
           Princes
           seem
           uncouth
           to
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           and
           their
           abrupt
           Transitions
           from
           the
           ordinary
           course
           of
           common
           Policy
           ,
           make
           the
           silly
           people
           start
           ,
           their
           crazy
           understandings
           not
           being
           able
           to
           bear
           the
           sudden
           motion
           .
           Indeed
           to
           make
           a
           man
           a
           competent
           Judge
           in
           those
           Phanomena
           ,
           it
           were
           requisite
           that
           he
           be
           well
           versed
           in
           the
           whole
           System
           of
           the
           
             Political
             Affairs
          
           of
           such
           a
           Realm
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           be
           able
           with
           one
           compendious
           glance
           ,
           to
           look
           on
           these
           extraordinary
           Actions
           of
           Princes
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           body
           of
           Political
           Concerns
           together
           ,
           for
           they
           will
           never
           appear
           to
           their
           true
           advantage
           ,
           but
           when
           they
           are
           looked
           on
           in
           their
           proportional
           conduciveness
           to
           advance
           the
           due
           Symmetry
           of
           the
           whole
           ;
           and
           this
           cannot
           be
           done
           but
           by
           a
           full
           display
           of
           them
           altogether
           .
           He
           that
           shall
           then
           attentively
           survey
           the
           Great
           Current
           of
           State
           Affairs
           ,
           and
           the
           apt
           Insinuations
           of
           these
           Novel
           Rivulets
           ,
           and
           though
           they
           seem
           to
           proceed
           from
           By-corners
           ,
           yet
           how
           naturally
           they
           glide
           along
           with
           the
           Stream
           ▪
           He
           that
           shall
           observe
           how
           the
           knowledge
           of
           somewhat
           done
           a
           hundred
           years
           ago
           ,
           and
           a
           thousand
           miles
           off
           ,
           does
           yet
           illustrate
           a
           present
           Eruption
           of
           a
           Prince
           into
           some
           seeming
           Exotick
           Discoveries
           of
           Concernment
           and
           care
           ;
           such
           an
           one
           will
           discern
           the
           Folly
           of
           being
           over
           hasty
           in
           censuring
           Occurrencies
           so
           disadvantageously
           looked
           on
           ,
           when
           irrelatively
           and
           sever'd
           from
           the
           Coincidence
           they
           had
           with
           Matters
           to
           them
           utterly
           unknown
           ;
           or
           with
           the
           whole
           stream
           of
           
             State
             Affairs
          
           .
        
         
           Hitherto
           the
           Tenour
           of
           my
           Arguments
           against
           Censoriousness
           in
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           their
           immodest
           Determinations
           concerning
           those
           Methods
           of
           Policy
           that
           are
           used
           by
           their
           Prince
           ,
           has
           not
           altogether
           excluded
           them
           from
           a
           possibility
           of
           having
           true
           Narratives
           of
           their
           Proceedings
           ,
           but
           only
           upon
           a
           tacite
           Concession
           of
           that
           Priviledge
           to
           some
           of
           them
           does
           yet
           deny
           them
           any
           Capacity
           of
           making
           a
           suitable
           Conjecture
           concerning
           the
           re-cluse
           tendency
           of
           all
           their
           known
           Transactions
           ,
           or
           of
           defining
           whether
           such
           a
           supposed
           Tendency
           of
           them
           be
           Commensurate
           to
           the
           Rules
           of
           true
           Policy
           .
           But
           there
           are
           not
           wanting
           Arguments
           to
           prove
           that
           it
           is
           very
           improbable
           at
           least
           ,
           if
           not
           impossible
           for
           the
           Vulgar
           to
           have
           so
           much
           as
           a
           true
           genuine
           account
           of
           their
           ordinary
           Deportment
           and
           Counsels
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           Publick
           :
           And
           then
           these
           Criticks
           will
           be
           inexcusable
           in
           their
           peremptory
           descants
           on
           Transactions
           ,
           
           which
           perhaps
           owe
           their
           Birth
           to
           Vulgar
           Report
           :
           however
           they
           can
           have
           no
           ordinary
           assurance
           to
           the
           contrary
           ,
           and
           therefore
           cannot
           escape
           S.
           Judes
           Censures
           ,
           who
           calls
           those
           Gnosticks
           in
           his
           time
           ,
           
             Filthy
             Dreamers
          
           ,
           and
           gives
           this
           Character
           of
           them
           ,
           
             That
             they
             despise
             Government
             ,
             speak
             evil
             of
             Dignities
             ,
             and
             of
             things
             they
             know
             not
             .
          
           And
           just
           so
           do
           our
           
             State-Criticks
             ,
             speak
             evil
             of
             things
             they
             know
             not
             ,
          
           which
           I
           will
           endeavour
           to
           prove
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           be
           considered
           therefore
           ,
           That
           a
           great
           Disadvantage
           accrues
           to
           these
           mens
           knowledge
           of
           the
           profound
           Mysteries
           of
           State
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           many
           hands
           through
           which
           all
           Narratives
           of
           Princes
           Councels
           and
           Actions
           must
           necessarily
           pass
           (
           supposing
           they
           be
           true
           at
           first
           )
           before
           they
           can
           come
           under
           their
           Cognizance
           ;
           and
           certainly
           they
           must
           lose
           much
           of
           those
           Appendages
           which
           are
           requisite
           to
           dilucidate
           an
           entire
           true
           Account
           ,
           by
           being
           obnoxious
           to
           the
           Additions
           ,
           Substractions
           ,
           Tinctures
           ,
           Glosses
           ,
           and
           Manglings
           of
           all
           those
           Intermediate
           persons
           ,
           whose
           various
           and
           severally
           peculiar
           Interests
           ,
           Dispositions
           ,
           Affections
           ,
           Humours
           ,
           and
           Mistakes
           may
           conduce
           to
           the
           depriving
           a
           Narrative
           of
           its
           Native
           Symmetry
           ,
           Extent
           ,
           Luster
           and
           Scope
           ,
           and
           this
           disadvantage
           is
           augmented
           according
           to
           the
           various
           descents
           of
           Inferiority
           in
           the
           persons
           thus
           censuring
           ,
           every
           lower
           step
           from
           the
           Prince
           ,
           exposing
           them
           to
           more
           egregious
           probability
           of
           being
           misinformed
           by
           reason
           their
           Converse
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           means
           of
           Information
           in
           these
           Matters
           ,
           is
           confined
           to
           men
           of
           the
           same
           or
           a
           very
           little
           higher
           rank
           then
           themselves
           .
           Now
           that
           a
           Narration
           passing
           through
           so
           many
           hands
           must
           needs
           be
           maimed
           ,
           and
           in
           many
           things
           come
           far
           short
           of
           the
           intire
           perfect
           Original
           ,
           scarce
           any
           indeed
           will
           imagine
           but
           he
           whose
           Fortune
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           priviledges
           of
           Nature
           ,
           Education
           ,
           and
           Converse
           ,
           furnish
           him
           with
           the
           means
           of
           receiving
           such
           a
           Story
           in
           its
           several
           gradual
           representations
           from
           Noblemen
           and
           the
           common
           people
           ,
           or
           any
           such
           like
           disparate
           ranks
           of
           men
           ,
           so
           diversly
           qualified
           for
           a
           Commodious
           Information
           in
           these
           
             State
             Mysteries
          
           .
        
         
           More
           particularly
           it
           may
           be
           considered
           ,
           how
           great
           a
           prejudice
           devolves
           on
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           from
           the
           Satyrical
           Glosses
           and
           biting
           Reflections
           which
           by
           maliciously
           witty
           men
           may
           ,
           and
           commonly
           are
           interwoven
           slily
           in
           written
           or
           traditional
           Narratives
           of
           Princes
           Transactions
           :
           By
           these
           Arts
           an
           ingenious
           person
           indeed
           may
           represent
           
           a
           Transaction
           how
           he
           pleases
           ,
           even
           so
           as
           shall
           make
           a
           deep
           Impression
           on
           the
           prejudicate
           and
           unwary
           mind
           ,
           though
           far
           enough
           from
           the
           truth
           .
           Thus
           a
           very
           good
           cause
           may
           be
           being
           disfigured
           according
           to
           their
           petulant
           malice
           appear
           odious
           to
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           who
           have
           not
           the
           brains
           to
           distinguish
           betwixt
           the
           
             true
             Story
          
           and
           these
           
             subtle
             deductions
          
           ,
           of
           pre-byass'd
           men
           ,
           but
           swallow
           all
           down
           whole
           without
           mincing
           or
           chewing
           ,
           and
           it
           goes
           down
           the
           easier
           in
           that
           oftentimes
           these
           by-blows
           are
           struck
           with
           a
           jerk
           ;
           I
           mean
           that
           common
           mode
           of
           Satyr
           which
           the
           Vulgar
           are
           daily
           used
           to
           ,
           a
           blunt
           clownish
           kind
           of
           Wit
           ,
           which
           their
           ordinary
           Repartees
           make
           them
           very
           pregnant
           in
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           sooner
           taken
           with
           it
           in
           any
           discourse
           of
           others
           ,
           whence
           it
           glides
           with
           the
           Contents
           of
           the
           Story
           into
           the
           very
           inmost
           recess
           of
           their
           pliable
           Spirits
           ,
           rooting
           its
           self
           there
           as
           deeply
           as
           the
           true
           Narration
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           close
           mixture
           of
           their
           Idea's
           they
           become
           one
           :
           and
           the
           man
           is
           as
           firmly
           perswaded
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           collateral
           gloss
           ,
           as
           of
           the
           direct
           tenour
           of
           the
           Story
           .
           One
           may
           easily
           guess
           what
           it
           is
           I
           aim
           at
           by
           this
           last
           consideration
           ;
           it
           is
           only
           to
           intimate
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           not
           so
           often
           the
           
