.MzY.NDk4

15. as Princes ought to be, and impressions of Shame if they are artfully given, will have as much effect on Them, as impressions of Fear, which are employed to correct those of inferior Ranks. If all the care that has been mentioned be not constantly taken, the bowing, cringing, fawning companion as contemptible as he may really be, will have sometimes a fair chance to gain credit, even where he cannot gain esteem, nay even his futility may become his merit and he may draw the Prince down to his own low level.

These short notes are nothing more than outlines, but if these are well laid, it will not be hard to fill them up, and to make the draught compleat.

If nothing has been said concerning the Education of Princes in the knowledge and practice of Revealed Religion, it has been because the subject might appear too sublime to be treated of by the humble author of these notes. He leaves it therefore to those Reverend and Right Reverend Persons, who are appointed by Ordination, Consecration, and a Communication of the gifts of the Holy Ghost to teach it exclusively of other Men: All He will venture to insinuate, is the necessity of teaching Gospel Christianity in the same true and genuine simplicity in which it was taught originally, and to avoid hearing the passions of Princes with that artificial Theology which has been grafted on Christianity and a bigot attachment to which in Emperors and Kings, has perverted from the days of Constantine to this Hour the true effects both of natural and Revealed Religion, which are Benevolence, Charity, Justice and Peace.