Whether the preserving the Protestant religion was the motive unto, or the end that was designed in the late revolution in a letter to a country gentleman as an answer to his first query.
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             Whether the preserving the Protestant religion was the motive unto, or the end that was designed in the late revolution in a letter to a country gentleman as an answer to his first query.
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           Whether
           the
           Preserving
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           was
           the
           Motive
           unto
           ,
           or
           the
           End
           ,
           that
           was
           designed
           in
           the
           Late
           Revolution
           ?
        
         
           In
           a
           LETTER
           to
           a
           Country
           Gentleman
           ,
           as
           an
           Answer
           to
           his
           First
           QUERY
           .
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Can
           give
           you
           no
           better
           proof
           of
           the
           Authority
           you
           have
           over
           me
           ,
           than
           that
           I
           am
           ready
           to
           obey
           you
           in
           replying
           to
           your
           Questions
           ;
           though
           I
           foresee
           that
           I
           shall
           thereby
           not
           only
           hazard
           my
           Safety
           ,
           but
           be
           Judged
           by
           many
           to
           depart
           from
           the
           common
           Measures
           of
           Discretion
           :
           Seeing
           as
           I
           shall
           be
           sure
           to
           provoke
           the
           Gentleman
           whom
           we
           have
           had
           the
           Folly
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Disloyalty
           ,
           to
           set
           over
           us
           ,
           and
           to
           furnish
           with
           Legions
           ;
           and
           also
           to
           exasperate
           his
           Partisans
           ,
           who
           being
           his
           Copartners
           in
           guilt
           ,
           are
           likewise
           Sharers
           with
           him
           in
           the
           common
           Robbery
           :
           So
           I
           can
           hardly
           Escape
           displeasing
           others
           ,
           by
           endeavouring
           both
           to
           undeceive
           them
           in
           Matters
           wherein
           they
           have
           been
           misled
           ,
           and
           to
           give
           them
           a
           View
           
           and
           Sense
           of
           their
           Slavery
           ,
           while
           they
           continue
           fond
           of
           their
           Delusions
           ,
           and
           proud
           of
           their
           Fetters
           and
           Chains
           .
           So
           that
           under
           all
           the
           Prospect
           which
           I
           am
           ,
           both
           of
           Censure
           and
           of
           personal
           Danger
           ,
           by
           this
           Undertaking
           ,
           I
           have
           but
           very
           little
           hope
           of
           awaking
           and
           prevailing
           upon
           a
           Cheated
           ,
           Impoverished
           ,
           and
           Enslaved
           Kingdom
           ,
           to
           recover
           its
           Wits
           ,
           reassume
           its
           Loyalty
           ,
           and
           to
           vindicate
           its
           Liberty
           and
           Rights
           .
           For
           who
           can
           make
           them
           see
           that
           wilfully
           shut
           their
           Eyes
           ,
           and
           who
           take
           pleasure
           in
           being
           hood-winked
           ,
           that
           they
           ▪
           may
           be
           led
           about
           blind
           ?
           Or
           who
           can
           rouse
           those
           to
           value
           and
           look
           after
           Freedom
           ,
           that
           place
           their
           Contentment
           in
           having
           their
           Ears
           bored
           and
           nailed
           to
           Kensington
           Gates
           ?
           It
           is
           the
           greatest
           Prodigy
           of
           this
           Age
           ,
           though
           it
           hath
           been
           fertile
           of
           Wonders
           enough
           ,
           That
           they
           who
           boasted
           of
           
             taking
             Lions
          
           by
           the
           Beard
           ,
           can
           submit
           to
           be
           gnawn
           by
           Mice
           and
           Rats
           .
           And
           that
           they
           who
           could
           refuse
           reverence
           to
           Princes
           whom
           God
           had
           set
           over
           them
           ,
           cloathed
           with
           his
           own
           Stile
           ,
           and
           with
           his
           Divine
           Sanction
           upon
           their
           Authority
           ,
           can
           dwindle
           into
           the
           Meaness
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           degenerate
           into
           the
           Irreligion
           ,
           of
           ado●ing
           Crocodiles
           ,
           and
           worshipping
           Wolves
           ,
           which
           have
           nothing
           to
           make
           them
           Respected
           and
           Cringed
           unto
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           are
           Brutal
           and
           Rapacious
           .
           Yet
           how
           little
           probability
           is
           there
           of
           recovering
           the
           Nation
           either
           to
           reverence
           themselves
           ,
           or
           him
           whom
           they
           ought
           ?
           When
           not
           only
           those
           of
           St.
           
             Stephen's
             Chapel
          
           ,
           who
           should
           be
           the
           Conservators
           of
           our
           Property
           ,
           Freedom
           and
           Rights
           ,
           do
           value
           themselves
           upon
           being
           the
           Instruments
           of
           the
           Subjects-Bondage
           ,
           and
           the
           Tools
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Tyranny
           :
           But
           when
           the
           Men
           in
           Gowns
           of
           both
           Professions
           do
           ,
           the
           one
           make
           the
           Law
           of
           which
           they
           are
           appointed
           Guardians
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           the
           Gospel
           whereof
           they
           were
           intended
           Dispensers
           ,
           means
           of
           authorising
           his
           Arbitrariness
           and
           our
           Oppression
           ,
           and
           of
           sanctifying
           the
           usurped
           and
           illegally
           exerted
           Power
           of
           him
           whom
           they
           have
           Consecrated
           to
           Rule
           ,
           and
           of
           Hallowing
           the
           Servitude
           and
           Poverty
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           over
           whom
           they
           have
           advanced
           him
           :
           But
           as
           I
           have
           learned
           to
           govern
           my self
           ,
           by
           the
           Discoveries
           of
           Revelation
           and
           the
           Dictates
           of
           natural
           Light
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Civil
           Constitution
           and
           Society
           under
           which
           and
           where
           I
           was
           born
           ,
           and
           do
           live
           ,
           and
           not
           by
           other
           Mens
           Opinion
           ,
           or
           by
           little
           and
           mean
           Regards
           to
           my
           own
           Profit
           and
           Fame
           ;
           so
           the
           only
           as
           well
           as
           the
           main
           Thing
           ,
           which
           I
           am
           solicitous
           about
           ,
           is
           ,
           That
           I
           may
           discharge
           my
           Duty
           to
           God
           ,
           my
           King
           ,
           and
           my
           Country
           ,
           without
           looking
           unto
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           without
           being
           uneasy
           and
           anxious
           conce●ning
           Issues
           and
           Events
           .
           And
           though
           I
           should
           be
           
           thankful
           unto
           God
           ,
           and
           joyful
           in
           my self
           ,
           to
           see
           my
           Country-men
           perswaded
           and
           gained
           to
           relieve
           themselves
           ,
           and
           to
           save
           the
           Kingdom
           and
           their
           Posterity
           ,
           by
           returning
           to
           their
           Fealty
           ,
           and
           by
           claiming
           and
           asserting
           the
           old
           English
           Constitution
           in
           all
           its
           Parts
           and
           Branches
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           the
           Useful
           ,
           Honourable
           ,
           and
           Legitimate
           Ends
           and
           Purposes
           of
           it
           ;
           yet
           should
           I
           have
           the
           Misfortune
           to
           see
           my self
           disappointed
           ,
           and
           to
           find
           all
           my
           Loyal
           ,
           Charitable
           ,
           and
           Well
           meant
           Endeavours
           frustrated
           ,
           through
           the
           Stupidness
           of
           some
           ,
           and
           the
           Bigottry
           of
           others
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           because
           too
           many
           of
           all
           Ranks
           are
           Copartners
           with
           the
           Usurper
           in
           the
           Spoil
           and
           Plunder
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           several
           have
           their
           own
           Ambitions
           satisfied
           by
           him
           ,
           whose
           haughty
           ,
           boundless
           ,
           and
           unnatural
           Aspirings
           they
           have
           gratified
           with
           a
           Scepter
           and
           a
           Crown
           ,
           though
           at
           the
           Expence
           of
           their
           own
           Loyalty
           ,
           Honour
           ,
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ;
           yet
           I
           shall
           neither
           be
           discouraged
           ,
           dejected
           ,
           nor
           murmur
           ,
           much
           less
           be
           withdrawn
           from
           my
           Duty
           ,
           but
           shall
           take
           up
           with
           the
           Peace
           ,
           Contentment
           and
           Pleasure
           ,
           which
           the
           being
           conscious
           to
           my
           own
           Integrity
           will
           give
           me
           ,
           of
           having
           done
           what
           ▪
           became
           an
           honest
           Man
           ,
           and
           a
           good
           Subject
           .
        
         
           Now
           Sir
           ,
           though
           your
           two
           Queries
           came
           together
           ,
           and
           be
           each
           of
           them
           of
           that
           Weight
           and
           Importance
           as
           to
           require
           a
           serious
           ,
           solid
           ,
           and
           well-digested
           Answer
           ;
           yet
           you
           must
           not
           expect
           that
           I
           should
           reply
           to
           them
           both
           at
           once
           ;
           seeing
           that
           would
           not
           only
           too
           much
           ▪
           Fatigue
           me
           to
           give
           ,
           and
           no
           leass
           Weary
           you
           to
           peruse
           ,
           but
           would
           Discourage
           those
           who
           do
           most
           need
           the
           Instruction
           and
           Benefit
           of
           Papers
           of
           this
           kind
           ,
           from
           Consulting
           them
           to
           receive
           it
           ,
           by
           reason
           th●t
           ●he
           Bulkiness
           which
           such
           a
           Discourse
           must
           unavoidably
           grow
           up
           unto
           ,
           would
           challenge
           more
           of
           their
           time
           ,
           than
           the
           complying
           with
           their
           worldly
           Occasions
           ,
           and
           the
           satisfying
           their
           Lusts
           ,
           will
           allow
           them
           to
           spare
           .
           However
           ,
           having
           in
           a
           manner
           prepared
           Answers
           to
           them
           both
           before
           I
           send
           you
           this
           to
           the
           first
           ,
           you
           may
           reckon
           that
           the
           other
           will
           be
           dispatched
           speedily
           after
           it
           ;
           and
           that
           what
           conerns
           the
           second
           will
           be
           ready
           to
           overtake
           this
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           laid
           before
           you
           ,
           by
           that
           time
           you
           have
           sufficiently
           entertained
           your self
           with
           what
           is
           now
           put
           into
           your
           hands
           .
        
         
           That
           I
           may
           immediately
           therefore
           address
           my self
           to
           the
           answering
           of
           your
           
             first
             Question
          
           ,
           namely
           ,
           
             Whether
             the
             Preserving
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             was
             the
             Inducement
             to
             the
             Prince
             of
          
           Orange
           
             's
             Coming
             hither
             ,
             and
             the
             End
             that
             was
             aimed
             at
             in
             the
             dethroning
             of
             the
             King
             ,
             and
             driving
             
             him
             out
             of
             his
             Kingdoms
             ?
          
           I
           must
           needs
           say
           ,
           That
           the
           Prince's
           Tenderness
           and
           Zeal
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           his
           compassionate
           Care
           to
           secure
           it
           to
           us
           and
           our
           Posterity
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           in
           imminent
           and
           immediate
           Danger
           of
           being
           extirpated
           ,
           and
           which
           there
           was
           no
           other
           visible
           human
           Means
           to
           prevent
           ,
           was
           then
           ,
           and
           continues
           still
           to
           be
           made
           ,
           the
           pretence
           of
           his
           invading
           these
           Dominions
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           that
           afterwards
           followed
           ,
           till
           upon
           this
           Specious
           and
           Godly
           Plea
           he
           had
           obtained
           to
           be
           seated
           upon
           the
           Throne
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           all
           that
           has
           succeeded
           and
           ensued
           since
           ,
           both
           in
           the
           Beginning
           and
           in
           the
           Supporting
           of
           this
           destructive
           and
           impoverishing
           War
           ;
           by
           which
           no
           benefit
           was
           ever
           intended
           to
           accrue
           to
           us
           ,
           but
           which
           was
           entered
           upon
           ,
           and
           hath
           been
           hitherto
           carried
           on
           ,
           that
           others
           might
           be
           rendered
           Safe
           and
           Wealthy
           ,
           at
           the
           Expence
           of
           our
           Blood
           and
           Treasure
           .
           However
           Religion
           hath
           been
           all
           along
           alledged
           as
           the
           Motive
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           Argument
           to
           Justify
           whatsoever
           hath
           been
           done
           ,
           and
           to
           extenuate
           and
           sweeten
           all
           that
           we
           have
           Lost
           and
           Suffered
           .
           This
           is
           the
           principal
           Plea
           which
           he
           bears
           himself
           upon
           for
           his
           own
           Vindication
           ;
           and
           by
           which
           all
           those
           seek
           to
           warrant
           themselves
           ,
           who
           either
           Invited
           or
           Attended
           him
           hither
           ,
           or
           who
           at
           first
           Received
           and
           Joyned
           him
           at
           his
           Landing
           ,
           and
           on
           his
           March
           to
           London
           ,
           or
           that
           came
           in
           afterwards
           to
           Cooperate
           unto
           ,
           Concur
           with
           ,
           and
           Approve
           of
           what
           hath
           been
           done
           .
           This
           is
           that
           by
           which
           your
           Judges
           do
           decoy
           on
           the
           People
           tamely
           to
           pay
           their
           Taxes
           ,
           and
           trapan
           and
           wheedle
           them
           to
           persevere
           in
           their
           Rebellion
           in
           their
           Harangues
           at
           Assizes
           ,
           instead
           of
           entertaining
           them
           with
           those
           obsolete
           Things
           relative
           to
           Law
           ,
           Righteousness
           and
           Equity
           ,
           with
           which
           their
           Predecessors
           used
           at
           those
           times
           to
           furnish
           and
           adorn
           the
           Charges
           which
           they
           gave
           .
           Witness
           
           Treby's
           Oration
           at
           Kingston
           the
           last
           Circuit
           ,
           which
           wholy
           consisted
           of
           Romantick
           Praises
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           for
           having
           so
           Christianly
           and
           Heroically
           Stept
           in
           to
           save
           our
           Religion
           ,
           when
           at
           the
           brink
           of
           being
           lost
           ;
           and
           of
           Satyr
           and
           Invective
           against
           King
           James
           ,
           for
           having
           designed
           to
           overthrow
           it
           ;
           whereof
           ,
           among
           other
           Things
           ,
           he
           had
           the
           Impudence
           and
           Insolency
           to
           accuse
           him
           ,
           without
           regard
           either
           to
           Truth
           or
           Decency
           .
           This
           is
           likewise
           that
           by
           which
           your
           mercenary
           and
           sycophant
           Divines
           ,
           who
           have
           translated
           their
           Pulpets
           into
           Stages
           ,
           and
           transformed
           themselves
           into
           
             Merry
             Andrews
          
           and
           Buffoons
           ,
           would
           Legitimate
           the
           Rebellion
           ,
           and
           ,
           instead
           of
           a
           Sin
           ,
           bind
           it
           as
           a
           Duty
           upon
           our
           Consciences
           ;
           and
           cantingly
           blow
           us
           into
           ●●iumphs
           of
           Thankfulness
           and
           Joy
           ,
           when
           we
           ly
           Groveling
           and
           Starving
           
           under
           Slavery
           and
           Poverty
           .
           Witness
           instead
           of
           edifying
           Sermons
           to
           confirm
           our
           Faith
           in
           the
           great
           Articles
           of
           Religion
           ,
           and
           to
           promote
           our
           Christian
           Obedience
           ,
           the
           many
           luscious
           and
           fulsom
           Panegyricks
           which
           have
           been
           Preached
           and
           Printed
           within
           these
           Six
           last
           Years
           ,
           and
           which
           are
           at
           that
           distance
           from
           Decorum
           as
           well
           as
           from
           Truth
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           be
           the
           Scorn
           of
           the
           Theatre
           ,
           and
           hissed
           at
           by
           the
           Pit.
           This
           they
           reckon
           so
           bright
           a
           Colour
           in
           their
           Limning
           and
           Drawing
           the
           Usurpers
           ,
           that
           the
           
             dull
             Man
          
           selected
           to
           divert
           the
           Company
           at
           the
           Interment
           of
           the
           late
           
             Princess
             of
             Orange
          
           ,
           and
           who
           could
           dispence
           with
           his
           Conscience
           in
           saying
           several
           Things
           of
           her
           above
           the
           Standard
           and
           Proportion
           of
           Truth
           ,
           but
           had
           not
           Wit
           ,
           nor
           elevation
           of
           Thought
           ,
           to
           say
           any
           Thing
           that
           was
           Raptorous
           ,
           Decorous
           and
           Fine
           ,
           could
           not
           omit
           the
           making
           it
           one
           of
           the
           main
           Strokes
           in
           her
           Picture
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           was
           to
           give
           the
           lovely
           and
           lively
           Air
           ,
           and
           the
           ornamental
           Beauty
           to
           the
           whole
           ;
           namely
           ,
           
             That
             she
             was
             a
             wise
             and
             a
             good
             Queen
             ,
             and
             an
             incomparable
             Wise
             ,
             and
             one
             that
             had
             all
             the
             Duty
             in
             the
             World
             for
             other
             Relations
             ,
             which
             after
             long
             and
             laborious
             Consideration
             she
             judged
             consistent
             with
             her
             Obligations
             to
             God
             and
             her
             Country
             .
          
           Which
           is
           as
           much
           as
           if
           Dr.
           Tenison
           had
           said
           ,
           That
           if
           it
           had
           not
           been
           for
           the
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           Liberties
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           were
           in
           danger
           to
           have
           been
           subverted
           ,
           she
           would
           have
           been
           an
           
             obedient
             Daughter
          
           to
           the
           King
           ;
           and
           would
           not
           have
           usurped
           his
           Throne
           ,
           and
           drove
           him
           and
           the
           vertuous
           Queen
           ,
           with
           the
           Royal
           and
           Innocent
           Infant
           her
           Brother
           ,
           out
           of
           their
           Dominions
           ,
           to
           be
           as
           Vagabonds
           in
           the
           World
           ;
           had
           it
           not
           been
           for
           the
           Generosity
           of
           a
           Neighbouring
           Monarch
           ,
           who
           has
           Received
           ,
           Entertained
           ,
           and
           Succoured
           them
           in
           their
           Calamity
           ,
           with
           a
           Deference
           ,
           Respect
           ,
           and
           Nobleness
           ,
           becoming
           his
           own
           Greatness
           ,
           and
           which
           hath
           carried
           in
           it
           a
           Recognition
           of
           their
           Grandeur
           and
           Sovereign
           Quality
           .
           So
           that
           I
           do
           grant
           unto
           you
           ,
           That
           the
           preserving
           our
           Religion
           hath
           been
           the
           great
           Pretence
           for
           all
           the
           Injuries
           have
           been
           done
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           the
           alledged
           Motives
           to
           all
           the
           disloyal
           ,
           illegal
           ,
           and
           immoral
           Things
           which
           have
           been
           perpetrated
           to
           compass
           and
           effect
           the
           late
           Revolution
           :
           And
           I
           add
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           still
           made
           the
           Topick
           and
           Plea
           whereby
           to
           justify
           all
           the
           Villanies
           ,
           Crimes
           and
           Barbarities
           ,
           which
           have
           been
           practised
           since
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           that
           whereby
           to
           palliate
           all
           our
           Losses
           and
           Misfortunes
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           accounted
           for
           more
           than
           an
           equivalent
           of
           all
           the
           Distresses
           ,
           Miseries
           and
           Mischiefs
           ,
           which
           have
           ensued
           as
           the
           Effects
           and
           Consequences
           of
           it
           .
        
         
         
           But
           should
           it
           be
           admitted
           that
           this
           was
           not
           only
           a
           pretended
           but
           a
           
             real
             Motive
          
           to
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           that
           hath
           resulted
           from
           ,
           and
           attended
           it
           ;
           yet
           it
           hath
           not
           been
           hitherto
           made
           appear
           ,
           that
           according
           to
           the
           Rules
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           the
           Fundamentals
           of
           our
           Government
           ,
           and
           the
           Statutes
           of
           the
           Realm
           ,
           it
           is
           likewise
           a
           Lawful
           and
           Justifiable
           one
           ;
           and
           all
           that
           have
           written
           either
           of
           Ethicks
           or
           Politicks
           do
           tell
           us
           ,
           and
           the
           Principles
           of
           Reason
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Discoveries
           vouchsafed
           us
           by
           Revelation
           ,
           do
           set
           it
           in
           the
           brightest
           Light
           ,
           That
           neither
           the
           Goodness
           of
           the
           Inducement
           ,
           nor
           the
           Piety
           of
           the
           End
           ,
           will
           serve
           to
           legitimate
           an
           Action
           ,
           unless
           there
           be
           both
           a
           proper
           Authority
           to
           License
           it
           ,
           and
           a
           Goodness
           either
           Positive
           or
           Natural
           in
           what
           is
           to
           be
           done
           ,
           when
           cloathed
           with
           all
           its
           Circumstances
           .
           Otherwise
           Men
           might
           Lawfully
           rob
           Temples
           ,
           and
           plunder
           Banks
           and
           Exchequers
           ,
           upon
           the
           Motive
           and
           Design
           of
           discharging
           their
           Debts
           ,
           and
           of
           paying
           their
           Creditors
           what
           they
           owe
           them
           :
           Nay
           they
           may
           vertuously
           murther
           their
           Parents
           ,
           deflower
           Maids
           ,
           and
           ravish
           their
           Sisters
           ,
           upon
           the
           Inducement
           and
           in
           order
           to
           the
           End
           of
           getting
           into
           possession
           of
           Estates
           ,
           which
           they
           may
           lavish
           away
           upon
           the
           Saviour
           of
           our
           Religion
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           towards
           the
           maintaining
           the
           Sacred
           War
           in
           which
           he
           is
           embarqued
           ,
           and
           for
           raising
           up
           a
           new
           Generation
           of
           Soldiers
           to
           defend
           the
           