             real
             obliquity
          
           of
           Princes
           Actions
           ,
           but
           a
           
             cunningly
             suborned
             representation
          
           of
           such
           obliquity
           that
           has
           such
           influence
           on
           the
           Vulgar
           weak
           mind
           ,
           as
           to
           make
           it
           
             sapinely
             reel
          
           into
           base
           censoriousness
           .
           I
           have
           spoken
           all
           this
           while
           of
           these
           Narratives
           of
           Princes
           Transactions
           which
           have
           no
           certain
           ▪
           way
           of
           being
           conveyed
           to
           the
           Publick
           notice
           ;
           but
           being
           only
           traditional
           ,
           or
           at
           best
           but
           privately
           transcrib'd
           ,
           are
           obnoxious
           to
           various
           Sophistications
           ,
           so
           as
           't
           is
           probable
           very
           few
           ,
           if
           any
           of
           them
           are
           represented
           truly
           to
           the
           vulgar
           Enquirer
           .
           But
           here
           I
           am
           sensible
           I
           have
           exposed
           my self
           to
           a
           shrewd
           Objection
           ,
           for
           I
           have
           seemed
           to
           make
           an
           Instrument
           with
           two
           handles
           ,
           that
           being
           taken
           hold
           of
           by
           one
           ,
           may
           serve
           to
           defend
           the
           Prince
           ,
           but
           if
           by
           the
           other
           ,
           may
           as
           desperately
           wound
           him
           :
           For
           say
           they
           ,
           there
           being
           such
           lubricous
           uncertainty
           in
           all
           Narratives
           of
           Princes
           Actions
           ,
           many
           of
           their
           ill
           practises
           will
           escape
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Subjects
           ,
           being
           painted
           over
           by
           Interessed
           persons
           ,
           in
           a
           fine
           plausible
           Dress
           :
           to
           which
           ,
           and
           to
           prevent
           another
           suspicion
           in
           the
           Reader
           ,
           I
           answer
           ,
           That
           I
           aim
           not
           to
           prove
           that
           all
           the
           Consultations
           and
           Actions
           of
           Princes
           are
           impeccable
           ,
           and
           need
           no
           correction
           or
           amendment
           ;
           this
           were
           to
           deny
           them
           to
           be
           men
           ,
           and
           to
           absolve
           them
           from
           subjection
           to
           the
           
           common
           frailties
           and
           impersections
           of
           our
           Nature
           :
           and
           besides
           it
           would
           be
           a
           task
           so
           disproportionate
           to
           my
           power
           ,
           considering
           at
           what
           a
           vast
           distance
           I
           behold
           their
           Actions
           that
           I
           could
           not
           possibly
           in
           undertaking
           it
           ,
           evade
           the
           just
           censure
           of
           the
           Reader
           ;
           That
           I
           have
           unawares
           fallen
           into
           that
           self
           conceitedness
           and
           immodesty
           which
           I
           blame
           in
           others
           ,
           in
           thinking
           my self
           capable
           of
           having
           a
           true
           account
           of
           what
           Princes
           do
           ,
           when
           the
           truth
           of
           it
           is
           ,
           I
           am
           so
           far
           from
           thinking
           so
           ,
           that
           I
           must
           confess
           the
           contrary
           thought
           in
           its
           full
           latitude
           ,
           was
           the
           chiefest
           Motive
           that
           induced
           me
           to
           venture
           on
           this
           Essay
           .
           So
           that
           I
           do
           not
           pretend
           in
           the
           least
           that
           I
           have
           a
           particular
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Congruity
           of
           Princes
           Actions
           ,
           beyond
           what
           other
           men
           of
           the
           same
           rank
           with
           my self
           may
           have
           :
           For
           I
           must
           confess
           that
           many
           things
           I
           observe
           in
           their
           management
           of
           
             State
             Affairs
          
           ,
           do
           distress
           my
           reason
           to
           find
           a
           satisfactory
           account
           of
           ,
           but
           when
           I
           consider
           how
           many
           of
           their
           Actions
           ,
           while
           Ignorance
           and
           Prejudice
           darkned
           my
           understanding
           ,
           appeared
           unpleasing
           ,
           in
           which
           yet
           I
           now
           think
           I
           discern
           a
           manifest
           discovery
           of
           Care
           for
           the
           Publick
           ,
           at
           least
           of
           lawful
           and
           very
           allowable
           circumspection
           in
           reference
           to
           their
           personal
           concern
           ,
           and
           those
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           which
           also
           are
           prosecuted
           in
           order
           to
           the
           Publick
           Welfare
           ,
           when
           I
           reflect
           on
           my
           Soveraign
           as
           a
           Christian
           ,
           and
           as
           Signaliz'd
           with
           excellent
           Endowments
           ,
           and
           peculiar
           Accomplishments
           ;
           when
           I
           vew
           the
           vast
           height
           and
           distance
           of
           his
           Sphere
           :
           In
           short
           ,
           when
           I
           remember
           all
           the
           fore-going
           Considerations
           which
           set
           forth
           the
           great
           difficulty
           of
           making
           a
           true
           Judgment
           of
           their
           Deportment
           .
           I
           cannot
           but
           conclude
           ,
           that
           common
           Ingenuity
           ,
           Modesty
           ,
           and
           Discretion
           ,
           besides
           the
           obligations
           of
           Reverence
           ,
           Gratitude
           ,
           and
           Loyal
           Obedience
           ,
           make
           it
           highly
           rational
           for
           me
           to
           check
           my
           forward
           thoughts
           that
           would
           over-hastily
           venture
           out
           of
           their
           Sphere
           ,
           and
           peremptorily
           judge
           of
           the
           recluse
           Affairs
           of
           Kings
           ,
           especially
           our
           own
           most
           Gracious
           Soveraign
           ,
           who
           has
           given
           the
           most
           Satisfactory
           Evidence
           to
           the
           World
           the
           Rational
           part
           thereof
           could
           think
           fit
           to
           require
           ;
           that
           he
           is
           most
           zealously
           devoted
           to
           the
           Publick
           Welfare
           both
           of
           Church
           and
           State.
           
        
         
           
             To
             the
             Objection
             therefore
             I
             answer
             more
             particularly
             ,
             That
             't
             is
             possible
             some
             faulty
             Actions
             and
             Counsels
             of
             Princes
             ,
             may
             by
             the
             plausible
             Rhetorications
             and
             smooth
             Glosses
             of
             their
             Followers
             be
             represented
             to
             the
             Vulgar
             as
             without
             Crime
             :
             but
             then
             again
             ,
             it
          
           
           
             should
             be
             considered
             ,
             that
             unless
             it
             be
             apparent
             that
             all
             their
             actions
             are
             but
             painted
             over
             ,
             whilst
             in
             the
             mean
             time
             they
             are
             really
             criminal
             ,
             no
             man
             can
             escape
             the
             imputation
             of
             gross
             Censoriousness
             that
             will
             be
             swayed
             by
             every
             slight
             Insinuation
             either
             of
             his
             own
             suspicious
             humour
             ,
             or
             of
             other
             mens
             malice
             ,
             to
             infringe
             the
             Sacred
             Bond
             of
             Charity
             which
             is
             in
             these
             cases
             required
             between
             Christians
             ,
             and
             should
             here
             be
             elevated
             into
             an
             extraordinary
             benignity
             and
             generosity
             of
             Spirit
             ,
             but
             would
             degenerate
             into
             Diabolical
             baseness
             ,
             should
             he
             without
             apparent
             and
             undeniable
             Evidence
             of
             their
             truth
             ,
             give
             credit
             to
             every
             Report
             that
             is
             raised
             concerning
             the
             ill
             designs
             and
             practices
             of
             his
             Soveraign
             ,
             especially
             in
             this
             dangerous
          
           Crisis
           of
           Affairs
           ,
           
             when
             it
             is
             so
             well
             known
             to
             all
             ,
             and
             publickly
             declared
             by
             the
             Discoverer
             of
             the
             Plot
             ,
          
           That
           the
           Jesuites
           are
           the
           Fathers
           and
           Fomenters
           of
           these
           Stories
           ,
           hoping
           thereby
           to
           deprave
           the
           affections
           and
           minds
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           to
           Conjure
           up
           the
           old
           Spirit
           of
           Rebellion
           ,
           which
           is
           commonly
           usher'd
           in
           by
           an
           universal
           humour
           of
           muttering
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           in
           the
           late
           Civil
           Wars
           ,
           for
           just
           before
           their
           breaking
           out
           ,
           the
           Jesuites
           had
           carried
           on
           as
           desperate
           a
           Plot
           ,
           and
           broughe
           it
           to
           almost
           as
           good
           maturity
           as
           they
           had
           done
           this
           last
           ,
           1678.
           
           Only
           in
           the
           very
           nick
           of
           time
           it
           was
           discovered
           to
           his
           Grace
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           who
           immediately
           communicated
           the
           Business
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           both
           of
           them
           with
           admirable
           Industry
           and
           Secrecy
           (
           as
           the
           case
           required
           )
           set
           themselves
           to
           Counter-plot
           that
           Infernal
           Society
           .
           Now
           the
           Jesuites
           finding
           themselves
           defeated
           in
           that
           horrid
           Enterprise
           ,
           would
           not
           lay
           down
           the
           Cudgels
           so
           ,
           but
           by
           a
           strange
           Retort
           of
           Machinations
           ,
           they
           gained
           ground
           again
           ,
           and
           defended
           themselves
           best
           with
           that
           which
           one
           would
           think
           should
           have
           destroyed
           them
           ,
           that
           is
           their
           Adversaries
           Weapon
           ;
           for
           observing
           that
           the
           common
           people
           had
           got
           a
           trick
           of
           murmuring
           and
           barking
           at
           every
           little
           flirt
           of
           the
           Robe
           and
           Gown
           ,
           though
           but
           the
           natural
           result
           of
           the
           graceful
           meen
           and
           deportment
           of
           their
           Wearers
           .
           I
           say
           observing
           this
           ,
           they
           made
           use
           of
           it
           to
           accomplish
           their
           Designs
           ,
           Insiunating
           every
           where
           in
           all
           Companies
           and
           upon
           all
           Occasions
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           was
           a
           Tyrant
           ,
           and
           that
           both
           he
           and
           the
           Archbishop
           were
           little
           better
           then
           Papists
           ;
           and
           that
           they
           connived
           at
           Popery
           ;
           the
           One
           by
           not
           using
           his
           Authority
           for
           its
           extirpation
           ;
           the
           Other
           by
           sheltering
           himself
           under
           Royal
           Protection
           ,
           and
           bringing
           in
           all
           manner
           of
           Innovations
           into
           the
           Church
           .
        
