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 have no Regard but to those, who believe we are only bound to consider them? Do what we can, that which is a free Government to one Party will be Tyranny to another; and that which some call Liberty, to others will be Slavery; where every slight Faction and trivial Sect calls itself the Public, and would have no Consideration had of any thing, but itself; where every Man can teach us how to govern, but no body knows how to obey. He, that once brought a savage People to civility, and for the difficulty of the Work is said to have charmed Stones, and made them build themselves into a Wall, had such a Kind of Task as we have; for every Stone we are to use, is a Master-builder, and can instruct us to do our Work, and, if we will be ruled by them, to perform Impossibilities. For what is it else to settle any Thing, that shall please those, who can endure nothing that is settled; whom Conscience, that restrains other Men, lets loose to all Licentiousness, and whose Religion persuades them to be obliged to nothing; who, if we should grant all they can propose to us to-Day, would to-Morrow, upon change of Light, renounce it?