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Reader, thou hat here the beginning and end of a dicoure concerning government; what fate has otherwie dipoed of the papers that hould have filled up the middle, and were more than all the ret, it is not worth while to tell thee. Thee, which remain, I hope are ufficient to etablih the throne of our great retorer, our preent King William; to make good his title, in the conent of the people, which being the only one of all lawful governments, he has more fully and clearly, than any prince in Chritendom; and to jutify to the world the people of England, whoe love of their jut and natural rights, with their reolution to preerve them, aved the nation when it was on the very brink of lavery and ruin. If thee papers have that evidence, I flatter myelf is to be found in them, there will be no great mis of thoe which are lot, and my reader may be atisfied without them: for I imagine, I hall have neither the time, nor inclination to repeat my pains, and fill up the wanting part of my anwer, by tracing Sir Robert again, through all the windings and obcurities, which are to be met with in the everal branches of his wonderful ytem. The king, and body of the nation, have ince o throughly confuted his Hypotheis, that I uppoe no body hereafter will Rh