They have been so
zealous in this point, that, if I have done him any wrong, I
cannot hope they should spare me. I wish, where they have done
the truth and the public wrong, they would be as ready to redress
it, and allow its just weight to this reflection, viz. that there
cannot be done a greater mischief to prince and people, than the
propagating wrong notions concerning government; that so at last
all times might not have reason to complain of the Drum
Ecclesiastic. If any one, concerned really for truth, undertake
the confutation of my Hypothesis, I promise him either to recant
my mistake, upon fair conviction; or to answer his difficulties.
But he must remember two things.
First, That cavilling here and there, at some expression, or
little incident of my discourse, is not an answer to my book.
Secondly, That I shall not take railing for arguments, nor
think either of these worth my notice, though I shall always look
on myself as bound to give satisfaction to any one, who shall
appear to be conscientiously scrupulous in the point, and shall
shew any just grounds for his scruples.
I have nothing more, but to advertise the reader, that
Observations stands for Observations on Hobbs, Milton, &c. and
that a bare quotation of pages always means pages of his
Patriarcha, Edition 1680.
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