The works of John Locke Esq Author:John Locke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TWO T R E AT I S E S GOVERNMENT. In the Former, The falfe Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his Followers Are Detected and Over... more »thrown. The Latter, is an E S S A Y Concerning the True Original, Extent, and E N D of CIVIL-GOVERNMENT. Vol. II. N 2 The P R E F A C E. E A D E R, HOUbaftherethe Btgnning and End of a Vifcourfe concerning Government ; what Fate bat otbertvife difpofed of the Papers tbatjboula1 have filled up the middle, and were more than all the reft, 'tit not worth while to tell ibee. Tbefe, which remain, I hope are fufficient to e/lablijh the 'Throne of our great Reftorer Our prefent King William ; to make good bis Title, in the Confent of the People, which being the only one of all lawful Governments, be bat more fully and clearly, than any Prince in Chriftendom j and to jujhfie to the World the People of England, vebofe love of their ju/l and natural Rights, with their Refolutim to preserve them, faved tbe Nation when it was on the very brink of Slavery and Ruin. If theft Tapers have that evidence, I flatter my felf, is to be found in them, there Trill be no great wil's of tbofe which art loft, and my Reader may be falsified without them. For I imagine, I (ball have neither the timet nor Inclination to repeat my Paint, and fitt up the wanting part of my Anfwer, by tracing Sir Robert again, through aD the Windings and Obscurities, which are to be met with in the fcveral Branches of his wonderful Syftem. The King, and Body of the Nation, have finee fo throughly confuted bit Hypothelis, that, Ifuppofe, no body hereafter will have either the Confidence to appear againft our common Safety, and be again an Advocate for Slavery', or the Weakntft to be deceived with ContradicJions dref' fed up in a popular Stile, and w...« less