of~CONFORMITY. Propofition, on which it depends, be not true,it muff certainly fall with it. And foI might fairly leave this Argument, with an appeal towhat hath been already difcourf- ed. But I cannot difmifs it without obferv- ing to you, that it appears to me to be full offallacy. For, if the People be not, on other accounts,obliged to attend upon your Mi- ni/trations,you cannot fay, that they are o- bliged to it meerly tofupport and encourage you; nor would they everdo it for that rea- fon only. And if they be not obliged to it merely tofupport and encourageyou,then this Argument lignifies nothing to their juf}ifi- cationNay,you know that they do,and al- ways did,attend upon youonotherAccounts, and you know that they are worthy of blame, if it were other wife. Again, your Publick Miniltrations are not ablolute, but hear a relation to thePeople;and therefore, your obligation to them cannot be abfo- lutc..And fo,you cannot proveany neceflity upon your felves toMinifter,but upon fup- pofitionof the neceffities ofthe People, and their readinefs towait upon you : Confe- quently, if it had fo hapned,that thePeople had thought their neceffities fully fuppli- ed in other ways, and had not been ready to attend upon you on other accounts, it could 141
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