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and bring Mankind to live, at least like reasonable Creatures, if not as Christians.
The Answer to this would be direct, if Laws and Government were concerned in it. But as we complain of an Evil which the sense of God's Laws, nor the force of human Laws, will not reach, nothing of Force, nothing of putting Statutes in execution, nothing of the Hand of the Magistrate can be thought of use, or, if it be, will be equally laugh'd at. Indeed, how should they that can Argue themselves out of all the Restraints of Virtue and Religion, be expected to be under any Restraints, except those of Power?
And this makes me have recourse to Satyr, and the Reproofs and Lashes of the Pen. These are the proper Weapons to combat this Adversary: Where the Laws of God or Man have no Effect, the Satyr has been sometimes known to reach the Affections and Passions of Men; as they run in several Channels, so they are to be come at by several Methods; Ways and Means for one Thing will not be always Ways and Means for another; as Men are wrought upon, some by one Thing, some by another, according to the several Tempers and Dispositions which govern them, and in which they act; so, in general, they are mov'd, some in one Way, some in another.
National Mistakes, vulgar Errors, and even a general Practice, have been reform'd by a just Satyr. None of our Countrymen have been known to boast of being True-Born English-Men, or so much as to use the Word as a Title or Appellation ever since a lateSatyr
