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Show rs COMMON SENSE. COMMON SENSE. 13' tual ; the firfi m-rving power will at lafl have it's watt, and without having recourfe to the harfh ill founding names of what it wants in {peed is fupp‘ied by time. Oppreflion and avarice. Oppreflion is often the ton/cyan", but feidom or never the mmn of riches; and though avarice will prefcrve a man from being neceflitoufly poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. That the crown is this overbeari'g part in the Eua‘ifh confluutinn needs not to be mentioned. and thr-t it den-ea its whole confrquenee merely from being the giver of places and penfi‘ins is lc'f evident, wherefore thr ugh we hit e been wife enough to {but and lock 2 door agatnfl abfnlute monarchy, we at the lime time have been iOt'llfl] enough to put i But there is another and greater diflinaton for which no truly natural or religious reafon can be amgned, and that is the diftinétion of men into KINGS and strains. Male the crown in poll-iii n of the let-y and female are the diflinflions of nature, got a and bad the Th" prejudice t f Em: ifhrncn, in favour of their own govornmrnt by king. lords and commons. miles as much or difliné'tions ofhcaven ; but how a race. of men came into mlltt" horn na rrrtra‘ pride than realm". lt‘dtvlduals are un- deruhtedlv {aft-r M King and than in icme other countries, but the will of he king is as much 'he law of the land in Britain at.» til F once, with this drift-ence, that infiead of pro- ceeding dire-85v from his mt-u‘h. it is handed to the people urtder the more formrnahie {hope of an get of parliament. For the fate of Char ts tht full, bath only made kings more fubtlc~not mtrtcjuf‘r. Wherefore, laying afitle all national pride and prejudice in favouryof mods and forms. the plain truth is, that it i: w/m/Iy owing to (be con/iirutirm of the propls, and not to tbs roz/ir'tutirrz o/ the government that the Crown is not as opptetiive in England as in Turkey. An itquity into the conflitutimal error: in the Englifh form of government is at this time highly n'rttrffazy ;for as we are never in a proper condition of doingjul'ltce to Others, while we continue under the influence of tome leading par- tiality. in neither are we capab'e of doing rt to ourfclves while we remain lettered by any obfiinate prejudice. And the world fo exa'red above the tell, and dif'ringurfhed l.ke fem: new fpecies, is worth enquiring into, and whether~ they are 'he means of happinefs or o." mifery to mankind. In the cal, ages of the wor‘d according to the fcrip'urt: chronology. their were no kings; the C.ttilt‘th€nCC ofwhich was there were no wars ; it is the wide of kings which throws mankind into confufion. Holland without a king hath enjoyed more peace lot this tall century than any of the monarchieal governments in Europe. Antiquity faa vors the fame rematk; for the quiet and rural lives of the firft oatriarchs hath a happy tomething in them, which vanifhes away when we come to the hillory of Jewifh. royalty. Government by kings was firf'c introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of lfrael copied the cuflom. It was the roof: profperous invention the Devil ever {ct on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathen: paid divine honors to their deceafed kings, and the chiflian world hath improved on the plan by doing the fame to their living ones. How impiuus is the title of fa- as a man. who is attached to a profittute, is urfittcd tq cred majctly applied to a worm who in the mtdfi of his Ch'POlC or jtt"gr~ of a wife. in any preptilzflion in favour of a fplendor is crumbling into dufl l As the exalting one man in greatly above the ref} cannot bejuflified on the equal rights of nature. fo neither can it be defended on the authority of fetipture ; for the will of the rotten c nh‘itu-ion of government w-ill difable us from dif- ccrning a good one. Of monarchy and hereditary fuccefiion. Wfirl‘llllND being Originally equals in tht‘ order of _ 1 Cll'llfltfl‘, the r-qttality could only he tleflrtyed hy fume fuhftq tent ci'cmnll‘ance ; the diflinéiintrs of rich and ‘ poor may in a great ntcafute be accounted for, and that ' " without Almighty, as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel, exprtfsly difapprovcs of Government by kings. All antitnonarchical parts of fcripture have been very {monthly gloffed over in monarchical governments, but they undoubtedly meta: the attention of Countries which have their governments |