might be acquitted here, but for the _Clergy_, who have been repeatedly the _Pest_ and _Bane_ of human Society, the Trumpeters of Sedition and Rebellion, and mere Make-bates in Cities and Families. And I dare say, that if the Civil Powers don't curb, and keep our _Priesthood_ in awe, they will upon this present Occasion be the Disturbers of the publick Peace. So little Sense and Truth is there in the _Bishop_'s present Invective against us Infidels! If he had not been infatuated to a Forgetfulness of the _Rogueries_ of Priests, in all Ages, against the Civil Powers, he could never have insinuated such a groundless and senseless Charge against us, to the Provocation of the Civil Magistrate to fall on us. But III. The _Bishop_ calumniates us Infidels (for against his Conscience, whether I will or not, he will have me to be one of them) not only for being Enemies to Government in general, which he will have us to advance Principles destructive of; but insinuates and asserts that we are disaffected to the particular and present Government of these Kingdoms, saying, that as "we are active in propagating Infidelity, we do in the last Resort, not only insult the Title of _Defender of the Faith_, but undermine the undoubted Right of his Majesty and his Royal Family to the Crown of these Realms, as it is founded on the Profession of _Christianity_, reform'd, and now legally settled among us; and therefore Persons of that Character may well be consider'd, as equally false to the Author of our Faith, and to the present Government.----Therefore in a just Sense of that Allegiance which is due to the King, and for the Security of your Majesties, and the Royal Family, and thereby of the Publick it self, as well as out of a deep Concern for the Honour and Preservation of our most holy Faith, the ensuing Treatise is now offer'd, under your Majesty's Protection, to the View of the Publick." This is all such foolish and manifest Slander, that I can't but think the _Bishop_ mad with Rage and Indignation at me, when he writ it. I dare say the _Queen_, who is firmly attach'd to the Interests of the Christian and Protestant Religion, did, when she read all this, almost grieve for the _Bishop_, and pity him for his Weakness and Ignorance. It is a _Maxim_ among all Parties, that _Infidels_ are heartily affected to the present Establishment of the State; yea, so far a _Maxim_, that _Jacobites_ and _High-Church-men_ are apt to accuse all the well-affected to the Government, of Infidelity. From none of the Writings or Practice of Infidels, much less of my self, could the _Bishop_ gather any of these his _childish_ Surmises. The Government, since the Succession of the Illustrious House of _Hanover_, has been twice attempted to be disturb'd, and both times by profess'd Christians. The Rebellion at _Preston_ consisted of _Papists_ and _High-Church-men_, and tho' there were but few _Clergy-men_ in Arms, yet they were join'd with the