         
         
           Thus
           did
           the
           Jesuites
           delude
           the
           silly
           people
           ,
           filling
           their
           Mouths
           with
           Complaints
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           because
           he
           did
           not
           go
           their
           clownish
           way
           to
           work
           ,
           and
           knock
           all
           Papists
           on
           the
           Head
           ,
           and
           because
           squander'd
           away
           so
           much
           Money
           to
           keep
           up
           the
           Splendour
           and
           Grandeur
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           (
           that
           is
           as
           much
           as
           to
           say
           ,
           because
           he
           did
           not
           Cashier
           Sixteen
           of
           the
           Blood
           Royal
           ,
           and
           their
           necessary
           Retinue
           at
           the
           Court
           )
           which
           is
           the
           very
           Glory
           of
           a
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           old
           established
           Law
           of
           the
           Land
           :
           Many
           other
           Complaints
           there
           were
           up
           and
           down
           the
           City
           and
           Country
           among
           the
           common
           people
           (
           the
           Jesuites
           having
           envenom'd
           their
           Tongues
           )
           so
           that
           unless
           the
           King
           and
           the
           Archbishop
           had
           pinched
           up
           the
           Affairs
           of
           Church
           and
           State
           to
           such
           an
           intolerable
           streightness
           ,
           that
           nothing
           of
           Civil
           Splendor
           and
           Hospitality
           might
           be
           discerned
           in
           One
           ,
           or
           Sacred
           Majesty
           and
           Venerable
           Order
           in
           the
           Other
           .
           Nay
           ,
           unless
           the
           two
           fore-mentioned
           Illustrious
           and
           Renowned
           Persons
           in
           going
           about
           to
           stop
           some
           small
           pretended
           Leaks
           in
           the
           great
           Body
           of
           Ecclesiastical
           and
           Secular
           Polity
           ,
           had
           used
           the
           Rustick
           and
           unartificial
           hammering
           of
           these
           gross
           Mechanick
           Sages
           ,
           and
           so
           endangered
           an
           incurable
           Rupture
           by
           Stroaks
           so
           disproportionate
           to
           the
           exquisite
           Touch
           of
           the
           Civil
           Law
           ,
           and
           the
           more
           inviolable
           Obligations
           of
           Christian
           Charity
           ,
           they
           were
           still
           murmured
           at
           by
           the
           quarrelsom
           Vulgar
           :
           For
           thus
           it
           was
           ,
           that
           that
           Malignant
           Spirit
           in
           them
           had
           as
           it
           were
           dreined
           from
           all
           parts
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           those
           peccant
           Humours
           ,
           which
           though
           but
           thinly
           dispersed
           ,
           and
           easily
           purged
           out
           by
           the
           Natural
           Course
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           yet
           by
           being
           united
           in
           a
           disadvantageous
           juncture
           of
           Circumstances
           ,
           seemed
           to
           the
           unskilful
           and
           rash
           Plebeians
           to
           carry
           the
           Symptoms
           of
           a
           Mortal
           Disease
           .
           Thus
           flinging
           Dirt
           on
           the
           Face
           of
           Affairs
           ,
           and
           then
           perswading
           themselves
           it
           was
           its
           true
           Complexion
           :
           A
           very
           clownish
           Sophism
           ,
           and
           which
           brought
           its
           Reward
           along
           with
           it
           ;
           for
           the
           purblind
           Fools
           that
           had
           taken
           such
           pains
           to
           bedaub
           the
           Commonwealth
           ,
           not
           long
           after
           fell
           over
           head
           and
           ears
           into
           the
           Mire
           themselves
           .
        
         
           For
           this
           Insolent
           Humour
           was
           so
           cherished
           by
           the
           Libels
           ,
           flying
           Reports
           ,
           and
           daily
           Insinuations
           of
           subtle
           Jesuites
           ,
           who
           every
           where
           had
           their
           Instruments
           at
           work
           to
           raise
           a
           Civil
           War
           ,
           that
           at
           last
           it
           grew
           Rampant
           ,
           Marriners
           and
           such
           kind
           of
           rude
           Fellows
           ,
           the
           very
           Dregs
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           would
           strout
           up
           and
           down
           the
           City
           
           in
           Tumults
           ,
           exclaiming
           against
           the
           Kings
           Actions
           ,
           representing
           him
           as
           a
           Tyrant
           ,
           and
           I
           know
           not
           what
           ,
           till
           at
           length
           they
           fell
           to
           Threats
           ,
           and
           so
           by
           degrees
           involved
           this
           Kingdom
           in
           a
           most
           cruentous
           Civil
           War
           ;
           and
           he
           that
           shall
           peruse
           the
           Records
           of
           other
           Nations
           ,
           will
           find
           that
           these
           Mutterings
           and
           Verbal
           Attempts
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           were
           a
           certain
           step
           to
           the
           overthrow
           of
           the
           people
           addicted
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           is
           as
           like
           to
           be
           so
           now
           as
           ever
           ,
           if
           this
           Epidemical
           Vice
           be
           not
           amended
           ,
           God
           always
           punishing
           Rebellions
           with
           Signal
           Tokens
           of
           his
           Displeasure
           ,
           making
           the
           very
           Basis
           and
           chief
           Prop
           of
           their
           treacherous
           Obstinacy
           (
           like
           the
           Ground
           whereon
           stood
           
             Corah
             ,
             Dathan
          
           ,
           and
           Abiram
           )
           the
           very
           entrance
           to
           their
           destruction
           .
           This
           I
           mention
           ,
           that
           whom
           the
           Vitiosity
           and
           Turpitude
           of
           these
           Proceedings
           will
           not
           disswade
           from
           persisting
           in
           them
           ,
           their
           usual
           dangerous
           Consequence
           may
           deter
           .
        
         
           And
           truly
           if
           men
           would
           but
           have
           the
           patience
           to
           search
           to
           the
           bottom
           of
           that
           common
           
             Aphorism
             [
             That
             the
             depraved
             practises
             of
             a
             People
             precede
             their
             own
             destruction
             .
             ]
          
           They
           would
           find
           it
           eminently
           true
           in
           that
           Crime
           which
           is
           the
           Subject
           of
           this
           Treatise
           ,
           and
           others
           of
           that
           nature
           ▪
           Not
           that
           they
           need
           presently
           be
           put
           to
           it
           so
           as
           upon
           every
           occasion
           of
           such
           Sins
           in
           a
           Nation
           ,
           to
           invade
           the
           Sabbatism
           of
           the
           Deity
           ,
           and
           conclude
           the
           necessity
           and
           actual
           certainty
           of
           his
           Eruption
           into
           immediate
           personal
           execution
           of
           Justice
           on
           the
           offending
           people
           ,
           though
           sometime
           the
           outward
           Letter
           of
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           to
           comply
           with
           the
           Exigencies
           of
           laps'd
           humane
           Understandings
           ,
           seem
           to
           countenance
           such
           a
           Supposition
           ;
           but
           they
           might
           discern
           all
           these
           things
           carried
           on
           in
           a
           silent
           natural
           Concatenation
           of
           Causes
           and
           Events
           ;
           men
           (
           by
           these
           as
           well
           as
           all
           other
           vicious
           courses
           )
           not
           being
           more
           the
           meritorious
           then
           really
           and
           physically
           the
           instrumental
           Causes
           of
           their
           own
           Miseries
           in
           this
           Life
           ;
           they
           by
           their
           Follies
           laying
           such
           a
           Train
           ,
           as
           (
           let
           but
           the
           natural
           course
           of
           the
           World
           alone
           )
           will
           not
           fail
           in
           time
           (
           often
           speedily
           )
           to
           intangle
           them
           in
           inevitable
           punishment
           ,
           
             thus
             becoming
             by
             a
             hidden
             Fate
             their
             own
             Executioners
             .
          
