“May the following _illustration_ dart at least one luminous beam into the profound darkness in which your venerable Diana delights to dwell! And may it show the Christian world that we do not ‘_slander you_,’ when we assert, you inadvertently _destroy God’s law_, and cast the Redeemer’s _crown to the ground_: and that when you say, ‘_In point of justification_’ (and consequently of condemnation) ‘_we have nothing to do with the law: we are under the law as a rule of life_,’ but not as a rule of judgment, you might as well say, ‘We are under no law, and consequently no longer accountable for our actions.’ “The King, whom I _suppose_ in love with your doctrines of free grace and free wrath, by the advice of a predestinarian council and parliament, issues out a _Gospel_ proclamation, directed, ‘To all his dear subjects, and _elect_ people, the _English_.’ By this evangelical manifesto they are informed, ‘That in consideration of the Prince of Wales’s meritorious intercession, and perfect obedience to the laws of England, all the penalties annexed to the breaking of those laws are now abolished with respect to _Englishmen_: That His Majesty freely pardons all his subjects, who have been, are, or shall be guilty of adultery, murder, or treason: That all their crimes, “past, present, and to come, are for ever and for ever cancelled:”’ That, nevertheless, his loving subjects, who remain strangers to their privileges, shall still be served with sham warrants according to law, and frightened out of their wits, till they have learned to plead they are _Englishmen_ (_i.e._ elect): And then they shall set at defiance all legalists, that is, all those who shall dare to deal with them according to law: And that, excepting the case of the above-mentioned _false_ prosecution of his chosen people, none of them shall ever be molested for the breach of any law.’ “By the same supreme authority, it is likewise enacted, that all the laws shall continue in force against foreigners, (_i.e._ reprobates) whom the King and the Prince hate with everlasting hatred, and to whom they have agreed never to show mercy: That, accordingly, they shall be prosecuted to the utmost rigour of every statute, till they are all hanged or burned out of the way: And that, supposing no personal offence can be proved against them, it shall be lawful to hang them in chains for the crime of one of their forefathers, to set forth the King’s wonderful justice, display his glorious sovereignty, and make his chosen people relish the better their sweet, distinguishing privileges as _Englishmen_.