Whoever makes a true Estimate of Christianity, who does not profess it, because as yet, ’tis the Religion of his Country, or for his Interest, or some such worthy Motive; but upon full Conviction of its Divine Authority, which he cannot want if he examines impartially, as a Matter of this Consequence deserves; such a Man will find Christianity requires the strictest Purity of Heart and Imagination, since in the thickest Darkness our Thoughts, as well as our Actions, are manifest to our Judge; and, that whoever looks upon a Woman to Lust after her, has committed Adultery with her already in his Heart. _Horses and Bulls, and all the brutal Kind, } Range o’er the Field, to no one She confin’d, } They know not Love, for Love is in the Mind. } These following Nature are exempt from Blame, Unconscious or of Guilt, Remorse and Shame._ _But Man, unhappy Man! puts out his Light, Reason forsakes, to follow Appetite. Sinks down to Brute, and labours but in vain, } To be like them, without Remorse or Shame; } To Guilt, inevitably follows Pain. } No Deeds of Darkness are conceal’d by Night, } He sees Who dwells in everlasting Light, } And ev’ry Thought is open to His Sight._ } [Illustration] APPENDIX. The _Reflector_, who hopes _Reflector_ is not bad _English_, (now _Governor_ is happily of the Feminine Gender) guarded against Curiosity in vain: For a certain ingenuous Gentleman, as she is inform’d, had the Good-nature to own these Reflections, so far, as to affirm that he had the Original _MS._ in his Closet, a Proof she is not able to produce; and so to make himself responsible for all their Faults, for which, she returns him all due Acknowledgment. However, the Generality being of Opinion, that a Man would have had more Prudence and Manners than to have Publish’d such unseasonable Truths, or to have betray’d the _Arcana Imperii_ of his Sex; she humbly confesses, that the Contrivance and Execution of this Design, which is unfortunately accus’d of being so destructive to the Government, (of the Men, I mean) is intirely her own. She neither advis’d with Friends, nor turn’d over antient or modern Authors, nor prudently submitted to the Correction of such as are, or such as _think_ they are good Judges, but with an _English_ Spirit and Genius, set out upon the Forlorn Hope, meaning no Hurt to any body, nor designing any thing but the publick Good, and to retrieve, if possible, the Native Liberty, the Rights and Privileges of the Subject.