           So
           that
           though
           these
           kind
           of
           Vices
           seem
           to
           their
           blind
           Actors
           to
           have
           no
           Influence
           either
           on
           their
           own
           private
           Miseries
           ,
           or
           on
           the
           Calamities
           of
           the
           Publick
           ,
           yet
           the
           unprejudicate
           will
           soon
           grant
           that
           the
           contrary
           is
           true
           ,
           and
           that
           such
           Prevarications
           by
           a
           Divine
           Nemesis
           engage
           
           secret
           invisible
           Strings
           in
           Nature
           to
           draw
           those
           that
           are
           guilty
           of
           them
           ,
           into
           an
           undiscerned
           Labyrinth
           of
           Difficulties
           and
           Torments
           ;
           proportionately
           to
           the
           several
           degrees
           of
           their
           accumulated
           and
           repeated
           Immoralities
           :
           and
           that
           this
           is
           not
           only
           certain
           in
           mens
           private
           troubles
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           the
           Calamities
           that
           befall
           the
           Publick
           ,
           there
           being
           as
           it
           were
           a
           Dormient
           Combination
           in
           Mankind
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           a
           
             latent
             Conspiracy
          
           in
           Nature
           ,
           that
           by
           an
           eminently
           reciprocal
           
             Cadency
             of
             Events
          
           ,
           each
           particular
           Vice
           of
           every
           individual
           person
           ,
           in
           inflicting
           punishment
           on
           himself
           ,
           should
           also
           conduce
           to
           the
           sufferings
           of
           others
           ,
           and
           in
           conducing
           to
           other
           mens
           Calamities
           should
           again
           retort
           a
           share
           on
           himself
           :
           Every
           Member
           of
           a
           Body
           Politick
           containing
           some
           Arcana
           and
           secret
           Preparatives
           which
           once
           touched
           are
           presently
           spirited
           with
           a
           natural
           instinct
           of
           Affecting
           the
           whole
           .
           So
           that
           none
           of
           these
           Vices
           though
           never
           so
           minute
           can
           be
           committed
           ,
           which
           will
           not
           in
           a
           proportionable
           measure
           ,
           by
           an
           
             exquisite
             Mechanism
          
           of
           Providence
           ,
           successively
           awaken
           certain
           
             occult
             aptitudes
          
           in
           humane
           Converse
           ,
           and
           through
           them
           impart
           its
           
             malign
             Influence
          
           to
           the
           Publick
           :
           Though
           it
           must
           be
           confessed
           that
           some
           Crimes
           (
           whose
           perpetration
           necessarily
           engages
           a
           more
           
             prompt
             assistance
          
           of
           those
           hidden
           Channels
           ▪
           )
           do
           more
           vigorously
           ,
           suddenly
           ,
           and
           with
           more
           apparent
           success
           of
           their
           
             dispersive
             noxiousness
          
           ,
           infest
           the
           Community
           .
           Such
           are
           those
           Prevarications
           which
           are
           the
           various
           abuses
           and
           violations
           of
           that
           Contract
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           Nature
           and
           the
           positive
           Obligations
           of
           Christianity
           is
           made
           ,
           and
           supposed
           to
           be
           actually
           in
           force
           for
           the
           common
           happiness
           of
           Mankind
           ;
           and
           which
           is
           particularized
           into
           diverse
           explicitely
           limited
           and
           peculiarly
           circumstantiated
           Leagues
           of
           this
           and
           that
           Society
           of
           Men
           between
           themselves
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           several
           distinct
           Exigencies
           of
           Nations
           and
           Commonwealths
           .
           I
           say
           ,
           Crimes
           that
           receive
           their
           Specification
           from
           the
           Infringement
           of
           this
           Fundamental
           Law
           and
           Bond
           of
           Justice
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           
             proportion
             of
             the
             rupture
          
           do
           more
           manifestly
           damage
           the
           Publick
           ,
           then
           those
           which
           are
           of
           a
           more
           personal
           consideration
           ,
           that
           is
           such
           whose
           direct
           Aspect
           and
           essential
           Termination
           seems
           to
           be
           Confined
           to
           the
           persons
           that
           are
           guilty
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           Intemperance
           in
           its
           several
           Latitudes
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           ;
           though
           indeed
           most
           of
           them
           ,
           if
           not
           all
           ,
           do
           in
           some
           measure
           damage
           others
           ,
           but
           not
           with
           
             so
             ▪
             apparent
             conduciveness
             to
             the
             publick
             wrong
             ,
          
           as
           those
           Actions
           which
           
           necessarily
           include
           a
           more
           plain
           and
           
             apert
             relation
          
           to
           another
           ,
           such
           are
           all
           those
           which
           have
           for
           their
           Object
           the
           Body
           ,
           Goods
           ,
           or
           good
           Name
           of
           another
           person
           .
        
         
           For
           in
           such
           Transactions
           ,
           he
           that
           prevaricates
           does
           immediately
           and
           directly
           injure
           some
           body
           else
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           vibration
           of
           the
           stroke
           wherewith
           he
           hurt
           the
           other
           ,
           he
           vuln●rat●s
           himself
           also
           ,
           thus
           in
           thinking
           to
           jerk
           his
           Neighbour
           ,
           he
           has
           made
           a
           Rod
           for
           his
           own
           back
           too
           ,
           which
           the
           fore-mentioned
           Nemesis
           which
           is
           interwoven
           in
           the
           very
           
             Texture
             of
             the
             Universe
          
           ,
           will
           be
           sure
           to
           lay
           on
           in
           
             due
             season
          
           ,
           whose
           subtle
           Contrivance
           and
           unavoidable
           Lassies
           in
           these
           Instances
           may
           be
           somewhat
           faintly
           adumbrated
           in
           the
           usual
           pastime
           of
           School
           ▪
           boys
           that
           they
           call
           
             Hitting
             their
             next
             Neighbour
          
           ;
           for
           one
           of
           them
           by
           smiting
           him
           that
           sits
           next
           ,
           snatches
           him
           into
           consent
           to
           the
           Play
           ,
           and
           the
           stroke
           is
           carried
           on
           to
           the
           next
           ,
           and
           so
           round
           ,
           till
           the
           whole
           School
           be
           engaged
           in
           a
           posture
           of
           Offence
           and
           
             sportive
             injuriousness
          
           ,
           and
           the
           first
           Striker
           receives
           his
           
             Blow
             again
          
           ,
           with
           the
           advantage
           that
           may
           perhaps
           arise
           from
           the
           
             attentive
             eagerness
          
           of
           his
           now
           
             alarm'd
             lascivient
             Companion
          
           ,
           besides
           the
           Overplus
           of
           Penance
           from
           his
           Master
           ,
           for
           being
           the
           Ringleader
           in
           that
           
             ominous
             vanity
          
           .
           I
           need
           not
           stand
           to
           apply
           this
           Childish
           Comparison
           ,
           the
           matter
           being
           plain
           enough
           ,
           that
           
             transitive
             Vices
             ,
             acts
             of
             injustice
             among
             men
             ,
          
           do
           not
           only
           wound
           
             some
             one
             Member
             of
             a
             community
             ,
          
           but
           by
           reason
           of
           
             Emissions
             and
             Circulations
          
           of
           a
           peccent
           humour
           resulting
           from
           neglect
           to
           cure
           the
           first
           incision
           ,
           do
           most
           commonly
           corrupt
           and
           infect
           the
           
             whole
             Body
          
           ,
           and
           consequently
           the
           
             Perpetrators
             themselves
          
           are
           involved
           in
           the
           general
           Calamity
           ,
           
             especially
             those
             acts
             of
             Injustice
          
           which
           have
           
             Kings
             for
             their
             Object
          
           ,
           carry
           in
           their
           Aspect
           more
           
             eminent
             Menaces
          
           of
           ruine
           to
           the
           people
           guilty
           of
           them
           ;
           and
           such
           an
           one
           is
           the
           Crime
           I
           explode
           in
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           
             An
             imrenching
             on
             the
             Sacred
             Prerogative
             of
             Prindes
             ,
             robbing
             them
             of
             their
             Honour
             ,
             a
             kind
             of
             Civil
             Sacriledge
             .
          
           There
           are
           a
           multitude
           of
           Aggravations
           might
           be
           reckoned
           up
           to
           display
           this
           Vice
           in
           its
           
             proper
             colours
          
           ,
           but
           I
           shall
           rather
           at
           present
           discover
           the
           danger
           of
           it
           :
           And
           if
           we
           look
           back
           into
           the
           Records
           of
           former
           Ages
           ,
           we
           may
           easily
           be
           satisfied
           ,
           that
           murmuring
           against
           Governours
           ,
           censuring
           their
           proceedings
           ,
           speaking
           great
           swelling
           words
           of
           vanity
           ,
           was
           always
           punished
           with
           Signal
           Tokens
           of
           Heavens
           Displeasure
           .
           Without
           question
           it
           was
           with
           no
           
             languid
             sentiments
          
           
           of
           their
           own
           wisdom
           and
           skill
           in
           
             Political
             Affairs
          
           ,
           that
           Corab
           and
           his
           Company
           ventured
           to
           check
           the
           
             supposed
             Efforts
             of
             Tyranny
             in
             Moses
          
           their
           Prince
           ,
           
             Ye
             take
             too
             much
             upon
             you
             ,
             said
             they
             ,
             seeing
             all
             the
             Congregation
             is
             holy
             :
          
           Behold
           here
           the
           Insolence
           of
           these
           Rebels
           ,
           who
           would
           have
           Introduced
           a
           kind
           of
           Anarchy
           ,
           a
           thing
           odious
           to
           God
           and
           Man
           ,
           every
           man
           should
           have
           been
           allowed
           as
           great
           a
           share
           of
           that
           Sanctity
           which
           was
           requisite
           to
           a
           Princes
           being
           invested
           with
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           ,
           as
           Moses
           himself
           the
           
             Elect
             of
             God
          
           ,
           cull'd
           out
           and
           Consecrated
           from
           his
           Infancy
           ,
           (
           by
           preludious
           Intimations
           from
           Heaven
           )
           to
           Rule
           over
           that
           People
           :
           I
           say
           ,
           these
           
             Arrogant
             Statists
          
           thought
           every
           man
           in
           as
           fit
           a
           condition
           to
           manage
           the
           
             Publick
             Affairs
          
           as
           Moses
           himself
           ;
           and
           no
           doubt
           but
           that
           
           Corah's
           Followers
           would
           give
           themselves
           the
           liberty
           to
           
             descant
             upon
             this
             action
             of
          
           Moses
           
             and
             that
             Counsel
          
           ,
           encouraging
           one
           another
           in
           their
           
