difference, betwixt those who are out, and those who are put in.  But the Nation begins to be awake:  his party is mouldring away, and as it falls out, in all dishonest Combinations, are suspecting each other so very fast, that every man is shifting for himself, by a separate Treaty:  and looking out for a Plank in the common Shipwrack, so that the point is turn’d upon him; those who are out, would have ruin’d us, and cou’d not; and those who are in, are endeavouring to save us if they can.

My Adversary himself, now drawing to a conclusion, seems to be inclining to good opinions:  and as dying men, are much given to repentance, so finding his cause at the last gasp, he unburthens his Conscience and disclaims the principles of a Common-wealth, both for himself, and for both Houses of Parliament, which is indeed to be over-officious:  for one of the Houses will not think they have need of such a Compurgator.  But he wisely fears no change of Government from any, but the Papists.  Now I am of a better heart, for I fear it neither from Papists nor Presbyterians.  Whether Democracy will agree with Jesuitical principles in England I am not certain; but I can easily prove to him, that no Government but a Common-wealth is accommodated to the Systeme of Church-worship invented by John Calvin.

The Declaration concludes, that the King is resolv’d to govern in all things by the Laws:  And here the Author of the Answer, is for frisking out into a fit of Joy, which looks as aukward with his gravity, as ever was King David’s dancing before the Ark.  This similitude I hope has pleas’d him; if it does not, Esop’s Ass stands ready Sadled at the door.  But a melancholick consideration has already pour’d cold water in his Porredge, for all promises he says, are either kept or broken:  well-fare a good old Proverb.  I could find in my heart to cap it with another, that the old Woman had never look’d for her Daughter in the Oven, if she had not been there herself before.  But if the King should keep his word, as all but his Enemies conclude he will, then we shall see Annual Parliaments sit longer I hope; when they meddle only with their proper business.  They will lose their time no more, in cutting off the Succession, altering the course of Nature, and directing the providence of God, before they know it.  We shall have no uniting of Sects against the Church of England, nor of Counties against the next Heir of the Crown.  The King shall then be advis’d by his Parliament, when both Houses concur in their advice.  There shall be no more need of Declarations about the dissolving of Parliaments, and no more need of factious Fools to answer them; But the People shall be happy, the King shall be supply’d the Alliances shall be supported, and my suppos’d Author be made a Bishop, and renounce the Covenant.  That many of these things may happen, is the wish of every loyal Subject, and particularly of