Later Stuart tracts . ts that when they opposed it, they stood in their ownlight, and opposed their own Wealth, Freedom, Safety andProsperity : and this can only be done by endeavouring toassist them in Trade, encouraging them in Improvements,supporting them in their just Liberties, and taking off theirancient chains of bondage. And if this be omitted, you must expect to be told of it,by this Author, as long as he has a tongue to speak or ahand to write, whether it shall please you, or provoke you. The Preface to the Sixth Volume of the Review. (1710.] Am now come to the conclusion of the
Later Stuart tracts . ts that when they opposed it, they stood in their ownlight, and opposed their own Wealth, Freedom, Safety andProsperity : and this can only be done by endeavouring toassist them in Trade, encouraging them in Improvements,supporting them in their just Liberties, and taking off theirancient chains of bondage. And if this be omitted, you must expect to be told of it,by this Author, as long as he has a tongue to speak or ahand to write, whether it shall please you, or provoke you. The Preface to the Sixth Volume of the Review. (1710.] Am now come to the conclusion of the Sixth\olume of this Work : though like a teemingwoman, I have thought every Volume shouldbe the last. Where it will end now, and when ;God only knows ! and time only will forme, I know nothing of it! This particular Paper, though written atthe end of the Work, carries the title of thePreface, more because it is placed by the bookseller at thefrontispiece, than that it is anything of an Introduction to the. ^?^fyio.] Papist, Jacobite, & High-Church madmen. 245 Volume: for it is really written at the close of the whole,and its subject is very particular. We have had a most distracting turbulent time for thelast two months of this year, occasioned by the Prosecution andDefence of a High Flying Clergyman [Doctor Sacheverell]who has undertaken, in the teeth of the very Parliament, aswell as of the Nation, to justify and defend the explodedridiculous doctrine of Non-Resistance. This Defence has been carried on with all possible heat,fury, and violence among the Party, and a strong conjunc-tion of Papist, Jacobite, and High-Church madmen hasappeared in it, which has made them seem very formidableto the World. Rabbles, tumults, plundering houses, destroy-ing Meeting-houses; insulting Gentlemen in the streets, andhonest men in their dwellings, have been the necessaryappendices of this Affair. And, after all, I must own, though the man has beencondemned, his Principles censu
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