             Treasonable
             Thoughts
          
           ,
           till
           at
           length
           the
           
             Earth
             open'd
             her
             Mouth
             and
             overwhelm'd
             all
             the
             Conspirators
             ,
          
           that
           they
           might
           be
           an
           Example
           to
           all
           Generations
           ,
           and
           an
           Instance
           of
           Gods
           severe
           displeasure
           against
           
             disloyal
             and
             mutinous
             Pride
          
           .
           Profane
           Histories
           also
           give
           us
           an
           account
           of
           the
           dismal
           Consequences
           of
           this
           Vice
           ,
           Rome
           especially
           in
           its
           rise
           ,
           growth
           ,
           and
           several
           changeable
           postures
           ,
           might
           furnish
           us
           with
           pregnant
           Examples
           to
           this
           purpose
           ,
           but
           this
           were
           to
           Transcribe
           a
           great
           part
           of
           their
           Writings
           ,
           who
           have
           undertaken
           to
           deliver
           down
           to
           Posterity
           true
           Narratives
           of
           the
           Affairs
           of
           that
           once
           flourishing
           Commonwealth
           :
           I
           might
           moreover
           appeal
           to
           Modern
           Histories
           of
           our
           Neighbour
           Nations
           concerning
           this
           matter
           ,
           but
           I
           think
           none
           can
           parallel
           our
           late
           Civil
           Wars
           for
           the
           horrible
           Consequences
           that
           attended
           on
           it
           ,
           and
           yet
           all
           this
           had
           its
           first
           Original
           (
           as
           I
           have
           above
           hinted
           )
           ▪
           from
           the
           
             sawcy
             Complaints
          
           of
           a
           Peace-pamper'd
           people
           who
           took
           their
           swinge
           in
           
             muttering
             at
             the
             late
             King
             of
             Blessed
             Memory
             ,
          
           because
           of
           some
           Peccadillo's
           in
           Government
           ,
           that
           are
           in
           one
           kind
           or
           other
           to
           be
           found
           in
           any
           Commonwealth
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           are
           not
           always
           to
           be
           attributed
           to
           any
           
             voluntary
             car●lesness
          
           ,
           or
           
             Tyrannous
             Propensions
          
           in
           the
           
             Supream
             Power
          
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           
             Insuperable
             Necessities
          
           of
           State.
           Much
           less
           would
           any
           ingenuous
           people
           have
           suspected
           any
           such
           Vices
           in
           a
           Prince
           ,
           who
           by
           most
           unparallel'd
           Concessions
           of
           Princely
           grace
           ,
           gave
           all
           the
           Evidence
           of
           a
           faithful
           and
           peremptory
           adhaesion
           to
           the
           good
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           with
           honour
           
           in
           his
           Circumstances
           discover
           ,
           or
           any
           Inhabitants
           of
           this
           Land
           expect
           ,
           witness
           his
           Noble
           Condescentions
           to
           his
           Parliament
           in
           surrendring
           the
           
             Tower
             ,
             Militia
          
           ,
           and
           
             Royal
             Navy
          
           ,
           and
           Complying
           with
           them
           in
           every
           thing
           ,
           to
           the
           Sacrificing
           all
           those
           Priviledges
           which
           are
           the
           chief
           Props
           of
           the
           
             Royal
             Prerogative
          
           and
           
             highest
             Advantages
          
           of
           the
           Crown
           .
           And
           yet
           all
           these
           
             Royal
             Discoveries
          
           of
           an
           hearty
           desire
           to
           take
           away
           groundless
           Jealousies
           and
           Surmizes
           from
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           could
           not
           quell
           that
           virulent
           and
           implacable
           Spirit
           which
           reign'd
           among
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           who
           would
           not
           be
           satisfied
           with
           these
           Concessions
           to
           the
           Demands
           of
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           unless
           his
           Majesty
           would
           also
           have
           fulfilled
           all
           the
           bruitish
           Requests
           of
           the
           Rabble
           ,
           who
           in
           that
           dangerous
           juncture
           of
           time
           were
           very
           pregnant
           with
           ill
           shaped
           Petitions
           to
           the
           Houses
           ,
           a
           kind
           of
           
             modest
             commands
          
           ,
           hoping
           by
           these
           repeated
           Insolencies
           to
           fright
           the
           King
           into
           a
           Compliance
           with
           their
           
             sordid
             Proposals
          
           :
           But
           alas
           !
           they
           were
           exceedingly
           mistaken
           ,
           for
           the
           King
           indeed
           had
           yielded
           in
           an
           honourable
           way
           to
           many
           and
           most
           of
           the
           Requests
           put
           up
           by
           his
           Parliament
           ,
           yet
           he
           would
           not
           so
           far
           degrade
           Himself
           as
           to
           let
           this
           arrogant
           carriage
           in
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           extort
           from
           him
           any
           Actions
           that
           were
           repugnant
           to
           that
           
             regular
             duct
          
           of
           Reason
           and
           Conscience
           ,
           which
           he
           had
           always
           followed
           ,
           and
           which
           used
           to
           facilitate
           his
           passage
           through
           the
           strangest
           
             threatning
             Emergencies
          
           in
           his
           way
           :
           so
           that
           though
           the
           
             Common
             people
          
           would
           make
           nothing
           to
           disgorge
           their
           
             foul
             cholerick
             Sentiments
          
           in
           the
           very
           Streets
           ,
           and
           every
           
             publick
             opportunity
          
           ,
           yet
           this
           could
           no
           ways
           tempt
           the
           Generous
           and
           
             Impassible
             Mind
          
           of
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           to
           a
           deviation
           from
           his
           
             customary
             path
          
           ,
           but
           trampling
           on
           these
           Rudenesses
           with
           a
           
             Noble
             Scorn
          
           ,
           He
           still
           went
           forward
           in
           the
           prosecutions
           of
           his
           
             Councels
             for
             the
             good
             of
             the
             Nation
             .
          
        
         
           And
           truly
           in
           my
           Opinion
           ,
           the
           Vulgar
           had
           better
           use
           Modesty
           and
           Silence
           ,
           making
           good
           Constructions
           of
           whatever
           in
           the
           Kings
           management
           of
           Affairs
           seems
           doubtful
           ,
           then
           by
           venturing
           to
           censure
           
             such
             Arcana
          
           ,
           incur
           the
           present
           probability
           of
           being
           in
           a
           gross
           
             uncharitable
             Errour
          
           ,
           besides
           the
           ineptitude
           of
           such
           
             presumptuous
             Calumnies
          
           ;
           for
           in
           thus
           bespattering
           Princes
           ,
           they
           act
           as
           vainly
           and
           brutishly
           as
           Dogs
           ,
           that
           (
           for
           I
           know
           not
           what
           currish
           humour
           in
           them
           )
           bark
           at
           the
           Moon
           ,
           who
           nevertheless
           keeps
           on
           her
           progress
           and
           governs
           the
           Night
           according
           to
           the
           
             established
             Laws
          
           of
           the
           Vniverse
           ,
           
           not
           impeded
           or
           retarded
           in
           her
           course
           ,
           by
           the
           
             quarrelsom
             exclamations
          
           of
           these
           
             petulant
             Animals
          
           :
           Even
           so
           ,
           Princes
           in
           their
           Methods
           of
           Policy
           ,
           are
           as
           little
           concerned
           at
           the
           
             scurrilous
             ,
             peevish
          
           ,
           and
           
             unoccasioned
             Descants
          
           and
           Aspersions
           of
           their
           Nettled
           Subjects
           ,
           but
           resolutely
           steer
           on
           as
           the
           Compass
           guides
           them
           :
           Therefore
           if
           these
           
             Despisers
             of
             Government
          
           would
           but
           listen
           to
           the
           
             Dictates
             of
             common
             Prudence
          
           ,
           they
           would
           surely
           be
           reduced
           to
           greater
           Sobriety
           ;
           for
           in
           thus
           Railing
           at
           the
           
             Supreme
             Power
          
           ,
           they
           either
           propose
           to
           themselves
           some
           end
           as
           perhaps
           the
           reducing
           the
           
             Supreme
             Power
          
           to
           condescend
           to
           their
           Humours
           ,
           which
           (
           as
           I
           have
           just
           now
           proved
           )
           is
           a
           very
           absurd
           and
           ridiculous
           Hope
           ,
           or
           else
           they
           act
           without
           any
           Design
           at
           all
           ,
           but
           only
           in
           obsequiousness
           to
           the
           Edicts
           of
           a
           
             Cholerick
             Nature
          
           ,
           and
           so
           they
           discover
           into
           what
           a
           vicinity
           of
           temper
           they
           are
           fallen
           with
           the
           Beasts
           those
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           which
           act
           
             without
             reason
          
           ,
           proposing
           to
           themselves
           nothing
           ,
           but
           impetuously
           are
           hurried
           into
           a
           continual
           subjection
           to
           their
           Passion
           ,
           and
           the
           predominant
           heaving
           of
           the
           
             Plastick
             Power
          
           :
           So
           these
           Railers
           seem
           to
           be
           driven
           on
           by
           a
           
             Fortuitous
             Impulse
          
           ,
           never
           consulting
           with
           the
           
             sober
             Dictates
             of
             Reason
          
           .
        
         
           People
           have
           now
           got
           a
           habit
           of
           talking
           and
           prating
           about
           
             State
             Affairs
          
           ,
           and
           yet
           they
           can
           give
           no
           
             rational
             account
          
           why
           they
           do
           so
           ,
           but
           only
           to
           gratifie
           their
           Pride
           and
           other
           
             darling
             Passions
          
           ,
           whilst
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           the
           Devil
           ,
           and
           his
           
             Ministers
             the
             Jesuites
          
           ,
           with
           no
           small
           Complacency
           behold
           the
           
             success
             of
             their
             Designs
          
           ,
           laughing
           to
           see
           how
           easily
           receptive
           the
           People
           are
           of
           
             all
             Reports
          
           ,
           though
           never
           so
           groundless
           and
           ridiculous
           ,
           so
           they
           any
           ways
           reflect
           upon
           the
           Fidelity
           and
           Care
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           not
           considering
           how
           withal
           they
           imbibe
           the
           
             noxious
             extract
          
           and
           
             Spirit
             of
             Envy
             ,
             Malice
             ,
             Treason
             ,
          
           and
           other
           
             Diabolical
             Vices
          
           that
           always
           in
           these
           cases
           envenoms
           the
           
             popular
             breath
          
           :
           I
           say
           ,
           the
           people
           do
           not
           consider
           this
           ,
           but
           still
           (
           as
           if
           the
           old
           
             Athenian
             humour
          
           were
           revived
           )
           are
           inquisitive
           after
           News
           ,
           though
           all
           the
           
             Aiery
             Volumes
          
           of
           Fame
           are
           stuff'd
           with
           nothing
           but
           Lies
           concerning
           His
           
             Sacred
             Majesty
          
           ,
           and
           the
           slanderous
           style
           declares
           the
           Authour
           to
           be
           a
           Jesuite
           .
        
