Five QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED To the People of England. 1. IF the present King came for the good of England, and not for his own ends at the Nations Cost; Why then did he not embrace and improve the happy occasion of King James' voluntary return from Feversham, since it is plain, he could have no other thing in his Eye, by his coming and message to King William, and Invitation of him to St James', than an Accommodation, for he put himself thereby into King William's hands and had hardly any other use of his own then to sign a National Agreement? 2. Whether since that very time the Hand of God has not eminently shown itself against King William for that unnatural Ambitious, and destructive refusal, and treatement of his Father, first by the perplextity that fell immediately upon him about the very thing he desired, viz. the Crown, witness the hot contest in the Convention, and with what Clossetting Threats, Bribes, Promises, etc. he carried it, and with that small advantage of Votes above his opposers, that any Law would stand loosely that had no better concurance at its making; In the next place, by the Baffles upon his Forces by Sea and Land by the hand of Man, and by the visible severe Hand of God, insomuch that no time or age, these six Hundred Years, can parralel such a Years loss of Men, Treasure and Shipping, as this poor Kingdom has sustained since the coming of this present King. Lastly, the many factions and great instability of Counsels, such as God is accustomed to bring upon those that devise mischief, or seek themselves, or abuse the providences of God? 3. Whether yet it be too late to retrieve this matter, and recover this bleeding Nation, in case King William and Queen Mary would return to their natural and Christian Duty to their Father, and incline to forgo their present untimely and perplexed Dignity; and that thereby a good agreement may not be made for our Religion, Laws and Liberties, without more Blood, Treasure and Misery? 4. Whether if King William and Queen Mary, will not do this, the People for their own sakes, ought not to think of the next best expedient, to compel them to it, as by addressing them for their Father's return, and by Refusing their Purses in the maintenance of their unjust quarrel against him, and particularly, by oppressing foreign Mercenary Forces, that are half of them of that very Religion their Lawful King is expelled for professing, and which are all of them brought in without Advice or Consent of Parliament, & a Parliament then setting: A thing without precedent for above a Thousand Years, and what was never done by the greatest and most arbitrary of our lawful and undoubted Kings of England, and never attempted but by Vortigern, the last British King, who to uphold his usurpation of the Crown, called in the Saxons, by which the Kingdom became a Conquest to that People? 5. Whether if the People of England shall suffer themselves to be so far imposed upon, that against the Eminent Hand of God and their own Interest, they will persevere in the upholding the title of King William and Queen Mnry for that is the quarrel, and so it is, must and will be stated, all other things being by King James already granted in his soft and gracious Letter to the Convention, this time twelve Month, which they would not vouchsafe to read, but has often been made public, containing the correction of past Errors, the oblivion of our present Faults, the Establishment of the Protestant Religion, by securing the Church of England in her Rights, and the Dissenters in their Liberty, desiring no more for his own Friends then in their own Houses, and referring the whole to a free Parliament? Whether I say the Blood, Misery and Destruction that shall follow an obstinate opposition to a lawful King, offering these Good and Gracious Terms, will not lie at our doors, before God and Men, and so make it Just in him, to acquire his Kingdoms at any price, and rule them, if he Succeed, how he pleaseth? Hear, Fear and Beware.