An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson.
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             An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson.
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           AN
           ARGUMENT
           PROVING
           ,
           That
           the
           Abrogation
           of
           King
           Iames
           by
           the
           People
           of
           England
           from
           the
           Regal
           Throne
           ,
           and
           the
           Promotion
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           Royal
           Family
           ,
           to
           the
           Throne
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           in
           his
           stead
           ,
           was
           according
           to
           the
           Constitution
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           and
           Prescribed
           by
           it
           .
        
         
           In
           Opposition
           to
           all
           the
           false
           and
           treacherous
           Hypotheses
           ,
           of
           Usurpation
           ,
           Conquest
           ,
           Desertion
           ,
           and
           of
           taking
           the
           Powers
           that
           Are
           upon
           Content
           .
        
         
           By
           
             SAMVEL
             IOHNSON
          
           .
        
         
           
             Nec
             Deus
             intersit
             nisi
             dignus
             vindice
             nodus
             Inciderit
             .
          
           —
           Horat.
           
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           the
           Author
           ,
           1692.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           COMMONS
           of
           ENGLAND
           in
           Parliament
           Assembled
           .
        
         
           THE
           favourable
           Acceptance
           ,
           which
           my
           Bounden
           Services
           to
           my
           Country
           ,
           as
           I
           ever
           accounted
           them
           ,
           (
           though
           they
           were
           always
           difficult
           and
           upon
           the
           Forlorn
           )
           have
           heretofore
           found
           in
           your
           Honourable
           House
           ,
           hath
           caused
           me
           to
           bring
           you
           this
           small
           Offering
           .
           In
           former
           Days
           an
           Appeal
           to
           the
           Parliament
           was
           a
           removal
           of
           the
           Cause
           from
           White-Hall
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           our
           peculiar
           Happiness
           in
           this
           Reign
           ,
           that
           we
           live
           under
           a
           Prince
           who
           had
           no
           other
           Business
           here
           ,
           but
           to
           restore
           the
           Constitution
           ;
           which
           as
           his
           Declaration
           speaks
           ,
           was
           wholly
           overturned
           in
           the
           former
           Reigns
           ;
           and
           who
           lay
           under
           a
           happy
           Necessisty
           of
           assisting
           the
           People
           to
           assert
           their
           Rights
           ,
           before
           he
           could
           secure
           His
           own
           Right
           and
           Remainder
           in
           the
           Crown
           .
        
         
           This
           Subversion
           and
           Overturning
           of
           the
           best
           Frame
           of
           Government
           in
           the
           World
           was
           very
           artificially
           managed
           ,
           and
           began
           at
           your
           House
           ;
           which
           has
           been
           run
           down
           as
           an
           Innovation
           ,
           and
           no
           Essential
           Part
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           a
           Mushroom
           sprung
           up
           in
           the
           
           49th
           of
           
             H.
             3.
          
           and
           founded
           in
           Rebellion
           ;
           
           as
           if
           You
           had
           no
           deeper
           Root
           in
           the
           Government
           ,
           than
           Corn
           has
           upon
           the
           House
           top
           .
           This
           scurvy
           Pedigree
           of
           the
           Commons
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           drawn
           up
           by
           Dr.
           Brady
           ,
           was
           so
           well
           liked
           by
           the
           Loyal
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           particularly
           he
           was
           so
           applauded
           by
           Jovian
           ,
           that
           Mr.
           Petyt
           found
           the
           Tide
           so
           strong
           against
           him
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           venture
           on
           a
           Reply
           ;
           though
           to
           my
           knowledg
           he
           was
           furnished
           with
           a
           very
           good
           one
           .
        
         
           But
           that
           is
           not
           so
           material
           ,
           when
           you
           began
           ,
           as
           what
           you
           are
           :
           and
           of
           the
           two
           it
           is
           better
           to
           be
           an
           Upstart
           Authority
           ,
           than
           a
           silly
           Cypher
           ;
           and
           thus
           you
           have
           been
           represented
           to
           all
           the
           degrees
           of
           Insignificancy
           .
           Your
           Precarious
           Being
           was
           told
           you
           by
           a
           wonderful
           Statesman
           ,
           who
           did
           not
           spare
           to
           inform
           you
           ,
           
             That
             as
             the
             King
             had
             Created
             the
             House
             of
             Commons
             by
             his
             Power
             ,
             so
             he
             would
             Preserve
             it
             by
             his
             Goodness
          
           ;
           but
           then
           come
           some
           of
           the
           Clergy
           and
           say
           ,
           what
           little
           Creatures
           both
           you
           and
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           are
           .
        
         
           Dr.
           Hicks
           lodges
           in
           the
           King
           the
           whole
           Legislative
           ,
           or
           the
           Power
           that
           makes
           any
           form
           of
           Words
           a
           Law.
           He
           says
           ,
           
           
             The
             Sovereign
             Power
             may
             indeed
             be
             limited
             as
             to
             the
             Exercise
             of
             this
             Legislative
             Power
             ,
             which
             may
             be
             confined
             to
             Bills
             and
             Writings
             prepared
             by
             others
             ;
             but
             still
             it
             is
             the
             Soveraign
             Authority
             who
             gives
             Life
             and
             Soul
             to
             the
             dead
             Letter
             of
             them
             .
          
           Now
           this
           is
           so
           contrary
           to
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           as
           nothing
           can
           be
           more
           .
           For
           not
           only
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           acknowledged
           that
           the
           Laws
           were
           jointly
           made
           by
           the
           King
           ,
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           (
           though
           the
           Houses
           insisted
           
           upon
           more
           )
           but
           also
           in
           every
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           that
           is
           made
           ,
           it
           is
           expresly
           said
           in
           the
           Enacting
           part
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           made
           by
           the
           Authority
           of
           them
           all
           :
           whereas
           by
           this
           Doctrine
           the
           two
           Houses
           have
           only
           a
           Ministerial
           Office
           of
           preparing
           a
           Form
           of
           Words
           ,
           and
           furnishing
           Bills
           and
           Writings
           ,
           as
           the
           King's
           Printers
           use
           to
           do
           you
           with
           Pen
           ,
           Ink
           and
           Paper
           :
           And
           in
           short
           ,
           the
           King
           alone
           makes
           Laws
           ,
           and
           the
           two
           Houses
           only
           find
           Stuff
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           this
           sort
           of
           Paradox
           had
           been
           advanced
           concerning
           the
           Parish-Chest
           of
           Barking
           ,
           where
           the
           Parson
           has
           one
           Key
           ,
           and
           each
           of
           the
           Church-wardens
           one
           ,
           they
           could
           soon
           have
           Mathematically
           shewn
           him
           ,
           that
           his
           Key
           had
           but
           one
           Third
           of
           the
           Chest-opening-Power
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           Mistake
           would
           only
           have
           made
           a
           Iest
           :
           But
           in
           a
           Case
           of
           more
           Consequence
           than
           all
           the
           Land
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           now
           to
           be
           sold
           ,
           is
           worth
           ,
           such
           false
           Positions
           are
           very
           Dangerous
           .
           For
           if
           the
           Legislative
           were
           once
           contracted
           in
           one
           single
           Hand
           ,
           it
           were
           as
           absurd
           to
           say
           it
           could
           be
           limited
           in
           the
           Exercise
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           to
           say
           that
           your
           House
           has
           not
           Power
           over
           your
           own
           Orders
           ,
           to
           recal
           and
           alter
           them
           as
           you
           think
           fit
           .
           What
           shall
           hinder
           the
           whole
           Legislative
           ?
        
         
           At
           this
           rate
           the
           Saying
           ,
           of
           which
           my
           Lord
           Lauderdale
           has
           had
           the
           Honour
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           true
           ,
           that
           he
           hoped
           to
           see
           the
           King's
           Edicts
           to
           be
           Laws
           ,
           and
           above
           the
           Laws
           ;
           for
           all
           New
           Laws
           are
           always
           too
           hard
           for
           the
           old
           ones
           .
           And
           the
           Arbitrary
           Proclamation
           to
           forbid
           the
           Nation
           to
           Petition
           for
           a
           Parliament
           had
           been
           a
           Law
           ,
           if
           the
           whole
           Legislative
           
           Authority
           was
           in
           it
           :
           for
           the
           L.
           C.
           I.
           North
           found
           it
           very
           easy
           to
           supply
           the
           place
           of
           both
           Houses
           ,
           in
           drawing
           up
           the
           Form
           of
           Words
           .
        
         
           However
           this
           is
           very
           civil
           Usage
           to
           what
           you
           have
           had
           from
           other
           Hands
           ;
           for
           in
           this
           way
           you
           have
           still
           left
           you
           the
           Honour
           of
           being
           Clerks
           ,
           and
           of
           drawing
           up
           a
           Form
           of
           Words
           .
           But
           Dr.
           Womack
           in
           his
           
             Short
             Way
             to
             a
             lasting
             Settlement
             ,
          
           printed
           by
           
             Robert
             Clavel
          
           ;
           the
           chief
           Design
           of
           which
           was
           ,
           to
           out
           the
           two
           Houses
           from
           having
           any
           share
           or
           
             Authoritative
             Hand
          
           ,
           as
           he
           calls
           it
           ,
           in
           making
           the
           Laws
           ,
           and
           was
           shortly
           after
           made
           a
           Bishop
           for
           the
           Service
           ,
           has
           this
           very
           insolent
           Expression
           :
           
           
             The
             Houses
             you
             say
             have
             a
             hand
             in
             the
             Legislation
             :
             So
             hath
             the
             Beggar
             in
             my
             Almes
             .
          
           As
           soon
           as
           I
           saw
           this
           Odious
           Comparison
           ,
           I
           knew
           it
           was
           falsly
           applied
           :
           for
           even
           the
           Coronation-Oath
           acknowledges
           that
           the
           Laws
           of
           England
           are
           of
           the
           Folks
           choosing
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           certain
           that
           Beggars
           are
           no
           Choosers
           .
           But
           I
           humbly
           beseech
           both
           Houses
           upon
           this
           Occasion
           ,
           to
           have
           a
           special
           care
           how
           they
           suffer
           this
           sort
           of
           Men
           to
           have
           the
           Ascendant
           ,
           who
           treat
           them
           in
           this
           manner
           ;
           because
           we
           have
           a
           very
           harsh
           English
           Proverb
           concerning
           Beggars
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           Year
           of
           
             Jovian
             83.
          
           wherein
           these
           Doctrines
           were
           published
           and
           rung
           all
           over
           the
           Nation
           ,
           some
           of
           the
           Honourable
           Beggars
           that
           were
           for
           a
           Bill
           of
           Exclusion
           of
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           in
           his
           First
           Desertion
           ,
           and
           were
           for
           keeping
           him
           out
           when
           he
           was
           out
           ,
           after
           their
           Lives
           had
           been
           long
           
           hunted
           by
           these
           Men
           ,
           fell
           into
           their
           Nets
           :
           Which
           Bill
           had
           given
           us
           this
           happy
           Reign
           several
           Years
           sooner
           ,
           and
           had
           saved
           the
           Lives
           of
           more
           than
           an
           Hundred
           thousand
           Men
           ,
           whose
           Blood
           lies
           at
           their
           Door
           ;
           but
           it
           was
           then
           their
           Hour
           ,
           and
           the
           Power
           of
           Darkness
           .
           Let
           that
           Year
           be
           blotted
           out
           of
           Chronology
           !
        
         
           These
           Doctrines
           I
           conceive
           are
           Destructive
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           because
           they
           undermine
           the
           Power
           and
           Authority
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           who
           represent
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           are
           the
           Conservers
           of
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           if
           we
           had
           any
           ;
           but
           those
           are
           all
           taken
           away
           by
           another
           of
           their
           new-adopted
           Church-Doctrines
           of
           Passive-Obedience
           ,
           which
           I
           therefore
           look
           upon
           as
           the
           worst
           of
           them
           ,
           because
           it
           lays
           waste
           all
           your
           Laws
           ,
           after
           you
           have
           made
           them
           ,
           or
           worded
           them
           ,
           or
           begg'd
           them
           ,
           or
           however
           you
           came
           by
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           former
           Doctrines
           do
           immediately
           destroy
           you
           only
           in
           the
           Quality
           of
           Legislators
           ;
           but
           this
           makes
           you
           Slaves
           too
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           leave
           you
           to
           be
           so
           much
           as
           English
           Freemen
           .
           
           
             You
             must
             be
             just
             such
             defenceless
             Wretches
             under
             the
             irresistible
             Powers
             of
             the
             Sovereign
             and
             his
             Forces
             ,
             as
             the
             Roman
             Slaves
             were
             under
             the
             Soveraign
             and
             Unaccountable
             Power
             of
             their
             Masters
             .
             You
             must
             be
             Slaves
             as
             to
             this
             particular
             ,
             you
             must
             trust
             your
             Lives
             and
             Liberties
             with
             your
             Soveraign
             :
             And
             therefore
             the
             Passive
             Behaviour
             taught
             by
             St.
             Peter
             to
             the
             Roman
             Slaves
             is
             your
             Duty
             .
          
        
         
           So
           that
           if
           the
           late
           Soveraign
           being
           enraged
           at
           your
           Address
           
             17
             Novemb.
             85.
          
           which
           broke
           all
           his
           Measures
           ,
           had
           
           sitting
           the
           Parliament
           sent
           his
           Forces
           to
           murder
           you
           ,
           you
           ought
           to
           have
           submitted
           as
           the
           Thebaean
           Legion
           did
           ,
           
           in
           which
           Army
           of
           Martyrs
           you
           would
           have
           made
           a
           goodly
           Regiment
           .
           
             You
             were
             to
             have
             suffered
             it
             patiently
             with
             your
             Swords
             by
             your
             sides
             ,
             and
             
               Passive
               Obedience
            
             even
             unto
             Death
             had
             been
             your
             Duty
             ,
             by
             virtue
             both
             of
             the
             Imperial
             Laws
             ,
             and
             the
             Laws
             of
             the
             Gospel
             .
          
           The
           Thebaean
           Legion
           would
           not
           Sacrifice
           ,
           and
           you
           would
           not
           come
           to
           ,
           which
           was
           a
           like
           Case
           ;
           or
           rather
           yours
           was
           the
           more
           provoking
           Disobedience
           to
           an
           Arbitrary
           Prince
           ,
           and
           so
           you
           were
           bound
           in
           Conscience
           to
           fare
           alike
           .
        
         
           Nay
           if
           without
           any
           incompliance
           on
           your
           part
           ,
           he
           had
           only
           had
           a
           mind
           to
           kill
           Five
           hundred
           Kings
           at
           once
           ,
           as
           King
           James
           the
           First
           called
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           for
           so
           Dr.
           Womack
           relates
           it
           from
           Dr.
           Heylin
           ,
           
           (
           but
           whether
           in
           way
           of
           Jear
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           ,
           he
           cannot
           tell
           )
           the
           Soveraign's
           Forces
           had
           been
           Kings
           of
           Kings
           ,
           and
           Lords
           of
           Lords
           .
           For
           the
           Chaplain
           of
           the
           Thebaean
           Legion
           would
           have
           charged
           you
           in
           Christ's
           Name
           ,
           by
           virtue
           of
           his
           own
           Saying
           .
           
           
             He
             that
             useth
             the
             Sword
             ,
             shall
             perish
             by
             the
             Sword
             ,
             not
             to
             resist
             under
             the
             specious
             Pretext
             of
             Self-defence
             ,
          
           (
           though
           I
           think
           in
           that
           Case
           the
           specious
           Pretence
           had
           been
           very
           much
           in
           Earnest
           )
           :
           And
           if
           you
           had
           thus
           sinned
           against
           the
           Laws
           Imperial
           ,
           or
           the
           People
           had
           rescued
           you
           by
           force
           from
           the
           Soveraign's
           Forces
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           pronounced
           concerning
           you
           both
           ;
           
           
             Well
             ,
             let
             them
             do
             so
             at
             their
             Peril
             ;
             they
             may
             be
             legally
             Hanged
             for
             it
             in
             this
             World
             ,
             and
             (
             without
             Repentance
             )
             
             will
             be
             damned
             for
             it
             in
             that
             which
             is
             to
             come
             .
          
        
         
           This
           is
           Passive
           Doctrine
           to
           a
           Tittle
           ;
           and
           as
           you
           like
           it
           ,
           you
           may
           cherish
           that
           Party
           which
           has
           enslaved
           the
           Nation
           by
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           whom
           is
           owing
           all
           the
           Oppression
           of
           the
           last
           Reigns
           .
           For
           if
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           
             Defending
             our
             Rights
             when
             they
             were
             Invaded
             ,
          
           had
           not
           been
           Burnt
           ,
           Martyr'd
           and
           Stigmatiz'd
           ,
           and
           the
           Clergy
           had
           not
           expresly
           promised
           King
           James
           to
           inculcate
           Passive
           Obedience
           upon
           all
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           thereby
           to
           bind
           the
           Nation
           Hand
           and
           Foot
           ,
           and
           to
           leave
           nothing
           but
           suffering
           Souls
           in
           his
           whole
           Kingdom
           ,
           he
           would
           never
           have
           ventured
           to
           think
           of
           Dragooning
           us
           ,
           nor
           have
           begun
           with
           his
           Preparatory
           Oppressions
           in
           order
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           after
           they
           had
           made
           him
           believe
           that
           they
           were
           Passive
           to
           the
           Death
           ,
           and
           Loyal
           to
           the
           Death
           ,
           when
           the
           Burden
           of
           their
           own
           ill-contrived
           Oppression
           came
           home
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           touch'd
           but
           one
           of
           their
           Fingers
           ,
           they
           soon
           let
           him
           understand
           that
           they
           had
           given
           him
           only
           a
           Spiritual
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           Kingdom
           of
           this
           World
           :
           
             For
             if
             his
             Kingdom
             had
             been
             of
             this
             World
             ,
             then
             would
             his
             Servants
             have
             fought
             for
             him
             .
          
