Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflections. A new edition, with several additions in the body of the work. To which is added an appendix; together with an address to the people called Quakers. N.B. The new addition here given increases the work upwards of one third.

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wwxfi;"it 45‘s ‘APPENDiX. 2'0 :5: Rapre/érztaliou of 1):: Religious Society of 112‘! Hopi: cal/ea ‘,Kual'er5, or [0 fr; many of (17m: 41 were concerned :71 pub/Wing a [a]: piece, (mil/ed, ‘f 'iheANcraNT TESTIMONY and Pamcp " was of the People called QUAKE" renevh " ed, with refpeé‘t rathe Kmb and Govmw H MENT, and touching the COMMOTIONS now‘ "" prevailing in thefe and other parts ofA MERff " ca addrcfl‘ed to the Pawns m GENERAL." :7Wfl HE Writer ofrhis, is one of rh‘nle few, who nevc! ;: drlhoners religion either by'ridiculing, or cavil- W ling at any denomination whatfoeverr To God; and net to mam 3:: all men accountable on the {core of Niginn. \Vherefora, this epiiile is not {0 properly addtcfli- ed. in you 3.1 a religious; but an: political body, dabbling. in matters, which the profcfl'ed Quietude of your Princiv epics inflrué‘l you not to meddle with, . Asvyou have, without a proper authority for (0 doing, put yourfelvies in the place of the whole body ofrhe Qu- ki‘ra,‘fo, the Writer ofthis, in mder‘to be on an equal rank with yourt'elves, is under the luckily of putting himl'ell in the place of all thofe, who, approve the veryw'ri'inga gnd principles, againfi whichmbyoor tcflimony is direficd'i And he hath chofcn this fingular iituaiion, in order, that - you might dil'cover in him that prefumption of ehatafler .3 . - 'Ivhich you cannot fee in yonrfelves. For neither he n g Vyou can have any claim or title to Painful Rtprtfl'lfflfiflf. -Wheo men have departed from the right way, it is no wonder that they Rumble and fall... And it is evident from . thclmanner in which ye have managed your rcflimony, that politics, (as a rcligioue body 'ef'men) i'a_ not your proper Walk; {9; however welljglaprctl it might sppea‘r to you,.it it, nev'ertheicfa, ajirmhl'e-of good and badv put, on‘ wltelvrrngciber, and the cq'riclufidn drawn-therefrom, both" "manual and unjufi. .V ,3 " . - .t : , , , The two firfi pages, (and the w‘hole' Jnth not make four) ~ we giiv‘eyou credit (or, and cxpcét the fame "civility from j, yo&,;becaqfe thellove add (lg-fire of, peace in .Znoticonfinct ' ~ 3. ankurrmfir is the natural, as well thereligious with ‘0); )