ABSTRACT
With Illustration of the Benefit of their Union, and of the Mischiefs and Dangers of their continued Dissention. There are in all governments many things done by and with the consent of the people; nay all government so much depends upon the consent of the people, that without their consent and submission it must be dissolved. History being the chief source of civil wisdom, and the Romans having been the most illustrious free people, a due consideration of their rise, grandeur, declension, and ruin of their common-weal, with the introduction of imperial power, would be profitable to other free states. Trajan, who excelled in justice and integrity, as well as military accomplishments, was adopted and associated into the empire by Nerva, on advice of whose death when at Cologne, among other things, he wrote with his own hand to the senate that he would neither put to death nor dishonour any honest man.