           But
           so
           they
           Deluded
           and
           Parted
           with
           their
           Passive-Obedience-King
           .
           For
           Passive
           Obedience
           is
           calculated
           only
           for
           Tyranny
           ;
           suffering
           under
           Arbitrary
           and
           Illegal
           Commands
           and
           Orders
           ,
           cannot
           take
           place
           in
           a
           Legal
           Government
           ,
           neither
           is
           there
           room
           for
           any
           such
           thing
           .
           Till
           Passive
           Obedience
           has
           either
           found
           or
           made
           a
           Tyranny
           ,
           it
           can
           never
           be
           a
           Duty
           ;
           nor
           then
           neither
           ,
           
           for
           Tyranny
           is
           not
           Government
           ,
           but
           the
           Destruction
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           the
           two
           Histories
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           the
           brisk
           Sermons
           that
           have
           been
           Preached
           upon
           that
           Subject
           in
           this
           Reign
           ,
           are
           Contraband
           Goods
           :
           for
           we
           live
           under
           a
           Prince
           who
           within
           these
           few
           Years
           raised
           the
           whole
           Posse
           of
           England
           against
           this
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           Declaration
           
             invited
             and
             required
             all
             the
             People
             of
          
           England
           
             of
             all
             Ranks
             ,
             to
             Assist
             him
             against
             the
             Soveraign
             and
             his
             Forces
             ,
             to
             prevent
             the
             Nation
             's
             being
             kept
             under
             Arbitrary
             Government
             and
             Slavery
             .
          
           We
           were
           under
           Arbitrary
           Government
           and
           Slavery
           then
           ,
           and
           we
           may
           thank
           Passive
           Obedience
           for
           it
           ;
           and
           I
           am
           humbly
           of
           Opinion
           that
           we
           ought
           never
           to
           come
           under
           it
           more
           .
           And
           therefore
           I
           think
           it
           worthy
           your
           great
           Wisdom
           and
           Iustice
           ,
           that
           as
           
             you
             have
             annexed
             that
             Princely
             Declaration
             to
             the
             Crown
             ,
             and
             made
             the
             Pursuance
             of
             it
             a
             Principal
             Point
             in
             the
             Confidence
             and
             Trust
             you
             reposed
             in
             the
             King
             ,
             when
             you
             Invested
             him
          
           :
           So
           you
           would
           provide
           that
           all
           those
           who
           began
           ,
           continued
           and
           ended
           that
           Glorious
           Expedition
           under
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           (
           which
           had
           been
           a
           blew
           one
           ,
           if
           Passive
           Obedience
           had
           been
           believed
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           constantly
           preached
           for
           Gospel
           )
           may
           not
           in
           this
           Reign
           ,
           at
           least
           ,
           be
           represented
           as
           Rebels
           and
           Traytors
           ,
           but
           by
           some
           Temporary
           Act
           may
           be
           Relieved
           from
           the
           Aspersion
           of
           Delivering
           their
           Country
           .
           That
           one
           Vsurping
           Priest
           in
           
           his
           Pulpit
           may
           not
           call
           for
           
             Pontius
             Pilate's
          
           Bason
           of
           Water
           to
           wash
           his
           Hands
           clean
           from
           the
           Sin
           of
           this
           Revolution
           ;
           and
           another
           Conquering
           Priest
           may
           not
           Represent
           those
           who
           Invited
           in
           ,
           and
           Assisted
           this
           present
           King
           ,
           
             as
             Men
             not
             afraid
             of
             the
             Power
             as
             they
             ought
             to
             have
             been
          
           ;
           and
           another
           Deserting
           Priest
           may
           not
           make
           King
           
           James's
           Forfeiture
           to
           be
           his
           
             going
             away
          
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           Best
           thing
           that
           ever
           he
           did
           ;
           and
           thereby
           leave
           all
           Men
           to
           be
           Rebels
           and
           Traytors
           who
           had
           invited
           ,
           joined
           ,
           or
           were
           prepared
           to
           join
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           before
           the
           
           10th
           of
           
             Decemb.
             88.
          
           when
           our
           Deliverance
           was
           compleated
           .
        
         
           These
           wretched
           Inventions
           of
           
             Usurpation
             ,
             Conquest
          
           ,
           and
           Desertion
           ,
           were
           found
           out
           merely
           to
           cover
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           to
           keep
           that
           safe
           and
           sound
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           Prince
           and
           the
           whole
           Nation
           had
           engag'd
           in
           Resisting
           Oppression
           ,
           and
           Defending
           their
           Rights
           .
           And
           furthermore
           ,
           That
           King
           
           William's
           coming
           to
           the
           Crown
           might
           not
           be
           enquired
           into
           ,
           and
           be
           found
           to
           be
           to
           the
           Prejudice
           of
           Non-resistance
           ,
           there
           is
           one
           has
           likewise
           found
           out
           another
           Invention
           ,
           That
           you
           are
           not
           to
           trouble
           your
           Head
           ,
           whether
           the
           King
           's
           ,
           Title
           be
           right
           or
           wrong
           ,
           but
           you
           are
           to
           Swear
           to
           whatever
           is
           Vppermost
           ,
           whether
           he
           be
           a
           Rightful
           Prince
           or
           an
           Vsurper
           ;
           which
           is
           the
           Primitive
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Pastoral
           Letter
           .
        
         
           And
           this
           is
           such
           a
           Scorn
           put
           upon
           a
           Free
           Nation
           as
           never
           was
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Subjects
           of
           England
           were
           to
           engage
           their
           Allegiance
           Blindfold
           ,
           and
           were
           to
           
           venture
           their
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           in
           behalf
           of
           a
           Title
           which
           is
           to
           be
           unsight
           unseen
           ,
           at
           that
           ridiculous
           rate
           as
           no
           Countryman
           will
           buy
           a
           Pig.
           
        
         
           Now
           all
           these
           Hypotheses
           have
           but
           these
           two
           small
           Faults
           in
           Common
           to
           them
           all
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           That
           they
           Vndermine
           the
           King's
           Throne
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           had
           no
           Legal
           Right
           to
           the
           Crown
           ;
           And
           if
           he
           has
           not
           ,
           what
           has
           he
           to
           do
           with
           it
           ?
           For
           my
           part
           I
           will
           never
           pay
           Allegiance
           to
           him
           as
           an
           Vsurper
           ;
           he
           ought
           rather
           to
           be
           told
           daily
           by
           his
           Chaplains
           that
           are
           of
           that
           mind
           ,
           that
           he
           ought
           to
           make
           Restitution
           :
           
             It
             is
             not
             Lawful
             for
             thee
             to
             have
             thy
             Father
          
           Iame's
           Crown
           ;
           or
           else
           they
           are
           no
           St.
           
             John
             Baptists
          
           .
           A
           Revelation
           sent
           on
           purpose
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           cannot
           oblige
           us
           to
           be
           Subjects
           to
           an
           Vsurper
           under
           that
           Notion
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           a
           Notion
           of
           Wrong
           ,
           and
           God
           himself
           cannot
           make
           Wrong
           to
           be
           Right
           .
           And
           then
           shall
           any
           Wretch
           bid
           us
           in
           his
           Name
           to
           Swear
           to
           be
           Faithful
           to
           acknowledged
           Wrong
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           False
           to
           acknowledged
           and
           unextinguished
           Right
           ?
           In
           short
           ,
           an
           Vsurped
           Crown
           is
           a
           Stol'n
           Crown
           ,
           it
           is
           
           Blood
           's
           Crown
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           true
           indeed
           that
           God
           can
           give
           Kingdoms
           to
           whomsoever
           he
           will
           ;
           I
           know
           it
           ;
           He
           can
           make
           them
           a
           New
           World
           on
           purpose
           for
           them
           ,
           or
           take
           the
           Forfeiture
           of
           the
           Old
           ,
           and
           dispose
           of
           his
           own
           Creation
           as
           he
           pleases
           :
           But
           then
           it
           must
           appear
           to
           his
           Will
           ,
           and
           he
           must
           send
           a
           New
           Revelation
           into
           the
           World
           along
           with
           such
           a
           highly
           Favoured
           Prince
           ,
           to
           every
           Man
           that
           is
           to
           be
           his
           Subject
           .
           
           For
           I
           am
           not
           bound
           to
           do
           what
           God
           would
           have
           me
           do
           ,
           till
           I
           can
           certainly
           know
           that
           he
           would
           have
           me
           do
           it
           .
           Promulgation
           is
           of
           the
           Essence
           of
           a
           Law.
           
        
         
           And
           this
           Extraordinary
           Revelation
           ought
           to
           be
           as
           clear
           and
           as
           distinct
           as
           
           Abraham's
           was
           for
           the
           Sacrificing
           his
           Son
           :
           for
           it
           is
           as
           contrary
           to
           all
           the
           settled
           Rules
           of
           Right
           to
           dethrone
           a
           rightful
           King
           as
           it
           is
           to
           destroy
           an
           only
           Son.
           And
           yet
           that
           Command
           was
           only
           intended
           for
           a
           trial
           of
           
           Abraham's
           Obedience
           ;
           neither
           would
           God
           suffer
           it
           that
           there
           should
           be
           a
           Precedent
           of
           an
           Humane
           Sacrifice
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           though
           at
           his
           Own
           bidding
           .
           Is
           it
           not
           enough
           for
           an
           Vsurper
           to
           wrong
           a
           Prince
           of
           his
           Crown
           ,
           but
           this
           must
           be
           Hallowed
           by
           false
           Prophets
           ,
           and
           said
           to
           be
           done
           in
           God's
           Name
           :
           And
           this
           proved
           by
           no
           better
           Argument
           than
           
           Mahomet's
           Miracle
           of
           Success
           and
           Settlement
           ?
        
         
           If
           therefore
           a
           pretended
           Prophet
           tells
           me
           that
           I
           am
           to
           own
           an
           Vsurper
           as
           God's
           Choice
           ,
           and
           by
           Divine
           Right
           ,
           and
           therefore
           he
           is
           no
           Vsurper
           ,
           I
           must
           needs
           Answer
           that
           the
           Title
           is
           far
           fetch
           't
           ,
           and
           comes
           a
           great
           way
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           must
           desire
           to
           see
           some
           proof
           in
           point
           ,
           and
           shall
           always
           call
           for
           Miracles
           for
           what
           is
           said
           to
           come
           from
           Heaven
           .
           And
           if
           I
           had
           but
           one
           half
           of
           the
           Sense
           which
           God
           has
           given
           me
           I
           should
           never
           be
           satisfied
           with
           the
           Mahomet
           an
           Miracle
           of
           Success
           and
           Settlement
           .
           That
           Impostor's
           Come-off
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           call●d
           upon
           for
           Miracles
           ,
           was
           this
           :
           That
           God
           had
           sent
           Moses
           his
           first
           Prophet
           with
           Miracles
           ;
           &
           when
           the
           belief
           of
           them
           was
           worn
           out
           ,
           and
           the
           Iews
           were
           
           degenerated
           ,
           he
           sent
           Iesus
           the
           Son
           of
           Mary
           with
           more
           Miracles
           which
           did
           good
           for
           a
           time
           ;
           but
           his
           Followers
           likewise
           degenerated
           and
           altered
           their
           Books
           :
           And
           then
           he
           sent
           Mahomet
           his
           last
           Prophet
           ,
           not
           with
           Miracles
           which
           had
           failed
           and
           miscarried
           twice
           before
           ,
           but
           with
           the
           Mouth
           of
           the
           Sword
           You
           ask
           for
           a
           Miracle
           ,
           says
           he
           :
           Did
           not
           we
           Sack
           the
           City
           Tauris
           the
           other
           day
           ,
           and
           put
           them
           all
           to
           the
           Sword
           ?
           There
           's
           a
           Miracle
           for
           you
           .
        
         
           I
           confess
           I
           have
           loved
           a
           Good
           Cause
           in
           my
           time
           better
           than
           my
           Life
           ,
           but
           never
           a
           crumb
           the
           better
           for
           Success
           :
           But
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           the
           want
           of
           Success
           has
           made
           it
           the
           dearer
           to
           me
           .
           Success
           is
           the
           new
           Weathercock
           upon
           the
           Banqueting-house
           at
           White-hall
           :
           for
           when
           the
           Popish
           Priests
           saw
           the
           Wind
           Westerly
           ,
           then
           it
           was
           
             Deus
             pro
             nobis
          
           ;
           but
           when
           at
           last
           it
           stood
           Easterly
           to
           bring
           over
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           then
           it
           was
           
             Deus
             contra
             nos
          
           ;
           And
           so
           God
           is
           made
           to
           be
           of
           all
           Sides
           at
           that
           rate
        
         
           What
           if
           this
           Settlement
           should
           be
           Vnsetled
           ,
           (
           which
           God
           of
           his
           Mercy
           defends
           as
           I
           am
           bold
           to
           say
           it
           cannot
           stand
           upon
           King
           
           James's
           Rubbish
           ,
           no
           more
           than
           a
           new
           Pile
           of
           Building
           upon
           the
           Heaps
           which
           lay
           in
           the
           Stone
           Gallery
           .
           Well
           ,
           what
           then
           ?
           Why
           then
           in
           that
           supposed
           Case
           ,
           though
           the
           Wind
           be
           against
           us
           ,
           will
           I
           venture
           a
           weather-beaten
           Life
           for
           his
           Majesty's
           Service
           ;
           but
           not
           an
           Hair
           of
           my
           Head
           ,
           if
           I
           can
           help
           it
           ,
           for
           several
           Ministers
           he
           has
           .
        
         
           In
           short
           ,
           Vsurpation
           is
           of
           the
           Devil
           ;
           and
           at
           the
           rate
           that
           any
           Man
           alive
           shall
           prove
           ,
           by
           the
           Old
           standing
           Revelation
           
           we
           have
           ,
           that
           an
           Vsurper
           is
           a
           King
           by
           Divine
           Right
           ,
           will
           I
           prove
           that
           the
           French
           and
           Irish
           Massacres
           were
           by
           Divine
           Right
           ,
           and
           that
           every
           one
           of
           those
           three
           hundred
           and
           fifty
           thousand
           Souls
           which
           fell
           therein
           were
           well
           killed
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           was
           all
           the
           Lord●s
           doing
           .
           For
           there
           is
           as
           plain
           and
           as
           legible
           Scripture
           ,
           
             1
             Sam.
             2.
             6.
             
             The
             Lord
             killeth
             and
             maketh
             alive
             ,
          
           to
           entitle
           Him
           to
           that
           bloody
           Business
           ,
           as
           there
           is
           to
           make
           him
           the
           Setter
           up
           of
           Divine
           Vsurpers
           .
        
         
           Conquest
           is
           likewise
           another
           wicked
           False
           Title
           to
           unsettle
           the
           Throne
           .
           This
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           disclaimed
           with
           detestation
           in
           his
           Additional
           Declaration
           ,
           
             as
             the
             Horridest
             Calumny
             that
             could
             be
             invented
             against
             him
             ,
             and
             so
             Unnatural
             a
             thing
             for
             an
             English
             man
             to
             join
             in
             ,
             as
             if
             it
             had
             been
             to
             be
             Felo
             de
             se.
          
           If
           this
           Pretension
           had
           been
           set
           up
           when
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           came
           ,
           he
           had
           never
           marched
           forty
           Miles
           in
           England
           ,
           though
           he
           had
           come
           five
           times
           stronger
           than
           he
           did
           :
           And
           that
           which
           would
           infallibly
           have
           Barr'd
           him
           out
           of
           England
           then
           ,
           can
           never
           settle
           him
           in
           it
           now
           ;
           no
           not
           though
           it
           were
           preach't
           from
           the
           Clouds
           ,
           as
           it
           only
           is
           from
           the
           Pulpit
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           rendred
           by
           such
           means
           very
           insignificant
           .
           For
           what
           is
           Conquest
           ?
           Why
           truly
           it
           is
           a
           Publick
           Enemy
           got
           within
           us
           .
           It
           is
           the
           King
           of
           France
           ,
           not
           at
           Tingmouth
           ,
           but
           at
           White-Hall
           .
           A
           Conqueror
           is
           one
           ,
           whom
           no
           after
           Treaties
           nor
           Consent
           can
           ever
           make
           a
           King
           ;
           for
           he
           must
           have
           the
           Consent
           of
           Slaves
           and
           Minors
           ,
           
           who
           have
           nothing
           to
           give
           :
           who
           cannot
           make
           a
           Will
           though
           it
           were
           their
           last
           ;
           who
           cannot
           be
           Parties
           to
           a
           Contract
           ;
           for
           that
           is
           everlastingly
           impossible
           ,
           unless
           Men
           be
           
             sui
             Juris
          
           ,
           and
           their
           own
           Men
           at
           the
           same
           time
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           Conquest
           may
           perhaps
           extend
           to
           lawful
           Plunder
           ,
           and
           to
           Goods
           and
           Chattels
           ,
           which
           I
           never
           took
           the
           People
           of
           a
           Free
           Nation
           to
           be
           :
           But
           if
           such
           a
           Prize-Office-Divinity
           must
           needs
           be
           set
           up
           ,
           that
           always
           supposes
           the
           Right
           of
           Reprizals
           .
        