             Dutch
             Barier
          
           against
           France
           .
           Nor
           are
           there
           any
           Villanies
           named
           or
           practised
           on
           the
           Earth
           ,
           which
           these
           late
           and
           now
           common
           T●picks
           of
           Argumentation
           will
           not
           serve
           to
           sanctify
           ,
           and
           to
           render
           them
           Actions
           highly
           meritorious
           .
           But
           neither
           our
           Statesmen
           ,
           Lawyers
           ,
           nor
           Divines
           ,
           have
           thought
           sit
           to
           meddle
           with
           this
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           to
           take
           upon
           them
           to
           demonstrate
           that
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           by
           those
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           we
           are
           allowed
           to
           dethrone
           Princes
           ,
           drive
           Kings
           from
           their
           Palaces
           into
           Exile
           ,
           and
           to
           involve
           Nations
           into
           blood
           ,
           if
           our
           established
           Religion
           be
           in
           danger
           of
           being
           supplanted
           and
           overthrown
           .
           Though
           without
           a
           clear
           and
           uncontrolable
           Proof
           of
           this
           ,
           all
           they
           have
           said
           ,
           or
           can
           say
           ,
           about
           his
           Majesty's
           Designs
           in
           prejudice
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           were
           there
           as
           much
           Truth
           in
           it
           as
           there
           is
           Rancour
           and
           Falshood
           ,
           makes
           not
           what
           we
           have
           done
           to
           be
           Lawful
           ;
           but
           only
           proclaims
           them
           to
           to
           be
           Sophisters
           in
           Logick
           ,
           Hypocrites
           in
           Religion
           ,
           Debauchers
           of
           the
           Consciences
           of
           Men
           ,
           Panders
           to
           Villany
           ,
           and
           the
           Flatterers
           of
           Criminals
           in
           their
           Rebellious
           Wickedness
           ,
           who
           have
           had
           the
           Irreligion
           and
           Impudence
           to
           plead
           it
           .
           For
           though
           I
           can
           readily
           grant
           that
           most
           of
           the
           Scripture
           Expressions
           and
           Precepts
           concerning
           the
           Duty
           
           and
           Obedience
           of
           Subjects
           to
           their
           Rulers
           ,
           do
           no
           further
           concern
           us
           ,
           than
           as
           they
           were
           either
           delivered
           and
           prescribed
           unto
           th●s●
           that
           were
           under
           Civil
           Constitutions
           of
           the
           like
           Species
           and
           Form
           with
           our
           own
           ;
           or
           then
           as
           they
           superadd
           the
           Divine
           Sanction
           to
           human
           Legislative
           Authority
           ,
           thereby
           to
           oblige
           and
           enforce
           us
           in
           Conscience
           to
           yield
           all
           that
           Reverence
           ,
           Loyalty
           ,
           and
           Obedience
           ,
           to
           our
           Sovereigns
           ,
           which
           the
           lawful
           and
           just
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kindom
           do
           impose
           upon
           and
           exact
           from
           us
           .
           And
           therefore
           and
           thence
           it
           is
           ,
           That
           the
           same
           Texts
           of
           Scripture
           do
           bind
           and
           oblige
           some
           Nations
           to
           yield
           a
           more
           universal
           ,
           unlimitted
           ,
           and
           unreserved
           Obedience
           to
           their
           Rulers
           ,
           〈◊〉
           they
           can
           be
           construed
           and
           applied
           to
           require
           those
           of
           other
           Countries
           to
           perform
           .
           For
           those
           Places
           of
           the
           Holy
           Bible
           are
           designed
           to
           influence
           and
           operate
           upon
           Conscience
           in
           proportion
           to
           the
           different
           degrees
           of
           Prerogative
           and
           Sovereignty
           vested
           in
           Princes
           ,
           and
           according
           to
           the
           respective
           measures
           of
           Liberty
           preserved
           unto
           Subjects
           ,
           by
           the
           Rules
           and
           Laws
           of
           their
           several
           and
           various
           Constitutions
           .
           The
           Scripture
           was
           not
           given
           and
           designed
           to
           teach
           us
           Politicks
           ,
           or
           to
           prescribe
           the
           Forms
           of
           Government
           ,
           and
           the
           several
           Limitations
           of
           them
           ,
           farther
           than
           that
           all
           Governments
           were
           to
           be
           for
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           good
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           and
           of
           Societies
           .
           But
           all
           Relative
           to
           Civil
           Government
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           is
           to
           require
           and
           oblige
           Subjects
           ,
           under
           the
           Penalty
           of
           eternal
           Wrath
           ,
           to
           yield
           Obedience
           in
           proportion
           to
           the
           respective
           Terms
           upon
           which
           the
           Government
           is
           founded
           under
           which
           they
           live
           ;
           and
           according
           to
           the
           several
           Laws
           by
           which
           it
           is
           to
           be
           upheld
           and
           exerted
           .
           And
           the
           same
           Divine
           and
           Revealed
           Commands
           which
           oblige
           us
           in
           England
           to
           submit
           to
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           be
           obedient
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Municipal
           and
           Statute
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           bind
           them
           at
           Venice
           to
           acquiesce
           in
           Aristocracy
           ,
           and
           be
           in
           subjection
           to
           that
           Authority
           and
           Power
           ,
           and
           to
           pay
           obedience
           to
           all
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Republick
           ;
           if
           they
           be
           not
           inconsistent
           with
           ,
           and
           contradictory
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           God.
           No
           Man
           will
           say
           ,
           That
           the
           same
           Things
           were
           Lawful
           for
           the
           Persians
           or
           Babylonians
           to
           do
           against
           their
           Kings
           ,
           which
           the
           Lacedemonians
           ,
           under
           the
           Protection
           and
           Authority
           of
           the
           Ephori
           ,
           might
           have
           done
           against
           theirs
           ;
           or
           which
           those
           of
           Arragon
           were
           heretofore
           empowered
           to
           do
           at
           the
           Command
           ,
           and
           under
           the
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           of
           a
           certain
           Person
           chosen
           and
           appointed
           to
           be
           the
           Custos
           and
           Guardian
           of
           their
           Rights
           and
           Privileges
           ,
           and
           who
           had
           Power
           by
           the
           Law
           and
           Constitution
           to
           controul
           and
           resist
           their
           Kings
           ,
           in
           case
           of
           their
           invading
           
           and
           going
           about
           to
           overthrow
           them
           .
           Whereupon
           it
           is
           no
           Sin
           in
           the
           King
           of
           France
           to
           take
           upon
           him
           and
           assume
           the
           whole
           Legislation
           ,
           without
           the
           assent
           and
           concurrence
           of
           the
           Three
           Estates
           ;
           whereas
           it
           would
           be
           otherwise
           in
           a
           King
           of
           England
           ,
           whilst
           he
           stands
           limitted
           ,
           as
           he
           doth
           ,
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Constitution
           and
           Government
           ,
           and
           restrained
           by
           his
           Coronation
           Oath
           .
           The
           French
           Monarch
           is
           guilty
           of
           no
           Offence
           in
           exacting
           Taxes
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           without
           a
           previous
           Gift
           and
           Grant
           of
           them
           by
           their
           Representatives
           :
           But
           I
           cannot
           say
           ,
           that
           according
           to
           the
           present
           Form
           of
           our
           Government
           ,
           the
           King
           of
           
             Great
             Britain
          
           would
           be
           Innocent
           ,
           in
           the
           Sight
           and
           Esteem
           of
           the
           Supreme
           Sovereign
           ,
           should
           he
           Levy
           Mony
           of
           his
           People
           without
           their
           own
           antecedent
           Consent
           in
           Parliament
           .
           So
           that
           I
           will
           affirm
           with
           the
           utmost
           Confidence
           ,
           as
           knowing
           I
           do
           it
           upon
           the
           greatest
           Certainty
           ,
           That
           every
           Declaration
           and
           Intimation
           in
           the
           Bible
           ,
           relative
           to
           the
           Subjection
           and
           Fealty
           we
           should
           pay
           to
           Sovereign
           Rulers
           ,
           are
           intended
           to
           bind
           and
           oblige
           us
           in
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           Fear
           of
           Divine
           Wrath
           ,
           to
           be
           obedient
           to
           them
           actively
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           is
           enacted
           and
           required
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           our
           Country
           ,
           if
           those
           Laws
           do
           command
           nothing
           inconsistent
           with
           and
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ;
           and
           to
           be
           passive
           in
           all
           Cases
           ,
           save
           in
           those
           in
           which
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           and
           the
           Statutes
           of
           the
           Realms
           where
           we
           live
           give
           us
           Liberty
           ,
           Right
           and
           Authority
           ,
           to
           withstand
           and
           oppose
           them
           .
           And
           I
           will
           presume
           to
           add
           ,
           with
           the
           fullest
           Assurance
           that
           Law
           and
           Reason
           can
           give
           me
           ,
           That
           in
           no
           Circumstances
           of
           Danger
           into
           which
           our
           Religion
           and
           Civil
           Liberties
           could
           be
           brought
           ,
           nor
           under
           any
           Hazards
           we
           could
           fall
           into
           of
           losing
           and
           having
           them
           supprest
           ,
           were
           we
           either
           permitted
           or
           empowered
           by
           the
           Fundamentals
           of
           our
           Government
           ,
           the
           Rules
           of
           our
           Constitution
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           Common
           or
           Statute
           Law
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           to
           rebel
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           to
           dethrone
           or
           drive
           him
           away
           .
           Nor
           did
           the
           having
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           established
           and
           secured
           unto
           us
           by
           Law
           ;
           nor
           its
           being
           incorporated
           among
           our
           Franchises
           ,
           and
           made
           a
           part
           of
           our
           Birth-right
           to
           possess
           it
           peaceably
           ,
           and
           practise
           it
           openly
           ,
           authorize
           us
           to
           take
           Arms
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           divest
           him
           of
           his
           Sovereignty
           ,
           and
           banish
           him
           from
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           though
           we
           had
           been
           furnished
           with
           the
           most
           clear
           and
           indisputable
           Evidence
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           fully
           resolved
           to
           extirpate
           it
           .
           For
           though
           the
           Laws
           give
           us
           a
           Title
           to
           it
           as
           our
           Heritage
           ,
           and
           a
           Right
           to
           claim
           the
           Exercise
           of
           it
           as
           our
           chiefest
           Blessing
           ,
           and
           most
           valuable
           Privilege
           ;
           yet
           no
           Law
           or
           
           Contract
           ,
           existent
           in
           the
           King's
           time
           ,
           had
           provided
           that
           we
           might
           fly
           to
           Arms
           to
           prevent
           its
           being
           supprest
           ,
           or
           for
           the
           securing
           the
           Continuance
           of
           it
           to
           us
           and
           our
           Posterity
           .
           Yea
           ,
           instead
           of
           that
           ,
           there
           were
           divers
           express
           Statutes
           then
           in
           being
           ,
           by
           which
           it
           was
           made
           and
           declared
           to
           be
           
             Treason
             to
             take
             up
             Arms
             against
             him
             upon
             any
             Pretence
             whatsoever
             .
          
           So
           that
           had
           the
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           been
           the
           real
           Motive
           and
           End
           of
           our
           raising
           War
           ,
           and
           of
           dethroning
           the
           King
           ,
           yet
           it
           was
           not
           a
           Lawful
           nor
           a
           Justifiable
           Inducement
           and
           Design
           for
           doing
           it
           :
           Nor
           can
           it
           be
           thought
           so
           by
           any
           who
           seriously
           consider
           ,
           and
           look
           upon
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           as
           the
           Standard
           and
           Measure
           of
           the
           Peoples
           Subjection
           and
           Obedience
           ;
           and
           that
           whatsoever
           the
           Municipal
           and
           Statute
           Laws
           of
           our
           Country
           restrain
           us
           from
           ,
           or
           confine
           us
           unto
           ,
           provided
           it
           interfere
           not
           with
           that
           which
           either
           the
           Laws
           of
           Nature
           or
           those
           of
           Revelation
           do
           indispensably
           require
           and
           exact
           ,
           that
           thereunto
           we
           stand
           bound
           ,
           limitted
           ,
           and
           obliged
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           Doctrines
           both
           of
           the
           Old
           and
           New
           Testaments
           ;
           and
           this
           upon
           no
           less
           penalty
           than
           Damnation
           .
           Which
           let
           no
           Man
           upon
           the
           Testimony
           of
           a
           Flattering
           or
           Mercenary
           Priest
           ,
           or
           the
           Authority
           and
           Verdict
           of
           a
           Prophane
           and
           Atheistical
           Statesman
           ,
           think
           he
           will
           or
           can
           escape
           ,
           without
           unfeigned
           Repentance
           evidenced
           in
           sincere
           and
           hearty
           Endeavours
           to
           restore
           the
           King.
           Nor
           are
           you
           to
           be
           surprised
           to
           hear
           this
           kind
           of
           Theology
           and
           Politicks
           from
           me
           ,
           seing
           that
           according
           to
           Dr.
           
           Sherlock's
           Phrase
           ,
           as
           no
           Man
           is
           forbid
           to
           grow
           wiser
           than
           he
           was
           ,
           so
           I
           blush
           not
           ,
           but
           glory
           to
           confess
           ,
           and
           have
           deeply
           bewailed
           it
           ,
           That
           I
           have
           been
           heretofore
           misled
           by
           false
           Notions
           ,
           and
           have
           entertained
           Hypotheses
           about
           Government
           neither
           reconcilable
           to
           our
           Laws
           ,
           nor
           to
           the
           Peace
           of
           Communities
           ,
           but
           
             errando
             discimus
             non
             errare
          
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           the
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           could
           be
           no
           Lawful
           and
           Justifiable
           Motive
           to
           the
           late
           Revolution
           ,
           so
           
             there
             were
             no
             just
             and
             sufficient
             Grounds
             administered
             by
             the
             King
             ,
             why
             any
             should
             have
             pretended
             that
             it
             was
             in
             danger
             of
             being
             Supplanted
             ,
             and
             much
             less
             in
             any
             Jeopardy
             of
             being
             overthrown
             .
          
           And
           every
           wise
           Man
           was
           then
           ,
           and
           is
           now
           much
           more
           sensible
           ,
           That
           all
           those
           noisy
           and
           clamorous
           Suggestions
           ,
           which
           were
           so
           industriously
           spread
           abroad
           ,
           of
           Designs
           laid
           and
           carried
           on
           for
           the
           Extirpation
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           were
           fictions
           of
           Knaves
           to
           impose
           upon
           Fools
           :
           And
           which
           were
           promoted
           and
           given
           out
           to
           blacken
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           to
           mislead
           a
           credulous
           and
           unthinking
           People
           .
           The
           great
           End
           of
           it
           being
           to
           impose
           upon
           
           the
           Understandings
           ,
           infect
           and
           pervert
           the
           Consciences
           of
           the
           Subjects
           ,
           thereby
           to
           undermine
           the
           Throne
           ,
           and
           shake
           the
           Government
           ,
           by
           Slanders
           and
           Reproaches
           thrown
           upon
           his
           Majesty
           .
           For
           he
           was
           so
           far
           from
           entertaining
           a
           Thought
           of
           this
           nature
           and
           tendency
           ,
           that
           he
           offered
           his
           Protestant
           Subjects
           all
           the
           legal
           Security
           they
           could
           desire
           ,
           besides
           what
           they
           actually
           had
           by
           the
           then
           established
           and
           existent
           Laws
           ,
           for
           the
           Preservation
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           Maintenance
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           its
           lawful
           Jurisdiction
           and
           Authority
           .
           Nay
           at
           such
           a
           distance
           was
           he
           in
           his
           Intentions
           from
           any
           ill
           Design
           against
           our
           Religion
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           willing
           even
           to
           the
           Diminution
           of
           his
           own
           Royalty
           and
           Grandeur
           both
           to
           have
           granted
           a
           Stipulatory
           Law
           ,
           which
           should
           have
           had
           the
           Force
           and
           Vertue
           of
           a
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           ,
           or
           
             Constitutional
             Contract
          
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           made
           it
           a
           Fundamental
           in
           the
           Government
           in
           all
           other
           Reigns
           .
           And
           to
           give
           farther
           Evidence
           of
           his
           alienation
           from
           ,
           and
           abhorrency
           of
           that
           ,
           with
           which
           he
           hath
           been
           so
           impudently
           and
           malitiously
           charged
           ,
           he
           was
           ready
           to
           have
           gratified
           the
           peevish
           Humours
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           have
           extinguished
           and
           removed
           the
           vain
           Fears
           and
           needless
           Jealousies
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           by
           consenting
           to
           a
           Thing
           not
           very
           reconcilable
           to
           true
           Politicks
           ,
           but
           directly
           inconsistent
           with
           any
           Design
           he
           was
           capable
           of
           harbouring
           to
           the
           prejudice
           of
           our
           Religion
           ;
           namely
           ,
           That
           the
           Prince
           and
           
             Princess
             of
             Orange
          
           should
           have
           been
           named
           and
           admitted
           Guarantees
           of
           what
           should
           have
           been
           agreed
           and
           enacted
           for
           the
           Preservation
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           on
           the
           Bottom
           and
           with
           the
           Provision
           only
           of
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           for
           Dissenters
           .
           And
           as
           there
           was
           not
           the
           least
           just
           Ground
           of
           suspecting
           his
           Majesty
           guilty
           of
           any
           secret
           Intentions
           of
           subverting
           our
           Religion
           ;
           his
           open
           ,
           avowed
           ,
           and
           candid
           Behaviour
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           his
           Publick
           and
           Royal
           Declarations
           ,
           lying
           in
           direct
           Opposition
           to
           such
           a
           concealed
           Machination
           ;
           so
           had
           it
           been
           possible
           for
           him
           to
           have
           so
           far
           departed
           from
           Kingly
           Wisdom
           and
           Justice
           ,
           and
           from
           true
           English
           Politicks
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           renounced
           the
           Veracity
           ,
           Compassion
           and
           Generosity
           ,
           which
           are
           so
           natural
           unto
           and
           inseparable
           from
           him
           ,
           as
           to
           have
           inwardly
           entertained
           ,
           and
           latently
           persued
           ,
           a
           Purpose
           and
           Project
           of
           that
           kind
           ;
           yet
           it
           was
           so
           impracticable
           ,
           and
           physically
           as
           well
           as
           morally
           impossible
           to
           be
           executed
           ,
           that
           instead
           of
           serving
           to
           awaken
           Fears
           in
           any
           discreet
           and
           sensible
           Men
           ,
           it
           could
           at
           most
           but
           have
           administered
           matter
           for
           Entertainment
           and
           Diversion
           ;
           and
           provoked
           us
           to
           laugh
           at
           the
           Weakness
           and
           ridiculous
           Bigottry
           of
           those
           that
           had
           Suggested
           
           such
           Councels
           unto
           him
           .
           For
           surely
           we
           will
           not
           so
           scandalously
           reproach
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           so
           ignominiously
           detract
           from
           the
           Integrity
           ,
           Zeal
           ,
           Industry
           ,
           and
           Learning
           of
           our
           Universities
           National
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           of
           many
           of
           our
           Layick
           Protestants
           ,
           as
           to
           imagine
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           to
           grant
           ,
           that
           those
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           were
           able
           to
           have
           disputed
           our
           Religion
           out
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           or
           to
           have
           baffled
           us
           out
           of
           our
           Belief
           ,
           and
           have
           withdrawn
           us
           from
           the
           Faith
           and
           Worship
           which
           we
           profess
           and
           practise
           ,
           by
           Arguments
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           Reason
           ,
           or
           Tradition
           .
           And
           indeed
           had
           they
           been
           Qualified
           for
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           Condition
           to
           have
           done
           it
           that
           way
           ,
           I
           do
           know
           no
           Cause
           ,
           unless
           we
           will
           disclaim
           both
           the
           being
           Men
           and
           the
           being
           Christians
           ,
           why
           we
           should
           have
           taken
           it
           ill
           to
           be
           conquered
           at
           those
           Weapons
           ,
           or
           been
           angry
           with
           them
           that
           should
           gain
           a
           Victory
           over
           us
           by
           such
           honourable
           and
           divine
           Means
           .
           But
           this
           they
           were
           so
           ill
           prepared
           and
           uncapable
           to
           effect
           ,
           That
           all
           their
           Essays
           and
           Efforts
           of
           that
           kind
           ,
           against
           our
           Religion
           ,
           served
           only
           to
           render
           it
           the
           more
           triumphant
           ,
           and
           to
           confirm
           us
           the
           better
           in
           it
           .
           And
           it
           had
           been
           the
           best
           Policy
           ,
           which
           the
           Religious
           of
           the
           Roman
           Fellowship
           could
           have
           used
           ,
           and
           I
           dare
           say
           will
           be
           thought
           so
           ,
           if
           ever
           they
           should
           be
           furnished
           with
           such
           another
           Opportunity
           ,
           to
           have
           confined
           themselves
           to
           the
           Service
           of
           their
           Altars
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           discharge
           of
           the
           Devotional
           Functions
           of
           their
           respective
           Orders
           ,
           and
           the
           performing
           the
           Ministrations
           incumbent
           upon
           them
           towards
           those
           within
           the
           Pale
           of
           their
           Church
           ;
           or
           at
           most
           to
           have
           employed
           themselves
           about
           the
           Subjects
           of
           common
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           of
           good
           Morals
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           have
           disturbed
           us
           in
           the
           possession
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           by
           Polemical
           Writings
           ,
           Controversal
           Tracts
           ,
           and
           by
           Oral
           Disputes
           .
           For
           those
           Methods
           were
           so
           eminently
           subservient
           to
           the
           Truth
           and
           Glory
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Reputation
           and
           Credit
           of
           our
           Divines
           ,
           and
           of
           other
           learned
           Persons
           of
           our
           Communion
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           be
           wise
           they
           will
           never
           venture
           to
           tread
           any
           more
           in
           those
           Paths
           ,
           unless
           they
           have
           a
           mind
           to
           embark
           in
           a
           Plot
           against
           themselves
           ,
           and
           to
           lose
           that
           Esteem
           which
           we
           are
           willing
           to
           preserve
           for
           them
           ,
           notwithstanding
           all
           our
           Differences
           in
           Religious
           Matters
           .
           For
           under
           all
           their
           Mistakes
           ,
           whereof
           some
           are
           of
           the
           highest
           Importance
           ,
           yet
           we
           ought
           to
           own
           and
           respect
           them
           as
           Christians
           ,
           and
           to
           pay
           them
           the
           deference
           that
           is
           due
           unto
           them
           ,
           not
           only
           upon
           the
           score
           of
           the
           Condition
           and
           Quality
           of
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           but
           upon
           the
           account
           both
           of
           their
           moral
           Accomplishments
           and
           of
           their
           natural
           and
           acquired
           Parts
           ,
           in
           which
           
           great
           Numbers
           among
           them
           are
           remarkably
           Eminent
           .
           And
           as
           there
           was
           not
           the
           least
           shadow
           of
           Probability
           ,
           that
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           could
           have
           disputed
           us
           out
           of
           our
           Religion
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           to
           〈◊〉
           an
           Affront
           to
           the
           common
           reason
           of
           Manking
           ,
           to
           believe
           that
           they
           could
           have
           
             overthrown
             it
             by
             Force
             and
             Violence
             .
          
           For
           notwithstanding
           that
           many
           have
           had
           the
           Malice
           to
           say
           this
           ,
           and
           some
           the
           Weakness
           to
           entertain
           it
           ;
           yet
           ,
           besides
           the
           Impracticableness
           of
           the
           Thing
           ,
           the
           King
           had
           both
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Goodness
           not
           only
           to
           disclaim
           it
           by
           Words
           ,
           but
           to
           disprove
           it
           by
           
             signal
             Matters
             of
             Fact.
          
           And
           unless
           worldly
           Interest
           ,
           Ambition
           ,
           Passion
           ,
           and
           Wrath
           ,
           had
           so
           darkened
           and
           distorted
           our
           Understandings
           ,
           as
           either
           to
           extinguish
           or
           pervert
           the
           use
           of
           our
           discursive
           Faculties
           ,
           we
           could
           never
           have
           allowed
           our selves
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           would
           attempt
           to
           do
           that
           in
           a
           way
           of
           Force
           ,
           which
           there
           were
           a
           hundred
           to
           withstand
           and
           oppose
           for
           every
           single
           Individual
           that
           can
           be
           supposed
           inclinable
           to
           have
           joyned
           in
           the
           Execution
           of
           it
           .
           Surely
           a
           very
           little
           Knowledge
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           a
           mean
           Acquaintance
           with
           History
           ,
           would
           help
           to
           instruct
           some
           unthinking
           and
           half
           witted
           People
           ,
           how
           difficult
           if
           not
           impracticable
           this
           has
           been
           found
           in
           other
           Nations
           where
           it
           hath
           been
           attempted
           .
           Nor
           have
           any
           that
           have
           set
           about
           it
           found
           it
           easy
           to
           be
           effected
           ,
           even
           where
           they
           have
           had
           all
           the
           Advantage
           imaginable
           to
           execute
           it
           .
           And
           we
           may
           be
           speedily
           convinced
           ,
           how
           unfeasable
           such
           a
           Design
           would
           have
           been
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           consequently
           how
           far
           from
           being
           either
           undertaken
           or
           thought
           of
           by
           a
           wise
           Prince
           :
           If
           we
           consider
           the
           Difficulties
           which
           have
           attended
           it
           in
           Roman
           Catholick
           Kingdoms
           ,
           where
           all
           the
           Craft
           and
           Power
           of
           wise
           and
           mighty
           Princes
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Strength
           and
           Rage
           of
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           People
           inflamed
           by
           Bigottry
           have
           been
           united
           to
           compass
           it
           .
           Is
           it
           possible
           for
           the
           King
           's
           most
           malignant
           Enemies
           ,
           who
           use
           to
           speak
           of
           him
           with
           the
           most
           unparalelled
           Undecency
           and
           brutal
           Rudeness
           ,
           to
           conceive
           or
           believe
           that
           he
           could
           be
           so
           prodigiously
           Indiscreet
           and
           Weak
           ,
           as
           to
           think
           of
           banishing
           or
           overthrowing
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           or
           of
           bringing
           in
           or
           setting
           up
           the
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           by
           a
           Protestant
           and
           Antipapal
           Army
           ?
           And
           other
           he
           had
           not
           ,
           nor
           ever
           can
           be
           in
           a
           Condition
           to
           have
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           if
           we
           speak
           of
           the
           Bulk
           of
           one
           ,
           or
           of
           one
           that
           can
           be
           Numerous
           and
           Strong
           .
           And
           for
           a
           few
           Roman
           Catholicks
           mingled
           here
           and
           there
           in
           Protestant
           Troops
           ,
           or
           for
           two
           or
           three
           Regiments
           whereof
           the
           Generality
           were
           of
           the
           Romish
           Communion
           in
           an
           Army
           of
           those
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Profession
           ,
           instead
           of
           their
           
           giving
           us
           just
           terrour
           of
           a
           Design
           for
           subverting
           our
           Religion
           they
           only
           served
           to
           animate
           and
           provoke
           those
           vastly
           larger
           Number
           of
           Protestant
           Officers
           and
           Soldiers
           ,
           to
           assert
           their
           Religion
           with
           the
           more
           Courage
           and
           Avowedness
           ,
           and
           to
           exemplify
           and
           adorn
           it
           better
           by
           their
           Lives
           .
           And
           it
           is
           but
           for
           those
           who
           were
           in
           England
           in
           1687.
           and
           1688.
           to
           recollect
           themselves
           and
           consult
           their
           Memories
           ,
           and
           they
           must
           needs
           confess
           and
           declare
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           not
           renounced
           all
           Friendship
           with
           Truth
           when
           they
           disclaimed
           Loyalty
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           That
           they
           never
           observed
           that
           Zeal
           in
           a
           Brittish
           Army
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           that
           open
           Boldness
           in
           pleading
           for
           it
           ,
           as
           when
           that
           Roman
           Catholick
           Prince
           was
           upon
           the
           Throne
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           that
           Communion
           enrolled
           among
           them
           ,
           and
           employed
           with
           them
           under
           the
           same
           Royal
           Standard
           .
           But
           what
           clearer
           and
           fuller
           Evidence
           could
           the
           King
           give
           in
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           no
           Intentions
           to
           undermine
           and
           much
           less
           to
           subvert
           our
           Religion
           ,
           than
           
             the
             Dispensation
             from
             Penal
             Laws
             ,
             which
             he
             granted
             unto
             Protestant
             Dissenters
             ,
             and
             the
             Liberty
             which
             he
             stated
             them
             in
             the
             Exercise
             of
             .
          
