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§ 49. P. 201, 202. He finds [nothing like proof but my Assertion, That the Regent part is the Informing part; and if it have not one Regent part, it is not one Society, as Political: If it have none, it is no Polity: If it have many, it is many].

Ans. Reader, his own words are, What a Drudgery it is to dispute with such: If he had talked of these things at School, he would not have challenged his Master to prove the signification of the words in his Dictionary; but now he is a Disputer, there is no end with him: If he challenge me to prove, that Rex signifieth a King, and Subditus a Subject, and so of the rest, he will get the better by tiring me: I can only refer him to ⟨p. 50⟩books, and use, and men of that profession: And so I do here: If Politia do not signify the Government, and Governed Societies informed by Government, all the Politics, and Dictionaries, and use of Politic-Professors, have deceived me. I know Politria is sometime used Tropically for any cause of life, any rules of living, yea, for good works, by Chrysostom, &c. But I said enough to make him know that I spake of it in the usual proper sense of Politicians: And so it is taken, 1. For the stated Form of government in Civiiate. 2. For the administration of that Government: 3. For the Jus Civitatis, or Burgesship in a governed City: 4. For the •nver•ation of men in such a governed Society. What is Politica but civilis scientia? What is Politicus but civilis respublicae gerendae peritus, or •ui rempublicam gerit? Tho it be called Respublica a fine, from the public ••od, yet men of that profession have appropriated the Names of Respubl•ca, Civitas, and Politia, to governed Societies only, and analogum per se p•situm stat pro famosi•re analogato.