         
           Certainly
           they
           who
           had
           the
           Impudence
           enough
           to
           call
           His
           late
           Majesty
           of
           Blessed
           Memory
           ,
           a
           Bastard
           ,
           and
           to
           deny
           our
           Royal
           Soveraign
           to
           be
           his
           Son
           :
           Thus
           disanuulling
           his
           Title
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           will
           not
           stick
           to
           make
           His
           Subjects
           believe
           he
           is
           a
           Tyrant
           ,
           and
           to
           
           represent
           him
           in
           any
           other
           shape
           that
           may
           alienate
           their
           Affections
           :
           they
           who
           had
           their
           Missioners
           in
           Holland
           to
           disaffect
           that
           People
           against
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           by
           raising
           Stories
           concerning
           his
           Tyrannous
           and
           unjust
           Designs
           ,
           are
           not
           destitute
           of
           as
           active
           Agents
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           to
           accomplish
           the
           same
           Design
           ;
           for
           't
           will
           be
           good
           
             fishing
             in
             troubled
             waters
          
           ,
           since
           they
           can
           do
           no
           good
           in
           the
           clear
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           easie
           for
           them
           to
           prepare
           their
           Gins
           and
           tend
           their
           Machinations
           undiscerned
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           raised
           a
           dust
           to
           disturb
           the
           sight
           of
           the
           Inhabitants
           ,
           and
           when
           we
           are
           striving
           in
           an
           unnatural
           War
           to
           
             undermine
             ,
             trappan
          
           ,
           and
           destroy
           each
           other
           ,
           Protestant
           engaged
           against
           
             Protestant
             ,
             Brother
          
           against
           
             Brother
             ,
             Father
          
           against
           Son
           ;
           their
           business
           will
           be
           to
           
             draw
             the
             Net
             suddenly
             over
             us
             ,
          
           and
           by
           the
           
             help
             of
             a
             Foreign
             Invasion
             and
             potent
             Conspiracy
             at
             home
             to
             Involve
             at
             all
             in
             one
             Comprehensive
             Ruine
             .
          
           Have
           they
           not
           endeavoured
           already
           to
           exasperate
           the
           
             German
             Emperour
          
           against
           His
           Majesty
           ?
           By
           accusing
           His
           Majesty
           of
           
             under-hand
             promoting
             the
             Rebellion
             in
          
           Hungary
           ?
           Have
           they
           not
           gone
           about
           to
           Incense
           the
           Spaniard
           also
           ?
           As
           for
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           ,
           they
           have
           him
           Cock-sure
           already
           ,
           and
           if
           they
           fail
           of
           the
           others
           ,
           we
           are
           no
           ways
           beholding
           to
           them
           ,
           for
           they
           have
           done
           what
           they
           could
           do
           .
           I
           insist
           the
           more
           on
           these
           things
           to
           Confirm
           my
           
             Rational
             Hypothesis
          
           ,
           if
           I
           may
           so
           tearm
           that
           which
           is
           almost
           proved
           to
           be
           
             Matter
             of
             Fact
          
           ,
           I
           mean
           ,
           That
           whatever
           
             Slanders
             ,
             occult
             Aspersions
          
           and
           Calumnies
           are
           cast
           on
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           in
           
             flying
             Reports
          
           ,
           and
           misrepresentations
           of
           his
           Proceedings
           ,
           are
           raised
           and
           encreased
           by
           the
           Jesuites
           and
           their
           Agents
           ,
           who
           lurk
           up
           and
           down
           in
           the
           City
           ,
           as
           is
           apparent
           ,
           by
           the
           frequent
           Attempts
           that
           have
           been
           made
           
             to
             fire
             the
             same
          
           ;
           as
           also
           by
           His
           Majesties
           
             Second
             Proclamation
             ,
             For
             the
             Departure
             of
             all
             Papists
             :
          
           Wherein
           mention
           is
           made
           that
           the
           occasion
           of
           its
           being
           put
           forth
           ,
           was
           ,
           
             the
             Contempt
             the
             Papists
             shewed
             of
             the
             former
             ,
             by
             still
             continuing
             in
          
           London
           ,
           
             contrary
             to
             the
             Tenour
             of
             that
             Proclamation
             .
          
           And
           we
           need
           not
           question
           but
           that
           they
           made
           use
           of
           their
           time
           in
           
             sowing
             the
             seed
             of
             Sedition
             and
             Disloyalty
             in
             the
             hearts
             of
             the
             credulous
             Citizens
             .
          
           What
           shall
           I
           say
           more
           to
           perswade
           my
           Country-men
           that
           they
           are
           under
           an
           Infatuation
           whilst
           they
           thus
           suffer
           themselves
           to
           be
           
             gull'd
             into
             their
             own
             Destruction
          
           ,
           under
           a
           pretence
           of
           Redress
           ?
           I
           mean
           ,
           whilst
           they
           so
           readily
           entertain
           Jealousies
           ,
           and
           vent
           their
           Suspicions
           concerning
           the
           Proceedings
           
           of
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           styling
           him
           
             a
             bad
             Commonwealths-man
             that
             will
             not
             discover
             as
             great
             a
             credulity
             as
             they
             .
          
           One
           thing
           more
           I
           will
           offer
           to
           be
           considered
           before
           I
           conclude
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           be
           observed
           ,
           that
           this
           discontented
           ,
           insolent
           Humour
           has
           Infected
           the
           whole
           World
           in
           one
           measure
           or
           other
           ,
           scarce
           a
           Nation
           to
           be
           found
           wherein
           some
           do
           not
           find
           fault
           with
           the
           
             Political
             Method
          
           of
           their
           Governours
           ,
           and
           accordingly
           Reports
           are
           scattered
           up
           and
           down
           
             [
             't
             is
             like
             by
             some
             cunning
             Faction
             ]
          
           concerning
           his
           Weakness
           in
           this
           Counsel
           ,
           his
           Tyranny
           or
           perfidiousness
           in
           that
           ;
           so
           that
           let
           his
           Consultations
           and
           Actions
           be
           never
           so
           wise
           ,
           and
           conducive
           to
           the
           Publick
           Good
           ,
           yet
           his
           Subjects
           shall
           have
           contrary
           Thoughts
           of
           him
           ,
           being
           seduced
           and
           deluded
           by
           these
           
             false
             Rumours
          
           ,
           the
           Offspring
           of
           some
           
             Trayterous
             Cabal
          
           ,
           such
           as
           the
           Jesuites
           may
           be
           among
           us
           :
           Nay
           we
           might
           produce
           Instances
           in
           our
           own
           Nation
           ,
           and
           that
           lately
           ,
           of
           this
           truth
           :
           That
           the
           
             Supreme
             Power
          
           has
           been
           under
           an
           
             Vniversal
             Odium
          
           among
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           when
           afterwards
           it
           is
           known
           that
           He
           manag'd
           Things
           well
           all
           that
           while
           ;
           So
           that
           it
           is
           not
           always
           a
           
             real
             Fault
          
           in
           the
           Prince
           that
           is
           the
           cause
           of
           such
           Censures
           ,
           but
           meerly
           the
           
             distemper'd
             Minds
          
           of
           the
           Vulgar
           .
        
         
           And
           this
           I
           presume
           will
           appear
           more
           probable
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           considered
           that
           most
           generally
           it
           is
           only
           the
           baser
           and
           most
           ignorant
           sort
           of
           the
           people
           are
           guilty
           of
           this
           Censeriousness
           ,
           who
           have
           no
           Gust
           of
           that
           Sublimity
           that
           embellishes
           the
           Actions
           and
           Counsels
           of
           Princes
           ,
           but
           from
           their
           Infancy
           Imbibe
           
             fordid
             Nations
          
           ,
           if
           not
           
             a
             perfect
             hatred
          
           of
           what
           is
           tinctured
           with
           Grandeur
           ,
           or
           any
           ways
           favours
           of
           
             Royal
             Magnificence
          
           ,
           imagining
           all
           things
           should
           be
           done
           in
           that
           mean
           simple
           way
           that
           they
           are
           used
           to
           in
           their
           
             Domestick
             Affairs
          
           ,
           their
           Phantasms
           of
           
             Political
             Exigencies
          
           are
           vitiated
           with
           the
           Idea's
           of
           those
           Trivial
           Concerns
           that
           engross
           their
           Care
           and
           Inspection
           ;
           As
           if
           the
           
             Intrigues
             of
             State
          
           must
           run
           parallel
           with
           those
           of
           a
           
             private
             House
          
           or
           Corporation
           in
           all
           their
           Appendages
           .
           This
           Primitive
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           were
           
             innate
             disrelish
          
           of
           the
           Circumstances
           with
           which
           the
           Crown
           and
           Scepter
           are
           Invested
           ,
           is
           the
           Basis
           of
           all
           those
           Grudges
           ,
           Murmurings
           ,
           and
           Jealousies
           that
           arise
           among
           the
           Vulgar
           ;
           for
           when
           any
           thing
           is
           suggested
           that
           reflects
           upon
           the
           
             Supreme
             Power
          
           ,
           presently
           meeting
           with
           such
           a
           natural
           antipathy
           
           in
           men
           ,
           it
           awakens
           and
           excites
           it
           into
           coactivity
           ,
           which
           commonly
           produces
           a
           strong
           byass
           in
           the
           Vulgar
           to
           jelousie
           ,
           so
           that
           ever
           after
           ,
           they
           are
           apt
           to
           be
           born
           down
           into
           a
           Credulity
           of
           any
           thing
           that
           represents
           the
           
             Supreme
             Power
          
           in
           a
           posture
           of
           Tyranny
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           weight
           of
           their
           own
           abject
           Minds
           are
           soon
           sunk
           into
           Censoriousness
           and
           the
           depth
           of
           
             verbal
             disloyalty
          
           .
        
