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Show C 13 l K of theft: rights. (C antiquary, or a lawyer, or qualified for the (C Chair of profeflbr in metaphyfics. I never ventured to put your folid interef'ts upon fpe- (C " culative grounds. I do not pretend to be an My having coni‘tantly de- ( I9 ) tics not of modern appearance. If indeed our parliaments were, as our Scottifl‘i race of Kings held thcmfelves to be, God's VACCgCI‘CHtS, and governed the flare dejzlre dzbz'm; then fuch a degree of belief had been only correi'ponalent to " clined to do f0 has been attributed to my incapacity for fuch difquifitions ; and I am in- (C clined to believe it is partly the caufe. I ne" verihall be afhamed to confefs, that where " Iam ignorant, Iam difi'ident. I am indeed Majef'ty on this throne, nor yet that additional " t not very folicitous to clear myfelf of this im- folemn contraét between king and people, I the occafion of it: but parliaments have ever it been the works of men's hands, as, thank God, we now know that our kings are; or other- wife we had not had our prefent inof't gracious ‘t puted incapacity; becaufe men, even 1613: " convcrfant than I am, in this kind of fub- " tilties, and placed in Prations, to which I It mean Me at}? qffltt/cmmt, for the eternal {ecu-'rity, as I trui'r, of thofe rights of the {ubjeét which are intrufled to the executive power. ought not to afpire, have, by the mere Again: Why {hould a man be either antiqua- " force of civil difcretion, often conducted the rian, lawyer, or metaphyfician, or what need " affairs of great nations with diftinguiihed is there of fpeculation, to know " the extent (G felicity and glory." This may be very true, but furely it is not very fatisfaé'tory. To be " and foundation of theft: rights P" The rights more zealous than any one man living " for the of Engliihmen want no fuch profeflional authority for their fupport : neither are they mere " fnpremacy of parliament; and the rights of " this imperial crown," and [e 5 knowing than abf'traél‘ terms, the 87m}: mlz'om'r, or creatures of the underflanding; but are, for our know- others " in the extent and foundation of thefe " rights," is to profefs more of implicitfaith ledge, written in our hearts, with the blood of and enthufiafm, than, I confefs, I expected to have met with, at leaf}: now adays, in civil cancerns. Of fanatics in the church I knew " tions are often conducted with diftinguifhed " felicity and glory by the mere force of civil " difcretion." What! are the rights of Eng- there were (till, many to be found, but a {fate lifhmen to be held at the dijcrez‘z'on of mi- fanatic, I thought, was a phenomenon in poli< » , tics our anceftors. But " the afl'airs of great na- B 2 nifters? |