           And
           through
           his
           giving
           it
           upon
           the
           only
           true
           Principle
           on
           which
           it
           could
           be
           done
           Justifiably
           ,
           namely
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           the
           natural
           Right
           of
           every
           Man
           to
           chuse
           in
           what
           Religion
           ,
           and
           in
           which
           way
           of
           Faith
           and
           Worship
           ,
           he
           will
           venture
           his
           eternal
           State
           ;
           he
           could
           not
           in
           Justice
           (
           abstracting
           from
           his
           Friendship
           )
           avoid
           granting
           Liberty
           likewise
           to
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           .
           I
           do
           know
           there
           are
           some
           People
           whose
           Malice
           to
           the
           King
           makes
           them
           not
           only
           take
           every
           Thing
           by
           the
           wrong
           handle
           ,
           but
           which
           hath
           so
           perverted
           their
           Reasons
           ,
           as
           to
           cause
           them
           to
           draw
           Conclusions
           directly
           contradictory
           to
           the
           Premisses
           from
           which
           they
           infer
           them
           ;
           who
           endeavour
           to
           obtrude
           upon
           the
           Belief
           of
           such
           as
           are
           Weak
           and
           Credulous
           ,
           That
           the
           King
           's
           giving
           Liberty
           was
           an
           Effect
           of
           his
           Enmity
           to
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           done
           in
           pursuance
           of
           a
           Design
           to
           destroy
           it
           .
           But
           the
           two
           Poles
           are
           not
           at
           greater
           distance
           from
           one
           another
           ,
           than
           they
           are
           from
           Truth
           and
           good
           Sense
           ;
           who
           think
           the
           King
           would
           have
           given
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           have
           set
           his
           heart
           upon
           the
           upholding
           and
           maintaining
           of
           it
           ,
           if
           at
           the
           same
           time
           he
           had
           given
           place
           unto
           ,
           and
           entertained
           the
           least
           thought
           of
           overthrowing
           and
           extirpating
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           .
           For
           that
           Wise
           ,
           Generous
           ,
           and
           Royal
           Concession
           of
           his
           ,
           was
           so
           far
           from
           lying
           in
           the
           remotest
           Subserviency
           to
           such
           a
           Design
           ,
           that
           nothing
           under
           Heaven
           can
           be
           imagined
           more
           effectually
           contributory
           to
           the
           preventing
           ,
           resisting
           ,
           and
           defeating
           
           an
           Attempt
           of
           that
           kind
           .
           There
           are
           few
           but
           know
           what
           Connivance
           had
           been
           exercised
           to
           Roman
           Catholicks
           ,
           and
           how
           Gently
           they
           had
           been
           treated
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           many
           Laws
           they
           were
           obnoxious
           to
           ,
           during
           the
           last
           Years
           of
           King
           
           Charles's
           Reign
           ;
           while
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           vast
           Numbers
           of
           Protestants
           were
           harrassed
           ,
           spoiled
           and
           imprisoned
           ,
           and
           this
           not
           only
           by
           hounding
           out
           ,
           but
           by
           enforcing
           those
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           fall
           upon
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           and
           to
           execute
           the
           Laws
           against
           them
           with
           great
           Severity
           .
           Now
           by
           the
           King
           's
           Noble
           ,
           Christian
           ,
           and
           Heroick
           Act
           ,
           of
           granting
           Liberty
           ,
           the
           Peevishness
           and
           Enmity
           of
           Protestants
           against
           one
           another
           was
           allayed
           and
           extinguished
           ;
           and
           they
           were
           at
           ease
           as
           well
           as
           leasure
           to
           employ
           their
           common
           Care
           ,
           and
           unite
           their
           mutual
           Strength
           ,
           against
           those
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ,
           whom
           they
           esteemed
           Enemies
           to
           them
           both
           .
           And
           by
           being
           taken
           off
           from
           scratching
           ,
           biting
           ,
           and
           devouring
           one
           another
           ,
           they
           began
           to
           mingle
           Councels
           ,
           and
           to
           joyn
           their
           several
           Interests
           ,
           for
           obviating
           and
           obstructing
           the
           Growth
           of
           a
           third
           Party
           that
           stands
           in
           terms
           of
           distance
           both
           in
           Opinion
           and
           Ecclesiastical
           Charity
           to
           the
           one
           as
           well
           as
           the
           other
           .
           For
           though
           the
           Liberty
           granted
           by
           the
           King
           to
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           did
           not
           incorporate
           them
           into
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           but
           supposed
           the
           contrary
           ,
           and
           provided
           against
           the
           afflictive
           Inconveniencies
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           though
           it
           did
           not
           entitle
           them
           unto
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           capable
           of
           the
           Dignities
           and
           Emoluments
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           which
           his
           Majesty
           neither
           pretended
           nor
           challenged
           a
           Power
           to
           do
           ;
           yet
           through
           his
           suspending
           the
           Execution
           of
           the
           penal
           Laws
           ,
           which
           he
           was
           told
           he
           might
           do
           in
           virtue
           of
           that
           executive
           Power
           of
           Laws
           and
           of
           Administration
           of
           Government
           which
           was
           lodged
           in
           him
           by
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           inseparable
           from
           his
           Title
           ,
           Right
           ,
           and
           Sovereignty
           ,
           there
           was
           not
           only
           a
           Cessation
           of
           Arms
           between
           those
           of
           the
           National
           Church
           and
           them
           ,
           but
           a
           Coalescence
           in
           Friendship
           and
           Zeal
           for
           their
           common
           Religion
           ,
           though
           they
           cou●d
           not
           embody
           together
           for
           Communion
           in
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           Christian
           Worship
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           exercise
           of
           Church
           Discipline
           .
           And
           besides
           the
           taking
           off
           the
           Reproach
           ,
           and
           the
           wiping
           away
           the
           Infamy
           ,
           which
           lay
           upon
           our
           Religion
           ,
           through
           our
           persecuting
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           which
           made
           us
           the
           Subjects
           of
           our
           Enemies
           R●●●ery
           ,
           and
           the
           Objects
           of
           their
           Scorn
           ,
           there
           were
           so
           many
           real
           Advantages
           acc●●ing
           to
           it
           ,
           by
           the
           Liberty
           which
           the
           King
           granted
           ,
           That
           the●e
           cannot
           be
           a
           blacker
           Malice
           out
           of
           Hell
           ,
           than
           to
           perve●t
           this
           Royal
           and
           Christian
           Act
           of
           his
           Majesty
           
           from
           being
           an
           Argument
           of
           his
           innocent
           and
           honourable
           Intentions
           towards
           our
           Religion
           ,
           into
           a
           Topick
           whereby
           to
           insinuate
           into
           the
           Belief
           of
           those
           of
           a
           narrow
           Compass
           of
           thought
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           only
           in
           order
           first
           to
           supplant
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           destroy
           it
           .
           And
           it
           argueth
           an
           Ingratitude
           ,
           which
           our
           Language
           is
           indigent
           of
           Words
           to
           express
           the
           hainousness
           of
           ,
           that
           any
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           should
           not
           only
           concur
           in
           such
           a
           Sentiment
           ,
           but
           value
           themselves
           upon
           the
           Vivacity
           ,
           Strength
           ,
           and
           Penetration
           of
           their
           Judgment
           ,
           that
           they
           could
           foresee
           and
           discover
           this
           to
           be
           the
           Motive
           and
           End
           of
           it
           .
           But
           this
           may
           be
           catalogued
           among
           other
           of
           the
           thankful
           Returns
           which
           some
           of
           them
           have
           rendered
           the
           Compassionate
           and
           Good
           King
           ,
           for
           his
           snatching
           them
           as
           Firebrands
           out
           of
           the
           burning
           ,
           where
           he
           both
           found
           them
           ,
           and
           might
           have
           suffered
           them
           to
           have
           continued
           ,
           till
           they
           had
           been
           consumed
           :
           And
           for
           gathering
           such
           Vipers
           (
           as
           those
           I
           am
           speaking
           about
           )
           off
           from
           the
           Dunghill
           ,
           where
           the
           Laws
           had
           laid
           them
           ,
           and
           placing
           them
           in
           his
           Bosom
           till
           they
           had
           recovered
           Life
           ,
           Warmth
           ,
           and
           Vigour
           ,
           to
           sting
           him
           by
           those
           Censures
           and
           Reproaches
           which
           are
           as
           false
           as
           they
           are
           black
           and
           villanous
           .
           And
           I
           would
           ask
           those
           Persons
           ,
           If
           the
           King
           cast
           out
           and
           drove
           away
           the
           Devil
           Persecution
           by
           Belzebub
           ,
           or
           in
           virtue
           of
           so
           hellish
           a
           Conspiracy
           against
           our
           Religion
           ,
           by
           whom
           have
           the
           Gentleman
           at
           Kensington
           ,
           and
           his
           Tools
           and
           Co-operators
           at
           Westminster
           ,
           done
           the
           same
           ?
           Is
           Liberty
           to
           Dissenters
           not
           only
           an
           innocent
           and
           harmless
           Thing
           ,
           but
           eminently
           useful
           to
           the
           Strength
           ,
           Glory
           ,
           and
           Success
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           under
           one
           that
           finds
           it
           his
           present
           Interest
           to
           call
           himself
           a
           Protestant
           ,
           while
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           it
           is
           questionable
           what
           Religion
           he
           is
           of
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           of
           any
           at
           all
           ;
           and
           must
           the
           same
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           same
           People
           ,
           be
           a
           Plot
           upon
           and
           an
           Engine
           for
           the
           undermining
           and
           blowing
           it
           up
           ,
           and
           for
           burying
           all
           those
           that
           profess
           it
           under
           the
           Ruins
           of
           it
           ,
           when
           granted
           by
           a
           Catholick
           Monarch
           ?
           Surely
           it
           would
           not
           unbecome
           some
           ,
           nor
           be
           unworthy
           of
           their
           second
           Thoughts
           ,
           to
           consider
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           Prince
           ,
           whom
           they
           have
           Abdicated
           for
           this
           and
           other
           good
           Offices
           ,
           had
           not
           expressed
           the
           Bowels
           ,
           and
           exerted
           the
           Courage
           to
           break
           the
           Chains
           ,
           and
           to
           remove
           the
           heavy
           and
           insupportable
           Loads
           ,
           which
           many
           peaceable
           and
           innocent
           People
           had
           long
           worn
           and
           groaned
           under
           ,
           meerly
           for
           their
           Opinions
           and
           Practices
           in
           matters
           of
           pure
           Revelation
           ,
           how
           probable
           it
           is
           ,
           if
           not
           morally
           certain
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           have
           been
           still
           in
           their
           old
           Circumstances
           
           and
           Conditions
           of
           Calamity
           and
           Suffering
           .
           Nor
           would
           either
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           had
           the
           Inclination
           and
           Fortitude
           to
           relieve
           them
           ;
           nor
           those
           Assemblies
           since
           the
           Revolution
           which
           we
           call
           Parliaments
           have
           had
           the
           Compassion
           and
           good
           Nature
           to
           have
           consented
           and
           concurred
           to
           the
           easing
           of
           them
           .
           For
           as
           the
           Generality
           of
           those
           stiled
           the
           Representatives
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           retain
           still
           their
           antient
           peevishness
           and
           rancour
           to
           Dissenters
           ;
           so
           he
           whom
           they
           have
           placed
           on
           the
           Royal
           Throne
           governs
           himself
           by
           no
           other
           Principle
           or
           Measures
           ,
           but
           those
           of
           Ambition
           and
           Interest
           ;
           nor
           would
           he
           for
           saving
           and
           obliging
           the
           Dissenters
           have
           ventured
           upon
           any
           Thing
           that
           might
           be
           disagreable
           to
           the
           Humour
           of
           the
           
             Two
             Houses
          
           ,
           or
           which
           might
           have
           cooled
           or
           abated
           the
           Inclinations
           of
           the
           Commons
           to
           be
           lavish
           in
           their
           Grants
           of
           Money
           .
           Neither
           would
           those
           Sons
           of
           Sceva
           have
           taken
           upon
           them
           to
           dispossess
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           the
           devouring
           Spirit
           of
           Persecution
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           not
           been
           sensible
           of
           the
           Glory
           which
           redounded
           to
           the
           King
           by
           the
           Example
           he
           had
           set
           them
           .
           Nor
           was
           it
           upon
           Motives
           of
           Honour
           and
           Justice
           that
           Liberty
           to
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           came
           to
           be
           established
           by
           a
           Law
           ,
           otherwise
           that
           Freedom
           would
           upon
           those
           very
           Inducements
           have
           been
           extended
           to
           others
           by
           the
           same
           Act
           :
           But
           it
           was
           from
           Fear
           that
           the
           retrenching
           that
           which
           through
           the
           Mercy
           of
           the
           King
           they
           had
           gotten
           into
           possession
           of
           ,
           might
           have
           lost
           them
           the
           Affections
           ,
           Service
           ,
           and
           Assistance
           of
           the
           whole
           Fanatick
           Party
           ;
           and
           have
           made
           those
           People
           turn
           Jacobites
           upon
           the
           Foot
           of
           Interest
           ,
           that
           have
           not
           Conscience
           ,
           nor
           Principles
           of
           Vertue
           and
           Loyalty
           to
           be
           so
           .
        
         
           But
           besides
           this
           proof
           arising
           from
           Fact
           ,
           by
           the
           King
           's
           suspending
           penal
           Laws
           in
           Matters
           of
           Religion
           ,
           and
           his
           granting
           Liberty
           to
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           ,
           which
           puts
           it
           in
           a
           Meridian
           Light
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           not
           cherish
           any
           Thoughts
           or
           Intentions
           of
           overthrowing
           our
           Religion
           ;
           he
           was
           pleased
           to
           exert
           his
           Goodness
           in
           a
           
             second
             Matter
             of
             Fact
          
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           surprising
           Act
           of
           Grace
           ,
           which
           carried
           convincing
           demonstrative
           Evidence
           along
           with
           it
           ,
           that
           he
           harboured
           no
           such
           Design
           in
           prejudice
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Doctrine
           and
           Worship
           ,
           as
           have
           been
           calumniously
           fastened
           upon
           him
           :
           The
           Generous
           ,
           Princely
           ,
           and
           Merciful
           Act
           which
           I
           mean
           ,
           was
           
             his
             Receiving
             ,
             Entertaining
             ,
             and
             Relieving
             the
          
           French
           Refugees
           ;
           which
           as
           he
           was
           under
           no
           legal
           Obligations
           of
           doing
           ,
           so
           there
           were
           Discouragements
           enough
           lay
           before
           him
           to
           have
           hindered
           and
           prevented
           it
           .
           I
           know
           
           Sir
           ,
           that
           you
           cannot
           have
           forgotten
           with
           what
           Readiness
           he
           admitted
           them
           into
           his
           Kingdom
           ;
           what
           welcome
           and
           compassionate
           Entertainment
           he
           gave
           them
           ;
           and
           how
           he
           not
           only
           invited
           and
           required
           his
           Subjects
           to
           harbour
           and
           relieve
           them
           ,
           but
           to
           what
           Measure
           and
           Degree
           he
           exercised
           and
           extended
           his
           own
           Royal
           Benevolence
           and
           Charity
           towards
           them
           .
           Nor
           was
           he
           satisfied
           with
           the
           bare
           taking
           them
           under
           the
           wing
           of
           his
           Protection
           ,
           and
           making
           them
           Sharers
           in
           his
           own
           and
           his
           Peoples
           Bounty
           ,
           but
           he
           entertained
           divers
           of
           them
           into
           his
           Service
           ,
           and
           admitted
           some
           of
           them
           into
           his
           Friendship
           and
           Confidence
           .
           So
           that
           whosoever
           will
           allow
           himself
           leave
           and
           time
           calmly
           to
           consider
           ,
           either
           the
           King
           's
           own
           Religion
           in
           which
           he
           was
           both
           Sincere
           and
           Zealous
           ,
           or
           the
           Terms
           of
           Amity
           he
           stood
           in
           with
           the
           King
           of
           France
           ,
           which
           he
           had
           neither
           Reason
           nor
           Inclination
           to
           depart
           from
           ,
           will
           not
           be
           able
           to
           avoid
           acknowledging
           (
           unless
           he
           can
           reconcile
           Contradictions
           )
           that
           his
           Majesty
           could
           have
           no
           other
           Inducement
           for
           the
           doing
           of
           it
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           judged
           it
           an
           evil
           Thing
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           an
           unwise
           ,
           for
           any
           Prince
           to
           persecute
           and
           drive
           away
           his
           Subjects
           meerly
           for
           their
           differing
           in
           Religious
           Matters
           from
           what
           was
           legally
           Established
           ,
           and
           Embraced
           ,
           and
           Professed
           ,
           by
           the
           Bulk
           and
           Generality
           of
           the
           People
           ;
           and
           that
           he
           esteemed
           it
           a
           Duty
           which
           he
           owed
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           to
           Mankind
           ,
           to
           entertain
           and
           succour
           such
           as
           suffered
           for
           their
           Consciences
           in
           Things
           purely
           Divine
           .
           For
           as
           the
           King
           could
           not
           be
           insensible
           that
           it
           was
           not
           very
           Grateful
           to
           a
           great
           Number
           of
           his
           Protestant
           Subjects
           ,
           to
           see
           so
           many
           indigent
           and
           necessitous
           Foreigners
           received
           into
           the
           Nation
           ;
           who
           would
           not
           only
           by
           their
           Skill
           and
           Industry
           gain
           away
           much
           of
           the
           Manufacture
           ,
           Traffick
           ,
           and
           Employ
           from
           them
           ;
           but
           who
           by
           their
           frugal
           and
           pa●●●monious
           Living
           would
           be
           able
           ,
           and
           therefore
           sure
           ,
           both
           to
           underwork
           and
           undersell
           them
           :
           So
           it
           could
           not
           escape
           his
           Majesty's
           Knowledge
           and
           Belief
           that
           it
           would
           not
           be
           very
           pleasing
           and
           acceptable
           to
           the
           French
           King
           ,
           to
           see
           those
           who
           carried
           their
           Re●entments
           against
           him
           along
           with
           them
           whithe
           soever
           they
           went
           ,
           and
           who
           will
           be
           always
           meditating
           and
           cherishing
           Revenge
           ,
           to
           be
           so
           tenderly
           Pitied
           ,
           compassionately
           Received
           ,
           and
           safely
           Covered
           and
           Protected
           ,
           by
           a
           Prince
           that
           was
           not
           only
           his
           Allie
           ,
           but
           a
           Roman
           Catholick
           .
           Yet
           under
           that
           view
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           cognizance
           of
           all
           this
           ,
           did
           the
           merciful
           King
           admit
           ,
           entertain
           ,
           and
           treat
           them
           ,
           with
           the
           same
           Royal
           Goodness
           and
           Generosity
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           been
           People
           of
           the
           Romish
           Communion
           drove
           out
           of
           some
           Protestant
           Country
           for
           
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           and
           Exiles
           here
           for
           the
           Religion
           which
           he
           himself
           professed
           .
           Now
           can
           any
           that
           live
           not
           in
           an
           avowed
           enmity
           to
           Truth
           and
           good
           Sense
           ,
           either
           be
           perswaded
           themselves
           ,
           or
           hope
           to
           impose
           upon
           the
           Faith
           of
           others
           ,
           That
           a
           Prince
           who
           had
           designed
           to
           root
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           out
           of
           his
           Kingdoms
           ,
           would
           do
           a
           Thing
           so
           inconsistent
           with
           and
           obstructive
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           this
           was
           ?
           And
           yet
           there
           are
           some
           ,
           whose
           Malice
           against
           the
           King
           hath
           so
           distorted
           their
           Understandings
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           will
           not
           only
           undertake
           to
           reconcile
           his
           forementioned
           Behaviour
           to
           the
           
             French
             Refugees
          
           ,
           with
           the
           Conspiracy
           he
           was
           embarked
           in
           for
           extirpating
           our
           Religion
           ,
           but
           will
           make
           use
           of
           his
           Kindness
           unto
           them
           as
           a
           Topick
           of
           argumentation
           whence
           and
           whereby
           to
           prove
           and
           confirm
           it
           .
           But
           we
           must
           beg
           those
           Men's
           Pardon
           ,
           if
           we
           cannot
           hinder
           their
           insolent
           Flippency
           ;
           yet
           to
           claim
           the
           Liberty
           of
           exposing
           and
           controuling
           their
           foolish
           and
           ridiculous
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           false
           and
           slanderous
           Dictates
           .
           For
           can
           any
           thing
           lie
           in
           a
           directer
           Opposition
           to
           a
           Purpose
           of
           subverting
           our
           Religion
           ▪
           than
           for
           a
           Prince
           who
           harbours
           such
           a
           Project
           ,
           to
           do
           all
           that
           lies
           within
           the
           Circle
           of
           his
           Wisdom
           and
           his
           Power
           to
           encrease
           and
           multiply
           the
           Numbers
           ,
           whose
           Principles
           will
           oblige
           them
           to
           the
           use
           of
           all
           Lawful
           ways
           and
           means
           at
           least
           ,
           if
           they
           use
           not
           worse
           ,
           to
           oppose
           it
           ;
           and
           whose
           Interest
           and
           Safety
           consists
           in
           hindering
           it
           .
           Surely
           the
           great
           Body
           of
           native
           Protestants
           were
           enough
           ,
           if
           not
           by
           far
           too
           many
           ,
           either
           to
           have
           been
           wormed
           out
           of
           our
           Religion
           by
           Fraud
           ,
           or
           to
           have
           it
           wrested
           from
           us
           by
           Force
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           no
           necessity
           for
           encreasing
           the
           Honour
           of
           the
           Conquest
           ,
           or
           raising
           the
           Glory
           of
           the
           Triumph
           ,
           to
           have
           added
           to
           our
           Number
           and
           Strength
           ,
           by
           the
           Reception
           and
           Entertainment
           that
           was
           given
           to
           
