However, I will here make another Proposal to the _Bishop_ of St. _David's_. Because he thirsts after a very severe Punishment of me, or he would not be so warm in his Exhortations of the Government to that Purpose, I'll tell him how he may glut his Revenge, and inflict a greater Punishment on me, than, in all probability, the Civil Magistrate will humour him in. If he'll but put a Stop to the Prosecution at present (which is not out of the Power of our _Bishops_, whatever they may pretend) and let the Controversy go on, till I have finish'd my Reply to his _two Volumes_, which shall be done with all Expedition; then, if his Passion is not allay'd, I will submit to any Punishment, he in his Wisdom and Justice, without Mercy, shall think fit to have laid on me, whether it be to Death or Imprisonment. And what would he, or any implacable Priest, desire more? This Proposal makes him my Judge as well as my Accuser, and if he be not the most unreasonable Man alive, he must accept of it. All my Hopes here are, that his Reason may recover its Dominion over his Passion, against the Conclusion of my _Defence_, or it will go hard with me. If the _Bishop_ will not comply with this Proposal, I shall conclude, he's possess'd with the only certain and allegorical _Satan_, mention'd in my _Discourses_; and I shall be confirm'd in the Opinion of St. _Hilary_ (whose Testimonies about Devils, the _Bishop_ has silently pass'd by, without any Charge upon me for Misrepresentation) that there are no worse _Devils_ in the World, than the calumniating, furious, and persecuting Tempers of Mankind. The _Bishop_, by the by, has taken Pains to prove there are other _Devils_, of an infernal, frightful, and independent Nature, and of a more certain Existence than _Hobgoblins_; and he gravely asserts, that three of those _Devils_ enter'd into each _Hog_, that ran violently down-hill; thereby making the little _Pigs_ to carry as great a Burden as the old _Boars_ and _Sows_, which should have been better thought of by him. The _Bishop_, perhaps, for these my Descants, will say I am an Infidel; but I assure him, it is one of the Articles of my Primitive and Christian Faith, that the old _Dragon_, _Satan_, the _Serpent_, or the _Devil_, mention'd in the _Revelations_, is no other than the furious, violent, and persecuting Spirit in Man; which, upon the World's getting Liberty of Religion, will be bound and chain'd. And it is the Opinion of Thousands, as well as of my self, that Mankind will never be Happy, nor at Rest, till this _Devil_ is exorcised out of the Priesthood, and so of consequence chain'd up. According to the primitive Way of interpreting the _Revelations_ of St. _John_, the Time is near at Hand for the _binding_ this Apocalyptical old _Dragon_ or _Satan_, that has pester'd the World through all Ages past. All the Honour that I desire, is, by my Studies and Endeavours to be contributing to so great a Work, for the Good and Happiness of Mankind.