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luting their Mouths with the filthy Behaviour of those they see Cause to reprove: And this makes many a lewd and vitious Wretch go unexposed, at least as he deserves; and many a scandalous Crime, as well as the rich and powerful Criminals, go unreproved.
The auxiliary Press therefore must come in to supply the deficiency; they may read, I hope, what they could not hear: Nor am I afraid of the Faces of Men, that, eminent in Wickedness, flagrant in Lewdness, and abominable in Tongue, as well as Practice, the famous and infamous in the worst of Vices, Sir ——— P——— shall here see himself marked out for his odious Behaviour, in defiance of his Quality or Power. He who by Office and Authority punishes every Day less Crimes than he commits, who sins out of the reach of Reproof from the Pulpit, because too vile (as well as too powerful) to be spoken of by a modest Divine, who perhaps thinks it his Duty rather to Pray for him, which he laughs at, than to Reprove him, which he would storm and swear at; I say, he shall find what was said in another Case:
The Press may reach him, who the Pulpit scorns,
And he whose flagrant Vice the B adorns:
The fearless Satyr shall to Rage give vent,
And teach him how to Blush, tho' not Repent.
In short, 'tis a strange World! and we are grown up to a strange heighth in our Notions of Things! we have brought our selves to a Condition very particular to the Day, and singular as I may say, to our selves; the Policy of our