             Foreign
             Protestants
          
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           credible
           that
           if
           his
           Majesty
           had
           been
           embarked
           in
           such
           a
           Design
           as
           he
           hath
           been
           slandered
           with
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           have
           given
           Encouragement
           to
           those
           Reformed
           which
           fled
           hither
           from
           France
           ,
           to
           have
           planted
           and
           settled
           in
           all
           parts
           of
           his
           Dominions
           where
           they
           pleased
           ,
           when
           he
           could
           not
           but
           know
           and
           believe
           ,
           that
           their
           very
           Presence
           among
           us
           ,
           and
           our
           daily
           Sight
           of
           them
           ,
           would
           awaken
           our
           Jealousies
           of
           what
           some
           Roman
           Catholick
           might
           think
           Lawful
           to
           be
           done
           in
           prejudice
           of
           our
           Religion
           ;
           and
           who
           would
           daily
           tell
           us
           what
           had
           been
           practised
           for
           the
           Extirpating
           it
           elsewhere
           .
           But
           the
           good
           King
           being
           conscious
           to
           himself
           that
           he
           had
           no
           sinister
           Intentions
           to
           the
           Legally
           established
           Doctrine
           and
           Worship
           ,
           he
           envied
           us
           no
           means
           that
           might
           quicken
           and
           provoke
           our
           Care
           for
           the
           Preservation
           of
           them
           .
           And
           
           though
           he
           regretted
           ,
           and
           was
           infinitely
           sorry
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           cause
           any
           where
           administred
           of
           publishing
           how
           poor
           People
           ,
           professing
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           had
           not
           only
           been
           decoyed
           into
           the
           Catholick
           Communion
           by
           the
           little
           and
           mean
           Arts
           of
           Missioners
           ;
           and
           and
           bribed
           and
           bought
           to
           be
           Converts
           to
           the
           Romish
           Faith
           ,
           by
           those
           that
           managed
           a
           publick
           Treasure
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           but
           had
           been
           dragooned
           into
           the
           Church
           by
           armed
           Troops
           ;
           yet
           he
           was
           willing
           we
           should
           have
           such
           resident
           in
           our
           several
           Neighbourhoods
           ,
           who
           might
           relate
           and
           confirm
           those
           Things
           unto
           us
           ;
           and
           he
           hoped
           that
           by
           his
           receiving
           and
           countenancing
           such
           Persons
           in
           his
           Dominions
           as
           would
           daily
           entertain
           us
           with
           Accounts
           of
           this
           Nature
           ,
           which
           we
           could
           not
           hear
           without
           Scandal
           and
           Indignation
           ▪
           we
           should
           have
           been
           satisfied
           and
           assured
           that
           it
           lay
           in
           an
           Antipathy
           to
           his
           Nature
           to
           imitate
           any
           such
           Examples
           .
           But
           no
           means
           how
           proper
           and
           convictive
           soever
           in
           themselves
           which
           the
           King
           could
           use
           ,
           for
           laying
           and
           extinguishing
           our
           Jealousies
           and
           Fears
           of
           his
           harbouring
           Intentions
           against
           our
           Religion
           ,
           could
           be
           of
           efficacy
           to
           operate
           upon
           us
           with
           any
           Success
           ;
           after
           our
           having
           through
           Plenty
           ,
           Pride
           ,
           and
           Wantonness
           ,
           grown
           weary
           of
           Tranquility
           and
           Ease
           ;
           and
           thereupon
           had
           imbibed
           Prepossessions
           and
           Prejudices
           against
           his
           Majesty's
           Person
           and
           Government
           ;
           and
           suffered
           our selves
           to
           be
           wrought
           up
           and
           exasperated
           by
           a
           few
           Demagogues
           and
           Boutefeuxs
           ,
           who
           were
           bribed
           by
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           and
           instigated
           by
           his
           promising
           them
           the
           Spoils
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           Church
           ,
           to
           the
           highest
           ferment
           of
           blind
           ,
           brutal
           ,
           and
           godless
           Rage
           .
           Nor
           has
           the
           compassionate
           and
           merciful
           King
           been
           requited
           as
           he
           ought
           and
           deserved
           by
           the
           
             French
             Refugees
          
           ,
           to
           whom
           he
           made
           his
           Kingdoms
           both
           an
           Asilum
           and
           a
           Sanctuary
           ;
           and
           his
           own
           Treasure
           ,
           and
           the
           Wealth
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           a
           Fund
           of
           Succour
           and
           Subsistance
           ,
           when
           they
           knew
           not
           where
           with
           safety
           to
           hide
           their
           Heads
           ,
           nor
           how
           to
           get
           Bread
           to
           preserve
           them
           from
           Starving
           .
           But
           notwithstanding
           all
           the
           Hosannahs
           they
           gave
           him
           at
           first
           ,
           they
           were
           many
           of
           them
           in
           a
           little
           time
           the
           forwardest
           to
           cry
           Crucify
           him
           .
           And
           contrary
           to
           all
           the
           Measures
           of
           Discretion
           and
           Prudence
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           Thankfulness
           and
           Gratitude
           ,
           they
           have
           been
           some
           of
           them
           the
           warmest
           Inflamers
           of
           the
           Rebellion
           ,
           and
           have
           taken
           Arms
           in
           great
           Numbers
           for
           supporting
           the
           Usurper
           .
        
         
           But
           Sir
           ,
           allow
           me
           to
           subjoin
           a
           
             third
             Matter
             of
             Fact
          
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           King
           gave
           all
           the
           Evidence
           and
           Assurance
           to
           his
           People
           ,
           that
           the
           most
           Incredulous
           and
           perversly
           Obstinate
           among
           them
           could
           have
           
           desired
           or
           needed
           ,
           to
           convince
           them
           in
           what
           opposition
           unto
           and
           remoteness
           it
           lay
           from
           his
           Thoughts
           to
           injure
           us
           in
           the
           Possession
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           to
           rob
           us
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           that
           was
           by
           
             his
             refusing
             those
             Ships
             of
             War
             as
             well
             as
             Land
             Troops
             which
             were
             offered
             him
             by
             the
          
           French
           
             King
             ,
             for
             withstanding
             the
             Invasion
             of
             the
             Prince
             of
          
           Orange
           ,
           
             and
             for
             enabling
             him
             to
             suppress
             those
             that
             might
             sly
             to
             Arms
             ,
             and
             rise
             in
             his
             own
             Dominions
             ,
             to
             disturb
             his
             Reign
             ,
             or
             to
             joyn
             with
             the
             unnatural
             Invader
             in
             case
             he
             Landed
             .
          
           For
           setting
           aside
           a
           few
           Things
           ,
           which
           the
           Judges
           told
           him
           he
           might
           do
           according
           to
           Law
           ,
           and
           some
           inconsiderable
           Triffles
           ,
           wherein
           his
           treacherous
           Counsellors
           misled
           him
           ,
           by
           telling
           him
           it
           was
           to
           renounce
           the
           Prerogative
           which
           the
           Constitution
           had
           vested
           in
           him
           to
           decline
           asserting
           them
           ;
           so
           conscious
           was
           he
           to
           himself
           of
           having
           neither
           done
           nor
           designed
           any
           Thing
           whereby
           his
           Protestant
           Subjects
           might
           be
           tempted
           to
           withdraw
           with
           any
           Shadow
           of
           Reason
           and
           Justice
           their
           Allegiance
           from
           him
           ;
           that
           no
           allarms
           of
           Conspiracies
           against
           ,
           or
           suspected
           Treacheries
           unto
           him
           at
           home
           ;
           nor
           the
           fullest
           and
           most
           uncontroulable
           Certainty
           of
           Ships
           being
           prepared
           ,
           and
           Forces
           ready
           to
           embark
           upon
           them
           abroad
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           Descent
           into
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           and
           hostily
           to
           assault
           him
           ,
           could
           prevail
           with
           him
           to
           accept
           those
           Succours
           which
           a
           Neighbouring
           Monarch
           offered
           him
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           Friendship
           to
           himself
           as
           in
           Kindness
           to
           his
           Majesty
           .
           It
           ever
           hath
           ,
           and
           always
           will
           be
           found
           true
           ,
           That
           whosoever
           hath
           been
           Designing
           ,
           though
           never
           so
           secretly
           ,
           an
           Injury
           or
           Mischief
           to
           another
           ,
           he
           will
           be
           constantly
           Suspicious
           of
           the
           Person
           against
           whom
           he
           intended
           it
           ;
           and
           will
           use
           all
           the
           Precautions
           he
           can
           ,
           and
           lay
           hold
           upon
           every
           Mean
           that
           offereth
           ,
           to
           put
           him
           whom
           he
           had
           contrived
           to
           wrong
           out
           of
           a
           Condition
           to
           avoid
           the
           Blow
           ,
           and
           more
           especially
           out
           of
           all
           Capacity
           to
           revenge
           it
           .
           Ill
           Thoughts
           and
           Intentions
           in
           a
           Prince
           to
           his
           People
           ,
           though
           they
           abide
           so
           artificially
           and
           industriously
           conc●●led
           that
           none
           have
           detected
           them
           ,
           do
           yet
           not
           only
           continually
           haunt
           the
           Projector
           as
           Informers
           that
           his
           Designs
           are
           discovered
           and
           understood
           ,
           but
           are
           ever
           councelling
           him
           to
           close
           with
           all
           Methods
           which
           may
           obviate
           and
           prevent
           a
           Retaliation
           .
           But
           the
           King
           thought
           his
           Protestant
           Subjects
           had
           been
           as
           free
           from
           Rebellious
           Designs
           against
           his
           Person
           ,
           Crown
           ,
           and
           Dignity
           ,
           (
           which
           indeed
           most
           of
           them
           were
           )
           as
           he
           was
           from
           any
           usurping
           and
           tyranous
           ones
           against
           their
           Legal
           Rights
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ;
           and
           that
           withheld
           and
           restrained
           him
           from
           accepting
           an
           Assistance
           in
           his
           Defence
           ,
           when
           there
           was
           a
           plotted
           ,
           formed
           ,
           and
           maturated
           
           Conjunction
           between
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           and
           States
           of
           Holland
           abroad
           ,
           and
           too
           many
           of
           several
           Perswasions
           ,
           Communions
           ,
           and
           Factions
           at
           home
           ,
           to
           drive
           him
           out
           of
           his
           Kingdoms
           ,
           if
           not
           to
           murther
           him
           .
           Which
           he
           stood
           not
           far
           out
           of
           the
           danger
           of
           ,
           when
           the
           Sunday
           Night
           before
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           came
           to
           London
           ,
           it
           was
           proposed
           and
           debated
           at
           Windsor
           to
           make
           him
           a
           Prisoner
           :
           But
           that
           being
           opposed
           by
           some
           Persons
           ,
           whom
           it
           was
           not
           then
           thought
           convenient
           and
           safe
           to
           contradict
           and
           disoblige
           ,
           It
           was
           thereupon
           resolved
           the
           Night
           following
           at
           Sion-house
           to
           require
           him
           immediately
           ,
           and
           at
           a
           very
           unseasonable
           Hour
           ,
           to
           abandon
           and
           withdraw
           from
           his
           Royal
           Palace
           .
           Which
           was
           so
           ordered
           upon
           prospect
           and
           hope
           that
           he
           would
           not
           have
           complied
           ,
           and
           that
           thereby
           a
           Pretence
           would
           have
           been
           administred
           of
           sending
           him
           to
           the
           Tower
           ,
           from
           whence
           his
           next
           Stage
           would
           have
           been
           to
           the
           
             Neighbouring
             Hill
          
           ;
           there
           being
           but
           a
           few
           Steps
           between
           a
           King's
           Prison
           and
           his
           Grave
           .
           Nor
           would
           he
           in
           any
           likelihood
           have
           escaped
           the
           Snare
           that
           was
           thus
           artificially
           laid
           for
           him
           ,
           nor
           have
           avoided
           the
           Danger
           that
           was
           lurking
           behind
           it
           ,
           but
           that
           some
           of
           those
           entrusted
           with
           the
           Conveyance
           of
           the
           Message
           ,
           delivered
           it
           with
           such
           Accent
           ,
           Tone
           ,
           and
           accompanying
           Circumstances
           ,
           as
           both
           awakened
           him
           to
           apprehensions
           of
           his
           Peril
           ,
           and
           guided
           him
           to
           submit
           to
           what
           was
           so
           inhumanly
           and
           barbarously
           prescribed
           unto
           him
           .
           But
           to
           return
           to
           the
           Enforcement
           of
           the
           Argument
           I
           am
           upon
           ,
           for
           proving
           that
           the
           King
           could
           have
           no
           secret
           Intentions
           ,
           nor
           have
           been
           carrying
           on
           any
           concealed
           Designs
           in
           order
           to
           overthrow
           our
           Religion
           ,
           in
           that
           he
           refused
           French
           Forces
           at
           a
           Season
           when
           they
           were
           both
           Generously
           offered
           ,
           and
           he
           extreamly
           needed
           them
           ;
           and
           when
           by
           all
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           he
           might
           have
           received
           and
           employed
           them
           for
           the
           withstanding
           a
           Foreign
           Army
           ,
           commanded
           by
           an
           ambitious
           and
           unnatural
           Prince
           ,
           which
           came
           to
           divest
           him
           of
           his
           Sovereign
           and
           Legal
           Rights
           .
           For
           if
           the
           States
           of
           Holland
           might
           send
           ,
           and
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           bring
           Troops
           into
           England
           ,
           let
           the
           Pretence
           be
           what
           it
           will
           ;
           and
           the
           Brittish
           Subjects
           that
           Invited
           and
           gave
           Encouragement
           unto
           it
           be
           never
           so
           many
           ,
           and
           of
           what
           Quality
           any
           think
           fit
           to
           have
           them
           ;
           the
           King
           might
           with
           much
           more
           Justice
           and
           Right
           have
           desired
           and
           received
           Turks
           and
           Tartars
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           French
           ,
           to
           oppose
           and
           beat
           them
           out
           .
           Seeing
           both
           the
           Power
           of
           War
           ,
           and
           the
           lawful
           Authority
           of
           defending
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           being
           lodged
           Sovereignly
           and
           Solely
           in
           his
           Majesty
           ;
           and
           the
           ways
           of
           managing
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           being
           
           entirely
           entrusted
           with
           his
           Wisdom
           ,
           save
           as
           he
           pleased
           to
           call
           for
           Advice
           ,
           he
           might
           without
           any
           Violation
           of
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           have
           furnished
           himself
           with
           necessary
           Forces
           from
           whence
           he
           thought
           fit
           ,
           for
           the
           defence
           of
           his
           Person
           and
           the
           Government
           ;
           whereas
           none
           of
           his
           Subjects
           could
           raise
           Forces
           at
           home
           ,
           or
           invite
           them
           from
           abroad
           ,
           without
           rendering
           themselves
           guilty
           of
           the
           highest
           Disloyalty
           and
           Treason
           :
           Nor
           could
           the
           States
           of
           the
           
             Seven
             Provinces
          
           ,
           being
           in
           League
           and
           declared
           Terms
           of
           Amity
           with
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           send
           or
           authorise
           their
           Troops
           to
           come
           hither
           ,
           without
           becoming
           obnoxious
           to
           the
           Crime
           and
           Charge
           of
           contemning
           and
           violating
           Publick
           Treaties
           ,
           of
           breaking
           through
           all
           that
           is
           Sacred
           ,
           and
           of
           trampling
           upon
           every
           Thing
           on
           which
           the
           Peace
           of
           Nations
           doth
           depend
           .
           And
           as
           for
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           himself
           ,
           he
           being
           no
           Sovereign
           Prince
           ,
           but
           the
           Servant
           of
           a
           late
           though
           wealthy
           Republick
           ,
           he
           possibly
           might
           have
           the
           Right
           as
           Statholder
           ,
           into
           which
           he
           wound
           himself
           by
           Perjury
           and
           Murther
           ,
           to
           exercise
           some
           Authority
           in
           his
           own
           Country
           ;
           or
           he
           might
           have
           the
           Privilege
           to
           set
           up
           for
           a
           Knight
           Errant
           to
           combat
           Wind-mills
           ,
           and
           kill
           Dragons
           ;
           but
           he
           had
           no
           Authority
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           or
           Nations
           ,
           to
           invade
           and
           attack
           a
           Rightful
           King
           in
           the
           quiet
           and
           peaceable
           Possessions
           of
           his
           own
           Dominions
           .
           And
           by
           assuming
           the
           Insolence
           ,
           and
           taking
           upon
           him
           the
           Injustice
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           he
           stands
           proclaimed
           by
           all
           the
           Revelations
           relative
           to
           Societies
           in
           the
           Bible
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           whole
           Civil
           Law
           which
           is
           the
           Law
           of
           Nations
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           Robber
           and
           an
           Usurper
           ;
           and
           to
           have
           all
           the
           Blood
           that
           hath
           been
           shed
           in
           Europe
           by
           reason
           of
           ,
           and
           as
           an
           effect
           and
           consequence
           of
           his
           Invasion
           ,
           to
           be
           charged
           upon
           him
           and
           laid
           at
           his
           Door
           ;
           and
           for
           which
           he
           will
           be
           made
           accountable
           at
           the
           great
           Tribunal
           .
           Nor
           can
           his
           Majesty's
           Authority
           and
           Right
           to
           have
           received
           and
           called
           
             French
             Troops
          
           be
           questioned
           by
           our
           Revolutioners
           and
           Abdicators
           themselves
           ;
           seeing
           we
           allow
           and
           suffer
           the
           like
           ,
           and
           much
           worse
           ,
           in
           that
           Pageant
           King
           we
           have
           dressed
           up
           and
           erected
           .
           For
           notwithstanding
           of
           that
           vast
           Army
           of
           Brittish
           and
           Irish
           Troops
           ,
           with
           which
           to
           the
           impoverishment
           of
           the
           Nation
           we
           continue
           to
           furnish
           him
           ;
           and
           notwithstanding
           he
           is
           fulsomly
           represented
           in
           Pulpits
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           flattering
           as
           well
           as
           a
           mean
           Cringingness
           addressed
           unto
           by
           Corporations
           ,
           as
           the
           Saviour
           of
           our
           Liberties
           and
           Religion
           ;
           yet
           he
           challengeth
           a
           Right
           ,
           and
           we
           like
           a
           tame
           slavish
           People
           both
           connive
           at
           ,
           and
           approve
           it
           ;
           not
           only
           of
           keeping
           among
           us
           ,
           contrary
           to
           his
           solemn
           Promise
           given
           in
           his
           Declaration
           dated
           at
           the
           Hague
           ,
           several
           Dutch
           
           Forces
           ,
           Horse
           as
           well
           as
           Foot
           ,
           whom
           he
           claps
           and
           fasteneth
           upon
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           a
           Badg
           that
           he
           esteems
           us
           no
           better
           than
           conquered
           Vassals
           ;
           but
           if
           we
           may
           believe
           the
           Prints
           which
           come
           from
           abroad
           ,
           he
           hath
           sent
           for
           
             Ten
             thousand
          
           more
           outlandish
           Souldiers
           to
           insult
           and
           triumph
           over
           us
           as
           his
           subdued
           Slaves
           .
           While
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           he
           sends
           our
           native
           Forces
           into
           Flanders
           to
           perish
           by
           Famine
           and
           Sword
           as
           Sacrifices
           to
           his
           Ambition
           ;
           and
           to
           have
           the
           Infamy
           ,
           which
           he
           calls
           Glory
           ,
           of
           dying
           in
           a
           Dutch
           Quarrel
           .
           Nor
           do
           I
           wonder
           that
           he
           will
           not
           trust
           the
           defence
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           to
           our
           own
           Troops
           ;
           seeing
           he
           cannot
           but
           be
           sensible
           with
           what
           Arbitrariness
           he
           hath
           Ruled
           over
           us
           ,
           and
           how
           he
           hath
           Cheated
           ,
           Impoverished
           ,
           and
           Ruined
           us
           ;
           and
           that
           if
           we
           had
           but
           as
           much
           Sense
           ,
           Reason
           ,
           and
           Courage
           left
           us
           ,
           as
           we
           have
           Provocation
           and
           Cause
           of
           Anger
           and
           Indignation
           given
           unto
           us
           ,
           we
           would
           Revenge
           our selves
           upon
           him
           for
           the
           Wrongs
           he
           hath
           done
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           for
           those
           he
           hath
           done
           the
           King.
           Whereas
           that
           injured
           Monarch
           being
           fully
           assured
           in
           himself
           that
           he
           never
           designed
           to
           prejudice
           us
           in
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           Properties
           ,
           or
           Religion
           ;
           but
           that
           all
           he
           aimed
           at
           was
           to
           make
           us
           a
           free
           ,
           rich
           ,
           and
           glorious
           People
           ,
           he
           cast
           himself
           entirely
           upon
           the
           Loyalty
           of
           his
           own
           Subjects
           for
           the
           Safeguard
           of
           his
           Person
           and
           Crown
           ,
           at
           the
           time
           when
           he
           saw
           he
           was
           to
           have
           his
           Dominions
           invaded
           ,
           and
           an
           Attempt
           to
           be
           made
           for
           turning
           him
           out
           of
           his
           Throne
           .
           All
           which
           Designs
           he
           might
           have
           easily
           defeated
           ,
           had
           he
           but
           accepted
           the
           
             French
             Ships
          
           and
           Troops
           that
           were
           offered
           him
           :
           But
           to
           his
           Glory
           and
           our
           indelible
           Infamy
           ,
           he
           chose
           rather
           to
           be
           forsaken
           and
           betrayed
           by
           his
           own
           People
           ,
           than
           to
           distrust
           them
           ;
           as
           knowing
           he
           had
           always
           lived
           in
           an
           Abhorrence
           of
           giving
           them
           just
           and
           real
           Cause
           to
           be
           false
           to
           him
           .
           And
           indeed
           the
           Misfortune
           and
           Distress
           which
           befel
           him
           ,
           upon
           whatsoever
           Motives
           they
           were
           occasioned
           ,
           yet
           they
           must
           be
           resolved
           into
           his
           own
           Uprightness
           and
           Integrity
           ,
           as
           the
           contributing
           means
           ;
           and
           that
           being
           an
           honest
           Man
           himself
           ,
           he
           drew
           other
           Mens
           Pictures
           by
           his
           own
           Original
           :
           Whereas
           he
           had
           continued
           safe
           and
           happy
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           drawn
           those
           of
           a
           great
           many
           People
           by
           the
           Reverse
           of
           his
           own
           .
           I
           know
           that
           the
           Earl
           of
           S
           —
           doth
           in
           a
           
             Letter
             from
             Holland
             to
             his
             Friend
             in
             London
             ,
          
           printed
           March
           1689.
           endeavour
           to
           rob
           the
           King
           of
           the
           Honour
           due
           unto
           him
           for
           having
           refused
           the
           French
           Assistance
           ,
           and
           challengeth
           it
           to
           himself
           ,
           by
           telling
           us
           ,
           
             That
             he
             opposed
             to
             death
             the
             accepting
             of
             them
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             was
             the
             principal
             means
             of
             hindering
             the
             receiving
             both
             the
             Ships
             and
             Men.
          