         
           But
           methinks
           this
           
             vile
             depression
          
           and
           submersion
           of
           the
           Vulgar
           should
           (
           like
           the
           
             Alternate
             subsiding
             Balance
          
           )
           help
           to
           buoy
           up
           the
           generous
           mind
           :
           For
           if
           only
           the
           Vulgar
           be
           the
           men
           that
           most
           generally
           censure
           and
           condemn
           the
           Actions
           of
           their
           Prince
           ,
           a
           wise
           man
           will
           impute
           it
           to
           their
           Clownish
           Ignorance
           and
           Morosity
           ,
           and
           will
           follow
           the
           Examples
           of
           the
           more
           Acute
           and
           Benign
           Intelligences
           ,
           who
           will
           not
           prostitute
           the
           Mysteries
           of
           State
           to
           their
           own
           erroneous
           Judgments
           ,
           but
           deny
           themselves
           a
           liberty
           so
           constantly
           resulting
           from
           a
           Servitude
           to
           the
           worst
           of
           Passions
           ,
           and
           so
           frequently
           introducing
           a
           Slavery
           to
           the
           basest
           of
           Rebels
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           it
           may
           fall
           out
           sometimes
           ,
           that
           persons
           of
           good
           quality
           and
           accomplishments
           may
           yet
           have
           very
           ill
           thoughts
           of
           a
           Prince
           ,
           who
           no
           ways
           deserves
           it
           ,
           but
           this
           is
           but
           seldom
           ,
           and
           then
           for
           the
           most
           part
           't
           is
           their
           fortune
           and
           quality
           in
           the
           World
           has
           made
           them
           been
           thought
           fit
           Judges
           of
           such
           Matters
           rather
           than
           any
           real
           qualification
           of
           the
           Mind
           ;
           for
           it
           has
           been
           experienced
           in
           other
           Lands
           ,
           that
           men
           who
           (
           whilst
           they
           have
           lived
           privately
           and
           unconcerned
           )
           have
           had
           no
           great
           Vogue
           among
           those
           that
           knew
           them
           for
           any
           shrewdness
           of
           Judgment
           ,
           have
           yet
           acquired
           that
           Commendation
           ,
           by
           being
           
             publickly
             rebellious
          
           ,
           their
           being
           really
           and
           notoriously
           depraved
           ,
           rendring
           their
           wisdom
           conspicuous
           ,
           but
           it
           was
           but
           only
           to
           them
           that
           had
           but
           a
           small
           share
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           common
           honesty
           themselves
           ;
           for
           to
           knowing
           persons
           they
           appear'd
           only
           as
           Usurpers
           of
           the
           Title
           
             [
             Wise
          
           ]
           possessing
           it
           by
           no
           natural
           propriety
           ,
           which
           is
           evidenced
           in
           that
           their
           Judgments
           in
           all
           those
           matters
           which
           are
           requisite
           preparations
           to
           a
           capacity
           of
           being
           a
           Critick
           in
           
             State
             Affairs
          
           ,
           have
           been
           found
           very
           deficient
           :
           There
           is
           required
           indeed
           a
           naturally
           active
           Spirit
           ,
           before
           a
           man
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           shallow
           Vulgar
           ,
           can
           pretend
           with
           any
           colour
           of
           reason
           to
           judge
           of
           those
           
             high
             matters
          
           ;
           now
           this
           activity
           of
           Spirit
           however
           otherwise
           uncultivated
           ,
           yet
           if
           it
           can
           but
           discover
           its
           self
           in
           a
           sagacious
           management
           of
           
             Domestick
             businesses
          
           ,
           or
           the
           ordinary
           Affairs
           between
           man
           and
           man
           ;
           
           't
           is
           sufficient
           in
           the
           eye
           of
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           who
           measure
           all
           Accomplishments
           by
           their
           own
           ,
           and
           think
           him
           a
           very
           valuable
           man
           who
           exceeds
           them
           in
           such
           ordinary
           trivial
           matters
           ,
           though
           they
           slight
           and
           contemn
           Persons
           of
           higher
           Endowments
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           above
           their
           narrow
           Apprehensions
           ;
           but
           the
           other
           they
           will
           esteem
           fit
           for
           any
           thing
           ,
           even
           to
           manage
           Kingdoms
           if
           need
           be
           ,
           and
           their
           estimation
           will
           be
           encreased
           if
           to
           their
           natural
           sagacity
           in
           some
           things
           there
           be
           added
           a
           
             Confident
             Deportment
          
           in
           reference
           to
           higher
           Concerns
           :
           Thus
           Coblers
           by
           being
           sharp
           ,
           active
           Fellows
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           little
           Converse
           with
           History
           ,
           have
           gained
           sometimes
           on
           the
           Vulgar
           so
           as
           to
           be
           raised
           by
           such
           
             disorderly
             Rabbles
          
           to
           
             high
             preferment
          
           ,
           only
           on
           the
           account
           of
           their
           
             loud
             ratling
             out
             of
             hard
             Names
             of
             places
             ,
             and
             great
             men
             in
             foreign
             Countries
             :
          
           such
           
             Pedantick
             Tricks
          
           have
           recommended
           many
           to
           the
           unskilful
           ,
           as
           very
           
             able
             men
          
           ,
           well
           versed
           in
           
             Political
             Affairs
          
           ,
           and
           he
           could
           not
           be
           thought
           less
           than
           a
           States-man
           who
           would
           embellish
           his
           Discourse
           with
           those
           
             lofty
             Strains
          
           ,
           wherein
           either
           some
           of
           the
           
             Polish
             Iskis
             ,
             Eskis
             ,
             Oskis
          
           or
           Vskis
           made
           up
           each
           Period
           .
           Such
           
             sublime
             pedantry
          
           as
           this
           is
           often
           adopted
           by
           the
           
             amaz'd
             Vulgar
          
           for
           
             sublime
             wisdom
          
           ;
           whereas
           in
           the
           truth
           it
           is
           but
           the
           
             garish
             display
          
           of
           a
           
             volatile
             Fancy
          
           :
           and
           because
           that
           
             effeminate
             faculty
          
           is
           for
           the
           most
           part
           predominant
           among
           the
           
             lower
             orders
             of
             Mankind
          
           ,
           they
           are
           snatched
           into
           a
           consent
           and
           sympathetical
           adherence
           to
           any
           thing
           that
           is
           tinctured
           with
           it
           .
        
         
           Thus
           the
           slight
           and
           unsolid
           Rhetorications
           of
           an
           ordinary
           confident
           Critick
           ,
           dragg
           the
           
             supine
             Vulgar
          
           into
           the
           filth
           of
           Censoriousness
           and
           
             civil
             blasphemy
          
           of
           things
           they
           know
           not
           ,
           making
           them
           to
           
             set
             their
             Mouths
             against
             the
             Heavens
             ,
          
           and
           with
           a
           
             Train
             of
             their
             impudent
             Lyes
          
           ,
           like
           Lucifer
           the
           Father
           of
           Lyes
           ,
           to
           dethrone
           the
           Stars
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           .
           And
           these
           are
           somewhat
           a
           kin
           to
           those
           whom
           in
           the
           Fifth
           Page
           of
           this
           Treatise
           I
           call
           by
           the
           Name
           of
           State-Fanaticks
           ,
           a
           whimsical
           race
           of
           people
           that
           the
           Jesuites
           seduce
           ,
           by
           infusing
           into
           them
           an
           
             inchanting
             Ferment
          
           ,
           a
           Hotch-potch
           of
           State-Heresies
           drawn
           from
           
             Casuists
             ,
             Civilians
          
           ,
           and
           
             corrupted
             Divines
          
           :
           Not
           that
           I
           think
           every
           one
           that
           talks
           about
           these
           things
           to
           be
           vers'd
           in
           the
           whole
           System
           of
           such
           
             Jesuitical
             Doctrines
          
           ,
           for
           as
           I
           have
           above
           said
           ,
           many
           illiterate
           persons
           may
           gain
           the
           Credit
           of
           being
           Statesmen
           among
           the
           Vulgar
           by
           some
           
             Pedantick
             Tricks
          
           ,
           as
           
             voluble
             discourse
          
           ,
           
           
             confident
             deportment
          
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           who
           yet
           may
           be
           altogether
           devoid
           of
           any
           smattering
           in
           that
           other
           Learning
           ;
           but
           yet
           there
           are
           too
           too
           many
           whose
           Fancies
           being
           parturient
           ,
           verifie
           that
           in
           the
           Civil
           Law
           which
           my
           Lord
           Verulam
           observed
           of
           Philosophy
           ,
           
             a
             little
             of
             which
             will
             make
             a
             man
             an
             Atheist
             :
          
           for
           these
           Semi-Civilians
           ,
           like
           those
           Philosophasters
           ,
           sit
           down
           contented
           with
           that
           small
           discovery
           the
           first
           Stage
           gives
           them
           in
           the
           Law
           of
           Nature
           and
           Nations
           ,
           and
           so
           make
           false
           conclusions
           ,
           couching
           the
           most
           copious
           Hypotheses
           and
           Questions
           within
           the
           narrow
           limits
           of
           their
           Inchoate
           knowledge
           ,
           especially
           being
           blinded
           by
           their
           
             seducing
             Guides
          
           ,
           the
           Jesuites
           ,
           and
           falsly
           perswaded
           that
           all
           
