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But the Book which hath furnished my Enemies with matter of Reviling (which none must dare to answer) is my
Holy Commonwealth: The Occasion of it was this; when our Pretorian Sectarian Bands had cut all Bonds and
pull’d down all Government, and after the Death of the King had twelve Years kept out his Son, few Men saw
any probability of his Restitution; and every self-conceited Fellow was ready to offer his Model for a new Form of
Government: Mr. Hobbs his Leviathan had pleased many: Mr. Tho. White the great Papist, had written his
Politicks in English for the Interest of the Protector, to prove that Subjects ought to submit and subject themselves
to such a Change; And now Mr. James Harrington (they say by the help of Mr. H. Nevill) had written a Book in
Folio for a Democracy called Oceana, seriously describing a Form near to the Venetian, and setting the People
upon the Desires of Change: And after this Sir H. Vane and his Party were about their Sectarian Democractical
Model, which Stubbs defended; and Rogers and Needham (and Mr. Bagshaw had written against Monarchy
before).
Richard Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianae (London, 1696).