           But
           all
           this
           was
           then
           published
           
           to
           put
           a
           M●rit
           upon
           his
           own
           Treachery
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           to
           reconcile
           himself
           to
           the
           Mercy
           and
           Favour
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           to
           whose
           Anger
           and
           Wrath
           he
           stood
           at
           that
           time
           highly
           obnoxious
           .
           For
           no
           M●n
           can
           imagine
           that
           either
           the
           Earl
           or
           those
           other
           Lords
           with
           whom
           ,
           as
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             he
             consulted
             every
             day
             ,
             and
             they
             with
             him
             ;
             and
             by
             wh●m
             he
             was
             helpt
             to
             prevent
             the
             accepting
             both
             French
             Ships
             and
             Tro●p●
             ,
             which
             they
             thought
             would
             be
             a
             great
             Prejudice
             if
             not
             ruinous
             to
             the
             N●tion
             ,
          
           would
           have
           been
           able
           to
           have
           prevailed
           with
           his
           Maj●sty
           to
           have
           refused
           so
           seasonable
           and
           necessary
           Assistance
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           been
           any
           ways
           conscious
           to
           himself
           that
           he
           had
           been
           harbouring
           and
           carrying
           on
           Designs
           which
           might
           make
           him
           distrust
           the
           Loyalty
           of
           his
           People
           ;
           or
           which
           might
           give
           him
           cause
           to
           apprehend
           that
           his
           Subjects
           had
           just
           and
           reasonable
           Pretences
           of
           departing
           from
           their
           Fealty
           ,
           or
           for
           denying
           their
           Aids
           ,
           to
           defend
           him
           .
           No●
           would
           any
           Thing
           but
           a
           clearness
           of
           Mind
           as
           to
           his
           own
           Innocency
           from
           any
           sinister
           Intentions
           against
           our
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           ,
           have
           influenced
           as
           well
           as
           suffered
           him
           to
           reject
           the
           offers
           made
           unto
           him
           at
           that
           time
           by
           the
           King
           of
           France
           .
           But
           though
           this
           was
           the
           only
           Motive
           upon
           which
           his
           Majesty
           could
           do
           it
           ,
           in
           any
           consistency
           with
           common
           Discretion
           ,
           yet
           we
           sufficiently
           know
           upon
           what
           Inducements
           ,
           and
           to
           what
           Ends
           ,
           that
           Earl
           advised
           him
           to
           it
           .
           Nor
           hath
           he
           been
           either
           Shy
           in
           concealing
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           gone
           without
           very
           liberal
           Rewards
           for
           it
           .
           For
           he
           told
           Ginckle
           ,
           once
           at
           his
           own
           Table
           ,
           That
           though
           it
           was
           his
           Honour
           to
           have
           subdued
           the
           King's
           Forces
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           wrested
           that
           Kingdom
           from
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           yet
           the
           Glory
           belonged
           unto
           himself
           of
           having
           contrived
           the
           Provocations
           to
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           having
           laid
           the
           Foundations
           for
           deposing
           his
           Majesty
           from
           his
           Royal
           Dignity
           and
           Throne
           .
           And
           the
           inward
           Confidence
           he
           is
           admitted
           into
           with
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           and
           the
           vast
           Sums
           he
           has
           obtained
           ,
           and
           continues
           still
           to
           receive
           from
           him
           ,
           are
           plain
           Evidences
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           they
           are
           thankful
           Recompences
           ,
           of
           the
           Councels
           which
           in
           favour
           of
           the
           Prince's
           Designs
           he
           gave
           unto
           his
           Master
           .
           But
           would
           any
           one
           that
           hath
           not
           lost
           all
           common
           Prudence
           and
           true
           Sense
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           renounced
           his
           Loyalty
           to
           his
           Rightful
           Prince
           ,
           have
           published
           in
           the
           same
           Letter
           a
           Thing
           so
           visibly
           false
           ,
           and
           so
           easy
           to
           be
           contradicted
           and
           exposed
           ;
           namely
           ,
           
             That
             when
             the
             first
             News
             came
             of
             the
             Prince's
             Designs
             ,
             they
             were
             not
             looked
             upon
             as
             they
             proved
             ,
             no
             Body
             foreseeing
             the
             Miracles
             he
             has
             done
             by
             his
             wonderful
             Prudence
             ,
             Conduct
             ,
             and
             Courage
             ,
             in
             that
             the
             greatest
             Thing
             which
             has
             been
             undertaken
             these
             Thousand
             Years
             ,
             
             or
             perhaps
             ever
             ,
             could
             not
             be
             effected
             without
             Vertues
             hardly
             to
             be
             imagined
             ,
             till
             seen
             nearer
             hand
             .
          
           Whereas
           it
           was
           obvious
           to
           vast
           Numbers
           then
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           now
           to
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           ,
           That
           there
           was
           neither
           Prudence
           ,
           Conduct
           ,
           nor
           Courage
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           Vertues
           hardly
           to
           be
           imagined
           ,
           guiding
           and
           influencing
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Success
           ,
           but
           that
           his
           whole
           Prosperity
           in
           his
           Undertaking
           is
           to
           be
           resolved
           in
           ,
           and
           ascribed
           unto
           ,
           the
           Disloyalty
           and
           Treachery
           of
           some
           of
           his
           Relations
           ,
           bosom
           Friends
           ,
           Councellors
           ,
           Officers
           ,
           and
           Souldiers
           ;
           and
           into
           the
           Rebellious
           Principles
           of
           too
           many
           of
           his
           Subjects
           .
           For
           to
           omit
           speaking
           of
           the
           great
           Effects
           which
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           hath
           so
           often
           and
           wonderfully
           given
           in
           Flanders
           ,
           of
           his
           
             Prudence
             ,
             Conduct
             ,
             Courage
             ,
             and
             other
             Vertues
             hardly
             to
             be
             imagined
             ,
          
           it
           is
           but
           for
           us
           to
           recollect
           his
           Behaviour
           at
           and
           before
           Limerick
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           where
           he
           became
           the
           subject
           of
           the
           Derision
           and
           Contempt
           of
           all
           that
           were
           there
           ,
           and
           by
           which
           he
           hath
           furnished
           us
           here
           with
           matter
           of
           Diversion
           ever
           since
           ,
           when
           we
           have
           a
           Mind
           to
           be
           pleasant
           ;
           and
           we
           may
           from
           thence
           take
           the
           Measure
           and
           Extent
           with
           all
           the
           Dimensions
           of
           his
           political
           and
           military
           Excellencies
           .
           But
           the
           Passage
           I
           have
           quoted
           out
           of
           the
           Letter
           serves
           to
           confirm
           me
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           an
           usual
           and
           righteous
           Judgment
           of
           God
           upon
           those
           that
           turn
           Knaves
           to
           give
           them
           over
           to
           become
           Fools
           also
           .
           And
           for
           
             the
             Thousand
             Years
             ,
             or
             the
             perhaps
             ever
             ,
          
           that
           he
           mentions
           ,
           wherein
           the
           like
           hath
           not
           been
           untertaken
           and
           executed
           ,
           It
           is
           neither
           for
           the
           Reputation
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           nor
           for
           the
           Credit
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           for
           the
           perpetual
           Dishonour
           and
           Infamy
           both
           of
           him
           and
           us
           ,
           that
           we
           should
           have
           been
           guilty
           of
           so
           much
           Treachery
           and
           Villany
           ,
           and
           he
           of
           such
           an
           unbounded
           Ambition
           ,
           and
           unnatural
           Crimes
           ,
           as
           there
           are
           no
           Examples
           of
           ,
           nor
           Presidents
           for
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           the
           King
           harboured
           no
           Thoughts
           ,
           nor
           drove
           on
           any
           secret
           Designs
           ,
           for
           the
           Extirpation
           of
           our
           Religion
           ;
           so
           I
           will
           affirm
           that
           the
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           the
           true
           and
           real
           Motive
           to
           the
           late
           Revolution
           ,
           though
           so
           much
           pretended
           and
           so
           often
           alledged
           in
           Vindication
           of
           those
           who
           engaged
           in
           it
           ,
           that
           most
           of
           those
           that
           were
           the
           first
           Instigators
           unto
           ,
           and
           who
           principally
           concurred
           and
           cooperated
           to
           the
           bringing
           it
           about
           ,
           are
           not
           Persons
           disposed
           by
           their
           Judgments
           ,
           nor
           prepared
           by
           Vertue
           and
           Grace
           to
           be
           concerned
           for
           any
           Religion
           ,
           farther
           than
           as
           the
           seeming
           to
           own
           One
           ministers
           to
           their
           secular
           Ends.
           Now
           this
           ,
           if
           clearly
           demonstrated
           ,
           being
           as
           likely
           a
           means
           as
           any
           for
           undeceiving
           the
           credulous
           and
           well-meaning
           Body
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           
           for
           taking
           them
           off
           from
           supporting
           the
           Usurpation
           ,
           when
           they
           see
           upon
           what
           a
           Mistake
           they
           were
           wheedled
           to
           Joyn
           at
           first
           with
           the
           Conspirators
           against
           his
           Majesty's
           Person
           and
           Government
           ;
           I
           will
           lay
           it
           before
           you
           in
           the
           best
           Light
           I
           can
           ,
           without
           writing
           a
           Satyr
           upon
           States
           and
           Countries
           ,
           or
           too
           much
           exposing
           the
           Atheism
           ,
           Unbelief
           ,
           and
           Immoralities
           ,
           inconsistent
           with
           any
           Religion
           of
           particular
           Men
           ,
           who
           are
           divers
           of
           them
           of
           great
           Rank
           ,
           Quality
           ,
           and
           Condition
           in
           the
           World.
           However
           it
           doth
           not
           detract
           from
           the
           worth
           of
           Religion
           ,
           but
           rather
           shews
           it
           is
           some
           excellent
           Thing
           ,
           that
           all
           Men
           will
           seek
           countenance
           from
           it
           to
           those
           Undertakings
           ,
           for
           which
           they
           would
           fear
           to
           be
           otherwise
           the
           Objects
           of
           a
           keen
           and
           general
           hatred
           .
           To
           which
           allow
           me
           to
           add
           ,
           That
           the
           being
           hurried
           into
           this
           Revolution
           upon
           the
           Pretence
           of
           saving
           our
           Religion
           ,
           shews
           ,
           that
           though
           most
           who
           stile
           themselves
           Protestants
           are
           People
           of
           very
           weak
           and
           shallow
           Understandings
           ,
           and
           that
           their
           Zeal
           is
           much
           greater
           than
           their
           Knowledge
           ;
           yet
           it
           likewise
           tells
           us
           ,
           that
           many
           of
           them
           heartily
           love
           it
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           think
           neither
           the
           publick
           Tranquillity
           ,
           nor
           their
           private
           Fortunes
           ,
           too
           valuable
           to
           be
           parted
           with
           in
           order
           to
           preserve
           it
           .
           And
           this
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           and
           his
           mercenary
           Tools
           were
           sufficiently
           aware
           of
           ,
           and
           therefore
           made
           that
           the
           Pretence
           both
           of
           the
           Invasion
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           aggressive
           War
           ,
           we
           made
           afterwards
           on
           France
           ;
           as
           knowing
           it
           would
           bubble
           as
           out
           of
           our
           Lives
           as
           well
           as
           our
           Money
           ,
           and
           be
           an
           Engine
           to
           open
           both
           our
           Veins
           and
           our
           Purses
           .
           Yet
           after
           what
           I
           have
           said
           ,
           I
           will
           nevertheless
           add
           ,
           That
           as
           it
           is
           no
           Credit
           ,
           but
           a
           Disgrace
           to
           Religion
           ,
           that
           some
           Men
           should
           pretend
           to
           have
           a
           Concern
           or
           Regard
           for
           it
           ;
           it
           being
           a
           Reproach
           unto
           it
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           wear
           its
           Livery
           ,
           and
           a
           Disparagement
           to
           be
           favourably
           spoken
           of
           by
           them
           ;
           whereas
           their
           Reviling
           it
           would
           be
           its
           Commendation
           ,
           and
           their
           turning
           their
           Backs
           upon
           it
           would
           argue
           it
           Lovely
           :
           So
           it
           hath
           been
           always
           found
           true
           ,
           and
           ever
           will
           ,
           That
           the
           making
           Religion
           a
           Plea
           whereby
           to
           justify
           that
           which
           is
           Evil
           ,
           does
           lessen
           its
           Power
           over
           the
           Consciences
           of
           Men
           ,
           and
           hindereth
           its
           Success
           in
           conquering
           the
           Irreligious
           and
           Incredulous
           ;
           and
           defeats
           it
           in
           its
           only
           Design
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           raising
           Glory
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           restoring
           the
           Divine
           Image
           upon
           Men.
           Nor
           can
           I
           forbear
           to
           publish
           it
           as
           my
           avowed
           Opinion
           ,
           That
           no
           Success
           or
           Honour
           that
           can
           attend
           our
           Arms
           in
           this
           War
           ,
           should
           we
           not
           only
           be
           so
           prosperous
           as
           to
           obtain
           a
           safe
           and
           honourable
           Peace
           to
           Europe
           ,
           but
           to
           subdue
           and
           conquer
           France
           ,
           will
           ever
           be
           able
           to
           countervail
           the
           Injury
           we
           have
           done
           the
           Protestant
           
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           Disgrace
           we
           have
           brought
           upon
           it
           ,
           by
           pretending
           to
           make
           the
           preserving
           it
           the
           Motive
           and
           Inducement
           for
           dethroning
           our
           Rightful
           King.
           Nor
           will
           all
           that
           Sea
           of
           Blood
           spilt
           in
           Europe
           ,
           as
           the
           Effect
           and
           Consequence
           of
           it
           ,
           wash
           away
           the
           Blots
           and
           Stains
           we
           have
           thereby
           brought
           upon
           the
           Reformed
           Doctrine
           ;
           but
           they
           will
           remain
           indelible
           ,
           until
           we
           have
           returned
           to
           our
           Duty
           ,
           reassumed
           our
           Loyalty
           ,
           and
           have
           restored
           our
           exiled
           Prince
           ;
           and
           until
           we
           have
           taken
           the
           Ignominy
           and
           Reproach
           upon
           our selves
           ,
           that
           we
           have
           derived
           upon
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           have
           by
           Words
           ,
           Writing
           and
           Tears
           ,
           vindicated
           and
           acquitted
           it
           ,
           from
           having
           given
           any
           Countenance
           to
           what
           hath
           been
           done
           ,
           and
           have
           charged
           and
           lodged
           it
           upon
           our
           own
           Disloyalty
           ,
           Pride
           ,
           and
           Covetousness
           .
           Nor
           must
           we
           think
           to
           salve
           our selves
           ,
           and
           come
           off
           at
           the
           great
           Tribunal
           ,
           by
           saying
           as
           a
           certain
           Presbyterian
           Person
           in
           Scotland
           did
           ,
           
             That
             if
             we
             make
             bold
             to
             offend
             God
             in
             some
             Cases
             and
             Instances
             ,
             yet
             we
             will
             be
             as
             good
             to
             him
             another
             way
             .
          
           Now
           as
           to
           what
           I
           am
           to
           lay
           before
           you
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           Unconcernedness
           of
           those
           for
           any
           Religion
           that
           contrived
           and
           conspired
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           were
           the
           forwardest
           to
           promote
           it
           ,
           and
           still
           continue
           to
           be
           the
           zealous
           Upholders
           of
           this
           bloody
           and
           ruinous
           War
           that
           hath
           followed
           upon
           it
           ;
           I
           do
           not
           intend
           it
           should
           be
           construed
           and
           intended
           to
           affect
           and
           blacken
           all
           that
           were
           accessary
           unto
           ,
           and
           active
           to
           the
           utmost
           of
           their
           Power
           and
           Interest
           in
           those
           Design●
           ▪
           For
           in
           some
           of
           them
           it
           proceeded
           either
           from
           the
           Weakness
           of
           their
           Understandings
           ,
           or
           from
           their
           being
           Prepossessed
           with
           corrupt
           and
           bad
           Principles
           as
           to
           Governments
           and
           Politicks
           in
           general
           ,
           and
           particularly
           with
           respect
           to
           our
           own
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           not
           from
           Criminalness
           in
           their
           Wills
           ,
           and
           Pravity
           of
           their
           Consciences
           .
           For
           not
           only
           People
           of
           shallow
           Judgments
           ,
           and
           of
           narrow
           compass
           of
           Thought
           ,
           are
           capable
           of
           being
           misled
           ,
           notwithstanding
           their
           Endowments
           with
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Probity
           and
           Uprightness
           to
           very
           sinful
           and
           bad
           Things
           in
           matters
           of
           Politicks
           ,
           and
           the
           measures
           of
           civil
           Obedience
           ,
           by
           those
           that
           are
           acute
           ,
           crafty
           and
           subtle
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           believe
           themselves
           in
           the
           right
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           doing
           God
           and
           their
           Country
           good
           Service
           ;
           but
           even
           such
           as
           are
           of
           better
           and
           more
           discursive
           Parts
           may
           ,
           through
           false
           Notions
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           through
           Prejudices
           suckt
           in
           and
           derived
           from
           an
           unhappy
           Education
           ,
           and
           the
           misfortune
           of
           acquaintance
           with
           ill
           Books
           ,
           and
           of
           intimate
           Conversation
           with
           Persons
           drenched
           in
           Republican
           and
           Democratical
           Notions
           ,
           be
           insensibly
           carried
           to
           the
           committing
           very
           
           illegal
           and
           by
           consequence
           very
           irreligious
           Things
           .
           But
           then
           such
           Persons
           are
           upon
           serious
           and
           second
           Thoughts
           ,
           and
           upon
           obtaining
           the
           happiness
           of
           being
           furnished
           with
           the
           assistance
           and
           advantage
           of
           clearer
           and
           better
           Lights
           ,
           easily
           recovered
           from
           the
           Power
           and
           misleading
           Influence
           of
           those
           Principles
           upon
           which
           through
           darkness
           or
           mistake
           they
           formerly
           acted
           ;
           and
           upon
           their
           Repentance
           of
           such
           Things
           which
           they
           had
           wandered
           and
           been
           hurried
           into
           ,
           and
           proofs
           of
           their
           Conversion
           to
           God
           and
           their
           King
           ,
           they
           become
           prepared
           Subjects
           both
           for
           pardon
           on
           Earth
           ,
           and
           forgiveness
           in
           Heaven
           .
           But
           as
           to
           the
           Generality
           of
           those
           who
           were
           most
           actively
           and
           eminently
           interested
           and
           involv'd
           in
           bringing
           about
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           who
           remain
           the
           unrelenting
           and
           obstinate
           Upholders
           of
           the
           Usurpation
           ;
           I
           do
           affirm
           ,
           That
           they
           were
           and
           are
           so
           far
           from
           acting
           upon
           the
           Motive
           ,
           Prospect
           ,
           and
           Design
           of
           preserving
           our
           Religion
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           not
           wet
           the
           Soal
           of
           their
           Shoes
           ,
           nor
           hazard
           the
           losing
           of
           a
           single
           Hair
           of
           their
           Heads
           ,
           for
           saving
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           or
           for
           continuing
           the
           Light
           of
           it
           to
           us
           and
           our
           Posterity
           .
           For
           besides
           that
           the
           Chiefest
           and
           Majority
           of
           them
           do
           glory
           in
           courses
           of
           Life
           inconsistent
           with
           all
           Religions
           ,
           and
           which
           the
           Alcoran
           disallows
           and
           condemns
           as
           much
           as
           the
           Scripture
           doth
           ;
           and
           which
           are
           directly
           repugnant
           unto
           the
           hopes
           that
           ours
           giveth
           unto
           any
           Man
           of
           Salvation
           and
           Eternal
           Life
           ,
           and
           who
           themselves
           are
           f●r
           enough
           from
           taking
           the
           Gospel
           to
           be
           a
           Spell
           that
           will
           save
           them
           ,
           whether
           they
           come
           into
           the
           way
           prescribed
           by
           it
           ,
           and
           have
           a
           mind
           to
           be
           saved
           ,
           or
           whether
           they
           neither
           do
           ,
           nor
           have
           not
           :
           So
           many
           of
           them
           do
           ridicule
           and
           mock
           at
           all
           Revelation
           ,
           and
           do
           pronounce
           them
           foppish
           and
           silly
           ,
           that
           account
           otherwise
           of
           the
           Bible
           ,
           than
           of
           a
           Romance
           feigned
           by
           a
           Conspiracy
           of
           Rulers
           and
           Priests
           in
           order
           to
           govern
           the
           Mob
           ,
           and
           the
           better
           to
           squeeze
           Money
           from
           the
           credulous
           .
           Yea
           there
           are
           some
           of
           them
           who
           deride
           a
           Deity
           ,
           and
           value
           themselves
           upon
           the
           believing
           no
           other
           Being
           or
           M●des
           of
           one
           ,
           but
           Matter
           ,
           Figure
           ,
           and
           Motion
           .
           And
           though
           I
           do
           not
           know
           whether
           many
           o●
           any
           of
           them
           went
           into
           the
           Revolution
           themselves
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           drew
           in
           others
           ,
           with
           a
           purpose
           to
           expose
           and
           lampoon
           our
           Religion
           ;
           yet
           this
           I
           am
           sure
           of
           ,
           That
           what
           we
           have
           done
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           involving
           the
           Kingdoms
           into
           a
           bloody
           and
           expensive
           War
           upon
           so
           little
           Cause
           and
           Provocation
           as
           was
           administred
           ,
           is
           more
           adapted
           to
           render
           Persons
           An●i-scripturists
           and
           Atheists
           ,
           than
           all
           the
           Arguments
           in
           
           Hobbs's
           Leviathan
           ,
           or
           in
           his
           Book
           
             de
             ●ive
          
           are
           .
           Was
           not
           the
           late
           Lord
           Lovelace
           ,
           
           who
           could
           not
           speak
           without
           an
           Oath
           ,
           Blasphemy
           ,
           or
           Execration
           ?
           Or
           the
           surviving
           
             Fleetwood
             Sheppard
          
           ,
           whose
           whole
           Wit
           is
           employed
           to
           burlesque
           the
           Bible
           ,
           and
           mock
           at
           an
           invisible
           Being
           :
           and
           who
           had
           the
           blasphemous
           Audacity
           to
           say
           to
           Two
           Bishops
           ,
           who
           desired
           leave
           of
           him
           to
           pass
           thro
           his
           Lodgings
           to
           see
           the
           Raree
           Show
           ,
           exhibited
           the
           other
           day
           at
           Whitehall
           ,
           That
           he
           would
           not
           grant
           it
           ,
           though
           the
           
             Virgin
             Mary
          
           were
           there
           with
           her
           Child
           at
           her
           Back
           to
           beg
           it
           of
           him
           ;
           and
           which
           they
           had
           not
           the
           Zeal
           and
           Courage
           for
           God
           and
           their
           Religion
           as
           to
           rebuke
           him
           for
           ,
           lest
           they
           should
           have
           offended
           the
           Man
           at
           Kensington
           ,
           who
           is
           fond
           of
           him
           for
           his
           Piety
           and
           Vertue
           ,
           
             &
             quem
             pro
             Jove
             habent
          
           :
           I
           say
           ,
           were
           not
           those
           I
           have
           mentioned
           very
           likely
           Persons
           to
           have
           engaged
           to
           assist
           in
           the
           Revolution
           upon
           Motives
           of
           Religion
           ;
           or
           in
           order
           to
           preserve
           and
           defend
           the
           Reformed
           Doctrine
           and
           Worship
           ?
           Can
           any
           Man
           think
           that
           
