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I deſire it may be conſider'd, what a kind of Peace there will be in the World, which conſiſts only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintain’d only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppreſſors. Who would not think it an admirable Peace betwixt the Mighty and the Mean, when the Lamb, without reſiſtance, yielded his Throat to be torn by the imperious Wolf? Polyphemus’s Den gives us a perfect Pattern of ſuch a Peace. Such a Government wherein Ulyſſes and his Compaions had nothing to do, but quietly to ſuffer themſelves to nee devour'd. And no doubt, Ulyſſes, who was a prudent Man, preach’d up Paſſive Obedience, and exhorted them to a quiet Submiſſion, by repreſenting to them of what concernment Peace was to Mankind; and by ſhewing the inconveniencies might happen, if they ſhould offer to reſiſt Polyphemus, who had now the Power over them.

229. The end of Government is the good of Mankind, and which is beſt for Mankind, that the People ſhould be always expos'd to the boundleſs will of Tranny, or that the Rulers fhould be fome- times liable to be oppos'd , when they grow exorbitant in the uſe of their Power, and imploy it for the deſtruction, and not the preſervation of the Properties of their People?

230. Nor

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