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In the mean time, the shifting and changing of Hands, and not punishing Offenders, (as bath been practifed bitherto, and the Caufe of all the Nations Mifery) is no other than putting the People, as it were, out of the Frying Pan into the Fire. For it Contemns the Law, Condemns the Innocent, Corrupts the Morals and Manners of Men, and in effect, Deftroys all Property, by leaving the whole Body of the People at the Mercy of Publick Minifters; who being out of the reach of the ordinary Courfe of the Law, will never do the People justice, till they are made to know the fanction, weight, and force of the Law; the generality of Mankind, efpecially Publick Minifters, being wholly govern'd by Example. In vain do the Clergy Preach, and Complain of the Immorality and Wick

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edness of the Age; So long as the Law is filent, and does not punish Offenders. Vertue and Vice being progreffive, and gain the Afcendant one of the other, according as they are more or less countenanced and Encouraged by the Civil Magiftrate, who are the Minifters of God for Good, fo long as they do well, and not otherwife. Therefore no man's Quality or Station, can, or aught to exempt him from the juft Cenfure of the Lam, Moral Juftice being that to which every man has a natural Right, and the only thing now wanting to make the King and bis People truly Happy.

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"It's both certain and Evident to all men, that the Publick Peace and Happiness of any State or Kingdom, cannot be preferved, where the Laws, • Liberties, and Customs established by the lawful Authority in it, are openly tranfgreffed and annulled.

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And whereas no Nation can sub 'fift without the Adminiftration of good and impartial Justice, upon 'which mens Lives, Liberties, Honours, and Estates, do depend. Jerem. 8. 22. Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no Physician there? Why then is not the Health of the Daughter. of my People Recovered?

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HAT I have writ (more than what relates to Matter of Fact) is not out of Malice to any Man's Perfon (for I think, according to my poor Capacity, the heaviest Punishment that can be inflicted upon State Offenders, is, That they may out-live their Honour and Eftates. Better a few fuffer juftly, than the whole Nation be ruined. And in this cafe there's no medium. For all the Mony in the Kingdom won't fill a Sack that has no bottom. The Glorious Liberty of a Free Subject, is a JewBut to vindicate my el of Inftimable value.) self, and satisfie the World, I was moved and led to do what I did in reference to the Publick, thro' a fenfe of Duty, and a just Apprehenfion and Forefight of the Evils that would enfue, and are fince come to pass. And that I am no Mad-man, or Enemy to the Government (as I have been rendred for almoft these seven Years paft) but a true English-man (right-ly understood) and his Majefty's faithful Subject. Nevertheless I am obliged in Duty, to beg pardon,....... for my Weakness, Frailty, and freedom of Speech, which now I do upon my bended Knees, before this August Assembly, who are the Wisdom of the Nation, and the great Confervators of the Liberties and Property of the People. So I fhall not presume to say any more, but close all with what I writ, when first I appeared in Print.

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Whoever, with an Impartial Eye, fhall behold the Conftitution of the English Monarchy, muft acknowledge it to be the best Established Government in the World: Whofe Parliaments are (and have been) the glory of their Prince, the Bulwark of the People, and the Terror of their Enemies. And whenever there was that happy Union between King and Parlirment, which now we have the Bleffing to enjoy, it hath begot an Excellent Harmony, and great and glorious Actions have been performed by our Ancestors, to their immortal Fame, who have often made the Gallick Shore to Tremble.

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