             Secretary
             Trenchard
          
           can
           be
           under
           the
           Influence
           of
           Religion
           in
           any
           Busi
           -
           or
           Undertaking
           ,
           or
           can
           make
           it
           the
           Motive
           or
           End
           of
           what
           he
           does
           ,
           who
           concerted
           with
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           how
           to
           betray
           and
           ruin
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           became
           engaged
           to
           him
           to
           use
           all
           means
           he
           could
           to
           do
           it
           ;
           and
           this
           at
           the
           very
           time
           when
           he
           was
           suing
           for
           a
           Pardon
           ,
           and
           who
           after
           the
           Grant
           and
           Receipt
           of
           one
           ,
           came
           over
           ,
           and
           made
           his
           Majesty
           all
           the
           Promises
           Words
           could
           express
           ,
           of
           his
           serving
           him
           with
           Loyalty
           and
           Fidelity
           so
           long
           as
           he
           lived
           ?
           But
           as
           there
           is
           no
           necessity
           now
           of
           telling
           which
           of
           these
           Promises
           he
           has
           performed
           ,
           whether
           those
           made
           at
           the
           Hague
           ,
           or
           those
           given
           at
           Whitehall
           ,
           that
           being
           sufficiently
           declared
           by
           a
           long
           and
           ample
           Series
           of
           Actions
           ;
           so
           I
           think
           it
           will
           be
           easily
           granted
           ,
           that
           this
           Man
           could
           act
           under
           no
           Impression
           of
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           upon
           the
           Motive
           or
           to
           the
           End
           of
           saving
           or
           serving
           it
           ,
           who
           could
           come
           under
           two
           such
           opposite
           and
           contradictory
           Obligations
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           as
           the
           yielding
           an
           unchangeable
           Fealty
           and
           Obedience
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           undertaking
           to
           betray
           and
           divest
           him
           of
           his
           Royal
           Power
           were
           .
           Or
           is
           it
           possible
           we
           should
           believe
           that
           my
           Lord
           L
           —
           and
           the
           honourable
           Speech-maker
           and
           Haranguer
           of
           the
           Mob
           at
           Norwich
           and
           Lyn
           ,
           could
           embark
           in
           promoting
           the
           late
           Change
           ,
           out
           of
           any
           Concernment
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           or
           in
           order
           to
           protect
           it
           ,
           who
           though
           they
           profess
           to
           be
           Protestants
           when
           they
           are
           Well
           and
           in
           Health
           ;
           yet
           who
           at
           every
           time
           when
           they
           are
           Sick
           ,
           or
           when
           they
           have
           apprehensions
           of
           Dying
           ,
           do
           constantly
           send
           for
           Romish
           Priests
           ,
           to
           administer
           unto
           them
           all
           the
           helps
           ,
           and
           give
           them
           the
           assistances
           appointed
           by
           that
           Church
           for
           Men
           in
           their
           last
           Hours
           ?
           I
           am
           loath
           
           to
           multiply
           many
           Instances
           in
           confirmation
           of
           what
           I
           have
           affirmed
           ,
           and
           the
           chief
           Leaders
           and
           Actors
           in
           the
           Conspiracy
           for
           dethroning
           the
           King
           are
           so
           well
           known
           ,
           that
           I
           need
           not
           do
           it
           .
           Even
           they
           whose
           Character
           should
           oblige
           us
           to
           believe
           that
           the
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           was
           the
           chief
           if
           not
           the
           only
           Motive
           upon
           which
           they
           acted
           ,
           in
           the
           late
           great
           Turn
           that
           was
           made
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           were
           as
           far
           from
           having
           it
           in
           their
           Eye
           or
           Aim
           ,
           as
           any
           other
           were
           .
           Nor
           will
           any
           that
           know
           the
           Men
           allow
           ,
           that
           either
           
             Jack
             Boots
          
           ,
           or
           
             Cambrick
             Sleeves
          
           ,
           embarked
           in
           dethroning
           and
           driving
           away
           the
           King
           ,
           out
           of
           any
           Regard
           unto
           or
           Concernedness
           for
           the
           Reformed
           Doctrine
           and
           Worship
           ;
           but
           that
           they
           did
           it
           out
           of
           Pique
           and
           Revenge
           ,
           and
           upon
           the
           Motives
           of
           Ambition
           and
           Covetousness
           ,
           in
           the
           one
           to
           get
           a
           Bishoprick
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           other
           to
           preserve
           one
           .
           For
           not
           to
           speak
           of
           the
           Rings
           and
           Seals
           ,
           which
           the
           Doctor
           (
           through
           an
           Hypocrisy
           peculiar
           to
           himself
           that
           weareth
           
             Cambrick
             ,
             Holland
             ,
             Scots
          
           Cloath
           Sleeves
           instead
           of
           Lawn
           )
           boasteth
           of
           as
           Pledges
           of
           the
           Kindnesses
           of
           Ladies
           for
           the
           Services
           he
           has
           done
           them
           ▪
           can
           that
           Man
           live
           in
           the
           practical
           Belief
           ,
           or
           be
           under
           the
           awe
           of
           a
           Deity
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           act
           upon
           any
           sincere
           Motives
           of
           serving
           Religion
           ,
           but
           meerly
           to
           serve
           himself
           upon
           it
           ,
           who
           when
           he
           was
           dipt
           in
           all
           the
           Councels
           and
           Conspiracies
           for
           commencing
           and
           compassing
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           could
           yet
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           in
           his
           Letters
           to
           the
           Earl
           of
           Middleton
           ,
           not
           only
           make
           solemn
           Protestations
           of
           his
           Loyalty
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           but
           have
           recourse
           for
           Proof
           and
           Evidence
           of
           it
           to
           the
           Sermons
           full
           of
           Duty
           and
           Fealty
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           he
           had
           preached
           at
           the
           Hague
           as
           well
           as
           at
           London
           .
           And
           as
           those
           Letters
           are
           in
           print
           to
           remain
           Records
           and
           Registers
           of
           his
           Irreligion
           and
           Hypocrisy
           ;
           so
           I
           am
           mistaken
           in
           the
           Rules
           of
           Phisiognomy
           ,
           if
           the
           Punishment
           that
           waits
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           which
           he
           hath
           so
           much
           deserved
           ,
           and
           whereof
           he
           hath
           had
           advertisment
           in
           Dreams
           ,
           be
           not
           legibly
           written
           in
           his
           Forehead
           .
           Nor
           could
           any
           true
           Church
           of
           England
           Man
           ,
           whether
           Ecclesiastick
           or
           Laick
           ,
           have
           accession
           to
           the
           Invasion
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           deposing
           of
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           or
           he
           gained
           over
           to
           approve
           them
           ,
           without
           renouncing
           all
           the
           Doctrines
           and
           Principles
           of
           that
           Communion
           which
           relate
           to
           Civil
           Government
           ,
           and
           the
           Duties
           of
           Subjects
           to
           their
           Rulers
           .
           And
           that
           may
           serve
           sufficiently
           to
           shew
           ,
           that
           they
           acted
           not
           in
           these
           Mat●●rs
           upon
           Motives
           of
           Religion
           ;
           because
           the
           very
           Things
           they
           did
           ,
           plainly
           interfered
           with
           the
           whole
           Religion
           which
           they
           professed
           and
           owned
           .
           And
           there
           was
           such
           an
           outragious
           Rape
           committed
           
           by
           it
           upon
           their
           Principles
           ,
           and
           such
           an
           open
           deflouring
           of
           the
           Chastity
           ,
           which
           their
           Church
           had
           hitherto
           preserved
           in
           point
           of
           Allegiance
           to
           Lawful
           and
           Rightful
           Monarchs
           ,
           that
           were
           it
           not
           that
           great
           Multitudes
           of
           that
           Communion
           both
           preserved
           their
           own
           Innocency
           ,
           and
           have
           loudly
           condemned
           the
           Crime
           of
           their
           quondam
           Brethren
           and
           Fellow-members
           ▪
           their
           whole
           Church
           would
           for
           ever
           lye
           under
           the
           same
           Blot
           and
           Infamy
           ,
           which
           those
           very
           Men
           ,
           namely
           ,
           your
           
             Tillotsons
             ,
             Burnets
          
           ,
           and
           Sherlocks
           ,
           &c.
           have
           used
           heretofore
           to
           cast
           and
           fasten
           upon
           others
           .
           And
           as
           for
           those
           called
           Whigs
           ,
           which
           were
           the
           warmest
           Promoters
           of
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           are
           supposed
           more
           than
           others
           to
           have
           acted
           in
           it
           upon
           the
           Motive
           of
           Securing
           our
           Religion
           ;
           I
           will
           make
           bold
           to
           say
           of
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           both
           with
           Truth
           and
           Justice
           ,
           That
           they
           have
           no
           Religion
           but
           their
           Interest
           ,
           nor
           sacrifice
           to
           any
           Deity
           but
           themselves
           .
           The
           Whig
           Party
           is
           ,
           generally
           speaking
           ,
           a
           compound
           of
           the
           Atheistical
           of
           all
           Opinions
           and
           Perswasions
           whatsoever
           ;
           and
           they
           can
           be
           of
           any
           Religion
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           really
           of
           none
           .
           They
           will
           take
           the
           Sacrament
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           be
           qualified
           to
           get
           or
           hold
           a
           Place
           ,
           and
           then
           will
           herd
           with
           the
           Phanaticks
           ever
           after
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           be
           esteemed
           Partizans
           for
           our
           Sovereign
           Lord
           the
           People
           .
           Upon
           the
           whole
           ,
           whosoever
           will
           speak
           his
           Knowledge
           or
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           cannot
           avoid
           confessing
           that
           the
           Promoting
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           the
           Abdicating
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           Crowning
           the
           Invader
           ,
           and
           the
           Lavishing
           away
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           to
           support
           the
           Usurpation
           and
           Rebellion
           ,
           were
           not
           entered
           upon
           out
           of
           Fear
           of
           losing
           otherwise
           our
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           continued
           and
           persevered
           in
           upon
           Inducements
           of
           being
           serviceable
           to
           its
           Safety
           ,
           Success
           ,
           and
           Glory
           ;
           but
           that
           some
           wanted
           
             White
             Staves
          
           ;
           to
           which
           they
           thought
           they
           might
           pretend
           on
           the
           foot
           of
           merit
           ;
           and
           that
           others
           had
           fallen
           under
           Fines
           ,
           which
           though
           they
           were
           forgiven
           the
           Payment
           of
           ,
           yet
           they
           resented
           ,
           and
           sought
           to
           revenge
           their
           being
           laid
           upon
           them
           ;
           and
           that
           all
           were
           desirous
           to
           Fish
           in
           troubled
           Waters
           ,
           in
           which
           though
           but
           a
           few
           were
           to
           catch
           
             Ducal
             Titles
          
           ,
           or
           
             Blew
             Ribbons
          
           ,
           and
           Garters
           ,
           yet
           Something
           would
           come
           as
           a
           Share
           to
           many
           upon
           the
           Shipwreck
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           the
           Spoil
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           Church
           .
           The
           truest
           Character
           I
           can
           bestow
           upon
           them
           ,
           is
           that
           which
           Livy
           gives
           those
           that
           Set
           up
           for
           and
           Joyned
           the
           Decemviri
           ,
           namely
           ,
           That
           they
           did
           persue
           ,
           
             licentiam
             suam
             ,
             non
             libertatem
             Patriae
             :
          
           And
           indeed
           the
           unparalelled
           Treachery
           that
           accompanied
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           in
           most
           of
           those
           that
           were
           actively
           engaged
           in
           it
           ,
           
           does
           put
           it
           beyond
           all
           rational
           Contradiction
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           undertaken
           or
           persued
           upon
           Motives
           of
           Religion
           ,
           that
           they
           could
           neither
           have
           Religion
           ,
           Vertue
           ,
           nor
           true
           Honour
           ,
           who
           were
           capable
           of
           being
           guilty
           of
           so
           much
           Falshood
           and
           Infidelity
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           Disloyalty
           .
           Is
           it
           possible
           or
           to
           be
           imagined
           ,
           in
           any
           consistency
           with
           common
           Sense
           ,
           That
           those
           Persons
           could
           come
           into
           the
           Design
           of
           the
           Revolution
           under
           any
           Views
           of
           Religion
           ,
           or
           promote
           the
           late
           Change
           upon
           Motives
           or
           Prospects
           of
           serving
           it
           ,
           who
           not
           only
           abandoned
           and
           betrayed
           the
           King
           ,
           with
           his
           Commissions
           in
           their
           Pockets
           ,
           and
           while
           they
           were
           eating
           his
           Bread
           ;
           but
           who
           could
           beg
           Money
           of
           him
           to
           form
           their
           Equipages
           to
           serve
           him
           ,
           and
           which
           he
           Innocently
           ,
           Liberally
           ,
           and
           Generously
           gave
           them
           ,
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           his
           Streights
           and
           Exigencies
           of
           Money
           for
           his
           Personal
           use
           ?
           And
           yet
           all
           that
           they
           craved
           it
           for
           ,
           and
           applied
           it
           to
           ,
           was
           to
           get
           into
           a
           Condition
           to
           fight
           against
           him
           ,
           and
           to
           drive
           him
           out
           of
           his
           Kingdoms
           .
           But
           we
           need
           no
           more
           to
           proclaim
           the
           distance
           and
           estrangedness
           that
           most
           of
           the
           Revolutioners
           and
           Abdicators
           live
           in
           ,
           both
           as
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           any
           sincere
           Love
           to
           their
           Country
           ;
           and
           how
           little
           they
           were
           swayed
           in
           what
           they
           did
           by
           any
           Regards
           or
           Concernments
           for
           the
           good
           of
           either
           ;
           but
           that
           since
           their
           getting
           into
           Offices
           ,
           Places
           and
           Commands
           ,
           as
           the
           Recompence
           of
           their
           Disloyalty
           ,
           Treachery
           ,
           and
           Rebellion
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           they
           have
           committed
           more
           Rapines
           and
           Robberies
           upon
           the
           Nation
           ,
           more
           audaciously
           sold
           the
           Kingdom
           for
           Pensions
           and
           Bribes
           ,
           and
           have
           more
           impudently
           Cousened
           ,
           Defrauded
           ,
           and
           Oppressed
           their
           Fellow
           Subjects
           ,
           than
           the
           worst
           of
           Men
           heretofore
           have
           attempted
           or
           allowed
           themselves
           to
           do
           ;
           and
           which
           Highway-men
           and
           Banditti
           would
           not
           have
           the
           Immodesty
           and
           Injustice
           to
           perpetrate
           .
           For
           Pick-pockets
           ,
           Shop-lifters
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           take
           a
           Purse
           upon
           the
           Road
           ,
           are
           both
           vertuous
           and
           harmless
           Persons
           in
           comparison
           of
           those
           that
           eat
           the
           Flesh
           ,
           and
           drink
           the
           Blood
           ,
           and
           gnaw
           the
           very
           Bones
           of
           poor
           Souldiers
           ,
           by
           defrauding
           them
           of
           their
           pay
           ;
           of
           whom
           to
           use
           
           Tacitus's
           Phrase
           ,
           I
           may
           say
           ,
           
             Quinis
             in
             diem
             assibus
             corpus
             &
             anima
             estimantur
          
           ;
           or
           of
           those
           that
           rob
           Hospitals
           ,
           in
           withholding
           from
           Widows
           and
           Fatherless
           Children
           the
           Arrears
           due
           to
           their
           Husbands
           and
           Fathers
           that
           perished
           in
           their
           Service
           ;
           and
           I
           am
           loath
           to
           add
           that
           plunder
           the
           Subject
           ,
           by
           the
           Authority
           and
           in
           the
           Virtue
           of
           the
           Great
           Seal
           ,
           and
           exerci●e
           the
           Legislative
           Power
           in
           Favour
           of
           one
           ,
           and
           in
           Prejudice
           of
           another
           ,
           according
           as
           our
           Representatives
           in
           Parliament
           are
           hired
           and
           paid
           
           for
           it
           .
           Nor
           are
           these
           Aspersions
           unjustly
           thrown
           upon
           the
           Instruments
           of
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           the
           Zealots
           of
           the
           present
           Government
           ,
           or
           Things
           whereof
           they
           are
           accused
           at
           Random
           ,
           without
           Proof
           or
           Evidence
           ;
           but
           they
           are
           the
           Effects
           and
           Testimonies
           of
           Love
           unto
           ,
           and
           Care
           for
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           which
           the
           Gentlemen
           of
           St.
           
           Stephen's
           Chapel
           find
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           those
           guilty
           of
           ,
           that
           were
           the
           chief
           Assistants
           in
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           continue
           the
           main
           Pillars
           of
           the
           Usurpation
           .
           For
           when
           a
           certain
           Sort
           of
           People
           quarrel
           ,
           and
           fall
           out
           ,
           many
           hidden
           Truths
           and
           concealed
           Crimes
           come
           to
           be
           discovered
           ;
           and
           I
           wish
           it
           may
           have
           a
           Tendency
           to
           every
           Man
           's
           recovering
           his
           Right
           ,
           that
           is
           a
           true
           Owner
           .
           Nor
           are
           these
           Things
           to
           be
           thought
           Strange
           in
           those
           employed
           by
           this
           Government
           ,
           seeing
           they
           were
           the
           very
           worst
           Men
           of
           the
           Nation
           that
           contributed
           most
           to
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           in
           whom
           that
           of
           Tacitus
           was
           verified
           ,
           
             In
             turbas
             &
             discordias
             pessimo
             cuique
             plurima
             vis
             .
          
           And
           the
           publick
           Liberty
           was
           only
           made
           a
           Pretence
           for
           their
           persuing
           their
           own
           Interests
           ,
           at
           the
           Expence
           and
           to
           the
           Ruin
           of
           their
           Country
           :
           For
           as
           the
           same
           Author
           observes
           ,
           
             Libertatis
             vocabulum
             obtendi
             ab
             iis
             ,
             qui
             privatim
             degeneres
             ,
             in
             publicum
             exitiosi
             ,
             nihil
             spei
             ,
             nisi
             per
             discordias
             habent
             .
          
        
         
           Nor
           did
           those
           abroad
           that
           co-operated
           to
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           lent
           their
           Ships
           and
           Troops
           to
           effect
           it
           ,
           act
           any
           more
           upon
           Motives
           that
           respected
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           than
           we
           here
           did
           ;
           but
           purely
           upon
           Principles
           and
           Inducements
           of
           Interest
           and
           State.
           For
           it
           is
           no
           Slander
           to
           say
           that
           the
           Deputies
           of
           the
           
             Seven
             Provinces
          
           ,
           who
           sit
           governing
           at
           the
           Hague
           ,
           never
           enter
           into
           War
           or
           Peace
           upon
           any
           other
           Instigation
           ,
           or
           Views
           and
           Ends
           ,
           save
           those
           of
           a
           secular
           Concernment
           .
           Nor
           would
           it
           move
           or
           impress
           them
           to
           see
           all
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           these
           three
           Kingdoms
           turn
           Pagans
           or
           Mahumetans
           ,
           farther
           than
           as
           it
           may
           affect
           their
           Trade
           ,
           and
           disturb
           their
           Civil
           Tranquillity
           ;
           and
           so
           little
           do
           they
           act
           under
           an
           Influence
           ,
           or
           with
           a
           Respect
           to
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           with
           Regard
           to
           the
           Protestant
           ,
           that
           in
           order
           to
           drive
           the
           Portugueze
           out
           of
           Japan
           ,
           where
           they
           had
           a
           large
           and
           beneficial
           Commerce
           ,
           and
           to
           engrose
           the
           Trade
           of
           it
           to
           themselves
           ,
           they
           not
           only
           suggested
           to
           the
           Natives
           ,
           and
           particularly
           to
           the
           Ministers
           at
           Court
           ,
           and
           by
           them
           to
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           That
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           involved
           Treason
           in
           it
           against
           his
           Crown
           ,
           Person
           ,
           and
           Estate
           ;
           and
           thereby
           raised
           a
           Persecution
           which
           ended
           in
           the
           Extirpation
           of
           Christianity
           out
           of
           those
           Dominions
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Massacre
           of
           several
           Hundred
           thousand
           
           Souls
           ;
           but
           they
           both
           permitted
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           solemn
           Act
           of
           State
           authorised
           their
           Subjects
           that
           traded
           thither
           ,
           to
           disclaim
           being
           Christians
           ,
           and
           only
           to
           own
           themselves
           Hollanders
           ,
           who
           knew
           no
           Religion
           but
           Profit
           ,
           nor
           had
           other
           Ends
           or
           Aims
           save
           to
           gain
           and
           heap
           up
           Wealth
           .
           And
           besides
           many
           other
           Instances
           which
           might
           be
           assigned
           of
           their
           abandoning
           all
           Care
           and
           Concernment
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           in
           other
           Nations
           ,
           when
           the
           doing
           so
           is
           reconcilable
           to
           their
           Safety
           and
           worldly
           Advantage
           ;
           it
           may
           not
           be
           amiss
           to
           put
           you
           in
           remembrance
           of
           their
           furnishing
           Lewis
           the
           XIII
           .
           with
           Ships
           to
           subdue
           Rochel
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           the
           chief
           Cautionary
           Town
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           strongest
           and
           most
           opulent
           ,
           which
           the
           Reformed
           in
           France
           had
           to
           entitle
           them
           to
           a
           quiet
           and
           peaceable
           Enjoyment
           of
           their
           Religion
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           unseasonable
           to
           ask
           ,
           That
           if
           they
           embarked
           to
           assist
           in
           the
           dethroning
           of
           the
           King
           of
           
             Great
             Brittain
          
           out
           of
           zeal
           for
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           to
           these
           Nations
           ,
           how
           comes
           it
           then
           that
           they
           have
           so
           little
           interposed
           with
           their
           Confederate
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           for
           some
           Lenity
           and
           Favour
           to
           his
           Protestant
           Subjects
           in
           Hungary
           ?
           And
           that
           they
           have
           not
           dealt
           with
           their
           other
           Allie
           the
           King
           of
           Spain
           for
           abolishing
           the
           Inquisition
           ?
           And
           that
           he
           would
           not
           continue
           to
           make
           Bonfires
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           whensoever
           any
           of
           them
           turn
           Protestants
           ?
           Nay
           their
           entering
           into
           the
           Conspiracy
           ,
           for
           subduing
           and
           deposing
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           done
           from
           Motives
           relative
           to
           the
           Honour
           and
           Safety
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           laid
           and
           forwarded
           by
           the
           greatest
           Falshood
           and
           Treachery
           that
           ever
           either
           a
           Crowned
           Head
           or
           a
           Republick
           was
           guilty
           of
           .
           For
           what
           can
           be
           more
           inconsistent
           with
           good
           Morals
           ,
           namely
           ,
           with
           Truth
           and
           Justice
           ,
           or
           less
           reconcilable
           to
           the
           Principles
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           than
           not
           only
           to
           attack
           a
           King
           upon
           his
           Throne
           with
           whom
           they
           were
           in
           League
           ,
           without
           giving
           him
           Warning
           ,
           or
           seeking
           for
           Reparation
           of
           Injuries
           if
           he
           had
           done
           them
           any
           ,
           and
           without
           desiring
           an
           Adjustment
           of
           Differences
           ,
           and
           Misunderstandings
           where
           there
           were
           such
           ;
           but
           to
           invade
           his
           Kingdoms
           with
           a
           Naval
           and
           Land
           Strength
           ,
           after
           the
           solemnest
           Protestations
           made
           to
           the
           King
           himself
           by
           Cittars
           their
           Ambassador
           here
           ,
           and
           the
           greatest
           Assurances
           given
           immediately
           by
           the
           
             States
             General
          
           to
           the
           
             Marquess
             d'Albeville
          
           his
           Majesty's
           Envoy
           there
           ,
           That
           they
           had
           no
           Design
           against
           him
           ,
           and
           that
           their
           Preparations
           were
           not
           in
           order
           to
           disquiet
           him
           on
           his
           Throne
           ,
           or
           disturb
           the
           Peace
           of
           his
           Kingdoms
           ;
           but
           that
           they
           were
           for
           a
           purpose
           meerly
           relative
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           in
           which
           his
           Majesty
           was
           no
           ways
           
           interested
           .
           So
           that
           after
           so
           fraudulent
           and
           perjurious
           an
           Act
           ,
           the
           Commencement
           of
           the
           War
           being
           in
           Violation
           and
           Contempt
           of
           actual
           and
           subsisting
           Treaties
           ;
           I
           do
           challenge
           any
           Man
           to
           believe
           ,
           without
           doing
           violence
           to
           his
           Mind
           ,
           that
           the
           Dutch
           are
           in
           the
           practical
           Belief
           of
           any
           Religion
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           that
           they
           co-operated
           to
           the
           Revolution
           out
           of
           care
           to
           preserve
           the
           Reformed
           Doctrine
           and
           Worship
           to
           these
           Three
           Nations
           .
           Alas
           !
           It
           was
           upon
           other
           Inducements
           that
           they
           concurred
           to
           involve
           these
           Nations
           in
           War
           and
           Blood
           ,
           which
           we
           might
           easily
           have
           discovered
           ,
           but
           would
           not
           .
           For
           they
           no
           sooner
           observed
           the
           King's
           putting
           an
           end
           to
           Persecution
           in
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           and
           thereby
           doing
           that
           which
           might
           have
           reconciled
           his
           People
           to
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           should
           have
           united
           them
           all
           to
           him
           ;
           nor
           sooner
           found
           that
           he
           had
           too
           much
           Honour
           and
           Courage
           ,
           and
           withall
           bore
           more
           Love
           and
           Tenderness
           to
           his
           People
           ,
           to
           suffer
           them
           either
           to
           be
           wormed
           ,
           or
           insulted
           out
           of
           their
           Trade
           :
           And
           had
           likewise
           perceived
           that
           as
           he
           was
           an
           admirable
           Oeconomist
           of
           the
           publick
           Treasure
           ,
           so
           he
           was
           a
           great
           Encourager
           of
           all
           over
           whom
           God
           had
           set
           him
           ,
           to
           Industry
           and
           Vertue
           ;
           but
           that
           they
           grew
           immediately
           thereupon
           apprehensive
           ,
           that
           we
           would
           become
           more
           Strong
           and
           Opulent
           than
           would
           be
           for
           their
           Interest
           ,
           or
           prove
           consistent
           with
           the
           Tricks
           and
           Rapines
           they
           had
           been
           accustomed
           to
           practise
           in
           ways
           of
           Commerce
           .
           And
           as
           these
           were
           the
           Provocations
           upon
           which
           they
           desired
           to
           see
           his
           Majesty
           dethroned
           ;
           so
           the
           Ambition
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           of
           whom
           it
           may
           be
           said
           in
           the
           Words
           of
           Tacitus
           ,
           That
           
             cupido
             dominandi
             cuncti●
             affectibus
             flagrantior
          
