_Citt._ Oh! th'art infinitely in the Right: for if it were not for this _Christian Liberty_, we could never have _Justify'd_ our Selves in our _Late Transactions_: the _Designe_ of _Overturning the Government_ had been _Treason_; taking up _Arms_ against the _King_, _Rebellion_; _Dividing_ from the _Communion_ of the _Church_ had been _Schism_; appropriating the _Church Plate_, and _Revenues_ to _Private Uses_, had been _Sacriledge_; Entring upon _Sequester'd Livings_ had been _Oppression_: taking away mens _Estates_ had been _Robbery_; _Imprisoning_ of their _Persons_ had been _Tyranny_; using the name of _God_ to all This, would have been _Hypocrisy_, forcing of _Contradictory Oaths_ had been _Impiety_, and Shedding the _Blood_ both of the _King_, and his _People_, had been _Murther_: And all This would have appear'd so to be, if the _Cause_ had come to be _Try'd_ by the _Known Laws_ either of _God_, or of _Man_. Bum. _Make us thankfull now! What a blessed State are we in, that =Walk up to our Calling=, in =Simplicity= and =Truth=, whose =Yea= is =Yea=, and whose =Nay= is =Nay=. 'Tis a strange way thou hast, =Citt=, of making things out to a man. Thou wert saying but now, that the =same thing= may be a =Sin= in =One Man=, and =not= in =Another=. I'm thinking now of the =Jesuites=._ _Citt._ Oh That's a _Jugling, Equivocating, Hellish_ sort of _People_; 'tis a thousand pitties that they're suffer'd to live upon the Earth; They value an _Oath_ no more then they do a _Rush_. Those are the _Heads_ of the _Plot_ now upon the Life of the _King_, the _Protestant Religion_, and the _Subversion_ of the _Government_. Jesuites and Phanatiques compar'd. Bum. _Ay, Ay, =Citt=, they're a =damn'd Generation= of =Hell-hounds=. But, as I was thinking just now; we have so many things among =Us=, like some things among =Them=, that I have been run down some times allmost, as if We =our selves= were =Jesuites=; though I know there's as much difference, as betwixt =Light=, and =Darknesse=: and for my part, =I defie them as I do the Devill=._ A vast Difference betwixt them. _But =Citt= thou hast so wonderfull a way of making matters plain, I'de give any thing in the world thou'dst but teach me what to say in some Cases, when I'm put to't. One told me t'other day, =You are rather worse then the= Jesuites; (says he) =for when =They= break an =Oath=, they have some =mental Reservation= or other for a =Come-off:_ But _You_ Swallow your _Perjuryes, just_ as _Cormorants_ do _Eeles_; an _Oath's_ no sooner _In_ at _One End_, then _Out_ at _t'other_. _Citt._ Let your Answer be This, _Bumpkin_, That the _Lawmaker_ is _Master_ of _his own Laws_; and that the _Spirits dictating_ of a _New Law_, is the _Superseding_ of an _Old one_. Their Practices compar'd.