Again, he says[122], "There is hardly any one Subject which he (that is Dr. _Sherlock_) has wrote upon Popery excepted, that he has wrote both for it and against it. Could any thing be more sharp and bitter against the Dissenters than what this Man wrote in his _Answer_ to the _Protestant Reconciler_; and yet how frankly, or rather fulsomly does he open both his Arms to embrace them in his Sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor on _November_ 4, 1688. Tho I dare say, that the Dissenters themselves are of that Constancy, as to own that they were of the same Principles in 88 that they were of in 85; but the Truth is, old Friendships cannot be so easily forgot: And it has been an Observation made by some, that hardly can any one be found, who was first tainted with a Conventicle, whom a Cathedral could ever after cure, but that still upon every cross turn of Affairs against the _Church_, the irresistible _Magnetism_ of the _Good Old Cause_ (as some still think it) would quickly draw him out of the _Good Old Way_. The Fable tells us of a _Cat_ once turn'd into a _Woman_, but the next sight of a _Mouse_ quickly dissolv'd the _Metamorphosis_, cashier'd the Woman, and restor'd the Brute. And some _Virtuosi_ (skill'd in the _useful Philosophy_ of _Alterations_) have thought her much a Gainer by the latter Change, there being so many unlucky Turns in the World, in which it is not half so safe and advantageous to _walk upright_, as to be _able to fall always upon one's Legs_." Again, Dr. _South_ says[123], "When I consider how wonderfully pleas'd the Man is with these two new started Terms (_Self-consciousness_ and _mutual Consciousness_) so high in Sound and so empty of Sense, instead of one substantial word (_Omniscience_) which gives us all that can be pretended useful in them, with vast Overplus and Advantage, and even swallows them up, as _Moses_'s Rod did those pitiful Tools of the _Magicians_: This (I say) brings to my mind (whether I will or no) a certain Story of a grave Person, who riding in the Road with his Servant, and finding himself something uneasy in his Saddle, bespoke his Servant thus: _John_ (says he) _alight, and first take off the Saddle that is upon my Horse, and then take off the Saddle that is upon your Horse; and when you have done this, put the Saddle that was upon my Horse, upon your Horse; and put the Saddle that was upon your Horse, upon my Horse_. Whereupon the Man, who had not studied the Philosophy of Saddles (whether _Ambling_ or _Trotting_) so exactly as his Master, replies something short upon him; _Lord, Master, what need all these words? Could you not as well have said, Let us change Saddles?_ Now I must confess, I think the Servant was much in the right; tho the Master having a _rational Head of his own_, and being withal willing to make the _Notion_ of _changing_ Saddles more _plain_, _easy_ and _intelligible_, and to give a clearer Explication of that word (which