           ,
           that
           all
           his
           Lusts
           as
           well
           as
           his
           Obligations
           give
           place
           to
           his
           Aspirings
           after
           Sovereignty
           ;
           together
           with
           the
           Discontents
           in
           England
           ,
           which
           the
           Means
           and
           Methods
           to
           our
           Happiness
           had
           filled
           us
           with
           ,
           administred
           them
           an
           Opportunity
           of
           stepping
           in
           to
           ruin
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           us
           miserable
           ,
           which
           they
           easily
           foresaw
           would
           be
           the
           effect
           of
           it
           .
           And
           as
           they
           speedily
           had
           the
           Satisfaction
           to
           see
           the
           first
           performed
           ;
           so
           they
           have
           now
           also
           the
           Pleasure
           to
           behold
           us
           impoverished
           and
           weakened
           to
           that
           degree
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           second
           Thing
           they
           longed
           for
           ,
           That
           an
           Age
           under
           the
           mildest
           ,
           wisest
           ,
           and
           justest
           Government
           ,
           will
           not
           restore
           us
           to
           that
           Condition
           (
           at
           least
           in
           their
           Opinion
           )
           as
           to
           beget
           either
           their
           Jealousy
           or
           their
           Envy
           ,
           or
           which
           may
           hinder
           them
           from
           wresting
           from
           us
           what
           parts
           of
           our
           Trade
           they
           please
           .
           For
           they
           are
           a
           People
           that
           will
           call
           it
           Friendship
           to
           us
           to
           rob
           us
           ;
           
             &
             ubi
             solitudinem
             ●●ciunt
             ,
             pacem
             appellant
             ,
          
           to
           borrow
           another
           of
           
           Tacitus's
           Phrases
           .
           No●
           
           will
           any
           mean●
           in
           human
           View
           prevent
           our
           becoming
           in
           a
           very
           lit●le
           time
           the
           Contempt
           of
           all
           Nations
           about
           us
           for
           Weakness
           and
           Poverty
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           raise
           us
           again
           to
           that
           State
           of
           Strength
           ,
           Opulency
           ,
           and
           Glory
           in
           which
           we
           were
           ,
           but
           the
           calling
           home
           the
           King
           with
           all
           the
           Expedition
           we
           can
           ,
           and
           combining
           together
           with
           united
           Hearts
           and
           Hands
           to
           shake
           off
           the
           Usurper
           ,
           with
           his
           Ben●ings
           and
           
             Ginckles
             ;
             Qui
             se
             partem
             nostrae
             Republicae
             faciunt
             ,
          
           that
           I
           may
           use
           an
           Expression
           of
           Tacitus
           ,
           but
           are
           in
           an
           apparent
           Conspiracy
           with
           the
           High
           and
           Mighty
           at
           the
           Hague
           ,
           to
           reduce
           these
           Kingdoms
           to
           a
           Feebleness
           and
           Indigency
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           they
           have
           a
           Design
           we
           shall
           never
           emerge
           .
        
         
           Nor
           did
           the
           great
           Man
           who
           keeps
           his
           Palace
           at
           Kensington
           bring
           an
           Army
           into
           England
           ,
           and
           serue
           himself
           to
           the
           Throne
           ,
           upon
           any
           Motives
           of
           saving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           or
           out
           of
           any
           Intentions
           of
           kindness
           and
           good
           will
           to
           it
           ;
           but
           meerly
           upon
           the
           Impulse
           of
           Pride
           ,
           Haughtiness
           and
           Ambition
           ,
           and
           to
           gratify
           his
           Aspirings
           after
           a
           Crown
           .
           I
           am
           not
           ignorant
           how
           he
           hath
           been
           represented
           and
           painted
           forth
           ,
           by
           your
           Temporizing
           ,
           Mercenary
           ,
           and
           Sycophant
           Divines
           ,
           as
           the
           Saviour
           of
           our
           Religion
           and
           Liberties
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           godly
           Saint
           ,
           and
           the
           heavenly
           divine
           Man
           ,
           would
           not
           have
           violated
           all
           the
           Tyes
           and
           Bonds
           of
           Nature
           ,
           and
           trampled
           upon
           the
           Precepts
           of
           the
           Decalogue
           ,
           and
           the
           Sanctions
           of
           the
           Bible
           ,
           but
           upon
           the
           Inducements
           of
           Zeal
           for
           God
           ,
           and
           his
           holy
           Religion
           ;
           which
           by
           Examples
           taken
           from
           Phineas
           and
           Ehud
           transform
           Murther
           into
           Sacrifices
           ;
           and
           by
           Presidents
           derived
           from
           the
           Israelites
           borrowing
           the
           Ear-rings
           of
           the
           Egyptians
           ,
           consecrate
           and
           hallow
           Rapines
           and
           Robberies
           .
           The
           Panegyricks
           upon
           him
           on
           this
           Account
           of
           your
           
             Tillotsons
             ,
             Tenisons
             ,
             Patricks
          
           ,
           and
           Burnets
           ,
           &c.
           are
           more
           Frontless
           and
           Fulsom
           ,
           than
           what
           your
           
             Shadwels
             ,
             Settles
          
           ,
           or
           any
           of
           your
           
             Grubstreet
             Poets
          
           ,
           who
           claim
           a
           Dispensation
           of
           Lying
           for
           Bread
           ,
           would
           have
           the
           Impudence
           to
           justify
           themselves
           in
           ,
           when
           they
           write
           to
           purchase
           the
           Applauses
           of
           the
           gaping
           Mob
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           when
           they
           purpose
           to
           gain
           the
           Clappings
           of
           those
           in
           the
           Pit
           and
           Boxes
           .
           But
           after
           I
           have
           borrowed
           for
           a
           while
           these
           Gentlemens
           Pencils
           ,
           and
           only
           dipt
           them
           in
           Colours
           more
           natural
           ,
           and
           better
           adapted
           to
           the
           Figure
           and
           Complexion
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ;
           I
           will
           challenge
           all
           Mankind
           ,
           who
           have
           not
           abjured
           Truth
           and
           common
           Honesty
           ,
           to
           believe
           any
           longer
           or
           continue
           to
           avouch
           ,
           That
           his
           coming
           into
           England
           was
           out
           of
           any
           other
           Respect
           to
           our
           Religion
           ,
           save
           making
           it
           the
           Cloak
           and
           stalking
           Horse
           to
           his
           towring
           and
           ambitious
           Designs
           .
           
           I
           need
           not
           tell
           you
           with
           what
           alienation
           from
           Gratitude
           ,
           contempt
           of
           Justice
           ,
           scornful
           regardlesness
           of
           a
           Deity
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           disgrace
           of
           all
           Religion
           ,
           he
           first
           came
           abroad
           ,
           and
           set
           up
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           when
           he
           thrust
           himself
           into
           the
           Statholdership
           of
           his
           own
           Country
           by
           Perjury
           and
           Murther
           of
           Two
           of
           the
           best
           Patriots
           of
           the
           Dutch
           Republick
           ;
           of
           one
           of
           which
           ,
           namely
           
             John
             de
             Witt
          
           ,
           the
           late
           Pensionary
           Fagel
           was
           heard
           and
           known
           to
           say
           ,
           after
           he
           had
           examined
           all
           his
           Papers
           ,
           and
           searched
           into
           the
           whole
           of
           his
           Conduct
           during
           his
           Ministry
           ,
           That
           the
           great
           ,
           if
           not
           only
           ,
           Fault
           he
           was
           guilty
           of
           ,
           was
           his
           ardent
           Love
           unto
           ,
           and
           his
           steady
           and
           unshaken
           Service
           of
           his
           Country
           .
           Nor
           shall
           I
           do
           more
           than
           briefly
           refresh
           your
           Memory
           ,
           how
           being
           of
           no
           Religion
           he
           can
           personate
           any
           ,
           when
           it
           lies
           in
           a
           Subserviency
           to
           his
           Interest
           ;
           and
           that
           he
           would
           with
           the
           same
           Readiness
           ,
           and
           exteriour
           Shews
           of
           Zeal
           ,
           have
           acted
           the
           part
           of
           a
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           to
           have
           obtained
           a
           Sovereignty
           over
           any
           Kingdom
           of
           the
           Papal
           Communion
           ,
           as
           he
           hath
           done
           that
           of
           a
           Protestant
           to
           get
           into
           the
           Throne
           of
           
             Great
             Brittain
          
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           admitted
           unto
           a
           Domination
           over
           these
           Nations
           .
           For
           his
           having
           been
           oftener
           than
           once
           at
           Mass
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           as
           a
           Spectator
           out
           of
           Curiosity
           ,
           but
           as
           communicating
           in
           that
           Worship
           and
           Devotion
           ,
           is
           known
           to
           so
           many
           Persons
           of
           several
           Qualities
           as
           well
           as
           of
           different
           Religions
           ,
           that
           it
           will
           not
           be
           gainsaid
           by
           any
           who
           are
           acquainted
           with
           Passages
           and
           Transactions
           some
           Years
           ago
           in
           Flanders
           :
           And
           should
           any
           be
           so
           ignorant
           of
           matters
           of
           Fact
           at
           a
           distance
           from
           their
           own
           Doors
           ,
           or
           live
           in
           enmity
           to
           all
           Truths
           disagreable
           to
           their
           Humours
           and
           Interests
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           deny
           it
           ,
           there
           are
           those
           both
           at
           Brussels
           and
           Antwerp
           who
           can
           testify
           it
           ,
           and
           have
           not
           been
           heretofore
           shy
           to
           do
           it
           .
           It
           was
           K.
           
           Charles's
           having
           no
           Children
           ,
           and
           the
           Duke
           of
           
           York's
           having
           no
           Male
           ones
           that
           lived
           ,
           and
           his
           own
           Marriage
           with
           the
           said
           Duke's
           
             Eldest
             Daughter
          
           ,
           and
           therefore
           coming
           into
           some
           probable
           and
           nearer
           Prospects
           of
           arriving
           sooner
           or
           later
           at
           the
           Sovereignty
           over
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           that
           made
           him
           put
           on
           the
           Vizard
           and
           Mask
           of
           a
           Zealot
           for
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ;
           having
           before
           lived
           in
           all
           the
           Coldness
           and
           Indifferency
           in
           that
           matter
           that
           was
           consistent
           with
           his
           keeping
           the
           Posts
           he
           held
           in
           Holland
           .
           I
           am
           loath
           to
           subjoyn
           how
           impossible
           it
           is
           that
           that
           Man
           should
           be
           of
           any
           Religion
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           act
           upon
           real
           and
           sincere
           Motives
           ,
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Protestant
           ,
           who
           can
           and
           doth
           indulge
           himself
           in
           the
           Practice
           of
           such
           Abominations
           as
           
           are
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Light
           of
           Nature
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Ethicks
           of
           Pagans
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           the
           Doctrines
           and
           Precepts
           of
           the
           Bible
           ,
           and
           which
           are
           made
           Capital
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           all
           Nations
           .
           Nor
           can
           I
           do
           it
           ,
           unless
           I
           would
           offend
           the
           Eyes
           and
           Ears
           of
           modest
           Persons
           ,
           and
           give
           occasion
           to
           the
           infecting
           and
           defiling
           the
           Imaginations
           of
           Men
           and
           Women
           ,
           by
           mentioning
           such
           Crimes
           in
           Paper
           .
           For
           as
           they
           are
           such
           heinous
           and
           provoking
           Abominations
           ,
           as
           have
           brought
           Fire
           from
           Heaven
           upon
           whole
           Citys
           and
           Societies
           ;
           so
           they
           are
           of
           that
           strangeness
           to
           our
           Climate
           ,
           and
           so
           little
           heard
           of
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           practiced
           under
           our
           Meridian
           ;
           that
           our
           Law
           took
           no
           knowledge
           of
           them
           till
           the
           25
           of
           Hen.
           8.
           when
           they
           were
           made
           Felony
           without
           benefit
           of
           Clergy
           .
           They
           are
           Ultramontane
           Crimes
           lately
           transplanted
           into
           our
           Soyl
           ,
           and
           in
           which
           to
           the
           Credit
           of
           our
           Country
           they
           have
           not
           much
           throve
           nor
           grown
           .
           But
           I
           do
           reckon
           it
           unbecoming
           both
           you
           and
           my self
           to
           enlarge
           upon
           this
           ;
           nor
           is
           it
           necessary
           to
           descend
           to
           proofs
           of
           it
           in
           a
           City
           ,
           and
           about
           a
           Court
           ,
           where
           your
           Kapples
           are
           known
           ,
           and
           where
           it
           is
           sprung
           up
           into
           a
           Proverb
           ,
           
             In
             hunc
             modum
             fiunt
             Comites
             Anglicani
             .
          
           It
           is
           enough
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           the
           Entertainment
           of
           Societies
           of
           People
           of
           the
           best
           Fashion
           ,
           where
           the
           rallying
           upon
           it
           has
           a
           thousand
           times
           made
           the
           modest
           ,
           fair
           ,
           and
           tender
           Sex
           to
           Blush
           ;
           and
           hath
           filled
           the
           masculine
           and
           virile
           with
           Contempt
           and
           Hatred
           of
           themselves
           ,
           for
           enduring
           a
           Catamite
           to
           rule
           over
           them
           .
           Only
           I
           would
           have
           those
           that
           are
           the
           great
           
             Theological
             Artists
          
           in
           painting
           Black●moors
           white
           ,
           to
           try
           their
           Skill
           ,
           whether
           they
           can
           make
           a
           beautiful
           and
           religious
           Stroak
           of
           this
           in
           the
           Pictures
           they
           draw
           of
           their
           Prince
           .
           And
           whether
           ,
           by
           all
           the
           Chimistry
           of
           modern
           Priesthood
           ,
           they
           can
           extract
           out
           of
           it
           an
           Apodictical
           and
           Convincing
           Argument
           of
           their
           Master's
           Zeal
           for
           preserving
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ;
           or
           Distil
           from
           it
           a
           Plea
           in
           Law
           ,
           to
           justify
           his
           driving
           his
           Father
           in
           Law
           from
           his
           Throne
           and
           Kingdoms
           .
           But
           it
           may
           be
           nothing
           is
           impossible
           to
           those
           Gentlemen
           ,
           save
           to
           speak
           and
           act
           consistently
           with
           their
           own
           Principles
           ,
           and
           to
           practise
           conformably
           to
           the
           Doctrines
           they
           have
           taught
           their
           People
           ,
           and
           pretended
           themselves
           to
           believe
           ;
           and
           undoubtedly
           they
           may
           do
           this
           I
           have
           named
           ,
           with
           the
           same
           Ease
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           same
           Rules
           of
           Philosophy
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           inferred
           Rebellion
           against
           the
           King
           from
           the
           Article
           of
           Non-resistance
           ;
           and
           their
           Deposing
           their
           Rightful
           and
           Lawful
           Sovereign
           from
           their
           celebrated
           Tenet
           of
           
             Passive
             Obedience
          
           .
           
           To
           which
           it
           may
           not
           be
           amiss
           to
           add
           ,
           the
           Antipathy
           which
           that
           Man
           must
           unavoidably
           live
           in
           to
           all
           Religion
           ,
           who
           after
           his
           Declaration
           prepared
           and
           printed
           at
           the
           Hague
           ,
           for
           wheedling
           the
           credulous
           People
           of
           England
           into
           a
           Belief
           ,
           that
           he
           came
           to
           save
           them
           from
           Popery
           and
           Tyranny
           ;
           and
           in
           which
           he
           makes
           the
           Supposititiousness
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           the
           Questionableness
           of
           his
           Legitimacy
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           mighty
           Grounds
           of
           his
           Quarrel
           with
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           chiefest
           Provocation
           upon
           which
           he
           was
           about
           to
           invade
           his
           Kingdoms
           ;
           yet
           that
           even
           then
           ,
           and
           until
           a
           few
           days
           before
           he
           actually
           Embarked
           on
           that
           Design
           ,
           he
           had
           the
           
             Royal
             Babe
          
           prayed
           for
           in
           his
           own
           Chapel
           ,
           by
           that
           Distinguishing
           and
           Princely
           Title
           .
           And
           as
           I
           will
           never
           henceforth
           think
           it
           strange
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           allow
           himself
           to
           hoodwink
           ,
           impose
           upon
           ,
           and
           mislead
           Nations
           ,
           who
           durst
           with
           that
           open
           Boldness
           mock
           and
           deride
           the
           Omniscient
           ,
           Almighty
           ,
           and
           Righteous
           God
           ,
           both
           to
           his
           Face
           ,
           and
           in
           his
           own
           instituted
           Worship
           and
           Service
           ;
           so
           it
           satisfied
           me
           ,
           and
           may
           do
           all
           others
           ,
           that
           one
           who
           could
           be
           guilty
           of
           so
           much
           publick
           Atheism
           as
           well
           as
           Hypocrisy
           ,
           as
           that
           was
           which
           I
           have
           now
           mentioned
           ,
           can
           have
           no
           other
           Designs
           ,
           concerning
           either
           the
           Protestant
           or
           any
           Religion
           ,
           but
           the
           making
           it
           a
           Stale
           for
           the
           better
           compassing
           his
           own
           Ends.
           And
           suffer
           me
           upon
           this
           occasion
           to
           entertain
           you
           with
           a
           Passage
           of
           Benting
           (
           who
           is
           the
           Earl
           said
           to
           be
           made
           on
           the
           new
           Foot
           of
           merit
           that
           I
           have
           mentioned
           )
           to
           a
           certain
           Gentleman
           in
           a
           private
           Conversation
           between
           them
           .
           For
           the
           Gentleman
           having
           asked
           him
           ,
           why
           they
           did
           not
           discover
           and
           make
           appear
           the
           Illegitimacy
           and
           Supposititiousness
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ?
           Seeing
           as
           the
           Belief
           of
           it
           had
           served
           more
           to
           draw
           the
           Nation
           into
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           than
           any
           thing
           else
           ;
           so
           a
           Legal
           and
           Parliamentary
           proof
           of
           it
           ,
           would
           inseparably
           link
           most
           Men
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           preserve
           them
           in
           a
           perpetual
           Alienation
           from
           King
           
             James
             :
             Benting
          
           told
           him
           ,
           by
           way
           of
           Reply
           ,
           That
           they
           neither
           questioned
           the
           Legitimacy
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           nor
           were
           concerned
           about
           it
           ;
           for
           that
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           was
           now
           got
           into
           the
           Throne
           ,
           and
           was
           resolved
           to
           keep
           it
           so
           long
           as
           he
           lived
           ,
           and
           cared
           not
           who
           ascended
           it
           when
           he
           was
           gone
           .
           Nor
           did
           his
           Letter
           to
           the
           Army
           and
           Fleet
           ,
           for
           debauching
           them
           from
           their
           Duty
           ,
           and
           by
           which
           he
           courted
           them
           to
           revolt
           from
           the
           King
           ,
           savour
           of
           ,
           or
           stand
           in
           consistency
           with
           any
           Religion
           ,
           but
           proclaims
           him
           both
           
           highly
           Impious
           and
           Atheistical
           ;
           it
           being
           not
           only
           to
           countenance
           breach
           of
           Trust
           and
           Disloyalty
           ,
           but
           to
           advise
           and
           authorize
           Perjury
           .
           And
           whosoever
           tempts
           others
           to
           forswear
           themselves
           ,
           have
           been
           accounted
           by
           all
           Nations
           as
           Despisers
           of
           a
           Deity
           ,
           Supplanters
           of
           the
           only
           Ground
           of
           all
           human
           Commerce
           and
           Conversation
           ,
           and
           the
           Subverters
           of
           the
           Foundation
           upon
           which
           all
           Societies
           are
           established
           .
           And
           his
           inviting
           those
           to
           desert
           and
           forsake
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           who
           not
           only
           eat
           his
           Bread
           ,
           and
           received
           his
           Pay
           ,
           but
           who
           stood
           bound
           to
           him
           both
           by
           their
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           Oath
           of
           Fealty
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           military
           Oath
           as
           they
           were
           Souldiers
           enrolled
           under
           his
           Banners
           ;
           shews
           his
           own
           Irreligion
           that
           advised
           it
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           theirs
           that
           hearkened
           unto
           him
           .
           And
           may
           be
           it
           will
           sooner
           or
           later
           return
           upon
           him
           ,
           wherein
           not
           only
           God
           will
           be
           Righteous
           ,
           but
           those
           that
           forsake
           the
           Standards
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           Justifiable
           ;
           provided
           they
           do
           it
           from
           a
           just
           and
           penitent
           Sense
           of
           their
           Crime
           ,
           in
           violating
           the
           Lawful
           and
           Righteous
           Oath
           they
           were
           under
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           from
           the
           Sanction
           and
           Obligation
           whereof
           no
           human
           Power
           can
           ever
           acquit
           them
           ;
           and
           also
           from
           a
           Conviction
           of
           the
           Unlawfulness
           of
           that
           Oath
           which
           they
           have
           taken
           to
           the
           Usurper
           .
           I
           might
           add
           ,
           That
           the
           pretending
           to
           have
           come
           hither
           for
           the
           Safety
           ,
           Honour
           ,
           and
           Interest
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           will
           appear
           the
           most
           shameful
           Banter
           that
           ever
           was
           put
           upon
           the
           Understandings
           of
           a
           whole
           Nation
           ;
           if
           we
           consider
           the
           Treaty
           at
           Ausbourg
           ,
           and
           with
           whom
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           concerted
           the
           Invasion
           that
           was
           to
           be
           made
           upon
           the
           King.
           For
           they
           must
           have
           forfeited
           common
           Sense
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           moral
           Honesty
           ,
           who
           can
           be
           prevailed
           upon
           to
           allow
           ,
           that
           the
           many
           Catholick
           Princes
           who
           approved
           of
           that
           Undertaking
           ,
           could
           design
           any
           good
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           or
           believe
           that
           any
           Advantage
           would
           accrue
           unto
           it
           by
           that
           Attempt
           .
           It
           is
           to
           Buffoon
           us
           ,
           and
           treat
           us
           in
           Ridicule
           ,
           to
           endeavour
           to
           impose
           upon
           our
           Belief
           ,
           That
           the
           late
           Prince
           Palatine
           ,
           who
           together
           with
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           was
           the
           original
           Contriver
           of
           a
           Descent
           upon
           England
           ;
           or
           that
           the
           
             Emperour
             ,
             King
             of
             Spain
             ,
             Elector
             of
             Bavaria
             ,
          
           &c.
           who
           concurred
           unto
           ,
           and
           countenanced
           it
           ;
           or
           that
           old
           Odiscalchi
           ,
           and
           Innocent
           the
           XI
           .
           who
           winked
           and
           connived
           at
           it
           ,
           though
           against
           both
           a
           Catholick
           Monarch
           ,
           and
           the
           first
           of
           the
           Romish
           Communion
           that
           hath
           sat
           upon
           the
           Thrones
           of
           