         
           Desertion
           is
           manifestly
           False
           :
           for
           King
           James
           must
           needs
           go
           ;
           he
           was
           as
           much
           driven
           from
           England
           ,
           as
           Nebuchadnezzar
           was
           driven
           to
           Grass
           ;
           and
           he
           Claimed
           as
           he
           Fled
           ,
           by
           the
           Rochester
           Letter
           .
           And
           as
           for
           the
           Wonderful
           Mystery
           of
           dropping
           the
           Great
           Seal
           in
           the
           Thames
           ,
           if
           it
           was
           done
           purposely
           ,
           there
           was
           a
           very
           Wise
           Reason
           for
           it
           .
           For
           if
           it
           had
           fallen
           into
           other
           hands
           ,
           the
           Broad-Seal
           of
           England
           might
           have
           been
           immediately
           employed
           in
           Proclamations
           and
           otherwise
           against
           himself
           :
           As
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           made
           use
           of
           Queen
           
           Mary's
           Great
           Seal
           for
           a
           good
           while
           ;
           which
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Lincoln
           ,
           Lord
           Keeper
           of
           the
           Great
           Seal
           in
           King
           James
           the
           First
           's
           time
           ,
           assures
           us
           was
           so
           ,
           in
           his
           Answer
           to
           Dr.
           Cole
           .
           Now
           to
           establish
           the
           Throne
           upon
           a
           Notorious
           Untruth
           ,
           is
           to
           establish
           it
           upon
           Mr.
           
           Milton's
           Vacuum
           ,
           where
           it
           must
           fall
           ten
           thousand
           thousand
           Fathom
           deep
           ,
           and
           know
           no
           end
           of
           falling
           .
        
         
           The
           last
           Doctrine
           ,
           that
           we
           are
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           the
           Powers
           that
           Are
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           that
           is
           Uppermost
           ,
           is
           at
           the
           first
           sight
           so
           wretched
           a
           Foundation
           of
           our
           Allegiance
           ,
           that
           I
           
           scorn
           to
           confute
           it
           .
           For
           whereas
           a
           Rightful
           Title
           is
           as
           immoveable
           as
           the
           Pillars
           of
           the
           Earth
           ,
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           upon
           this
           Supposition
           ,
           that
           Obedience
           is
           only
           due
           to
           the
           Present
           prevailing
           Powers
           ,
           it
           is
           but
           shifting
           the
           Guards
           ,
           and
           in
           an
           Instant
           all
           the
           Peoples
           Allegiance
           bids
           their
           King
           Good-night
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           All
           these
           Hypotheses
           ,
           besides
           their
           Vndermining
           the
           King's
           Throne
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           had
           no
           rightful
           Title
           to
           it
           ,
           have
           another
           Fault
           in
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           leave
           nothing
           of
           Liberty
           or
           Property
           in
           the
           Nation
           .
        
         
           This
           Revolution
           had
           almost
           stunnied
           the
           Hierarchy
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           cross
           to
           their
           Pulpit-Doctrines
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           Vnalterable
           Succession
           ,
           Indefeasibleness
           ,
           and
           Vnaccountableness
           of
           Princes
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           their
           Iargon
           ,
           That
           it
           was
           very
           much
           feared
           by
           some
           of
           their
           Disciples
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           not
           Comply
           nor
           Swear
           to
           this
           Government
           ,
           and
           so
           must
           leave
           their
           Places
           ,
           and
           that
           thereupon
           would
           be
           a
           Famine
           of
           the
           Word
           .
           But
           there
           would
           be
           no
           miss
           of
           their
           Preaching
           to
           the
           World's
           End
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           such
           as
           is
           before
           us
           .
           So
           long
           as
           People
           have
           a
           Bible
           ,
           they
           had
           better
           be
           without
           their
           false
           Glosses
           upon
           it
           :
           Which
           the
           People
           of
           England
           have
           more
           reason
           to
           hate
           ,
           than
           King
           James
           had
           the
           Geneva
           Notes
           ,
           printed
           in
           Queen
           
           Elizabeth's
           Bibles
           ;
           for
           which
           Reason
           he
           forbad
           all
           Marginal
           Notes
           upon
           his
           Translation
           of
           the
           Bible
           .
           In
           the
           Conference
           at
           Hampton-Court
           ,
           his
           Censure
           of
           those
           Notes
           is
           this
           ,
           
           
             That
             they
             were
             very
             Partial
             ,
             Vntrue
             ,
             Seditious
             ,
             and
             savouring
             too
             much
             
             of
             Dangerous
             and
             Traiterous
             Conceits
             .
             As
             for
             Example
             ,
             
               Exod.
               1.
               19.
            
             where
             the
             Marginal
             Note
             alloweth
             Disobedience
             unto
             Kings
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           But
           I
           think
           the
           Text
           allowed
           it
           before
           ,
           
             ver
             .
             17.
             
             But
             the
             Midwives
             feared
             God
             ,
             and
             did
             not
             as
             the
             King
             of
          
           Egypt
           
             commanded
             them
             ,
             but
             saved
             the
             Men-Chidren
             alive
             .
          
           Was
           ever
           such
           an
           Exception
           taken
           against
           express
           Scripture
           ?
           And
           yet
           because
           of
           his
           Vnsensical
           Apothegm
           ,
           
             No
             Bishop
             ,
             no
             King
          
           ,
           repeated
           over
           and
           over
           again
           in
           that
           Conference
           ;
           and
           that
           Ecclesiasticus
           was
           a
           Bishop
           ,
           for
           which
           Reason
           the
           Puritans
           were
           against
           that
           piece
           of
           Apocrypha
           being
           read
           in
           Churches
           ,
           and
           such-like
           Clawing
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Canterbury
           said
           ,
           
             That
             undoubtedly
             his
             Majesty
             spake
             by
             the
             Special
             Assistance
             of
             God's
             Spirit
             .
          
           So
           easy
           is
           it
           for
           those
           that
           call
           themselves
           the
           Church
           ,
           to
           make
           Men
           Inspired
           ,
           and
           Saints
           and
           Martyrs
           ,
           when
           they
           please
           .
        
         
           Vpon
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Invasion
           ,
           and
           all
           Honest
           Mens
           Rebellion
           ,
           as
           that
           Party
           do
           and
           must
           term
           it
           ,
           they
           could
           not
           for
           their
           Lives
           make
           both
           Ends
           meet
           :
           and
           because
           they
           could
           not
           make
           their
           slavish
           Doctrine
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           agree
           with
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           they
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           bring
           back
           the
           Revolution
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           to
           reinstate
           as
           just
           in
           the
           Condition
           we
           were
           in
           five
           Years
           ago
           .
           It
           's
           no
           matter
           for
           the
           Church
           of
           
           Rome's
           Infallibility
           ,
           Impenitency
           will
           serve
           their
           Turn
           as
           well
           ;
           and
           if
           they
           never
           repent
           ,
           they
           have
           never
           err'd
           .
        
         
         
           Hereupon
           ,
           while
           I
           was
           a
           poor
           Prisoner
           ,
           and
           the
           Eldest
           of
           all
           those
           that
           lay
           upon
           a
           Publick
           Account
           in
           England
           ,
           (
           tho
           I
           thought
           a
           Thanksgiving-Deliverance
           from
           Popery
           and
           Slavery
           ,
           would
           have
           reached
           me
           in
           the
           first
           place
           by
           Seniority
           ;
           but
           as
           I
           was
           saying
           ,
           while
           I
           was
           a
           Prisoner
           ,
           and
           before
           it
           pleased
           God
           that
           my
           Liberty
           fell
           into
           my
           Lap
           ,
           to
           which
           I
           was
           born
           ,
           and
           which
           I
           threw
           away
           with
           both
           Hands
           ,
           and
           with
           my
           Eyes
           Open
           ,
           for
           my
           Country's
           Service
           ,
           some
           Years
           before
           it
           was
           taken
           away
           from
           me
           )
           was
           I
           sollicited
           to
           write
           upon
           the
           Desertion
           ,
           in
           Answer
           to
           King
           
           James's
           Claiming
           Letter
           at
           Rochester
           .
        
         
           I
           challenge
           the
           piece
           of
           Prelacy
           ,
           who
           would
           have
           put
           me
           upon
           that
           Iob
           of
           under-journey
           VVork
           ,
           to
           Print
           the
           Letter
           which
           I
           wrote
           the
           next
           Morning
           upon
           that
           Occasion
           ,
           and
           to
           Answer
           it
           if
           he
           can
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           I
           shewed
           that
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           England
           no
           Advantage
           could
           be
           taken
           of
           a
           King's
           withdrawing
           himself
           from
           the
           Government
           (
           if
           it
           had
           been
           Voluntary
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           VVorld
           knows
           it
           was
           not
           )
           without
           a
           Summons
           sent
           after
           him
           to
           Return
           again
           in
           forty
           Days
           ;
           and
           yet
           I
           guess
           the
           same
           Person
           had
           the
           confidence
           afterwards
           to
           write
           upon
           the
           Desertion
           ,
           and
           to
           found
           this
           Government
           upon
           it
           .
           But
           I
           then
           in
           those
           early
           Days
           foresaw
           ,
           that
           their
           Design
           was
           to
           begin
           where
           the
           attoning
           Passive
           fag-end
           of
           the
           Lion
           and
           Vnicorn
           Sermon
           left
           off
           ;
           and
           that
           they
           intended
           to
           enslave
           the
           Nation
           over
           again
           ,
           with
           the
           only
           alteration
           of
           the
           Name
           of
           James
           into
           William
           .
           Their
           Intent
           was
           ,
           that
           all
           things
           should
           run
           in
           the
           late
           Arbitrary
           
           Channel
           :
           For
           which
           Reason
           the
           very
           mention
           of
           King
           
           James's
           Forfeiting
           his
           Remainder
           in
           the
           Crown
           ,
           by
           Vnqualifying
           himself
           for
           it
           before
           he
           had
           it
           ,
           and
           of
           his
           Abdicating
           the
           Crown
           when
           he
           had
           it
           ,
           by
           breaking
           the
           Fundamental
           Contract
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           Tyranny
           and
           Subversion
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           was
           Ratsbane
           to
           these
           Men
           ,
           and
           would
           have
           hurt
           their
           Passive
           Doctrine
           :
           And
           therefore
           there
           was
           need
           of
           Slight
           of
           Hand
           ,
           to
           give
           a
           new
           Turn
           to
           the
           Peoples
           Delivering
           themselves
           ,
           and
           to
           call
           it
           King
           
           James's
           own
           Desertion
           .
        
         
           Well
           then
           ,
           according
           to
           this
           Hypothesis
           of
           Desertion
           ,
           till
           a
           King
           runs
           away
           of
           his
           own
           accord
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           true
           in
           the
           last
           Instance
           ,
           nor
           ever
           will
           be
           to
           the
           end
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           the
           People
           of
           England
           have
           no
           Remedy
           against
           Oppression
           ,
           nor
           can
           ever
           be
           rid
           of
           a
           Tyrant
           ;
           which
           makes
           Ours
           and
           our
           Posterities
           Case
           worse
           than
           it
           was
           in
           K.
           James's
           Time
           :
           For
           once
           in
           an
           hundred
           Years
           there
           may
           fall
           out
           some
           Vnhappy
           Occasion
           to
           Assert
           the
           English
           Liberties
           ,
           which
           never
           yet
           were
           so
           stinted
           ,
           as
           to
           lie
           at
           the
           Mercy
           of
           so
           Vnlikely
           a
           Case
           as
           a
           Prince's
           own
           Desertion
           .
           We
           had
           better
           have
           been
           without
           our
           present
           happy
           Deliverance
           ,
           than
           have
           it
           upon
           those
           Terms
           ;
           for
           that
           would
           be
           selling
           a
           perpetual
           Estate
           of
           Inheritance
           for
           one
           Year's
           Purchase
           .
           For
           though
           we
           have
           a
           good
           Prince
           at
           present
           ,
           yet
           there
           may
           arise
           such
           another
           Pharaoh
           as
           knew
           not
           Joseph
           .
        
         
           But
           no
           doubt
           the
           Flattering
           Sir
           Politick
           foresaw
           ,
           that
           if
           one
           Prince
           might
           Forfeit
           for
           his
           Arbitrary
           Government
           ,
           
           another
           might
           ,
           and
           this
           would
           be
           no
           agreeable
           Court-Doctrine
           .
           Yes
           verily
           it
           is
           even
           so
           :
           For
           whoever
           acts
           King
           
           James's
           Part
           ,
           ought
           to
           have
           King
           
           James's
           Fate
           ,
           only
           I
           wish
           it
           him
           Earlier
           .
           And
           I
           so
           far
           rely
           upon
           the
           Integrity
           and
           Sincerity
           of
           his
           Majesty's
           Publick
           Declaration
           ,
           that
           a
           Single
           Deliverance
           was
           the
           least
           part
           of
           his
           Care
           ;
           but
           his
           main
           End
           was
           ,
           
           
             to
             secure
             the
             Nation
             from
             Relapsing
             into
             the
             Miseries
             of
             Arbitrary
             Government
             any
             more
             .
          
           So
           that
           if
           we
           should
           Relapse
           into
           the
           Miseries
           of
           Arbitrary
           Government
           (
           which
           I
           will
           never
           suppose
           in
           his
           time
           )
           Himself
           being
           Iudg
           ,
           we
           shall
           then
           want
           a
           new
           Revolution
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           we
           did
           his
           .
        
         
           But
           there
           are
           some
           Men
           so
           secure
           ,
           now
           Popery
           is
           gone
           ,
           though
           in
           great
           part
           it
           is
           where
           it
           was
           (
           and
           that
           for
           such
           a
           wise
           Reason
           as
           never
           was
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           because
           our
           Allies
           are
           Papists
           ;
           whereas
           all
           the
           Papists
           here
           are
           French
           Papists
           ,
           and
           entirely
           in
           that
           Interest
           :
           )
           but
           because
           Popery
           is
           gone
           ,
           they
           have
           no
           Apprehensions
           of
           Slavery
           .
           Whereas
           Slavery
           is
           Popery
           ,
           Mahometanism
           ,
           Paganism
           ,
           Atheism
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           that
           the
           Prince
           pleases
           .
           For
           a
           Slave
           is
           a
           Dog
           that
           must
           leap
           over
           a
           Stick
           ,
           and
           leap
           back
           again
           at
           his
           Master's
           bidding
           .
        
         
           Desertion
           was
           Discussed
           ,
           whereby
           the
           Cause
           was
           puzzled
           ,
           and
           then
           there
           was
           need
           of
           a
           new
           Contrivance
           ,
           and
           so
           Conquest
           was
           started
           ;
           and
           it
           was
           asserted
           in
           the
           Pastoral
           Letter
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           had
           a
           Right
           to
           the
           Crown
           by
           Conquest
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           was
           a
           great
           Condescension
           to
           receive
           it
           
           at
           the
           Hands
           of
           the
           People
           .
           This
           raised
           two
           Bishops
           more
           to
           pitch
           upon
           Conquest
           as
           the
           stronger
           Hypothesis
           of
           the
           two
           ;
           the
           one
           of
           which
           answered
           poor
           
           Ashton's
           Speech
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           has
           given
           us
           but
           one
           Third
           of
           his
           Sermon
           ,
           which
           has
           been
           about
           two
           Years
           in
           modelling
           .
           I
           called
           him
           poor
           Ashton
           ,
           because
           I
           heartily
           pitied
           his
           Death
           :
           For
           he
           acted
           in
           Pursuance
           of
           those
           Principles
           which
           his
           Answerer
           ,
           to
           my
           Knowledg
           ,
           has
           publickly
           Preach'd
           above
           these
           twenty
           Years
           ,
           and
           which
           were
           Church-of
           -
           
           England-Doctrine
           ,
           or
           else
           they
           had
           none
           during
           that
           time
           .
           I
           knew
           their
           Doctrine
           was
           false
           ,
           and
           the
           Men
           false
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           would
           never
           be
           Martyrs
           for
           it
           :
           But
           they
           have
           an
           excellent
           hand
           at
           Martyr-making
           ;
           and
           when
           they
           have
           brought
           Men
           to
           the
           Gallows
           ,
           they
           leave
           them
           in
           the
           lurch
           ,
           after
           the
           same
           manner
           as
           they
           report
           the
           Devil
           does
           a
           VVitch
           .
           But
           then
           they
           need
           not
           write
           against
           them
           .
        
         
           
           The
           Answerer's
           Argument
           is
           ,
           That
           we
           ought
           to
           swear
           Allegiance
           to
           the
           Conqueror
           ,
           for
           so
           they
           do
           in
           the
           new
           French
           Conquests
           ;
           
             and
             the
             Right
             of
             War
             here
             is
             the
             same
             as
             it
             is
             abroad
             .
          
        
         
           VVe
           thank
           him
           for
           his
           Love
           as
           much
           as
           if
           we
           did
           ;
           but
           we
           will
           never
           submit
           to
           be
           in
           the
           Condition
           of
           Mons
           and
           Namur
           ,
           till
           we
           are
           taken
           by
           Storm
           :
           And
           if
           by
           his
           saying
           ,
           that
           the
           Right
           of
           VVar
           Here
           is
           the
           same
           as
           Abroad
           ,
           he
           means
           that
           we
           are
           the
           New
           Dutch
           Conquests
           (
           as
           the
           words
           are
           capable
           of
           no
           other
           meaning
           )
           I
           will
           never
           trouble
           my
           Head
           with
           that
           Matter
           ;
           for
           whenever
           Foreigners
           pretend
           
           to
           be
           Lord-Danes
           here
           in
           England
           ,
           I
           will
           leave
           that
           Controversy
           to
           our
           Wives
           who
           can
           best
           decide
           it
           .
        
