hitherto eſcap'd unpuniſh'd, and (for ought I can ſee) will ſtill eſcape.
However, it is pity, methings, in either caſe, that the innocent ſhould be involve'd with the guilty; for innocent of both ſorts there certainly are. God grant that there may be many!
Having now finiſh'd all the introduction I deſign to make to this undertaking, I will proceed in my next paper to expoſe fraud and corruption to the world, and to ſet the famous luminaries of Great-Britain, our nurſeries of literature and religion, in a new, and in their proper light.
Terræ-Filius. No. III.
Quo ſemel eſt imbuta recens, ſervabit Odorem Teſta diu.——
Saturday, January 21.
THERE cannot be a plainer proof that any ſociety wants a reformation, than to ſhew undeniably that it is faulty in its conſtitution, as well as its morals; that the laws made for its preſervation and well-being are, many of them, wicked, unreaſonable, ridiculous, or contradictory to ane another; that, for the moſt part, thoſe laws, which are ſo, are more inſiſted upon, and more
