The Preface of Leviathan, andGod him[elf wouldbe impatientof him Tyrannie. Andhis Brother wouldmend the matter,whoby gi- ving the Power te the vaft tumultuous ocean itfetf,may find that his Republick is not only incon1ii1tent with a Clergy ( an highcommendation) but mayvisibly beas injurious to his (Moral.Honefty,ár anyother fort ofTyranny: and might' have learnedof his chiefefi Maßer, Seneca, (de Tranquil. Anim. ) that the free City of Athens could left endure Socrates then the Tyrants, anddidput him to death, whom they had tolerated. [ Nunquid potes invenire urbem miferioremquamAtl enienfium fuit cum illaaa triginta tyranni divellerent j Mille trecentos cives ; optimum quemque occiderant. Socrates tarnen in medio erat Et imitari volentibus, magnum circumfere. bat exemplar,cutn inter triginta dominos liber incedererd Hune tarnen Athena ipfe in carcere occiderant : Et qui eutò infultaverat agmini tyranttorum, ejus Libertateim libera civitas non tulit. ] Gentlemen,for the Lord's fake, foryour foulsfake, for the Churches and theCofpels fake,foryour Countriesfake , and the f'ritual andcorporal goodof thoulands, awakenow from yourflothandfelfi fbnefs, fromyour Ambition,oluptnoufnefs and fordidWorldlirsefs, andgive upyeurfelvesandall that you have to Godbyahrifl, and to the Common Good, and make the be ft of all your facultiesand interefl,for the high an noble Ends of Chriftiàns : And 'convince allfelf-con- ceiTed founders or trotsblersof the Common - wealth, thatyou have-hit the way of 'a true Reformation, withoutany altera- tionof the form, by correc"ling yourfelves theprincipal Ma teria3ls. And let them fee by your feeking the weale of all , that your form is as truly. a Common-weale as theirs, and that-theyabfurdiyappropriate the Title to their own. Ifyou deny us this, on you Mall lie the blame andfhame, andnot on oar-want of a rapuIàrforms. I
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