         
           Behold
           ,
           thrice
           Honourable
           and
           thrice
           Sage
           Representatives
           of
           your
           Country
           ,
           what
           is
           become
           of
           your
           English
           Rights
           !
           You
           are
           by
           this
           Doctrine
           a
           Subdued
           Nation
           ,
           and
           a
           Foreign
           Conquest
           ;
           and
           then
           I
           am
           sure
           that
           all
           the
           boasted
           English
           Liberties
           amount
           to
           no
           more
           than
           this
           ,
           that
           our
           Thoughts
           are
           free
           ,
           and
           your
           Post-letters
           Frank.
           
        
         
           Another
           Conquering
           Bishop
           that
           heretofore
           helped
           to
           Spoil
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           First
           Declaration
           ,
           and
           to
           put
           a
           full
           stop
           to
           his
           Expedition
           ,
           by
           the
           proffered
           Advice
           which
           the
           Bishops
           gave
           King
           James
           ,
           to
           Palliate
           our
           Grievances
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           cheated
           the
           Nation
           the
           most
           effectually
           that
           could
           be
           ,
           has
           lately
           done
           as
           much
           for
           the
           Second
           Declaration
           ,
           and
           has
           endeavoured
           to
           render
           it
           the
           Falsest
           Paper
           in
           the
           World.
           With
           your
           leave
           and
           patience
           I
           will
           make
           out
           my
           Story
           .
        
         
           When
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           had
           made
           his
           Preparations
           ,
           aud
           our
           Court
           was
           sensible
           of
           it
           ,
           there
           was
           Means
           made
           to
           draw
           several
           Noblemen
           to
           Court
           to
           make
           their
           Complement
           to
           King
           James
           ;
           which
           was
           to
           make
           a
           Shew
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           by
           the
           help
           of
           the
           Gazette
           ,
           that
           the
           most
           disobliged
           Peers
           were
           wholly
           in
           King
           
           James's
           Interest
           .
           Accordingly
           the
           Bishops
           who
           hade
           made
           themselves
           Popular
           ,
           by
           refusing
           the
           Declaration
           for
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           by
           beginning
           to
           quote
           Law
           when
           it
           came
           to
           excusing
           themselves
           from
           digging
           their
           own
           Graves
           ,
           were
           likewise
           sent
           for
           to
           Court.
           When
           
           the
           Summoned
           Bishops
           came
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           
             Septemb.
             28.
          
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           being
           then
           not
           well
           ,
           there
           passed
           nothing
           but
           Acknowledgements
           of
           Duty
           and
           Loyalty
           on
           their
           Side
           ,
           and
           gracious
           Promises
           of
           Favour
           and
           Protection
           from
           their
           King.
           This
           surprized
           these
           overweening
           Persons
           ,
           who
           thought
           they
           had
           been
           sent
           for
           to
           advise
           the
           King
           in
           these
           difficult
           Affairs
           .
           Hereupon
           they
           repaired
           to
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           ,
           who
           waited
           upon
           the
           King
           ,
           
             Sept.
             30.
          
           with
           a
           proffer
           of
           their
           Advice
           ;
           which
           he
           was
           ready
           to
           accept
           ,
           and
           had
           it
           three
           days
           after
           in
           eleven
           Articles
           ,
           which
           have
           been
           several
           times
           printed
           and
           boasted
           of
           .
        
         
           As
           soon
           as
           ever
           I
           saw
           them
           ,
           I
           plainly
           perceived
           that
           they
           were
           all
           of
           them
           deceitful
           and
           Mountebank
           Remedies
           :
           and
           being
           urged
           for
           my
           Opinion
           of
           them
           ,
           I
           gave
           my
           Thoughts
           very
           freely
           concerning
           them
           ,
           and
           the
           rather
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           said
           to
           be
           very
           much
           applauded
           abroad
           .
           I
           said
           that
           I
           was
           sure
           the
           King
           would
           comply
           with
           them
           ,
           but
           not
           all
           at
           once
           ;
           but
           he
           would
           make
           his
           Concessions
           so
           ,
           as
           to
           garnish
           the
           Gazette
           with
           them
           twice
           a
           week
           ,
           and
           to
           amuse
           the
           People
           with
           a
           Succession
           of
           Favours
           ,
           as
           if
           there
           were
           to
           be
           no
           end
           of
           them
           .
           That
           these
           Grievances
           being
           thus
           Redressed
           ,
           there
           would
           be
           no
           need
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Expedition
           ,
           to
           take
           care
           of
           that
           which
           was
           already
           done
           to
           his
           hand
           ;
           and
           he
           might
           even
           stay
           on
           the
           other
           Side
           where
           he
           was
           .
           That
           these
           Concessions
           would
           stand
           till
           the
           King
           had
           recovered
           his
           Fright
           ,
           and
           then
           all
           things
           would
           return
           into
           the
           old
           Channel
           :
           for
           by
           this
           Advice
           he
           would
           put
           nothing
           
           out
           of
           his
           reach
           ;
           and
           by
           fresh
           Quo-Warranto's
           he
           would
           fetch
           back
           the
           Charters
           in
           a
           few
           Terms
           ,
           and
           every
           thing
           else
           in
           a
           less
           time
           .
           But
           if
           he
           should
           make
           any
           shew
           of
           being
           reconciled
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           last
           part
           of
           their
           Mischievous
           Advice
           ,
           it
           would
           very
           much
           impose
           upon
           the
           Nation
           ,
           though
           it
           might
           make
           for
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           Advisers
           .
           For
           the
           Advice
           was
           selfish
           I
           plainly
           saw
           ,
           and
           all
           over
           Church
           ;
           and
           tbe
           Ecclesiastical
           Commission
           ,
           Dispensations
           ,
           the
           two
           Magdalen
           Colleges
           ,
           Iesuits
           Schools
           ,
           the
           four
           Apostolick
           Vicars
           which
           carried
           the
           Grist
           from
           their
           Mill
           ,
           and
           not
           filling
           the
           Vacant
           Sees
           ,
           particularly
           that
           of
           York
           ,
           was
           the
           burden
           of
           their
           Complaint
           .
        
         
           Whereupon
           I
           could
           not
           forbear
           saying
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           Inn-keepers
           of
           England
           had
           been
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Bishops
           Inn-keepers
           for
           several
           Years
           past
           ,
           then
           they
           would
           have
           thought
           a
           Standing
           Army
           a
           Grievance
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           so
           much
           as
           mention'd
           in
           this
           Advice
           ,
           and
           which
           would
           at
           any
           time
           retrieve
           all
           the
           former
           Concessions
           .
           I
           said
           therefore
           ,
           I
           was
           afraid
           they
           did
           not
           mean
           Honestly
           ,
           but
           intended
           to
           forestal
           our
           expected
           Deliverance
           ,
           and
           to
           intercept
           the
           Prince's
           Voyage
           ;
           but
           if
           they
           meant
           in
           favour
           of
           the
           Prince's
           coming
           ,
           their
           proffered
           Politicks
           would
           nor
           qualifie
           them
           to
           be
           States-men
           .
           But
           I
           much
           more
           questioned
           their
           Honesty
           than
           their
           Understanding
           ,
           and
           therefore
           was
           sorry
           to
           see
           so
           Generous
           a
           Design
           as
           the
           Prince's
           was
           ,
           to
           be
           Unblest
           by
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           puzzled
           by
           a
           little
           Priest-Craft
           .
        
         
         
           The
           thing
           was
           taken
           right
           at
           the
           Hague
           :
           But
           the
           first
           Declaration
           being
           thus
           spoiled
           ,
           it
           gave
           the
           Prince
           the
           trouble
           of
           an
           Additional
           Declaration
           ;
           partly
           to
           expose
           and
           lay
           open
           the
           Fraud
           of
           these
           pretended
           Remedies
           ,
           and
           partly
           to
           meet
           with
           a
           dangerous
           Suggestion
           which
           was
           then
           started
           ,
           of
           his
           intending
           a
           Conquest
           .
        
         
           His
           excellent
           Words
           concerning
           the
           last
           are
           these
           :
           
             
               We
               are
               confident
               ,
               that
               no
               Persons
               can
               have
               such
               hard
               Thoughts
               of
               us
               ,
               as
               to
               imagine
               that
               we
               have
               any
               other
               Design
               in
               this
               Undertaking
               ,
               than
               to
               procure
               a
               Settlement
               of
               the
               Religion
               ,
               and
               of
               the
               Liberties
               and
               Properties
               of
               the
               Subjects
               upon
               so
               sure
               a
               Foundation
               ,
               that
               there
               may
               be
               no
               danger
               of
               the
               Nations
               Relapsing
               into
               the
               like
               Miseries
               at
               any
               time
               hereafter
               .
               And
               as
               the
               Forces
               we
               have
               brought
               along
               with
               us
               ,
               are
               utterly
               disproportioned
               to
               that
               wicked
               Design
               of
               Conquering
               the
               Nation
               ,
               if
               we
               were
               capable
               of
               intending
               it
               ;
               So
               the
               great
               Numbers
               of
               the
               Principal
               Nobility
               and
               Gentry
               ,
               that
               are
               Men
               of
               eminent
               Quality
               and
               Estates
               ,
               and
               Persons
               of
               known
               Integrity
               and
               Zeal
               ,
               both
               for
               the
               Religion
               and
               Government
               of
            
             England
             ;
             
               many
               of
               them
               being
               also
               distinguished
               by
               their
               Constant
               Fidelity
               to
               the
               Crown
               ,
               who
               do
               both
               accompany
               Us
               in
               this
               Expedition
               ,
               and
               have
               earnestly
               sollicited
               Us
               to
               it
               ,
               will
               cover
               Us
               from
               all
               such
               Malicious
               Insinuations
               .
               For
               it
               is
               not
               to
               be
               imagined
               ,
               that
               either
               
               those
               that
               have
               Invited
               Us
               ,
               or
               those
               that
               are
               already
               come
               to
               Assist
               us
               ,
               can
               join
               in
               a
               Wicked
               Attempt
               of
               Couquest
               ,
               to
               make
               void
               their
               own
               Lawful
               Titles
               to
               their
               Honours
               ,
               Estates
               and
               Interests
               .
            
          
        
         
           Conquering
           and
           Enslaving
           the
           Nation
           ,
           which
           are
           equivalent
           Words
           ,
           and
           both
           put
           together
           in
           this
           Declaration
           ,
           was
           so
           wicked
           a
           Design
           ,
           that
           his
           Majesty
           was
           not
           capable
           of
           Intending
           it
           ,
           and
           disclaims
           it
           with
           Abhorrence
           .
           How
           then
           come
           his
           Priests
           to
           tell
           him
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           Nation
           besides
           ,
           that
           this
           is
           
             God's
             way
             of
             disposing
             Kingdoms
          
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           this
           Divine
           way
           he
           came
           by
           his
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           holds
           it
           by
           that
           Tenure
           .
           Is
           not
           this
           ,
           as
           I
           said
           ,
           spoiling
           the
           Second
           Declaration
           ?
        
         
           But
           I
           will
           presently
           joyn
           Issue
           with
           this
           Conquering
           Bishop
           ;
           for
           I
           have
           not
           been
           afraid
           of
           a
           Conqueror
           these
           eighteen
           Years
           .
           For
           so
           long
           since
           I
           used
           to
           walk
           by
           the
           New-Exchange
           Gate
           ,
           where
           stood
           an
           overgrown
           Porter
           with
           his
           Gown
           and
           Staff
           ,
           which
           gave
           him
           a
           Semblance
           of
           Authority
           ;
           whose
           Business
           it
           was
           to
           regulate
           the
           Coachmen
           before
           the
           Entrance
           ;
           and
           would
           make
           nothing
           of
           lifting
           a
           Coachman
           off
           his
           Box
           ,
           and
           beating
           him
           ,
           and
           throwing
           him
           into
           his
           Box
           again
           .
           I
           have
           several
           times
           look'd
           up
           at
           this
           tall
           Mastering
           Fellow
           ,
           and
           put
           the
           Case
           ;
           Suppose
           this
           Conqueror
           should
           take
           me
           up
           under
           his
           Arm
           like
           a
           Gizzard
           ,
           and
           run
           away
           with
           me
           ;
           am
           I
           his
           Subject
           ?
           No
           ,
           thought
           I
           ,
           I
           am
           my
           own
           Man
           ,
           and
           not
           his
           :
           And
           having
           thus
           invaded
           me
           ,
           if
           I
           could
           not
           otherwise
           rescue
           my self
           from
           him
           ,
           I
           
           would
           smite
           him
           under
           the
           fifth
           Rib.
           From
           that
           time
           I
           have
           had
           a
           clear
           Idea
           of
           Conquest
           ,
           and
           no
           Conquerour
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           with
           all
           his
           Power
           ,
           can
           have
           any
           more
           Right
           to
           me
           than
           that
           Fellow
           .
        
         
           Yea
           ,
           says
           the
           Bishop
           ,
           but
           though
           the
           Porter
           had
           no
           clear
           Right
           to
           you
           by
           being
           Soveraign
           of
           the
           Exchange
           Gate
           ,
           and
           Conquering
           you
           ,
           
             yet
             he
             had
             you
             in
             Possession
             .
             And
             therefore
             according
             to
             the
             common
             Saying
             ,
             which
             is
             most
             true
             in
             this
             case
             ,
             He
             had
             Eleven
             Points
             of
             the
             Law.
             
          
        
         
           Now
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           give
           me
           but
           the
           One
           Point
           of
           Right
           ,
           and
           I
           will
           dispute
           the
           Eleven
           Points
           of
           Possession
           with
           any
           Man
           whatsoever
           ;
           and
           do
           no
           more
           mind
           them
           ,
           than
           all
           the
           variable
           Points
           of
           a
           Divinity-Compass
           .
           But
           did
           ever
           any
           Man
           in
           a
           Pulpit
           talk
           in
           behalf
           of
           the
           Eleven
           Points
           of
           Law
           ,
           and
           maintain
           Wrong
           against
           Right
           ?
           Why
           does
           he
           not
           quote
           another
           common
           Saying
           ,
           which
           is
           most
           true
           in
           the
           same
           Case
           ,
           That
           Right
           and
           Wrong
           is
           nothing
           but
           Weak
           and
           Strong
           .
           Such
           Men
           by
           God's
           Iudgment
           are
           left
           us
           in
           the
           World
           to
           unteach
           us
           the
           difference
           of
           Good
           and
           Evil.
           
        
         
           But
           the
           Man
           is
           quite
           out
           of
           his
           Story
           ,
           and
           must
           begin
           again
           .
           For
           Conquest
           ,
           even
           in
           his
           Notion
           ,
           is
           justling
           a
           Man
           out
           of
           his
           Seat
           ,
           and
           sitting
           down
           in
           his
           Place
           ;
           and
           this
           is
           done
           in
           an
           instant
           ,
           as
           one
           Nail
           drives
           out
           another
           .
           But
           this
           is
           quite
           contrary
           to
           the
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           in
           relation
           to
           our
           two
           Kings
           .
           For
           King
           William
           was
           not
           King
           upon
           King
           
           James's
           first
           Flight
           ,
           nor
           upon
           his
           second
           Flight
           ,
           nor
           during
           
           the
           long
           Vacancy
           ,
           which
           was
           no
           fault
           of
           mine
           that
           it
           was
           not
           shortned
           ,
           nor
           till
           such
           time
           as
           Our
           People
           made
           him
           King.
           And
           we
           have
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           in
           this
           Reign
           ,
           which
           declares
           the
           Realm
           of
           England
           to
           have
           been
           Soveraign
           during
           that
           time
           ,
           by
           ordering
           all
           Indictments
           ,
           from
           the
           time
           of
           King
           
           James's
           withdrawing
           till
           the
           
           13th
           of
           Febr.
           to
           run
           in
           their
           Name
           .
           And
           he
           that
           was
           not
           King
           till
           the
           
           13th
           of
           Febr.
           could
           not
           have
           been
           so
           then
           ,
           if
           his
           English
           Friends
           had
           not
           made
           him
           so
           .
        
         
           By
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           an
           Usurper
           set
           up
           by
           God
           ,
           you
           have
           nothing
           left
           you
           :
           For
           a
           Kingdom
           of
           God's
           giving
           is
           
           Nebuchadnezzar's
           Kingdom
           ;
           Dan.
           
             5.
             18
             ,
             19.
             
             Whom
             he
             would
             he
             slew
             ,
             and
             whom
             he
             would
             he
             kept
             alive
             ,
             and
             whom
             he
             would
             he
             set
             up
             ,
             and
             whom
             he
             would
             he
             put
             down
             .
          
           So
           that
           it
           is
           the
           World●s
           End
           with
           any
           or
           all
           of
           you
           ,
           whenever
           the
           Court
           sends
           for
           your
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           or
           Estates
           .
           Such
           an
           Usurper
           is
           a
           God
           upon
           Earth
           ,
           which
           it
           is
           easie
           for
           some
           sort
           of
           Men
           to
           make
           .
           For
           so
           Calyban
           made
           Stephano
           his
           God
           ,
           and
           offered
           to
           lick
           his
           Foot
           ;
           but
           it
           was
           for
           what
           he
           could
           get
           by
           him
           :
           And
           therefore
           it
           was
           
           Trinculo's
           Opinion
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           also
           mine
           ,
           That
           if
           his
           God
           were
           asleep
           ,
           he
           would
           rob
           his
           Bottle
           .
        
