PREFACE.
of Government are in their own Nature mutable, and may be altered, or quite rescinded, as the Power in being shall think fit. Which is a Virulent Insinuation, destructive of the Establishment under which he lives; and 'tis pity he enjoys the Benefit and Protection of it. But the Satisfaction is, his Discourse is penned in too heavy and unartful a manner to gain many Proselytes.
But as to our Statesmen present Scheme of Moderation, I must confess I cannot imagine how they would explain it, or what Moderation is according to their Practices. 'Tis like the Philosophers Materia Subtilis, something that cannot be defined; a Principle meerly negative and unintelligible. For the Logicians have stated no Medium, that I know of, between Truth and Falshood, nor the Moralists any between
