A PR.EMOMTION. 



It is far from the design of this Treatise, to 

 derogate from the honour of the calling, or 

 worth of the person of any sober Statesman. 

 'Tis a knowledge that no man observes with 

 more due respect than myself; because I know 

 it in no mean degree essential to the peace and 

 flourishing condition of a Kingdom, or Com- 

 monwealth. 'Tis a jewel to be locked up in 

 some few rare Cabinets ; and not to be made 

 cheap, and exposed to irreverence, by being 

 bared, and prostituted to every vulgar eye. 

 The Pseudo-Policy here mentioned is contra- 

 distinct to that science, which is ever built 

 upon piety and prudence ; for upon these solid 

 bases your wise architect delights to raise the 

 glorious superstructure of government in a 

 prince, and subjection in a people : so knitting 

 the interests of both, with reciprocal mixture, 

 that the welfare of the one may be involved in 

 the good of the other : that majesty may be 

 preserved in its just splendour, and yet the 