         
           Who
           shall
           set
           Bounds
           to
           a
           Divine
           Authority
           ?
           He
           himself
           that
           has
           it
           from
           God
           ,
           cannot
           part
           with
           an
           Inch
           of
           it
           ;
           much
           less
           can
           that
           Herd
           ,
           which
           they
           call
           the
           People
           ,
           either
           limit
           or
           dispute
           it
           .
           His
           part
           is
           to
           Command
           ,
           and
           theirs
           
           to
           Obey
           without
           Reserve
           .
           Humane
           Laws
           are
           Sacrilegious
           waste
           Paper
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           a
           God
           amongst
           them
           ,
           and
           a
           Nation
           is
           wholly
           at
           Discretion
           .
           No
           ,
           say
           they
           ,
           he
           is
           Accountable
           to
           God.
           What
           is
           that
           to
           us
           ?
           We
           may
           be
           destroyed
           ,
           or
           laid
           in
           gore
           Blood
           for
           all
           that
           .
           I
           not
           the
           French
           King
           accountable
           to
           God
           ?
           And
           yet
           what
           Reparation
           is
           that
           to
           the
           many
           millions
           of
           Souls
           which
           he
           has
           destroyed
           ,
           or
           what
           Remedy
           against
           the
           Destruction
           of
           as
           many
           more
           ?
           I
           hate
           that
           Phrase
           ,
           for
           the
           English
           Law
           has
           provided
           better
           than
           to
           make
           their
           King
           
             only
             Accountable
             to
             God
          
           ;
           there
           's
           always
           Mischief
           in
           that
           Saying
           .
           I
           know
           a
           Kingdom
           where
           an
           Arbitrary
           King
           had
           exercised
           his
           People
           with
           intolerable
           Oppressions
           for
           above
           twelve
           Years
           together
           by
           his
           own
           Confession
           ,
           and
           after
           that
           engaged
           them
           in
           a
           bloody
           War
           ;
           and
           after
           some
           respite
           ,
           but
           before
           their
           Wounds
           were
           well
           healed
           ,
           though
           he
           were
           a
           Prisoner
           himself
           ,
           he
           caused
           a
           new
           War
           to
           break
           loose
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           was
           wholly
           secure
           ,
           because
           he
           insisted
           mightily
           upon
           it
           that
           he
           was
           Accountable
           only
           to
           God
           :
           Whereupon
           ,
           though
           with
           a
           Regret
           of
           a
           great
           part
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           they
           sent
           him
           to
           God
           to
           give
           an
           Account
           .
           For
           which
           Reason
           I
           cannot
           abide
           that
           Saying
           ,
           
             of
             being
             Accountable
             only
             to
             God.
             
          
        
         
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           the
           
             Mishpat
             Hamelek
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Right
           of
           an
           Arbitrary
           and
           Despotick
           King
           is
           revived
           by
           this
           Doctrine
           ;
           and
           the
           things
           which
           are
           
           Caesar's
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           former
           false
           Glosses
           ,
           is
           every
           thing
           that
           is
           not
           preingaged
           to
           God
           ,
           which
           we
           all
           know
           is
           the
           Church's
           Portion
           .
           So
           that
           
           the
           Church
           and
           Caesar
           divide
           the
           World
           betwixt
           them
           .
           Or
           as
           Dr.
           Ball
           used
           to
           lisp
           it
           out
           in
           his
           Court-Sermons
           ,
           Lives
           and
           Estates
           ,
           Wives
           and
           Children
           ,
           all
           things
           were
           
           Thaethar's
           :
           all
           we
           had
           was
           
           Thaethar's
           ,
           and
           therefore
           we
           were
           to
           render
           it
           to
           Thaethar
           .
           But
           I
           suppose
           no
           able
           Lawyer
           in
           either
           Temple
           ,
           of
           which
           he
           was
           Master
           ,
           was
           ever
           able
           to
           understand
           this
           blaese
           Divinity
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           calls
           Princes
           ,
           Gods
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           enough
           for
           Court-Parasites
           .
           For
           when
           they
           have
           got
           such
           a
           Scripture-Metaphor
           by
           the
           end
           ,
           how
           have
           I
           seen
           them
           ride
           on
           the
           Ridg
           of
           it
           !
           
           Then
           
             Subjects
             withdrawing
             their
             Obedience
             from
             their
             Lawful
             Prince
             ,
             is
             a
             denying
             God's
             Authority
             ;
             Treason
             against
             him
             is
             a
             kind
             of
             Sacrilege
             ;
             a
             Revolt
             from
             him
             ,
             an
             Apostacy
             from
             God
             ;
             a
             Resisting
             him
             an
             opposing
             God
             ;
             rebelling
             against
             him
             ,
             fighting
             with
             God
             ;
             the
             setting
             up
             the
             Title
             of
             a
             Counterfeit
             Prince
             against
             the
             true
             One
             ,
             an
             introducing
             a
             Plurality
             of
             Godheads
             ;
             the
             obeying
             of
             an
             Usurper
             ,
             Idolatry
             ;
             the
             slandering
             his
             Anointed
             ,
             and
             his
             Footsteps
             ,
             a
             blaspheming
             God
             ;
             the
             blaming
             his
             Conduct
             ,
             a
             quarrelling
             with
             Providence
             .
          
        
         
           
             I
             have
             said
             ,
             ye
             are
             Gods
             ,
          
           is
           divulged
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           every
           Body
           has
           heard
           it
           aloud
           an
           hundred
           times
           ;
           but
           there
           is
           a
           neglected
           Text
           of
           Scripture
           as
           full
           of
           Inspiration
           as
           that
           ,
           which
           never
           used
           to
           be
           quoted
           ;
           
             Prov.
             28.
             15.
             
             A
             roaring
             Lion
             and
             a
             ranging
             Bear
             is
             a
             wicked
             Ruler
             over
             the
             poor
             People
             .
          
           Here
           are
           two
           Metaphors
           for
           their
           one
           ;
           and
           if
           any
           Body
           were
           disposed
           to
           follow
           the
           
           way
           of
           their
           former
           Descant
           ,
           it
           must
           run
           thus
           upon
           this
           Text.
           A
           Lion
           is
           a
           Beast
           of
           Prey
           ,
           seeking
           whom
           he
           may
           devour
           ,
           therefore
           give
           him
           no
           Law
           ;
           destroy
           all
           his
           Iackalls
           ;
           deliver
           the
           Prey
           out
           of
           his
           Teeth
           ,
           and
           wear
           his
           Spoils
           as
           Hercules
           did
           .
           A
           ranging
           Bear
           will
           kill
           you
           if
           you
           do
           not
           kill
           him
           ;
           therefore
           destroy
           all
           his
           Cubs
           ,
           for
           they
           will
           be
           Bears
           in
           time
           ;
           set
           a
           Price
           upon
           their
           Heads
           ,
           and
           let
           the
           Church-wardens
           pay
           it
           .
        
         
           This
           Text
           is
           so
           lively
           a
           Picture
           of
           a
           bad
           Prince
           ,
           that
           the
           Messieurs
           of
           the
           Port
           Royal
           are
           amazed
           at
           it
           ,
           and
           say
           thus
           in
           their
           Annotations
           upon
           it
           :
           
             Il
             n'appartient
             qu'à
             Dieu
             de
             dire
             des
             Veritez
             si
             etonnantes
             .
          
           It
           belongs
           to
           no
           body
           but
           God
           to
           say
           such
           astonishing
           Truths
           .
           But
           he
           is
           so
           good
           an
           Authority
           ,
           that
           any
           body
           may
           safely
           say
           such
           astonishing
           Truths
           after
           him
           .
        
         
           Now
           an
           hungry
           ranging
           Bear
           cannot
           possibly
           be
           a
           God
           ;
           and
           therefore
           when
           David
           calls
           Princes
           Gods
           ,
           he
           meant
           Good
           Princes
           ,
           Benefactors
           to
           Mankind
           ,
           and
           not
           his
           Son
           
           Solomon's
           Bears
           ,
           who
           cannot
           be
           called
           Gods
           ,
           no
           not
           by
           a
           Figure
           .
           And
           this
           Distinction
           is
           so
           natural
           ,
           that
           it
           became
           Proverbial
           in
           several
           of
           the
           Learned
           Languages
           ,
           
             Homo
             Homini
             Deus
             ,
             &
             Homo
             Homini
             Lupus
             .
          
           One
           Man
           is
           a
           God
           to
           another
           ,
           and
           one
           Man
           is
           a
           Wolf
           to
           another
           .
           And
           so
           far
           as
           Princes
           resemble
           God
           himself
           in
           Iustice
           and
           Goodness
           ,
           let
           them
           wear
           the
           Psalmist's
           titular
           Honour
           of
           Gods
           ,
           and
           good
           Luck
           may
           they
           have
           with
           it
           ;
           but
           when
           they
           degenerate
           into
           
           Solomon's
           Beasts
           of
           Prey
           ,
           it
           would
           
           be
           so
           harsh
           a
           Figure
           to
           call
           them
           Gods
           ,
           that
           no
           Language
           upon
           Earth
           can
           bear
           it
           ,
           unless
           it
           can
           be
           that
           Figure
           ,
           whereby
           they
           use
           to
           call
           things
           in
           Scorn
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           our
           false
           Pulpits
           used
           to
           treat
           the
           Bears
           as
           if
           they
           had
           been
           Divinities
           ,
           when
           they
           had
           just
           been
           sucking
           the
           best
           Blood
           in
           the
           Nation
           ;
           and
           when
           they
           had
           had
           more
           Carnage
           in
           half
           a
           Year's
           time
           ,
           than
           Popish
           Queen
           Mary
           had
           in
           her
           whole
           Reign
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           there
           be
           no
           difference
           betwixt
           a
           Good
           Prince
           and
           a
           Bad
           ,
           why
           did
           the
           Nation
           ,
           a
           great
           number
           of
           them
           ,
           with
           the
           apparent
           hazard
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           give
           themselves
           the
           Trouble
           and
           Charge
           of
           this
           present
           Exchange
           ?
           King
           James
           would
           have
           served
           their
           turn
           as
           well
           .
        
         
           How
           came
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           so
           generously
           to
           undertake
           his
           Expedition
           ,
           but
           to
           rescue
           us
           out
           of
           the
           Paw
           of
           the
           Bear
           ?
           If
           we
           had
           been
           under
           a
           God
           ,
           there
           had
           been
           nothing
           amiss
           ,
           and
           there
           had
           been
           no
           cause
           with
           Force
           and
           Arms
           to
           have
           sent
           him
           a
           travelling
           ,
           where
           he
           is
           ,
           to
           the
           Head-Quarters
           of
           Tyranny
           .
           But
           the
           worried
           People
           of
           England
           invited
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           the
           Prince
           assisted
           the
           worried
           People
           of
           England
           ;
           who
           at
           last
           laid
           their
           Hands
           on
           their
           Swords
           ,
           and
           were
           unanimously
           bent
           to
           join
           him
           against
           all
           their
           Oppressors
           :
           And
           so
           we
           came
           by
           our
           Deliverance
           .
        
         
           The
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           not
           been
           enslaved
           by
           the
           base
           Doctrine
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           might
           very
           easily
           have
           done
           their
           own
           Work
           themselves
           ,
           for
           whom
           it
           was
           most
           Proper
           ;
           for
           his
           Majesty
           acknowledges
           in
           his
           Additional
           
           Declaration
           ,
           
             That
             his
             Preparations
             were
             to
             Assist
             the
             People
             against
             the
             Subverters
             of
             their
             Religion
             and
             Laws
             .
          
           So
           that
           it
           was
           their
           Work
           principally
           ,
           to
           which
           they
           invited
           his
           Assistance
           ,
           and
           prayed
           him
           in
           Aid
           .
        
         
           And
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           his
           Words
           were
           these
           .
           
             We
             do
             Invite
             and
             Require
             all
             Persons
             whatsoever
             ,
             all
             the
             Peers
             of
             the
             Realm
             ,
             Spiritual
             and
             Temporal
             ,
             all
             Lords
             Lieutenants
             ,
             Deputy-Lieutenants
             ,
             and
             all
             Gentlemen
             ,
             Citizens
             ,
             and
             other
             Commons
             of
             all
             Ranks
             ,
             to
             come
             and
             assist
             Us
             in
             order
             to
             the
             executing
             of
             this
             our
             Design
             ,
             against
             all
             such
             as
             shall
             endeavour
             to
             oppose
             Us
             ,
             that
             so
             we
             may
             prevent
             all
             those
             Miseries
             which
             must
             needs
             fall
             upon
             the
             Nation
             's
             being
             kept
             under
             Arbitrary
             Government
             and
             Slavery
             ;
             and
             that
             all
             the
             Violences
             and
             Disorders
             which
             have
             Overturned
             the
             whole
             Constitution
             of
             the
             English
             Government
             ,
             may
             be
             fully
             Redressed
             in
             a
             Free
             and
             Legal
             Parliament
             .
          
        
         
           This
           Invitation
           sounded
           the
           best
           to
           me
           of
           any
           that
           came
           since
           the
           Gospel
           came
           ;
           but
           according
           to
           the
           Passive-Obedience-Men
           ,
           it
           was
           a
           Call
           to
           Hell
           ,
           and
           to
           dip
           the
           Nation
           one
           and
           all
           into
           Damnation
           :
           for
           he
           that
           resisteth
           ,
           shall
           receive
           to
           himself
           Damnation
           .
           If
           the
           Prince
           had
           directed
           this
           Invitation
           to
           them
           ,
           he
           had
           spoken
           to
           Stocks
           and
           Stones
           that
           could
           not
           stir
           :
           nay
           ,
           they
           could
           not
           possibly
           be
           Neutral
           ,
           for
           by
           their
           forward
           treacherous
           Loyalty
           they
           had
           staked
           down
           their
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           on
           the
           other
           Side
           long
           before
           ;
           and
           by
           their
           
           Principles
           were
           as
           dangerous
           to
           him
           as
           so
           many
           Grandvalls
           .
           So
           that
           it
           was
           only
           the
           brave
           and
           sound
           part
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           that
           was
           not
           tainted
           with
           the
           Poison
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           which
           Assisted
           his
           Majesty
           in
           his
           Arrival
           to
           White-Hall
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           in
           his
           Access
           to
           the
           Throne
           ,
           or
           else
           he
           had
           never
           come
           there
           .
           There
           was
           not
           an
           honest
           Man
           in
           England
           capable
           of
           joining
           the
           Prince
           ,
           but
           he
           that
           thought
           it
           his
           Right
           to
           defend
           his
           Right
           ;
           which
           was
           always
           the
           standing
           English
           Principle
           ,
           kept
           alive
           in
           the
           late
           Tyranny
           it self
           ,
           though
           to
           the
           continual
           hazard
           of
           a
           Person
           's
           Life
           that
           I
           know
           .
        
         
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           there
           are
           Men
           of
           no
           Principle
           at
           all
           ,
           that
           have
           since
           made
           sufficient
           Earnings
           of
           this
           Revolution
           ;
           who
           being
           Obnoxious
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           Service
           in
           the
           last
           Reign
           ,
           were
           willing
           to
           try
           their
           Chance
           in
           this
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           their
           last
           Resort
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           next
           .
           But
           I
           look
           upon
           such
           pretended
           Statesmen
           as
           Souldiers
           of
           Fortune
           ,
           who
           would
           serve
           King
           James
           one
           day
           ,
           and
           King
           William
           the
           next
           ,
           and
           the
           French
           King
           once
           over
           again
           the
           third
           ,
           and
           would
           be
           very
           glad
           to
           be
           Vizier
           the
           day
           following
           .
           And
           therefore
           there
           is
           no
           relying
           upon
           such
           Men
           ,
           nor
           employing
           them
           neither
           ;
           for
           being
           hated
           by
           the
           People
           ,
           they
           are
           a
           Dead-weight
           to
           that
           Government
           which
           endeavours
           to
           support
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           my
           Soul
           abhors
           above
           all
           ,
           those
           that
           obstructed
           his
           present
           Majesty's
           Accession
           to
           the
           Crown
           as
           far
           as
           they
           could
           for
           their
           Lives
           ,
           whereby
           they
           lost
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           involved
           this
           Kingdom
           in
           Blood
           and
           Misery
           ever
           since
           ;
           and
           
           when
           the
           Nation
           had
           gained
           the
           Point
           ,
           and
           placed
           the
           King
           in
           the
           Throne
           ,
           could
           creepingly
           come
           off
           with
           this
           Excuse
           ,
           That
           though
           they
           could
           not
           tell
           how
           to
           make
           a
           King
           ,
           yet
           they
           knew
           how
           to
           obey
           a
           King
           ;
           and
           have
           ever
           since
           vouchsafed
           to
           take
           his
           Money
           in
           Places
           of
           the
           greatest
           Trust
           and
           Profit
           .
           But
           I
           am
           sure
           that
           those
           that
           did
           not
           know
           how
           to
           make
           him
           King
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           to
           give
           a
           Vote
           for
           his
           being
           so
           ,
           do
           not
           know
           how
           to
           serve
           him
           Faithfully
           ;
           for
           they
           must
           of
           necessity
           believe
           him
           ill
           Made
           ,
           unless
           they
           have
           quite
           and
           clean
           altered
           their
           Mind
           since
           ,
           which
           cannot
           possibly
           be
           discovered
           by
           their
           management
           of
           his
           Majesty's
           Affairs
           .
        
         
           The
           same
           may
           be
           said
           concerning
           those
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           who
           to
           hold
           their
           great
           Preferments
           ,
           and
           to
           grasp-greater
           ,
           have
           taken
           the
           slippery
           Oaths
           of
           Allegiance
           which
           the
           Pastoral
           Letter
           buttered
           for
           them
           ;
           and
           who
           have
           thriven
           by
           their
           mischievous
           Principles
           that
           ruined
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           are
           so
           far
           from
           being
           retracted
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           very
           often
           repeated
           ;
           which
           are
           as
           Contrary
           and
           Irreconcileable
           to
           this
           Revolution
           ,
           as
           Darkness
           is
           to
           Light.
           But
           perhaps
           it
           is
           Merit
           to
           ruine
           a
           Nation
           ,
           and
           to
           give
           an
           Occasion
           for
           a
           gainful
           Revolution
           .
        