             Great
             Brittain
          
           for
           above
           these
           hundred
           
           Years
           ;
           could
           do
           it
           in
           Kindness
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           or
           foresee
           that
           it
           was
           undertaken
           by
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           upon
           any
           Motive
           relating
           to
           the
           Safety
           of
           it
           .
           No
           ,
           they
           very
           well
           knew
           that
           there
           was
           nothing
           of
           Religion
           in
           this
           Case
           ;
           but
           they
           were
           willing
           to
           make
           use
           of
           the
           Ambition
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           to
           seek
           their
           own
           Revenge
           against
           France
           ,
           and
           to
           raise
           a
           War
           of
           Interest
           and
           State
           upon
           his
           haughty
           Aspirings
           after
           a
           Crown
           ,
           and
           on
           our
           being
           bubbled
           into
           it
           through
           a
           foolish
           Credulity
           that
           it
           was
           entered
           upon
           in
           behalf
           of
           our
           Religion
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           unworthy
           of
           Remark
           ,
           That
           the
           last
           Duke
           of
           Brandenburgh
           ,
           who
           was
           both
           one
           of
           the
           wisest
           and
           bravest
           Princes
           in
           Europe
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           the
           sincerest
           and
           most
           zealous
           for
           the
           Protection
           ,
           Glory
           ,
           and
           Advancement
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           would
           neither
           embark
           in
           a
           Design
           against
           the
           King
           of
           England
           ,
           nor
           suffer
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           to
           enter
           actually
           upon
           it
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           he
           lived
           .
           Which
           made
           his
           Death
           to
           be
           received
           and
           entertained
           at
           the
           Hague
           as
           a
           happy
           and
           seasonable
           Providence
           ,
           in
           that
           his
           Son
           who
           succeeded
           would
           not
           have
           the
           Prudence
           to
           avoid
           being
           ensnared
           unto
           it
           ;
           being
           withall
           under
           the
           Influence
           of
           those
           mighty
           Expectations
           he
           stands
           entitled
           unto
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Cousin
           German
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           Rightful
           Heir
           to
           all
           his
           Personal
           and
           Hereditary
           Estates
           .
           And
           to
           put
           it
           beyond
           all
           reasonable
           Contradiction
           that
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           did
           only
           Sham
           ,
           Abuse
           ,
           and
           Banter
           Mankind
           ,
           in
           pretending
           to
           come
           hither
           upon
           Motives
           of
           Favour
           and
           Kindness
           to
           our
           Religion
           ,
           than
           that
           the
           only
           Two
           Protestant
           crowned
           Heads
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           did
           neither
           antecedently
           concur
           unto
           it
           ,
           nor
           have
           they
           to
           this
           day
           engaged
           in
           the
           War
           against
           France
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           immediate
           and
           natural
           Consequence
           and
           Effect
           of
           that
           Undertaking
           .
           But
           to
           advance
           a
           little
           farther
           ;
           Does
           not
           the
           whole
           Tenor
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           publick
           Government
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           his
           personal
           and
           private
           Conduct
           ,
           lie
           in
           a
           direct
           Contradiction
           to
           his
           being
           under
           the
           Impressions
           of
           any
           Religion
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           to
           his
           being
           under
           the
           Efficacy
           of
           what
           we
           call
           the
           Protestant
           ?
           I
           am
           not
           at
           leisure
           to
           give
           you
           the
           full
           History
           of
           his
           Usurpation
           ,
           which
           some
           are
           pleased
           to
           stile
           his
           Reign
           ;
           but
           there
           are
           those
           who
           will
           do
           it
           to
           purpose
           in
           due
           time
           ,
           it
           being
           necessary
           that
           the
           vertuous
           Memory
           of
           the
           Hero
           ,
           and
           of
           our
           Folly
           ,
           should
           be
           recorded
           for
           the
           Instruction
           of
           Posterity
           .
           All
           therefore
           I
           shall
           do
           at
           present
           is
           to
           bestow
           a
           few
           
           Strictures
           upon
           his
           Administration
           ,
           there
           being
           no
           more
           needful
           to
           my
           purpose
           .
           Let
           me
           then
           ask
           ,
           Whether
           he
           hath
           done
           any
           Thing
           for
           bettering
           our
           Laws
           ,
           and
           enlarging
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           which
           were
           some
           of
           the
           main
           Things
           he
           came
           hither
           for
           ?
           Or
           hath
           he
           not
           on
           the
           contrary
           more
           avowedly
           superseded
           and
           departed
           from
           our
           known
           Laws
           ,
           and
           put
           more
           Negatives
           on
           publick
           Bills
           prepared
           by
           both
           Houses
           for
           the
           Royal
           Assent
           ,
           than
           any
           of
           the
           Kings
           that
           went
           lately
           before
           him
           did
           ?
           Has
           he
           performed
           any
           one
           Thing
           he
           undertook
           ,
           and
           which
           was
           expected
           from
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           avoid
           the
           doing
           of
           ?
           Hath
           he
           kept
           one
           Promise
           he
           ever
           made
           ,
           that
           he
           has
           been
           in
           a
           Condition
           to
           evade
           ?
           Has
           he
           proved
           true
           to
           any
           one
           Friend
           that
           trusted
           and
           served
           him
           ,
           save
           as
           they
           have
           been
           Slaves
           to
           his
           Will
           ,
           and
           Tools
           of
           his
           Arbitrariness
           ?
           Hath
           he
           from
           the
           time
           he
           came
           in
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           been
           known
           to
           discern
           or
           reward
           Merit
           ?
           All
           his
           Policy
           is
           Trick
           ;
           and
           his
           pretended
           Kindness
           ,
           Fraud
           and
           Deceit
           .
           Instead
           of
           encreasing
           our
           Wealth
           ,
           he
           hath
           utterly
           Impoverished
           us
           ;
           and
           that
           not
           so
           much
           through
           Necessity
           ,
           as
           Choice
           resulting
           from
           Hatred
           .
           In
           the
           Place
           of
           making
           us
           more
           Opulent
           than
           we
           were
           ,
           he
           hath
           brought
           us
           into
           contemptible
           Poverty
           .
           Whereas
           we
           hoped
           he
           would
           have
           protected
           us
           from
           the
           Enemies
           he
           created
           us
           ;
           he
           hath
           upon
           Design
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           from
           Laziness
           ,
           given
           us
           up
           to
           them
           as
           a
           Sacrifice
           .
           And
           whereas
           it
           would
           have
           become
           him
           ,
           had
           he
           either
           been
           a
           good
           Man
           or
           a
           just
           King
           ,
           to
           have
           discouraged
           and
           prevented
           Bribes
           ,
           especially
           when
           Persons
           only
           sought
           and
           sued
           for
           their
           Right
           :
           The
           
             Privy
             Purse
          
           hath
           been
           the
           Receptacle
           of
           most
           of
           the
           scandalous
           Bribes
           that
           have
           been
           given
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           thither
           that
           what
           we
           call
           our
           House
           of
           Commons
           has
           traced
           them
           .
           But
           that
           which
           is
           Base
           and
           Criminal
           ,
           beyond
           what
           any
           Language
           can
           express
           ,
           unless
           it
           be
           Dutch
           ,
           is
           his
           purchasing
           so
           many
           Members
           of
           both
           Houses
           to
           sell
           their
           Country
           .
           This
           being
           a
           direct
           Subversion
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           if
           any
           Thing
           could
           make
           a
           Lawful
           King
           forfeit
           his
           Right
           ,
           this
           would
           stand
           fairest
           to
           do
           it
           .
           For
           the
           Sovereign
           having
           no
           other
           Ground
           of
           claim
           to
           any
           Power
           or
           Prerogative
           ,
           save
           what
           he
           hath
           from
           the
           Constitution
           which
           hath
           settled
           and
           vested
           them
           in
           him
           ,
           That
           Prince
           who
           goes
           about
           to
           overthrow
           this
           ,
           does
           all
           he
           can
           to
           cancel
           his
           own
           Right
           ,
           and
           to
           cut
           the
           Bough
           on
           which
           he
           stands
           .
           And
           yet
           we
           who
           have
           had
           the
           Folly
           and
           Madness
           to
           abdicate
           a
           Legal
           King
           for
           
           some
           few
           little
           Mistakes
           in
           the
           Administration
           ,
           have
           not
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Courage
           to
           call
           an
           Usurper
           to
           account
           ,
           for
           trampling
           upon
           all
           the
           Fundamentals
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           .
           The
           King's
           Closetting
           some
           Peers
           and
           Gentlemen
           ,
           which
           was
           only
           to
           address
           their
           Reason
           and
           Understanding
           to
           consent
           to
           a
           Matter
           which
           the
           Crown
           had
           in
           all
           Ages
           been
           in
           possession
           of
           ,
           until
           about
           Twenty
           Years
           ago
           ,
           and
           which
           was
           never
           thought
           hurtful
           unto
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           inconsistent
           with
           ,
           the
           Safety
           of
           our
           Religion
           till
           of
           late
           ,
           filled
           the
           whole
           Nation
           with
           Complaints
           and
           Clamours
           of
           his
           Majesty's
           Designing
           to
           alter
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           run
           the
           People
           into
           that
           brutal
           Fury
           ,
           which
           produced
           the
           woful
           Effects
           that
           soon
           after
           followed
           :
           Whereas
           we
           sit
           still
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           stupid
           Tameness
           endure
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           to
           steal
           away
           all
           our
           Rights
           from
           us
           ,
           by
           his
           Bribing
           those
           to
           betray
           and
           give
           them
           up
           ,
           who
           were
           chosen
           by
           their
           Country
           to
           be
           the
           Guardians
           of
           them
           .
           And
           he
           who
           dares
           not
           in
           a
           way
           of
           Fortitude
           and
           Bravery
           fight
           us
           out
           of
           them
           ,
           is
           endeavouring
           to
           strip
           us
           of
           them
           by
           an
           Assassination
           .
           Surely
           if
           he
           that
           poysons
           an
           individual
           Person
           be
           out
           of
           the
           purl●ews
           of
           Mercy
           ,
           and
           from
           under
           the
           Protection
           of
           the
           Laws
           ;
           there
           can
           be
           no
           Severity
           great
           enough
           to
           be
           exercised
           against
           him
           ,
           that
           hath
           not
           only
           endeavoured
           ,
           but
           in
           a
           manner
           effected
           ,
           the
           poysoning
           of
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           .
           And
           if
           the
           Murtherer
           of
           the
           meanest
           Subject
           be
           obnoxious
           to
           capital
           Punishment
           ;
           what
           should
           he
           be
           made
           liable
           unto
           that
           murthereth
           a
           Parliament
           ?
           Who
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           the
           better
           Rob
           and
           Plunder
           the
           Nation
           ,
           gives
           others
           a
           Share
           in
           the
           Spoil
           .
           For
           the
           Jackcalls
           that
           hunt
           and
           run
           down
           the
           Prey
           ,
           are
           allowed
           to
           eat
           the
           Remains
           of
           the
           Flesh
           ,
           and
           to
           gnaw
           the
           Bones
           ,
           when
           the
           Creature
           which
           they
           have
           cloathed
           with
           a
           Lion's
           Skin
           hath
           suckt
           our
           Blood
           ,
           and
           fed
           himself
           upon
           us
           .
           He
           had
           soon
           learned
           ,
           and
           as
           soon
           practiced
           ,
           the
           pouring
           a
           little
           Water
           into
           a
           dry
           Pump
           ,
           to
           make
           it
           suck
           below
           and
           give
           forth
           above
           ,
           whatsoever
           Quantity
           he
           needed
           ,
           or
           was
           pleased
           to
           call
           for
           :
           Witness
           his
           parting
           with
           the
           
             Chimney
             Tax
          
           from
           the
           Crown
           ,
           for
           which
           he
           hath
           made
           Reprizal
           on
           the
           Kingdom
           in
           divers
           methods
           of
           raising
           Money
           that
           have
           been
           more
           dishonourable
           as
           well
           as
           more
           grievous
           to
           the
           Nation
           than
           that
           was
           .
           He
           hath
           more
           debauched
           the
           Kingdom
           from
           all
           Principles
           of
           Vertue
           ,
           Honour
           and
           Justice
           ,
           in
           a
           few
           Years
           ,
           than
           all
           the
           Kings
           either
           could
           do
           ,
           or
           attempted
           ,
           from
           the
           
             first
             
             William
          
           till
           his
           coming
           by
           Usurpation
           to
           be
           stiled
           the
           third
           of
           the
           same
           Name
           .
           Sardanapalus
           never
           more
           neglected
           the
           Grandees
           of
           Persia
           out
           of
           Effeminacy
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           might
           Spin
           and
           Card
           with
           his
           Ladies
           ,
           than
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           despiseth
           the
           greatest
           Peers
           of
           England
           ,
           out
           of
           Haughtiness
           and
           sullen
           Pride
           .
           And
           it
           is
           but
           lately
           that
           he
           hath
           treated
           those
           of
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           that
           came
           up
           from
           Scotland
           ,
           to
           attend
           him
           about
           the
           Affairs
           of
           their
           Nation
           ,
           with
           so
           unparalelled
           Contempt
           and
           Scorn
           ,
           as
           no
           Monarch
           in
           Europe
           would
           have
           used
           the
           like
           to
           his
           Pages
           and
           Grooms
           .
           For
           while
           he
           was
           conversant
           not
           only
           Hours
           ,
           but
           whole
           Days
           together
           ,
           with
           his
           Bentings
           and
           ●●p●ls
           ,
           they
           could
           hardly
           in
           two
           Months
           obtain
           access
           to
           him
           ;
           nor
           were
           they
           then
           allowed
           the
           Favour
           of
           a
           few
           Minutes
           for
           representing
           unto
           him
           what
           they
           came
           about
           ,
           but
           were
           dismissed
           with
           all
           scorn
           imaginable
           ,
           and
           are
           commanded
           home
           under
           all
           the
           conceivable
           Marks
           of
           reproach
           and
           disgrace
           .
           For
           he
           published
           with
           an
           Openness
           ,
           that
           they
           all
           became
           acquainted
           with
           it
           ,
           That
           
             he
             was
             more
             troubled
             with
             the
             Beggarly
          
           Scots
           
             than
             he
             was
             with
             all
             Mankind
             besides
             :
          
           Nor
           is
           to
           be
           questioned
           ,
           but
           that
           after
           he
           has
           impoverished
           the
           English
           ,
           which
           through
           squeezing
           Five
           or
           Six
           millions
           yearly
           out
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           in
           a
           fair
           way
           of
           doing
           ,
           he
           will
           have
           the
           same
           Compliment
           in
           reserve
           for
           them
           ,
           with
           the
           addition
           of
           Sots
           and
           Fools
           to
           the
           bargain
           .
           Only
           I
           cannot
           avoid
           saying
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           Scots
           have
           not
           Honour
           and
           Courage
           to
           resent
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           him
           feel
           the
           Effects
           of
           his
           haughty
           Folly
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           just
           Indignation
           ;
           all
           the
           World
           will
           think
           that
           they
           deserve
           a
           worse
           Character
           than
           that
           of
           
             Beggarly
             Scots
          
           ,
           and
           will
           account
           them
           a
           Rascally
           and
           Dastardly
           People
           .
           I
           am
           sure
           their
           Ancestors
           would
           not
           have
           borne
           the
           like
           from
           the
           greatest
           Monarchs
           that
           ever
           sat
           upon
           the
           Throne
           ;
           nor
           were
           any
           of
           their
           Kings
           so
           ill
           bred
           ,
           as
           to
           treat
           Persons
           of
           Quality
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           of
           as
           ancient
           Families
           as
           the
           House
           of
           Nassau
           it self
           ,
           with
           so
           much
           Rudeness
           and
           Disdain
           .
           But
           a
           Dutch
           Education
           authorizeth
           many
           Things
           ,
           only
           let
           the
           Scots
           remember
           ,
           that
           much
           Patience
           emboldens
           Oppressors
           .
           
             Et
             nihil
             profici
             patientia
             ,
             nisi
             ut
             graviora
             tanquam
             ex
             facili
             tolerantibus
             imperentur
             ,
          
           as
           Tacitus
           says
           .
           If
           they
           have
           the
           Spirit
           and
           Bravery
           of
           their
           Predecessors
           ,
           they
           will
           chuse
           War
           or
           Death
           rather
           than
           submit
           to
           this
           Slavery
           ;
           and
           will
           say
           ,
           
             Esse
             sibi
             ferrum
             &
             Juventut●m
             ,
             &
             promptum
             Libertati
             ,
             aut
             ad
             mortem
             animum
             ,
          
           that
           I
           may
           use
           another
           
           Expression
           of
           the
           same
           Tacitus
           .
           Now
           unless
           these
           Things
           ,
           and
           more
           of
           that
           kind
           which
           it
           were
           easy
           to
           mention
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           accounted
           Arguments
           ,
           and
           held
           for
           Evidences
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           acting
           upon
           Motives
           of
           love
           unto
           ,
           and
           care
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           in
           the
           invading
           his
           Uncle's
           Kingdoms
           and
           usurping
           his
           Crown
           ,
           there
           are
           none
           else
           discoverable
           in
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           his
           Administration
           ;
           and
           they
           must
           be
           either
           more
           sottish
           than
           the
           Soldanians
           in
           Africk
           ,
           or
           more
           irreligious
           than
           the
           Cannibals
           in
           America
           ,
           who
           can
           conconclude
           from
           the
           foregoing
           Practices
           ,
           and
           from
           such
           other
           as
           stand
           in
           affinity
           with
           them
           ,
           That
           he
           has
           any
           Religion
           at
           all
           ,
           or
           that
           he
           acts
           for
           any
           End
           ,
           but
           the
           satisfying
           his
           Ambition
           ,
           or
           upon
           any
           Motives
           save
           Pride
           and
           Haughtiness
           .
           To
           which
           let
           me
           add
           ,
           in
           the
           last
           Place
           ,
           That
           if
           his
           Errand
           hither
           had
           been
           to
           take
           care
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           he
           might
           have
           done
           it
           effectually
           without
           driving
           his
           Majesty
           out
           of
           his
           Dominions
           :
           Seeing
           there
           was
           not
           that
           Security
           that
           could
           have
           been
           wished
           or
           desired
           in
           order
           thereunto
           ,
           but
           what
           the
           King
           was
           ready
           to
           have
           consented
           unto
           ;
           and
           that
           more
           from
           his
           own
           Choice
           and
           Goodness
           ,
           than
           from
           the
           Influence
           of
           the
           Condition
           he
           was
           in
           .
           And
           as
           all
           Things
           of
           which
           his
           Enemies
           accused
           him
           ,
           and
           whereof
           they
           took
           Advantage
           ,
           into
           which
           he
           had
           been
           misled
           ,
           were
           rectified
           and
           redressed
           by
           Acts
           of
           his
           own
           Wisdom
           and
           Grace
           ,
           before
           ever
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           came
           out
           of
           Holland
           ;
           so
           he
           had
           ordered
           the
           Issuing
           out
           Writs
           for
           calling
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           Nation
           might
           in
           the
           Ancient
           and
           Legal
           way
           have
           made
           what
           Provisions
           they
           had
           pleased
           for
           the
           preserving
           and
           securing
           our
           Religion
           and
           Liberties
           .
           Nor
           is
           there
           that
           Man
           in
           England
           who
           retains
           the
           least
           Measure
           of
           Reason
           and
           good
           Sense
           ,
           let
           his
           Malice
           to
           the
           King
           be
           never
           so
           furious
           and
           obstinate
           ,
           but
           he
           must
           acknowledge
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           had
           come
           hither
           upon
           any
           other
           Design
           ,
           save
           that
           of
           dethroning
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           usurping
           his
           Crown
           ,
           he
           might
           have
           easily
           compassed
           all
           the
           Ends
           published
           in
           his
           Declaration
           ;
           either
           by
           way
           of
           a
           private
           Treaty
           with
           the
           King
           himself
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           Method
           of
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           freely
           and
           indifferently
           
           chosen
           ,
           and
           permitted
           to
           sit
           without
           an
           armed
           Power
           and
           military
           Force
           upon
           them
           .
           And
           as
           this
           would
           have
           redounded
           to
           the
           Honour
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           gained
           him
           the
           Admiration
           of
           his
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           the
           Praises
           and
           Benedictions
           of
           his
           Friends
           ;
           so
           it
           would
           both
           have
           prevented
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Distress
           ,
           Calamity
           ,
           and
           Bloodshed
           in
           Europe
           ,
           and
           have
           left
           these
           Kingdoms
           more
           safe
           and
           opulent
           than
           they
           now
           are
           ,
           and
           without
           that
           heap
           of
           Guilt
           and
           Infamy
           upon
           them
           under
           which
           they
           are
           brought
           .
           But
           instead
           of
           treading
           in
           those
           paths
           of
           Truth
           to
           Mankind
           ,
           Reputation
           to
           himself
           ,
           and
           Justice
           as
           well
           as
           Kindness
           to
           these
           Nations
           ,
           it
           is
           known
           with
           what
           Neglect
           and
           Scorn
           he
           received
           the
           Proposals
           carried
           from
           his
           Majesty
           to
           him
           by
           the
           
             Marquess
             of
             Hallifax
          
           ,
           the
           
             Earl
             of
             Nottingham
          
           ,
           and
           my
           
             Lord
             Godolphin●
          
           ;
           and
           how
           he
           put
           the
           
             Earl
             of
             Feversham
          
           under
           restraint
           ,
           and
           made
           him
           a
           Prisoner
           ,
           when
           he
           came
           to
           him
           at
           Windsor
           with
           a
           Message
           from
           the
           King.
           Nor
           needs
           there
           more
           to
           discover
           how
           remote
           he
           was
           from
           Sincerity
           ,
           in
           all
           the
           Pretences
           upon
           which
           he
           came
           hither
           ,
           than
           that
           he
           would
           never
           hearken
           to
           any
           Overtures
           which
           might
           lie
           in
           a
           Tendency
           to
           the
           making
           one
           Word
           of
           them
           good
           .
        
         
           Thus
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           I
           have
           with
           all
           the
           Brevity
           the
           Subject
           would
           allow
           ,
           endeavoured
           to
           answer
           your
           
             first
             Question
          
           ;
           and
           if
           the
           Stile
           in
           some
           Places
           be
           a
           little
           Piquant
           ,
           the
           Scriblers
           for
           the
           Usurper
           and
           Usurpation
           have
           set
           me
           the
           President
           ;
           and
           who
           have
           been
           Commended
           and
           Rewarded
           for
           treating
           both
           his
           Majesty
           and
           the
           King
           of
           France
           with
           Ribbauldry
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           below
           their
           Sovereign
           Qualities
           ;
           whereas
           there
           is
           nothing
           here
           Undecent
           ,
           though
           some
           Things
           may
           appear
           Sharp
           .
           Nor
           would
           it
           have
           answered
           the
           Majesty
           and
           Justness
           of
           the
           Theme
           to
           have
           handled
           it
           Flatly
           ,
           and
           without
           a
           Warmth
           correspondent
           to
           the
           Injury
           done
           our
           holy
           Religion
           ,
           in
           making
           it
           a
           Cloak
           to
           so
           much
           Villany
           as
           hath
           been
           committed
           .
           And
           it
           would
           have
           been
           an
           indecorous
           Thing
           to
           have
           looked
           grave
           upon
           Baboons
           ;
           or
           have
           hunted
           wild
           Boars
           without
           a
           Spear
           or
           Weapon
           .
           
           Yea
           it
           were
           to
           frustrate
           the
           great
           End
           of
           Languages
           and
           Speech
           ,
           and
           to
           quarrel
           with
           the
           Rules
           of
           good
           Sence
           ,
           to
           ascribe
           Mildness
           ,
           to
           Tyrants
           ,
           Honesty
           to
           Robbers
           ,
           or
           Truth
           to
           Lyars
           .
           Adieu
           .
           I
           am
           ,
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
           
             Yours
             .
          
           
             April
             18.
             1695.
             
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .