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Show ( 23 > Government, and fet up another in it's Read? are not a few, who go under that name, though they have no connexion with as : yea, though they cordially hate us as drum! iu' Awning, for believing, that God sci/[rib all men to be flaw]: who hate the King and all his minifters, only 1er than they do-«an Arminian : and who fpeak all manner of evil of them in priva e, if not in public tooile» But fuller me to aik, Is this well done? Is it gmmm .9 Is it pmdam? In the name of wonder, vhat could his Majefty have done for you, which he has not done 9 What would you have E Can you tell? What can you defire more than you have already? Have you not full liberty of corileieiiee in every refpeét, without any lhaa (low of ref'traint? In what other nation under the fun, is fuch Religious Liberty to he found? Have you not full liberty, with regard to your life, to your perlbn, and to your goods? In Vl'hat would you gain thereby P \Vould ano. ther Government allow you more liberty, than you now enjoy 9 Could they give you a more 'iinbounded liberty of confeienee? It is impollible ! Would they give you al arger mea- fure of civil liberty 9 They coul d not, if they would. And certainly they woul d not give you the liberty of railing at your Gov ernors, and fiirring up your fellow-fubjec‘ls againft them. If you did this, you would not onl y lofe your goods, but probably your life 3112,. On the other hand, what if the prefent Go- vernment lhould continue, in fpite of all your difloyal praé‘tiees P Have you any afforance, have you any realbn to believe, that our Go; ' vernors will always be to patient? Nay, un- doubtedly, when things of greater moment are fettled, they will find a time for you. Your prefent behaviour will then be remembered; whatothercountryupon earth,is fueh (Evil H- perhaps not altogether to your advantage. but} to be found 9 if you are not thankful to is not the ignorance, but the wifdom of your God and the King {or thele blefiings, you are utterly unworthy of them. --ls itpma'c'ms, to {peak in lo bitter and contemptuous a man- ‘ Governors, which occafions their prefent filence. And if you goon thus, be aflhred, ner, offueh Governors as God has given you 3% XVhat if by the bitternefs of your fpirit, the acrimony of your language, and the inllam~ inatory liliels vhich you {pread abroad, you ' ward. There is no need that the King fhould do any thing : he needs only not to rgflraz'n : that is enough : there are thofe on every fide, who are now ready to fwallow you up. You will could carry your point, unhinge the preterit, then (.iovernment, ‘*- But many of them are of a better mind. It fooner or later you will meet with your re- |