         
           The
           last
           Hypothesis
           of
           Submitting
           to
           Titles
           without
           examining
           them
           ,
           and
           taking
           the
           Powers
           that
           Are
           upon
           Content
           ,
           is
           Passive
           Obedience
           in
           the
           first
           Instance
           :
           for
           you
           must
           never
           after
           question
           any
           thing
           that
           proceeds
           from
           them
           ,
           but
           take
           all
           things
           in
           good
           part
           ,
           without
           so
           much
           as
           
           shrugging
           your
           Shoulders
           .
           This
           Author
           has
           been
           among
           the
           Quietists
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           a
           great
           Principle
           of
           Molinus
           ,
           that
           you
           must
           go
           often
           to
           Mass
           ,
           and
           inure
           your selves
           to
           take
           a
           Wafer
           for
           a
           Man
           ,
           and
           thereby
           learn
           to
           mortify
           your
           Senses
           .
           But
           because
           we
           are
           Men
           before
           we
           are
           Christians
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           be
           otherwise
           ,
           I
           will
           sooner
           mortify
           my
           Senses
           in
           the
           way
           of
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           than
           in
           the
           way
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           .
        
         
           Your
           Honours
           must
           needs
           be
           sensible
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           written
           with
           some
           eagerness
           against
           Passive
           Obedience
           ;
           but
           I
           gave
           you
           such
           a
           Samplar
           of
           that
           Doctrine
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           this
           Humble
           Address
           ,
           as
           will
           justify
           the
           utmost
           sharpness
           of
           Expression
           ,
           and
           will
           answer
           for
           me
           in
           treating
           the
           Preachers
           of
           it
           as
           Publick
           Enemies
           ;
           and
           so
           I
           have
           treated
           them
           ,
           and
           not
           as
           mine
           .
           Though
           it
           is
           very
           hard
           for
           a
           Man
           to
           separate
           his
           private
           Resentments
           from
           his
           publick
           Zeal
           ,
           when
           his
           Sufferings
           have
           been
           all
           for
           the
           Publick
           ;
           for
           that
           mingles
           them
           together
           ,
           and
           he
           cannot
           possibly
           know
           them
           asunder
           ,
           till
           such
           time
           as
           these
           Common
           Enemies
           have
           made
           publick
           Amends
           for
           their
           Wrong
           done
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           him
           .
           So
           the
           great
           Sampson
           when
           he
           was
           making
           his
           last
           Effort
           upon
           his
           Country's
           Enemies
           ,
           in
           his
           very
           Prayer
           to
           God
           for
           extraordinary
           Assistance
           ,
           could
           not
           forbear
           mentioning
           
             his
             own
             two
             Eyes
          
           .
           I
           do
           not
           care
           for
           my
           two
           Eyes
           ,
           God
           thou
           knowest
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           sharpness
           of
           Language
           signifies
           nothing
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           more
           need
           of
           the
           severity
           of
           Laws
           .
           For
           shall
           a
           poor
           
           Pickpocket
           or
           a
           Highway-man
           be
           hanged
           for
           taking
           away
           a
           little
           loose
           Money
           ,
           and
           these
           wholesale
           Thieves
           ,
           who
           strip
           a
           Nation
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           and
           Estates
           ,
           and
           all
           they
           have
           ,
           not
           be
           look'd
           after
           ?
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           they
           have
           not
           the
           Money
           ;
           but
           if
           the
           Pickpocket
           by
           Conveyance
           deliver
           the
           Money
           to
           the
           Ballade-singer
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           shared
           at
           Night
           ,
           by
           all
           the
           Rules
           of
           
           Bartholomew-Fair
           .
        
         
           I
           had
           rather
           have
           my
           House
           robb'd
           for
           once
           and
           away
           ,
           than
           be
           told
           by
           pretended
           Churchmen
           ,
           that
           a
           King
           has
           a
           High-way
           to
           my
           Coffers
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           Persons
           he
           sends
           on
           that
           Errand
           are
           Irresistible
           :
           I
           had
           rather
           live
           in
           Prison
           ,
           than
           have
           my
           Liberty
           lie
           at
           the
           same
           lay
           :
           And
           it
           is
           better
           for
           a
           Nation
           (
           though
           there
           is
           no
           need
           of
           it
           )
           to
           die
           and
           go
           off
           the
           Stage
           ,
           than
           live
           a
           Dog's
           Life
           at
           any
           one
           Man's
           Mercy
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
           I
           will
           add
           further
           ,
           that
           though
           I
           have
           been
           much
           more
           conversant
           with
           Prisons
           than
           with
           Palaces
           ,
           yet
           I
           have
           left
           me
           that
           natural
           Idea
           of
           Honour
           ,
           that
           I
           would
           scorn
           to
           be
           the
           Prince
           of
           a
           Passive-Obedience-Nation
           .
           It
           degrades
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           gives
           him
           the
           meanest
           Office
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           dishonourable
           Employment
           .
           For
           whereas
           a
           Herdsman
           and
           a
           Muleteer
           are
           mean
           Callings
           ,
           because
           they
           only
           govern
           Cattel
           :
           So
           a
           King
           ,
           because
           he
           governs
           a
           vast
           Number
           of
           Men
           like
           himself
           ,
           Brave
           ,
           Wise
           and
           Free
           ,
           is
           in
           the
           most
           exalted
           Station
           that
           is
           upon
           Earth
           ;
           he
           is
           King
           of
           Kings
           ,
           and
           is
           served
           by
           Princes
           .
           But
           to
           wish
           they
           were
           a
           Venal
           or
           a
           Servile
           People
           ,
           is
           as
           if
           my
           
           Lord
           Mayor
           should
           choose
           to
           be
           Common-Hunt
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           Men
           that
           I
           have
           to
           deal
           with
           ,
           may
           very
           well
           be
           of
           a
           different
           Mind
           from
           me
           as
           to
           the
           Constitution
           of
           this
           Government
           ,
           because
           they
           build
           upon
           quite
           different
           Principles
           .
           They
           excuse
           themselves
           ,
           for
           a
           very
           good
           Reason
           ,
           from
           the
           intricate
           Labyrinths
           of
           Law
           and
           History
           ,
           which
           are
           the
           Rule
           that
           I
           go
           by
           ;
           and
           which
           are
           the
           Standard
           in
           this
           Affair
           ,
           as
           the
           Gospel
           is
           of
           Christianity
           :
           So
           that
           we
           may
           make
           use
           of
           St.
           
           Austin's
           words
           in
           this
           Case
           ,
           
             Quomodo
             legis
             ?
             Ubi
             scriptum
             est
             ?
          
           How
           readest
           thou
           ?
           Where
           is
           it
           written
           ?
           Shew
           me
           the
           written
           Law
           ,
           make
           it
           out
           by
           approved
           History
           .
           Nay
           ,
           they
           have
           departed
           from
           the
           standing
           Rules
           of
           Right
           and
           Wrong
           ,
           and
           the
           standing
           Revelation
           upon
           that
           Subject
           ,
           and
           have
           betaken
           themselves
           to
           the
           Intimations
           of
           Providence
           ,
           and
           the
           out-goings
           of
           the
           Morning
           and
           Evening
           ,
           which
           were
           their
           Scoff
           the
           other
           day
           ,
           when
           those
           Expressions
           were
           used
           in
           the
           Parliament
           Army
           .
           The
           Revolution
           is
           proved
           to
           be
           Right
           ,
           because
           at
           Torbay
           the
           Wind
           chopped
           about
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           had
           been
           in
           the
           Prince's
           Pay.
           Avowed
           Usurpation
           is
           made
           out
           by
           Success
           and
           Settlement
           .
           The
           wicked
           Design
           of
           Conquering
           and
           Enslaving
           this
           Kingdom
           is
           Hallowed
           by
           Providence
           ,
           and
           made
           to
           be
           Divine
           Promotion
           ;
           and
           the
           Wreck
           of
           a
           whole
           Nation
           is
           proved
           to
           be
           God's-Goods
           .
        
         
           To
           deny
           God's
           Providence
           ,
           is
           to
           shut
           him
           out
           of
           his
           own
           World
           ;
           but
           to
           ascribe
           wicked
           Actions
           to
           the
           Divine
           Providence
           ,
           is
           the
           greater
           Injury
           of
           the
           two
           .
           For
           the
           English
           
           of
           God's
           Providence
           is
           ,
           
             [
             As
             God
             would
             have
             it
             ]
          
           :
           Now
           when
           this
           is
           applied
           to
           Usurpation
           ,
           which
           is
           Robbery
           and
           Wrong
           in
           the
           Highest
           Degree
           ;
           and
           to
           the
           Conquest
           and
           Enslaving
           of
           a
           Free
           Nation
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           most
           outragious
           Oppression
           ;
           to
           say
           that
           these
           are
           by
           God's
           Providence
           ,
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           Robbery
           is
           as
           God
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           and
           Oppression
           is
           as
           God
           would
           have
           it
           .
           But
           this
           all
           the
           World
           knows
           is
           contrary
           to
           God's
           known
           and
           revealed
           Will
           :
           and
           therefore
           as
           the
           Atheists
           deny
           God
           ,
           so
           these
           Men
           make
           him
           to
           deny
           Himself
           .
        
         
           I
           hope
           I
           shall
           ever
           adore
           God's
           Providence
           whilst
           I
           live
           ,
           and
           do
           it
           with
           more
           Understanding
           when
           I
           am
           dead
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           shall
           be
           sorry
           to
           see
           the
           greatest
           Injustice
           in
           the
           World
           fathered
           upon
           it
           .
           That
           Usurpation
           ,
           or
           Conquest
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           wicked
           Thing
           ,
           are
           by
           God's
           Providence
           ,
           I
           absolutely
           deny
           ;
           but
           that
           they
           are
           by
           Divine
           Permission
           ,
           and
           may
           use
           the
           Stile
           of
           Bishops
           ,
           that
           I
           allow
           :
           Is
           it
           not
           enough
           to
           prostitute
           Pulpits
           to
           the
           mischievous
           Flattery
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           (
           which
           were
           made
           for
           publishing
           the
           Everlasting
           Gospel
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           nothing
           else
           )
           but
           they
           must
           slander
           Providence
           too
           ?
           But
           the
           best
           of
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           these
           Interpreters
           of
           Providence
           (
           who
           would
           fain
           have
           the
           bestowing
           of
           Crowns
           and
           Titles
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           the
           Peoples
           Gift
           ;
           and
           the
           re●●●●●ing
           of
           Westminster-Hall
           Law
           ,
           by
           their
           own
           iury
           Pulpit-Law
           ;
           and
           the
           direction
           of
           all
           Publick
           Affairs
           ,
           by
           handling
           a
           Text
           pick'd
           out
           of
           a
           private
           place
           in
           the
           Psalms
           )
           are
           easily
           overthrown
           in
           the
           very
           Ground-work
           of
           their
           Iudicial
           Astrology
           .
        
         
         
           For
           the
           Disposeal
           of
           all
           other
           things
           is
           attributed
           to
           God
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Promotion
           ;
           and
           if
           this
           Promotion
           be
           attained
           by
           wrongful
           and
           wicked
           Means
           ,
           such
           as
           Usurping
           ,
           Conquering
           and
           Enslaving
           a
           Nation
           ,
           plainly
           are
           ;
           it
           is
           Blasphemy
           to
           ascribe
           this
           ill-gotten
           Promotion
           to
           God.
           For
           instance
           ,
           
             Prov.
             16.
             33.
             
             The
             Lot
             is
             cast
             into
             the
             Lap
             :
             but
             the
             whole
             Disposing
             thereof
             is
             of
             the
             Lord.
          
           Now
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           to
           apply
           this
           Text
           to
           a
           foul
           throw
           and
           cogging
           the
           Dice
           ,
           is
           Blasphemy
           :
           and
           to
           say
           that
           God
           has
           disposed
           and
           transferred
           the
           hundred
           Pound
           Stake
           to
           this
           false
           Gamester
           ,
           and
           that
           now
           he
           has
           a
           Divine
           Right
           to
           it
           ,
           is
           repeated
           Blasphemy
           .
        
         
           The
           Bible
           is
           a
           Miscellaneous
           Book
           ,
           where
           dishonest
           and
           time-serving
           Men
           may
           ever
           ,
           in
           their
           loose
           way
           ,
           find
           a
           Text
           for
           their
           purpose
           .
           I
           could
           give
           so
           many
           Instances
           of
           this
           in
           the
           late
           Times
           ,
           as
           would
           be
           hateful
           and
           tedious
           .
           But
           this
           I
           say
           ,
           that
           Eternal
           Righteousness
           ,
           Iustice
           and
           Truth
           ,
           Upright
           Honesty
           ,
           the
           Right
           of
           the
           Case
           ,
           and
           the
           Reason
           of
           the
           Thing
           ,
           must
           always
           govern
           the
           Sense
           of
           Scriptural
           Expressions
           .
           For
           Iustice
           and
           Righteousness
           are
           the
           same
           in
           Heaven
           as
           they
           are
           upon
           Earth
           ;
           and
           if
           the
           Notion
           of
           it
           were
           not
           the
           same
           in
           both
           Places
           ,
           it
           were
           vain
           to
           tell
           us
           that
           God
           is
           Iust
           and
           Righteous
           ,
           for
           we
           could
           not
           tell
           what
           that
           means
           ;
           and
           more
           vain
           to
           bid
           us
           be
           like
           him
           in
           those
           Divine
           Perfections
           ,
           if
           we
           did
           not
           know
           them
           when
           we
           see
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           there
           were
           never
           a
           Passive-Obedience-Man
           left
           in
           England
           ,
           which
           I
           hope
           to
           see
           ;
           yet
           false
           Titles
           are
           of
           dangerous
           
           Consequence
           .
           If
           we
           are
           a
           Conquered
           and
           Enslaved
           People
           ,
           (
           as
           the
           Simoniacal
           Parson
           said
           by
           his
           bought
           Preferments
           )
           we
           came
           Honestly
           by
           it
           ,
           for
           we
           paid
           the
           Penny
           for
           it
           .
           The
           Hollanders
           have
           had
           Six
           hundred
           thousand
           Pounds
           for
           it
           ,
           besides
           great
           Sums
           which
           cannot
           yet
           be
           placed
           to
           Account
           .
        
         
           Now
           I
           am
           of
           Opinion
           that
           these
           are
           dangerous
           Matters
           ;
           for
           the
           Dutch
           are
           Merchants
           .
           We
           shall
           have
           Conquests
           and
           Titles
           bought
           and
           sold
           and
           trumpt
           upon
           us
           ,
           perhaps
           sooner
           ,
           perhaps
           500
           Years
           hence
           .
           For
           not
           to
           mention
           Danegelt
           ,
           after
           the
           Restoration
           of
           the
           Saxons
           in
           Edward
           the
           Confessor
           and
           Harold
           ,
           and
           after
           the
           Succession
           of
           five
           Norman
           Kings
           ,
           in
           Richard
           the
           First
           's
           Time
           Philip
           of
           France
           demanded
           the
           Sister
           of
           the
           King
           of
           Denmark
           with
           no
           other
           Dower
           ,
           than
           the
           Danish
           Right
           to
           England
           ,
           and
           the
           Assistance
           of
           a
           Fleet
           and
           an
           Army
           for
           one
           Year
           .
           Which
           the
           Danes
           not
           complying
           with
           ,
           for
           fear
           of
           the
           Vandals
           on
           one
           hand
           and
           the
           English
           Courage
           on
           the
           other
           ,
           Philip
           at
           last
           took
           her
           with
           a
           Dower
           of
           10000
           Marks
           ,
           which
           was
           I
           believe
           the
           better
           Bargain
           .
           But
           as
           the
           Historian
           says
           ,
           he
           therein
           designed
           a
           Bloody
           Business
           for
           the
           Realm
           of
           England
           .
           Gervas
           .
           Chron.
           p.
           
             1244.
             
             Molitus
             est
             Regno
             Angliae
             cruentum
             negotium
             .
          
           Knyghton
           ,
           p.
           2406.
           
        
         
           If
           Philip
           had
           succeeded
           in
           this
           Bloody
           Business
           ,
           we
           have
           false
           Prophets
           now-adays
           that
           would
           have
           hallowed
           it
           ,
           and
           made
           a
           Divine
           Right
           of
           it
           ,
           in
           these
           following
           words
           .
           
           
             And
             therefore
             it
             is
             that
             God
             ,
             though
             he
             has
             infinite
             ways
             ,
             
             yet
             commonly
             chuses
             to
             employ
             Men
             in
             this
             Service
             .
             He
             either
             finds
             them
             at
             home
             that
             are
             
               not
               afraid
               of
               the
               Power
            
             as
             they
             ought
             to
             be
             :
             
             or
             he
             brings
             them
             in
             from
             Foreign
             Countries
             ,
             
               (
               that
               is
               these
               Danes
               and
               French
               )
               Whistling
               for
               the
               Fly
               out
               of
            
             Egypt
             ,
             
             
               or
               the
               Bee
               out
               of
               the
               Land
               of
            
             Assyria
             ;
             In
             plain
             words
             stirring
             up
             a
             Pharaoh
             or
             a
             Nebuchadnezzar
             against
             them
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           in
           obscure
           words
           here
           had
           been
           both
           Fly
           and
           Bee
           whistled
           in
           ;
           but
           for
           all
           these
           little
           Interpreters
           of
           Prophecies
           ,
           I
           am
           satisfied
           that
           our
           Ancestors
           would
           have
           Whistled
           them
           out
           .
        
