Britons and Protestants, I gave my self up Body and Soul, to a little sorry melancholy Faction, who only subsist themselves, like the Cevennes in Languedock, on a seditious Sermon now and then, and a few comfortable Visions, Rumours and Hopes, of gratifying their private Resentments at the price of the publick Ruine.
Indeed I must own, I had some Scruples of Conscience at first, on this extraordinary Conversion that was wrought in me; but when I reflected on the Expences I had been at, to obtain Promises that were forgotten, and secure Places I now saw possest by others; when I compar'd the Ruins of my Fortune, with my old Rent-Rolls, my past Debtors with my present Creditors, and my former Hopes with my present Despair; I at once broke thro' all my Oaths of Allegiance, and thought my Revolt the less dishonourable, since I had taken them but about seven or eight Times, and I saw several Men of Honour, engag'd in this Faction against the Government, who had taken them on at least twenty different Occasions.
In a Word, my Resentment soon quieted my Reason, and I began to hope for a thousand Scenes of Confusion and Destruction tomy
