prince in Christendom; and to justify to the world the people of England,
whose love of their just and natural rights, with their resolution to
preserve them, saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery
and ruin. If these papers have that evidence, I flatter myself is to be
found in them, there will be no great miss of those which are lost, and
my reader may be satisfied without them: for I imagine, I shall have
neither the time, nor inclination to repeat my pains, and fill up the
wanting part of my answer, by tracing Sir Robert again, through all the
windings and obscurities, which are to be met with in the several
branches of his wonderful system. The king, and body of the nation, have
since so thoroughly confuted his Hypothesis, that I suppose no body
hereafter will have either the confidence to appear against our common
safety, and be again an advocate for slavery; or the weakness to be
deceived with contradictions dressed up in a popular stile, and
well-turned periods: for if any one will be at the pains, himself, in
those parts, which are here untouched, to strip Sir Robert's discourses
of the flourish of doubtful expressions, and endeavour to reduce his
words to direct, positive, intelligible propositions, and then compare
them one with another, he will quickly be satisfied, there was never so
much glib nonsense put together in well-sounding English. If he think it
not worth while to examine his works all thro', let him make an
experiment in that part, where he treats of usurpation; and let him try,
whether he can, with all his skill, make Sir Robert intelligible, and
consistent with himself, or common sense. I should not speak so plainly
of a gentleman, long since past answering, had not the pulpit, of late
years, publicly owned his doctrine, and made it the current divinity of
the times. It is necessary those men, who taking on them to be teachers,
have so dangerously misled others, should be openly shewed of what
authority this their Patriarch is, whom they have so blindly followed,
that so they may either retract what upon so ill grounds they have