         
           The
           old
           Popish
           Clergy
           were
           Englishmen
           ,
           and
           were
           in
           at
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           ;
           and
           the
           Lawyers
           can
           best
           tell
           ,
           Whether
           the
           Cathedrals
           they
           left
           behind
           them
           ,
           are
           not
           since
           Forfeited
           ,
           for
           not
           reading
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           publickly
           to
           the
           People
           every
           Year
           ,
           as
           is
           enjoined
           by
           two
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           :
           for
           which
           reason
           they
           were
           each
           of
           them
           Intrusted
           with
           a
           Record
           of
           those
           English
           Rights
           ;
           I
           do
           not
           now
           speak
           of
           that
           Charter's
           being
           continually
           Preached
           down
           .
           I
           love
           the
           Memory
           of
           the
           Abbot
           of
           St.
           Albans
           in
           William
           the
           Norman
           Duke's
           Time
           ,
           who
           not
           being
           satisfied
           with
           his
           Title
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           marching
           his
           Army
           towards
           that
           Place
           ,
           fell'd
           all
           the
           Trees
           cross
           the
           Road
           ,
           and
           laid
           Blocks
           in
           his
           way
           ,
           and
           harassed
           all
           his
           Army
           .
           And
           when
           the
           Duke
           askt
           him
           ,
           why
           he
           did
           so
           ?
           he
           answered
           ,
           because
           he
           knew
           of
           no
           Business
           the
           Norman
           had
           there
           ;
           and
           if
           all
           Honest
           Englishmen
           had
           done
           the
           same
           ,
           he
           had
           never
           come
           so
           far
           as
           St.
           Albans
           to
           ask
           
           him
           that
           Question
           .
           I
           admire
           the
           Presence
           of
           the
           Prior
           of
           Clerkenwell
           ,
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Hen.
           the
           
           3d
           as
           I
           take
           it
           ,
           (
           it
           is
           in
           History
           )
           when
           in
           a
           Dispute
           about
           a
           Point
           of
           Right
           the
           King
           meant
           to
           overawe
           him
           ,
           by
           saying
           in
           King
           
           James's
           way
           to
           the
           
           Magdalen-College
           Men
           ,
           Am
           not
           I
           your
           King
           ?
           Yes
           ,
           says
           he
           ,
           while
           you
           govern
           according
           to
           Law
           ,
           but
           no
           longer
           .
           I
           hate
           Popery
           ,
           but
           I
           love
           Relicks
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           whom
           I
           have
           spoke
           to
           all
           this
           while
           in
           this
           tedious
           Address
           ;
           You
           are
           my
           Countrey
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           submit
           it
           wholly
           to
           Your
           great
           Wisdom
           ;
           and
           if
           you
           dislike
           any
           thing
           in
           it
           ,
           I
           wish
           it
           unsaid
           :
           Only
           I
           will
           abide
           by
           this
           in
           which
           I
           can
           be
           positive
           ,
           that
           I
           intended
           it
           intirely
           for
           his
           Majesty's
           and
           my
           Countrey
           's
           Service
           in
           Conjunction
           ;
           and
           he
           that
           talks
           of
           their
           having
           a
           Separate
           Interest
           ,
           ought
           rather
           to
           be
           made
           an
           Example
           than
           a
           Secretary
           .
           But
           I
           humbly
           take
           my
           leave
           ;
           You
           Represent
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           Brave
           English
           Nation
           ,
           you
           have
           my
           Prayers
           ,
           and
           long
           since
           had
           my
           Heart
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           AN
           ARGUMENT
           PROVING
           ,
           That
           the
           Abrogation
           of
           King
           Iames
           by
           the
           People
           of
           England
           from
           the
           Regal
           Throne
           ,
           and
           the
           Promotion
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           Royal
           Family
           ,
           to
           the
           Throne
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           in
           his
           stead
           ,
           was
           according
           to
           the
           Constitution
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           and
           Prescribed
           by
           it
           .
        
         
           
           
           
             THE
             Argument
             .
          
           
             IN
             this
             ensuing
             Argument
             ,
             which
             will
             be
             very
             short
             ,
             I
             have
             but
             these
             two
             Points
             to
             clear
             ;
             
               
                 The
                 one
                 of
                 Fact.
                 
              
               
                 The
                 other
                 of
                 Right
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           First
           ,
           That
           
             the
             People
             of
          
           England
           
             did
             actually
             Abrogate
             or
             Dethrone
             King
          
           James
           
             the
             Second
             for
             Misgovernment
             ,
             and
             promoted
             the
             Prince
             of
          
           Orange
           
             in
             his
             stead
          
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           That
           
             this
             Proceeding
             of
             theirs
             ,
             was
             
             according
             to
             the
             English
             Constitution
             ,
             and
             prescribed
             by
             it
             .
          
        
         
           First
           ,
           This
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           being
           so
           fresh
           in
           our
           Memory
           ,
           needs
           not
           to
           be
           so
           industriously
           proved
           .
           The
           Act
           1
           o
           William
           and
           Mary
           ,
           declaring
           the
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           and
           settling
           the
           Succession
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           recites
           the
           very
           Instrument
           of
           Conveyance
           of
           the
           Crown
           to
           the
           Prince
           and
           Princess
           ;
           which
           begins
           in
           these
           words
           :
           
             Whereas
             the
             late
             King
          
           James
           
             the
             Second
             ,
             by
             the
             Assistance
             of
             divers
             Evil
             Counsellors
             ,
             Iudges
             and
             Ministers
             imployed
             by
             him
             ,
             did
             endeavour
             to
             Subvert
             and
             Extirpate
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             ,
             and
             the
             Laws
             and
             Liberties
             of
             this
             Kingdom
          
           :
           which
           is
           there
           made
           out
           ,
           by
           an
           enumeration
           of
           sundry
           Particulars
           .
           And
           not
           long
           after
           there
           are
           these
           words
           :
           
             And
             whereas
             the
             late
             King
          
           James
           
             the
             Second
             ,
             having
             Abdicated
             the
             Government
             ,
             and
             the
             Throne
             being
             thereby
             Vacant
             ,
          
           the
           two
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           do
           thereupon
           invest
           the
           Prince
           and
           Princess
           of
           Orange
           with
           the
           Crown
           .
        
         
         
           King
           
             Iames
             endeavoured
             to
             subvert
             the
             Government
             ,
          
           as
           they
           favourably
           word
           it
           ;
           or
           rather
           ,
           he
           had
           long
           before
           wholly
           subverted
           and
           overthrown
           the
           Government
           ,
           as
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Declaration
           speaks
           ,
           (
           which
           this
           very
           Act
           has
           annex'd
           ,
           and
           made
           parcel
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           expresses
           to
           be
           the
           only
           Means
           of
           Redressing
           that
           Mischief
           )
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           but
           one
           doubtful
           Word
           in
           all
           that
           I
           have
           recited
           ,
           which
           some
           People
           make
           a
           hard
           Word
           ;
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           King
           
           Iames's
           Abdicating
           the
           Government
           ;
           which
           no
           Man
           would
           stumble
           at
           ,
           who
           had
           read
           Tully
           in
           his
           third
           Philippick
           ,
           who
           says
           thus
           concerning
           
             Mark
             Anthony
          
           ,
           that
           for
           his
           offering
           a
           Crown
           to
           Caesar
           ,
           
             Eo
             die
             non
             modo
             Consulatu
             sed
             etiam
             Libertate
             se
             Abdicavit
             ,
             esset
             enim
             ipsi
             certè
             statim
             serviendum
             ,
             si
             Caesar
             ab
             eo
             Regni
             insigne
             accipere
             voluisset
             .
             At
             that
             time
             he
             not
             only
             Abdicated
             his
             Consulship
             ,
             but
             his
             Liberty
             ;
             for
             if
             Caesar
             would
             have
             accepted
             the
             Crown
             ,
             
               Mark
               Anthony
            
             must
             presently
             have
             turned
             Slave
             .
          
           Now
           
             Mark
             Anthony
          
           by
           this
           Action
           did
           not
           expresly
           renounce
           
           his
           Consulship
           or
           Liberty
           ,
           or
           run
           away
           from
           both
           of
           them
           ,
           but
           he
           did
           that
           which
           was
           inconsistent
           with
           them
           both
           ,
           HE
           FORFEITED
           THEM
           BOTH
           ;
           which
           is
           the
           true
           import
           of
           that
           Phrase
           .
        
         
           The
           second
           thing
           is
           the
           Point
           of
           Right
           ;
           That
           
             this
             Proceeding
             of
             the
             People
             of
          
           England
           
             was
             agreeable
             to
             the
             English
             Constitution
             ,
             and
             prescribed
             by
             it
             .
          
        
         
           To
           make
           this
           out
           ,
           I
           need
           only
           recite
           the
           Declaration
           of
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           10
           
             th
             Rich.
          
           2.
           in
           their
           Message
           to
           the
           King
           then
           at
           
             Eltham
             .
             Knyghton
          
           ,
           pag.
           2683.
           
        
         
           
             Domine
             Rex
             ,
          
           
             SET
             &
             unum
             aliud
             de
             nuncio
             nostro
             superest
             Nobis
             ex
             parte
             Populi
             vestri
             Vobis
             intimare
             .
             Habent
             enim
             ex
             antiquo
             Statuto
             &
             de
             facto
             non
             longe
             retroactis
             temporibus
             experienter
             quod
             dolendum
             est
             habito
             ,
             Si
             Rex
             maligno
             consilio
             quocunque
             ,
             vel
             inepta
             contumacia
             aut
             contemptu
             ,
             seu
             proterva
             voluntate
             singulari
             ,
             aut
             quovis
             modo
             irregulari
             ,
             se
             alienaverit
             à
             Populo
             suo
             ,
             nec
             
             voluerit
             per
             Jura
             Regni
             &
             Statuta
             &
             laudabiles
             Ordinationes
             ,
             cum
             salubri
             Consilio
             Dominorum
             &
             Procerum
             Regni
             gubernari
             &
             regulari
             ;
             set
             capitose
             in
             suis
             insanis
             Consiliis
             propriam
             voluntatem
             suam
             singularem
             proterve
             exercere
             ;
             
               Ex
               tunc
               licitum
               est
               eis
               cum
               Communi
               assensu
               &
               consensu
               Populi
               Regni
               ,
               ipsum
               Regem
               de
               regali
               Solio
               abrogare
               ,
            
             ET
             PROPINQUIOREM
             ALIQUEM
             DE
             STIRPE
             REGIA
             ,
             LOC●
             EJUS
             IN
             REGNI
             SOLIO
             SUBLIMARE
             .
          
        
         
           
             
               Our
               Lord
               the
               King
            
             —
          
           
             BUT
             there
             is
             moreover
             one
             part
             of
             our
             Message
             still
             left
             to
             acquaint
             you
             withall
             ,
             in
             the
             Name
             of
             your
             People
             .
             They
             have
             it
             by
             ancient
             Statute
             ,
             and
             by
             a
             late
             doleful
             Instance
             ,
             that
             in
             case
             the
             King
             shall
             alienate
             himself
             from
             his
             People
             by
             any
             bad
             Advice
             whatsoever
             ,
             or
             foolish
             Contumacy
             or
             Contempt
             ,
             or
             Self-will
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             irregular
             Way
             ;
             and
             will
             not
             be
             govern'd
             and
             ruled
             by
             the
             Laws
             ,
             Statutes
             and
             laudable
             Ordinances
             of
             the
             Realm
             ,
             with
             the
             wholesom
             Advice
             of
             the
             Lords
             and
             Peers
             of
             the
             Realm
             ;
             but
             in
             a
             Head-strong
             
             way
             will
             exercise
             his
             own
             Self-will
             ,
             
               From
               thence-forward
               it
               is
               lawful
               for
               them
               ,
               with
               the
               common
               Assent
               and
               Consent
               of
               the
               People
               of
               the
               Realm
               ,
               to
               Depose
               the
               King
               from
               the
               Regal
               Throne
               ,
               and
               to
               promote
               some
               K
               insman
               of
               his
               of
               the
               Royal
               Family
               ,
               to
               the
               Throne
               of
               the
               Kingdom
               in
               his
               stead
               .
            
          
        
         
           Here
           the
           Parliament
           laid
           down
           the
           Law
           before
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           gave
           him
           fair
           Warning
           thirteen
           Years
           before
           they
           thought
           of
           putting
           it
           in
           Execution
           ;
           for
           this
           was
           in
           the
           Tenth
           of
           his
           Reign
           ,
           and
           he
           reigned
           three
           and
           twenty
           Years
           .
           And
           as
           for
           the
           Statute
           they
           quote
           ,
           it
           must
           needs
           be
           a
           very
           ancient
           Statute
           ,
           because
           the
           Deposing
           of
           Edw.
           2.
           (
           who
           was
           his
           Great-Grandfather
           )
           in
           comparison
           of
           that
           ,
           is
           represented
           but
           as
           of
           Yesterday
           .
        
         
           This
           Declaration
           of
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           the
           King
           could
           not
           gain-say
           ;
           and
           they
           gained
           their
           Point
           upon
           him
           by
           it
           ,
           to
           bring
           him
           to
           Parliament
           .
           And
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           believed
           that
           the
           Parliament
           of
           England
           would
           affirm
           they
           had
           such
           an
           Ancient
           Statute
           
           when
           they
           had
           not
           .
           It
           remains
           therefore
           to
           consider
           how
           we
           come
           by
           this
           Record
           ,
           seeing
           it
           is
           not
           upon
           the
           Rolls
           in
           the
           Tower
           :
           but
           't
           is
           no
           strange
           thing
           it
           should
           not
           be
           there
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           the
           four
           and
           twentieth
           Article
           in
           the
           Charge
           against
           Richard
           the
           Second
           ,
           afterwards
           in
           the
           three
           and
           twentieth
           Year
           of
           his
           Reign
           ;
           
             Et
             praeterea
             Rotulos
             Recordorum
             Statum
             &
             gubernationem
             Regni
             sui
             tangentium
             ,
             praedictus
             Rex
             deleri
             &
             abradi
             fecit
             ,
             in
             magnum
             praejudicium
             Populi
             ,
             &
             exhaeredationem
             Coronae
             Regni
             praedicti
             ,
             &
             ut
             verisimiliter
             creditur
             in
             favorem
             &
             sustentationem
             sui
             mali
             Regiminis
             .
             And
             besides
             the
             said
             King
             caused
             the
             Rolls
             of
             the
             Records
             ,
             touching
             the
             State
             and
             Government
             of
             his
             Realm
             ,
             to
             be
             defac'd
             and
             razed
             ,
             to
             the
             great
             prejudice
             of
             his
             People
             ,
             and
             disherison
             of
             the
             Crown
             of
             the
             said
             Realm
             ;
             and
             as
             is
             credibly
             thought
             ,
             in
             favour
             and
             support
             of
             his
             Male-Administration
             .
          
        
         
           The
           only
           means
           left
           us
           in
           such
           a
           Case
           ,
           where
           the
           Records
           of
           the
           Tower
           fail
           us
           ,
           is
           
           to
           have
           recourse
           to
           the
           undoubted
           History
           of
           that
           Age
           ,
           which
           was
           written
           upon
           the
           Spot
           :
           Such
           is
           
           Knyghton's
           Authority
           ,
           whose
           History
           was
           both
           written
           ,
           and
           finished
           ,
           and
           closed
           up
           in
           that
           very
           Reign
           .
        
         
           And
           though
           this
           should
           be
           Scare-Crow-Doctrine
           to
           the
           Passive-Obedience-Men
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           the
           Tenor
           of
           all
           Antiquity
           ;
           It
           is
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           
             the
             Mirror
          
           in
           very
           many
           places
           .
           It
           is
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Sevententh
           Chapter
           of
           King
           
             Edward
             the
          
           Confessor's
           Laws
           .
           It
           is
           the
           Sense
           of
           King
           
           Alfred's
           Stile
           ,
           
             Dei
             gratia
             ,
             &
             benevolentia
             West-Saxonicae
             Gentis
             .
             That
             he
             was
             King
             by
             the
             Favour
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             the
             Good-Will
             of
             the
             English
             Nation
             .
          
           It
           is
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           great
           Lawyers
           since
           the
           Norman
           Times
           ;
           as
           particularly
           Bracton
           :
           
             Rex
             autem
             habet
             Superiorem
             Deum
             ;
             Item
             Legem
             ,
             per
             quam
             factus
             est
             Rex
             ;
             Item
             Curiam
             suam
             ;
             videlicet
             ,
             Comites
             ,
             Barones
             ,
             qui
             Comites
             dicuntur
             quasi
             Socii
             Regis
             ;
             &
             qui
             habet
             Socium
             ,
             habet
             Magistrum
             ,
             &
             ideo
             si
             Rex
             fuerit
             sine
             fraeno
             ,
             i.
             e.
             sine
             Lege
             ,
             debent
             ei
             fraenum
             ponere
             ,
             nisi
             ipsimet
             
             fuerint
             cum
             Rege
             sine
             fraeno
             ,
             &
             tunc
             clamabunt
             subditi
             &
             dicent
             ,
             Domine
             Ihesu
             Christe
             in
             chamo
             &
             fraeno
             maxillas
             eorum
             constringe
             ,
             ad
             quos
             Dominus
             ,
             vocabo
             super
             eos
             gentem
             robustam
             &
             longinquam
             &
             ignotam
             ,
             cujus
             linguam
             ignorabunt
             ,
             quae
             destruet
             eos
             ,
             &
             evellet
             radices
             eorum
             de
             terra
             ,
             &
             a
             talibus
             judicabuntur
             ,
             quia
             subditos
             noluerunt
             juste
             judicare
             ,
             &
             in
             fine
             ,
             ligatis
             Manibus
             &
             Pedibus
             eorum
             ,
             mittet
             eos
             in
             caminum
             ignis
             &
             tenebras
             exteriores
             ,
             ubi
             erit
             fletus
             &
             stridor
             dentium
             .
          