             Secular
             Science
          
           was
           contained
           in
           that
           Fragment
           they
           were
           acquainted
           with
           ,
           (
           like
           the
           Rusticks
           who
           think
           the
           utmost
           limits
           of
           the
           World
           extend
           no
           farther
           then
           the
           Margin
           of
           the
           visible
           Horizon
           )
           whereas
           if
           they
           had
           the
           patience
           to
           go
           on
           ,
           and
           their
           Understandings
           were
           not
           darkned
           ,
           they
           would
           find
           that
           each
           step
           enlarged
           their
           prospect
           ,
           till
           they
           had
           gone
           over
           the
           whole
           Sphere
           of
           
             Political
             Wisdom
          
           ,
           returning
           to
           the
           Point
           whence
           they
           set
           forth
           ,
           where
           they
           might
           recollect
           with
           themselves
           ,
           that
           as
           in
           all
           Orbs
           ,
           so
           in
           this
           Circle
           of
           Humane
           Learning
           ,
           there
           was
           a
           vicissitude
           of
           Superiority
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           they
           who
           have
           compleated
           their
           Knowledge
           and
           finished
           their
           Disquisitions
           in
           the
           truth
           ,
           may
           yet
           remember
           how
           variously
           they
           have
           altered
           their
           opinions
           of
           things
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           strength
           or
           weakness
           of
           Arguments
           occurring
           in
           their
           way
           ,
           and
           therefore
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           dazled
           into
           a
           hasty
           implicite
           Assent
           to
           any
           thing
           by
           its
           vigour
           and
           flashy
           light
           ,
           without
           examining
           or
           making
           a
           Scrutiny
           ,
           whence
           the
           Ray
           proceeded
           ,
           whether
           from
           Heaven
           or
           Hell
           ,
           (
           for
           that
           has
           its
           counterfeit
           Beams
           also
           .
           )
        
         
           To
           make
           my
           meaning
           more
           plain
           ,
           It
           is
           well
           known
           that
           many
           Mechanick
           persons
           of
           otherwise
           jejune
           Intellects
           ,
           will
           yet
           pretend
           to
           a
           smack
           in
           that
           spurious
           mixture
           of
           
             Democratical
             Policy
          
           that
           is
           pickt
           out
           of
           some
           Heathen
           Writers
           ,
           some
           Papists
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           few
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           all
           Incorporated
           into
           one
           Mass
           ,
           and
           Informed
           by
           that
           
             Soul
             of
             Atheism
             and
             Heresie
          
           ,
           Mr.
           Hobbs
           :
           These
           Mechanicks
           I
           say
           ,
           will
           insist
           on
           the
           Notions
           of
           Natural
           Liberty
           and
           Supremacy
           in
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           stuff
           ,
           having
           Imbib'd
           these
           Principles
           either
           immediately
           from
           Books
           ,
           or
           from
           their
           Converse
           with
           men
           who
           have
           read
           those
           Books
           ,
           which
           though
           they
           have
           gone
           
           Incognito
           for
           good
           Orthodox
           Protestant
           Writings
           ,
           yet
           are
           oftentimes
           discovered
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           may
           very
           reasonably
           be
           suspected
           to
           bethe
           
             Product
             of
             a
             Jesuites
             Brain
          
           .
           However
           ,
           it
           is
           certain
           such
           Books
           are
           written
           and
           entertain'd
           by
           many
           seeming
           intelligent
           persons
           ,
           and
           no
           question
           but
           the
           Jesuites
           have
           seconded
           them
           with
           their
           personal
           Insinuations
           among
           the
           Gentry
           ;
           so
           that
           these
           Heresies
           are
           grown
           almost
           Epidemical
           ,
           and
           therefore
           by
           consequence
           the
           whole
           Land
           must
           needs
           incur
           the
           Pestil
           ential
           Infection
           :
           hence
           proceed
           all
           those
           heart-burnings
           ,
           and
           their
           evil
           effects
           ,
           such
           as
           bitter
           and
           unfavoury
           Expressions
           ,
           belch'd
           out
           against
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           his
           Proceedings
           ,
           enough
           to
           make
           any
           other
           Prince
           
             Nauseate
             the
             unmannerly
             and
             ungrateful
             Vulgar
          
           ;
           but
           our
           
             Gracious
             Soveraign
          
           has
           from
           his
           first
           Inauguration
           to
           the
           Throne
           ,
           habituated
           himself
           to
           Clemency
           ,
           and
           
             unparallel'd
             benign
             Candour
          
           to
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           never
           revenging
           himself
           for
           all
           the
           
             barbarous
             cruelty
          
           his
           Father
           or
           Himself
           have
           undergon
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           forget
           that
           it
           is
           an
           Essay
           I
           am
           writing
           ,
           and
           yet
           I
           have
           no
           reason
           to
           do
           so
           ,
           the
           very
           Immethodical
           Style
           might
           put
           me
           in
           mind
           of
           that
           :
           And
           indeed
           were
           I
           not
           conscious
           of
           its
           being
           Commensurate
           to
           an
           Essay
           ,
           I
           would
           beg
           the
           Readers
           excuse
           for
           Publishing
           so
           confused
           a
           
             Collection
             of
             Thoughts
          
           .
           However
           this
           I
           may
           say
           ,
           That
           though
           it
           be
           void
           of
           Symmetry
           ,
           yet
           that
           deficiency
           is
           made
           up
           in
           the
           multitude
           and
           validity
           of
           its
           Arguments
           ,
           which
           though
           scattered
           without
           Order
           in
           the
           Discourse
           ,
           may
           yet
           be
           reduced
           to
           it
           by
           the
           active
           and
           
             sagacious
             mind
          
           ,
           the
           disjoynted
           parcels
           being
           by
           that
           
             penetrating
             vertue
          
           setled
           ,
           and
           by
           
             Intellectual
             Ligaments
          
           united
           in
           their
           proper
           respects
           and
           uses
           to
           the
           design
           of
           the
           whole
           SCHEME
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           POSTSCRIPT
           .
        
         
           THat
           the
           seeming
           Extravagancies
           in
           the
           Style
           of
           this
           Essay
           ,
           may
           be
           the
           more
           readily
           excused
           by
           the
           Intelligent
           :
           The
           Author
           thought
           himself
           concerned
           to
           add
           a
           word
           or
           two
           to
           what
           he
           had
           said
           in
           the
           
             Preface
             to
             the
             Reader
          
           ,
           for
           he
           is
           bold
           to
           profess
           his
           Hopes
           ,
           that
           this
           
             Short
             Discourse
          
           though
           in
           never
           so
           odd
           and
           exotick
           a
           Dress
           ,
           may
           find
           Acceptance
           with
           some
           ,
           as
           others
           concerning
           the
           same
           Subject
           ,
           only
           digested
           into
           a
           different
           form
           ,
           are
           entertained
           by
           their
           proper
           
             Genius
             ▪
          
           for
           there
           are
           certain
           
             Occult
             Attractives
          
           in
           all
           Treatises
           which
           will
           captivate
           the
           Minds
           of
           those
           men
           who
           are
           prepared
           with
           a
           Correspondent
           Gust
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           results
           from
           the
           various
           Idiopathies
           in
           lapsed
           Mankind
           ,
           which
           are
           apt
           to
           Incurvate
           the
           Choice
           of
           Right
           Reason
           ▪
           and
           to
           transport
           them
           in
           their
           Choice
           ,
           by
           Impulses
           from
           peculiar
           Springs
           in
           the
           inferlour
           partial
           Faculties
           of
           the
           Soul
           ,
           whether
           there
           fixed
           by
           Nature
           ,
           Education
           ,
           Providence
           ,
           or
           Chance
           :
           And
           since
           this
           is
           so
           ,
           why
           should
           I
           be
           loth
           to
           venture
           this
           Piece
           abroad
           ,
           upon
           a
           misprision
           of
           it
           s
           being
           Impolite
           or
           whimsical
           ,
           and
           so
           unpalatable
           to
           the
           
             Nice
             Genius
          
           of
           this
           Age
           ,
           that
           loves
           to
           luxuriate
           in
           those
           delicious
           Graces
           of
           Speech
           ,
           which
           the
           French
           call
           
             La
             cadence
             des
             periodes
          
           ;
           I
           say
           ,
           why
           should
           the
           unsuitableness
           of
           my
           style
           by
           being
           reflected
           on
           hinder
           me
           from
           publishing
           this
           Essay
           ,
           since
           it
           is
           commonly
           experienced
           that
           the
           most
           ornate
           Treatises
           and
           those
           of
           the
           sweetest
           relish
           to
           some
           ,
           are
           found
           by
           Experience
           to
           be
           Nauseated
           by
           others
           .
           And
           what
           matter
           is
           it
           for
           the
           Style
           ,
           provided
           there
           be
           truth
           at
           the
           bottom
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A69620-e430
           
             
               Maimon
               .
               More
               Nev.
               Part.
               2.
               cap.
               41.
               
            
             Sci●o
             quod
             omnium
             eorum
             Prophetar
             .
             qui
             Pro
             ▪
             betiam
             sibi
             factam
             esse
             dicunt
             ,
             quidam
             eam
             Angelo
             alicui
             ,
             quidam
             vero
             Deo
             Opt.
             Max.
             ascribant
             &
             attribuant
             licèt
             per
             Angeli
             ministerium
             quoque
             ipsis
             ob●igerit
             .
             &c.
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               Select
               Discourses
            
             .
          
           
             See
             the
             Notes
             on
             Dr.
             
             More
             's
             Poems
             .