The Lords and Commons Reasons and Justifications for the Deprivation and Deposal of JAMES II. From the Imperial Throne of England. Being in full satisfaction to all the Princes of Europe, and in Answer to all Objections, Domestic and Foreign.  
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WHen the greatest Changes in States, such as the Mutations of Imperial Princes, are made; the greatest Reasons and most potent Arguments ought to be furnished for such important Counsels and Decrees, but as the Reasoning part of Mankind are so different and opposite in their Judgements and Determinations given in so weighty a Cause; the grounds of such irreconcilable Dissent in their Opinions, arise only from their various Fixation of the Original of Government. For whilst some are combating for Jure Divino, and others for the Humane Constitution of Monarchy, those nicer and remoter Speculations lead 'em so high, to such different Fountain-Heads of Regal Power, till they cease to be matter of Argument, and terminate in mere Matter of Faith. And when it comes up thither, and Men, as generally, in the tenderest points of Faith, believe only, because through the Impulse of some unaccountable Conviction, they cannot but believe, Reasoning is then stir ck Mute; and all beyond is taken up only upon Trust.  
Where Argumentation therefore, as in this Case, will be altogether vain, because unconvincing, the greatest and strongest, (publicly visible,) support, and Authority we must repair to, must be that last Refuge both of Law and Equity PRECEDENT. What has been done upon Mature Deliberation, and the Consent of whole Kingdoms, in the like Case before, stands for a Pattern, what may be done now. For Examples of which kind,  
There has been very well urged already, the Case of Sigismond the III. King of Sweden, Deposed by the States of Sweden, in so many Respects so wonderfully the Parallel to the Late Male Administration in England.  
But as Precedents are least Satisfactory, or least confronting to obstinate Opposers; where they make only for one Party: A Popish Sigismond deposed for Maladministration in a Protestant Kingdom may not perhaps be allowed to carry its sufficient Justification with the Romanists; and therefore the Tables ought to be turned, and the Balance made by Parallels of their own side; the most prudent way of combating, and securing a Victory in this Matter, being to lay the Scene of War in the Enemy's Country.  
To confute therefore, and silence all the Romish Pretensions of Disgust and Murmur, against the Injustice of such a Deprivation, from Examples of Popish Deposals of Male administering Protestants; we'll begin with Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry the Fourth of France.  
The Famous Holy League entered into by the Pope himself, and so many potent Allies; together, with all the Romish Subjects of France, against that undoubted Heir of the Crown of France, and at that time by Succession their Rightful King, is so notoriously known to the World, that all the tedious particulars of the History, would be impertinent.  
Let it suffice, here was a Prince, the unquestioned Inheritor of the Crown of France, actually by all Open and Hostile means (and all such Hostility avowed and abetted, and his very Birthright foreclosed by the Pope himself) opposed and denied his Accession to the Throne, for no other unqualifications, but being a Huguenot; that is, of a persuasion contrary to the Established, and Regnant Romish Religion in France; being in all other respects acknowledged a most excellent Prince: Insomuch, that after all other ineffectual endeavours of recovering his Birthright; he had no means left to repeal his Exclusion and Debarrment from the Throne, but by his Abjuration of the Reformed Religion, and return to the Romish Worship.  
This Case of Henry the IV. in stead of a Parallel to Ours, does not come up to half the Justification of the present Measures of England. For here