may understand what is due to every Body. But, as neither Phyficians, nor Generals, nor Orators, though they have learn'd the Rules of their Art, can ever do any Thing worthy of great Praife, without Ufe and Practice : So the Precepts for performing our Duty, are fometimes deliver'd indeed, as they are now by us: But ftill the Greatness of the Thing requires also a conftant Habit and Exercife. And now we have almoft enough to fhew how that Honefty or Virtue, which produces our Duty, is deriv'd from those Things which fall within the Rights of Human Society.

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HE Remaining Part of this Work, will be not the leaft diverting; containing an Account of Mr. Maynwaring's Political Tracts, and the. Occafion of his Writing them. The Reader may depend on the Truth of the Relation with the greater Affurance, for that I fhall fay nothing but what happen'd within my own Knowledge. Mr. Maynwaring was chosen a Member of Parliament in the Year 1702, the first Year of Queen Anne, for the Borough of Prefton in Lancashire. He ferv'd in the next Parliament for the fame Borough, and in both gave his Vote with the true Intereft of his Country, being against the Tack, the Occafional Bill, and other Acts which were intended to perplex the Government. When Sacheverel's Tryal came on, he was a Strenuous Afferter of the Rights of the Parliament, to try and punish that Incendiary; whom he never nam'd, but with the greatest Marks of Deteftation or Contempt: Saying always he was a Fool, and a Which Character the Condemn'd Doctor's Practices fince have fully answer'd, and will answer to his Life's End.

The firft Treatife that Mr. Maymwaring publifh'd after the Change of the Ministry, or rather immediately before that fatal Change, was Entitul'd Four Letters to a Friend in North Britain, which was written by him upon the Publishing the Tryal of Dr. Sacheverel. In the Title Page he has two Quotations, which fhew us what was his Senfe of the Tory Faction, and Tory Cause.

This is not a Controversy of Reason against Reafon, but of downright Impudence against all the Senfe and Reafon of Mankind.

Archbishop Tillotson.

Protect

Protect as Mighty Providence,

What wou'd thefe Madmen have?
First they wou'd bribe us without Pence,
Deceive us without Common Senfe,
And without Power enflave?

Earl of Dorfet,

As thofe four Letters are of great length, I cannot afford them a Place with his Poft humon5 Works, which I print entire ; but they contain fo many excellent Arguments against the High-Church Doctrines, and their Incendiary Sacheverel, that I cannot avoid making mention of fome of them: He began with fhewing the Juftice and Neceffity of Profecuting the Doctor, and he makes ufe of the Words of the Common's Addrefs to the Queen; That they cou'd not patiently fit ftill and See the Justice of the late Happy Revolution reflected upon, Her Majesty's undoubted Title and gracious Adminiftration endeavour'd to be render'd Odious to the People; the prefent Eftablishment and Proteftant Succeffion undermin'd, the Refolutions of Parliament treated with Contempt, the Governours of the Church and her Majefty as Supreme, vilified and afpers'd; the Toleration expos'd as Wicked; and Sedition infolently invading the Pulpit. That the Sermons and other Books of this Doctor, (ays Mr. Maynwaring, were exactly made to answer all thefe Purposes, will evidently appear upon the Reading his Tryal: And if after this it fhall feem ftrange, that fo many Men of High Birth and Quality, fhou'd have endeavour'd to acquit him, the beft Account I can give of it in few Words is this, That it was Party-Work, and must be gone thro' as difficult as it was. He then gives us a fhort Account of the Proceedings of the Faction,

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from the Beginning of the late Queen's Reign, to that Time. Wherein he fhews, That all their Pretences to Zeal for the Church and Monarchy, were affected: That Party was always at the Bottom; and that their Leaders had no other Views, but to ferve their own Interefts, by prétending a great Concern for thofe of the Church, When one Man, fays Mr. Maynwaring, who once turn'd Papift; and another who fat in the High Commiffion Court, were not Minifters of State, the Church must needs be in great Peril. One could hardly have thought their displacing would bave been us'd for an Argument, to fhew the Church's Danger. Yet So it was and who could help it, it was in vain to say, That this Church was protected by a Supream Head, zealous for the Intereft, and Liberal to the Support of it: That this Church was guarded by the Laws of the Land: That it was defended by many Excellent and Learned Prelates, that it had all the Members of the Upper Houfe of Parliament, true to its Eftablishment: Except one that was loud-mouth'd in the Cry about its Danger, (he means Mr. Rob. Hy,) that it had fo far the greater Number in the Houfe of Commons, as makes it needlefs to mention the few Diffenters there; And that it had all the Officers Civil and Military, of any Character or Confideration, of its own Communion. What did all this fignify? When the D of B, and Earl of Rochester, &c. were turn'd out of the Minifry? The Poor Church must certainly be in Danger, when thefe Champions were not paid or bir'd to defend it.

Upon their being difcarded, the Memorial was written by Dr. Drake, with the Affiftance of Mr. Pooley in Matters of Law, and one of the difcarded Minifters in Matters of Politicks. This Drake confefs'd to a Confident of his, employ'd in

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the Secretaries Office, when those High-Church Champions were in the Administration; and that Clerk told it to a High Church Divine now Living; who was pleas'd to tell it to me when the Dr. was fafe in his Grave; and that Part of the MS. Copy of the Memorial, was written out fair in the Secretaries Office, not by Gregg who was then a Clerk, but by one of his Companions, whom I do not mention, that I might not betray the Confidence of my Reverend Friend.

Mr. Maynwaring fhews us afterwards, that the difgrac'd Minifters, finding Queen, Lords, and Commons, against them, and despairing of gaining their Ministry any other way, than by a fecond Restoration, refolv'd to make a bold Push for another Government. He proceeds thus. But now what fhould our British Champions do to accomplish their Designs? To declare openly for "the Pretender would have been too rafh a step

at first, and would have brought their able 'Heads into worfe Perils, than are confiftent ' with their. Profeffion of nothing but Church Chivalry; Nor was it advifeable to speak directly against the Revolution and Proteftant Succeffion ; therefore they bethought themfelves of a Safer Method, to tack the two laft mention'd, by condemning all Refiftance, and crying up Hereditary Right; and to carry on the Work of the Pretender, by ordering their Inferior Clergy particularly to cultivate the • Doctrine of Non-Refiftance, fince none, even of their own dull Hearers, could mifs finding out the Secret, or want Light to discover, that condemning fuch Refiftance as dethron'd the Father, cou'd have no other Meaning but Reftitution to the Son.