           
             Bracton
             .
             Lib.
          
           2.
           cap.
           16.
           
           Sect.
           3.
           
        
         
           
             The
             King
             hath
             three
             Superiors
             ,
             God
             ,
             and
             the
             Law
             ,
             by
             which
             he
             is
             made
             King
             ;
             and
             his
             Court
             ,
             namely
             the
             Earls
             and
             Barons
             ,
             because
             they
             are
             called
             Comites
             ,
             as
             being
             the
             Companions
             of
             the
             King
             ;
             and
             he
             that
             hath
             a
             Companion
             ,
             hath
             a
             Master
             :
             and
             therefore
             if
             the
             King
             shall
             be
             unbridled
             ,
             that
             is
             Lawless
             ,
             they
             ought
             to
             bridle
             him
             ,
             unless
             they
             themselves
             with
             their
             King
             shall
             be
             unbridled
             and
             lawless
             too
             ;
             and
             then
             the
             Subject
             shall
             cry
             out
             and
             say
             ,
             Lord
             Jesus
             
             Christ
             ,
             hold
             in
             their
             Jaws
             with
             Bit
             and
             Bridle
             :
             to
             whom
             the
             Lord
             shall
             say
             ,
             I
             will
             bring
             in
             upon
             them
             a
             Robustious
             and
             Foreign
             and
             unknown
             Nation
             ,
             whose
             Language
             they
             shall
             not
             understand
             :
             Which
             Nation
             shall
             destroy
             them
             ,
             and
             shall
             pluck
             up
             the
             Roots
             of
             them
             from
             the
             Earth
             ;
             and
             by
             such
             they
             themselves
             shall
             be
             judged
             ,
             because
             they
             would
             not
             justly
             judg
             the
             English
             Subjects
             .
             And
             in
             conclusion
             ,
             being
             bound
             Hand
             and
             Foot
             ,
             the
             Lord
             shall
             throw
             them
             into
             a
             Furnace
             of
             Fire
             ,
             and
             outer
             Darkness
             ,
             where
             there
             shall
             be
             weeping
             and
             gnashing
             of
             Teeth
             .
          
        
         
           So
           that
           if
           the
           Parliament
           of
           England
           neglect
           to
           do
           their
           Duty
           in
           this
           Case
           ,
           in
           not
           restraining
           their
           King
           from
           Lawless
           and
           Arbitrary
           Courses
           ,
           They
           do
           it
           at
           their
           utmost
           Peril
           ;
           for
           they
           are
           threatned
           with
           Destruction
           for
           it
           in
           this
           World
           ,
           and
           will
           dearly
           answer
           it
           in
           the
           next
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           here
           quoted
           a
           knocking
           Sentence
           of
           a
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           of
           England
           in
           the
           Time
           of
           
           Henry
           the
           Third
           ,
           four
           hundred
           and
           fifty
           Years
           ago
           ,
           whose
           Authority
           hath
           been
           so
           far
           valued
           by
           both
           Sides
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           strove
           for
           .
           The
           Prerogative-Men
           quote
           such
           Sayings
           as
           these
           ;
           
             Rex
             non
             habet
             Parem
             in
             Regno
             suo
             ;
             quia
             Par
             in
             Parem
             ,
             non
             habet
             Imperium
             .
             Nemo
             de
             Factis
             ejus
             praesumat
             disputare
             ;
             multo
             magis
             contra
             Factum
             ejus
             ire
             .
          
           And
           in
           the
           very
           Context
           of
           the
           former
           large
           Quotation
           ,
           
             Item
             nec
             factum
             Regis
             nec
             Chartam
             potest
             quis
             judicare
             ,
             ita
             quod
             factum
             Domini
             Regis
             irritetur
             .
          
           Now
           these
           and
           the
           like
           Sayings
           ,
           which
           are
           often
           to
           be
           met
           with
           in
           Bracton
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           understood
           concerning
           the
           ordinary
           Administration
           of
           Justice
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           limit
           the
           Transcendent
           Power
           of
           Parliaments
           which
           he
           has
           so
           fully
           display'd
           in
           this
           place
           ;
           and
           his
           Rule
           in
           other
           places
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           a
           new
           Case
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           too
           weighty
           for
           the
           Judges
           ,
           is
           this
           ,
           
             Respectuetur
             ad
             Magnam
             Curiam
          
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Key
           of
           
           Bracton's
           whole
           Book
           .
        
         
           This
           Doctrine
           is
           agreeable
           to
           Fortescue
           ,
           who
           says
           ,
           That
           
             the
             People
             are
             the
             Fountain
             of
             Power
             ,
          
           in
           that
           Expression
           ,
           
             Rex
             à
             Populo
             Potestatem
             Effluxam
             habet
             .
          
           And
           in
           another
           place
           he
           says
           ,
           
           
             That
             an
             Arbitrary
             Power
             to
             oppress
             the
             Subjects
             ,
             could
             not
             proceed
             from
             the
             People
             themselves
             ;
             and
             yet
             if
             it
             had
             not
             been
             from
             themselves
             ,
             such
             a
             King
             as
             the
             King
             of
          
           England
           
             could
             have
             had
             no
             manner
             of
             Power
             at
             all
             over
             them
             :
          
           For
           the
           truth
           of
           it
           is
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           Contradiction
           to
           deny
           ,
           that
           all
           Civil
           Power
           is
           Originally
           in
           the
           People
           :
           For
           what
           is
           Civil
           Power
           in
           English
           ,
           but
           the
           City's
           Power
           ,
           and
           derived
           from
           the
           Community
           ?
           And
           this
           either
           limited
           ;
           or
           enlarged
           ,
           as
           they
           please
           .
           
             The
             Intention
             of
             the
             People
          
           (
           as
           Fortescue
           tells
           us
           )
           
             is
             the
             Heart-Blood
             of
             the
             Government
             ,
             and
             is
             the
          
           Primum
           Vividum
           
             in
             the
             Body
             Politick
             ,
             as
             the
             Heart
             is
             in
             the
             Body
             Natural
             .
          
           And
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           be
           otherwise
           ;
           The
           Nation
           must
           make
           their
           King
           ,
           for
           I
           am
           sure
           the
           King
           cannot
           make
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           as
           Sir
           
             William
             Temple
          
           very
           well
           observes
           ,
           
             The
             Basis
             of
             Governmen●
             is
             the
             People
             ,
          
           though
           the
           King
           be
           at
           the
           Top
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           to
           found
           the
           Government
           upon
           a
           King
           ,
           is
           to
           invert
           the
           Pyramid
           ,
           and
           set
           it
           upon
           the
           Pinacle
           ,
           where
           it
           will
           never
           stand
           .
        
         
           This
           Doctrine
           is
           agreeable
           to
           the
           
             Original
             Contract
          
           ,
           which
           is
           in
           
             the
             Mirror
             of
             Iustice
          
           ,
           fol.
           8.
           
           upon
           the
           Election
           of
           the
           First
           English
           Monarch
           ,
           which
           Contract
           is
           still
           continued
           in
           the
           
             Coronation
             Oath
          
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Oath
             of
             Allegiance
          
           :
           Which
           
             Oath
             of
             Allegiance
          
           doth
           depend
           upon
           the
           King's
           taking
           the
           
             Coronation
             Oath
          
           first
           ,
           which
           was
           ever
           practised
           till
           the
           Reign
           of
           Henry
           the
           Fifth
           ,
           to
           whom
           Homage
           and
           Allegiance
           was
           sworn
           before
           he
           was
           Crown'd
           ;
           which
           was
           a
           singular
           Courtesy
           ,
           and
           done
           on
           presumption
           of
           the
           Goodness
           of
           his
           future
           Reign
           .
        
         
           I
           might
           speak
           of
           the
           Curtana
           Sword
           ;
           the
           Power
           of
           the
           Lord
           High
           Steward
           ,
           and
           other
           great
           Officers
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           draw
           all
           the
           Lines
           of
           the
           Government
           to
           this
           Center
           :
           But
           I
           have
           been
           heretofore
           forc'd
           to
           destroy
           all
           the
           Reading
           of
           my
           whole
           Life
           with
           my
           own
           hands
           ,
           and
           have
           not
           since
           had
           Health
           enough
           to
           retrieve
           it
           ;
           and
           now
           a
           late
           Calamity
           hath
           fallen
           upon
           me
           that
           I
           can
           do
           nothing
           .
        
         
           Only
           I
           must
           answer
           one
           Objection
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           That
           our
           
             Ancient
             Statute
          
           is
           not
           practicable
           :
           for
           the
           King
           having
           the
           Prerogative
           of
           Calling
           and
           Dissolving
           Parliaments
           ,
           will
           
           never
           assemble
           them
           ,
           nor
           suffer
           them
           to
           sit
           for
           such
           a
           purpose
           .
           But
           such
           an
           Objection
           as
           this
           betrays
           great
           Ignorance
           of
           the
           Constitution
           of
           English
           Parliaments
           .
           We
           will
           allow
           that
           the
           King
           hath
           a
           Prerogative
           of
           Calling
           Parliaments
           ,
           but
           he
           hath
           no
           Prerogative
           of
           Not
           Calling
           them
           :
           For
           not
           to
           mention
           our
           Right
           of
           having
           
             Stationary
             Parliaments
          
           ,
           not
           only
           Annual
           ,
           but
           Anniversary
           ,
           which
           sat
           down
           constantly
           at
           the
           Calends
           of
           May
           ,
           as
           appears
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           William
           the
           First
           .
           It
           is
           plain
           likewise
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           not
           dissolvable
           at
           Pleasure
           ;
           but
           that
           even
           as
           low
           as
           Henry
           the
           Fourth's
           Time
           ,
           Proclamation
           used
           to
           be
           made
           to
           know
           whether
           there
           were
           any
           Petitions
           that
           were
           to
           be
           answer'd
           in
           Parliament
           .
           The
           first
           Abusion
           of
           Law
           ,
           as
           
             the
             Mirror
          
           tells
           us
           ,
           is
           for
           the
           King
           to
           be
           above
           Law
           ,
           to
           which
           he
           ought
           to
           be
           subject
           ,
           as
           is
           contained
           in
           his
           Oath
           .
           And
           the
           second
           Abusion
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           next
           to
           this
           First
           and
           Soveraign
           Abusion
           ,
           is
           for
           Parliaments
           to
           be
           
             a
             la
             Volunt
             d'
             Roy
          
           ,
           at
           the
           King's
           Pleasure
           .
        
         
           One
           of
           the
           Ancientest
           Remains
           that
           we
           have
           concerning
           the
           
             English
             Parliaments
          
           ,
           is
           in
           
             the
             Mirror
          
           ;
           
           where
           he
           says
           ,
           in
           King
           
           Alfred's
           Time
           ,
           it
           was
           made
           for
           a
           perpetual
           Law
           ,
           that
           the
           Counties
           of
           England
           should
           assemble
           themselves
           twice
           a
           Year
           [
           
             in
             Temps
             d'
             Paix
          
           ,
           in
           Time
           of
           Peace
           ]
           at
           
             London
             ,
             pour
             Parliamenter
          
           ,
           to
           hold
           Parliament
           .
           Now
           I
           conceive
           that
           these
           words
           [
           
             in
             Time
             of
             Peace
          
           ]
           do
           let
           us
           into
           the
           Reason
           why
           this
           perpetual
           Law
           hath
           been
           broken
           ,
           and
           how
           it
           comes
           to
           pass
           that
           Parliaments
           could
           not
           be
           punctual
           either
           as
           to
           Time
           or
           Place
           ;
           for
           we
           had
           many
           Wars
           and
           Invasions
           after
           that
           Time
           ,
           and
           the
           Danes
           had
           the
           Possession
           of
           London
           ;
           and
           consequently
           it
           was
           impossible
           for
           them
           to
           meet
           there
           ,
           or
           indeed
           to
           keep
           their
           Times
           of
           meeting
           any
           where
           else
           :
           whereupon
           there
           was
           a
           Necessity
           for
           the
           King
           to
           assemble
           them
           ,
           when
           and
           where
           they
           could
           meet
           in
           safety
           ;
           from
           whence
           arose
           the
           Prerogative
           (
           as
           I
           believe
           )
           of
           Calling
           Parliaments
           ;
           which
           if
           a
           Prince
           uses
           Honestly
           ,
           is
           rather
           a
           trouble
           to
           him
           than
           any
           thing
           else
           .
        
         
         
           If
           any
           Person
           shall
           vouchsafe
           to
           give
           an
           Answer
           to
           any
           thing
           I
           have
           here
           said
           ,
           I
           desire
           him
           to
           do
           it
           fairly
           ,
           by
           setting
           his
           Name
           to
           it
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           done
           ;
           for
           I
           hate
           to
           have
           my
           Books
           Answer'd
           (
           as
           they
           lately
           were
           )
           in
           
             a
             Midnight
             Vizor-Masque
          
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           A
           Catalogue
           of
           Books
           written
           by
           the
           Reverend
           Mr.
           
             Samuel
             Johnson
          
           .
        
         
           
             JVlian
             the
             Apostate
          
           :
           Being
           a
           short
           Account
           of
           his
           Life
           ;
           the
           Sense
           of
           the
           Primitive
           Christians
           about
           his
           Succession
           ,
           and
           their
           Behaviour
           towards
           him
           ;
           Together
           with
           a
           Comparison
           of
           Popery
           and
           Paganism
           .
        
         
           
           Iulian's
           Arts
           to
           undermine
           and
           extirpate
           Christianity
           :
           Together
           with
           Answers
           to
           Constantius
           the
           Apostate
           and
           Iovian
           .
        
         
           Remarks
           upon
           Dr.
           
           Sharlock's
           Book
           ,
           intituled
           ,
           
             The
             Case
             of
             Resistance
             of
             the
             Supream
             Power
             stated
             and
             resolved
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             Holy
             Scriptures
             .
          
        
         
           Reflections
           on
           the
           History
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           .
        
         
           A
           second
           five
           Year
           Struggle
           against
           Popery
           and
           Tyranny
           ;
           being
           a
           Collection
           of
           Papers
           published
           by
           the
           Reverend
           Mr.
           
             Samuel
             Iohnson
          
           ,
           during
           his
           last
           Imprisonment
           of
           five
           Years
           and
           ten
           Days
           .
           Wherein
           are
           contained
           these
           following
           Tracts
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             A
             Sermon
             preached
             at
             Guildhall-Chappel
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             The
             Church
             of
             England
             as
             by
             Law
             established
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             3.
             
             Godly
             and
             wholesom
             Doctrine
             ,
             and
             necessary
             for
             these
             Times
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             A
             short
             Disswasive
             from
             Popery
             ,
             and
             from
             Countenancing
             and
             Encouraging
             Papists
             .
          
           
             5.
             
             A
             Parcel
             of
             wry
             Reasons
             ,
             wrong
             Inferences
             ,
             but
             right
             Observation
             .
          
           
             6.
             
             An
             Oration
             of
             Mr.
             
               Iohn
               Hales
            
             .
          
           
             7.
             
             Several
             Reasons
             for
             the
             establishing
             of
             a
             standing
             Army
             ,
             and
             the
             dissolving
             the
             Militia
             .
          
           
             8.
             
             Four
             Chapters
             .
             1.
             
             Of
             Magistracy
             .
             2.
             
             Of
             Prerogative
             by
             Divine
             Right
             .
             3.
             
             Of
             Obedience
             .
             4.
             
             Of
             Laws
             .
          
           
             9.
             
             The
             Grounds
             and
             Reasons
             of
             the
             Laws
             against
             Popery
             .
          
           
             10.
             
             An
             Humble
             and
             Hearty
             Address
             to
             all
             the
             English
             Protestants
             in
             King
             
             Iames's
             Army
             .
          
           
             11.
             
             The
             Opinion
             ,
             that
             Resistance
             may
             be
             used
             in
             case
             our
             Religion
             and
             Rights
             should
             be
             invaded
             .
          
           
             12.
             
             The
             Trial
             and
             Examination
             of
             the
             New
             Test
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             
             England's
             Loyalty
             .
          
           
             13.
             
             Reflections
             upon
             the
             Instance
             of
             the
             Ch.
             of
             
             England's
             Loyalty
             .
          
           
             14.
             
             The
             absolute
             Impossibility
             of
             Transubstantiation
             demonstrated
             .
          
           
             15.
             
             Bp
             
             Ridley's
             Letter
             to
             Bp
             Hooper
             ,
             with
             some
             Observations
             on
             it
             .
          
           
             16.
             
             A
             Letter
             from
             a
             Freeholder
             ,
             to
             the
             rest
             of
             the
             Freeholders
             of
             England
             .
          
           
             17.
             
             Religion
             founded
             upon
             a
             Rock
             .
          
           
             18.
             
             The
             True
             Mother-Church
             .
          
        
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A46942-e160
           
             
               Jov.
               p.
               202.
            
             
          
           
             
               P.
               24.
            
             
          
           
             
               Jov.
               p.
               242.
            
             
          
           
             
               P.
               200.
            
             
          
           
             
               P.
               23.
            
             
          
           
             
               Jov.
               p.
               248.
            
             
          
           
             
               P.
               249.
            
             
          
           
             Barlow
             ,
             p.
             
               46
               ,
               47.
            
             
          
           
             Additional
             Declaration
             ,
             
               Oct.
               24.
            
             
          
           
             Dr.
             
             Fitz-Williams's
             Thanksgiving
             Sermon
             ,
             for
             the
             Murder
             of
             my
             Lord
             Russel
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             
               ●●
               26.
            
             
          
           
             
               Rom.
               13.
               3.
            
             
          
           
             
               Esay
               7.
               17.