REFLECTIONS UPON THE Late King JAMES's DECLARATION, Lately Dispersed by the Jacobites.  
LONDON, Printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-lane, 1692.   

Reflections upon the late King James's Declaration, &c.  
THE late Revolution of Government in these Three Kingdoms, has carried along with it so many Blessings to these Nations, and the rest of Christendom, both with respect to the Civil Rights of all, and the Religious Concerns of all that profess themselves Protestants, that none but such as are professed Enemies to human Laws, and consequently to all Governments, but that of an Absolute Monarchy, which is a Plain Downright Tyranny, and to the Interest of the Protestant Religion, can be uneasy under it, and refrain from Hearty acknowledgements to the Divine Goodness for suffering it to be brought about, when( God knows) we deserved no such Mercy at his Hands, but to fall unpitied under all the Calamities we had in prospect, and which many of us had been so Instrumental in bringing upon ourselves. And the Remarkable Providences that attended it, and have so signally appeared, both in the Preservation of His Majesty's Person, formerly and now of late, and in the Success of his Arms, have been such, as to be only inferior to those recorded in Sacred Writ, concerning the Delivery of the People of Israel from the Salvery they were under to the Egyptians. And yet as there were Murmurers among them, whom nothing would please but to make themselves a Captain and return into Egypt: So, to the Reproach of this Age and Nation, we have Grumblers amongst us, who ever since the Revolution, have been Confederating with the Open and Professed Enemies of their Country, their Religion, and the Civil Rights of all Nations, to undo all that has been done, and to bring us back again, not into the same, but a far Worse, and much more Deplorable, because Irretrieveable, Estate of Wretchedness and Misery, than that was, from which it pleased God to rescue us in so unexampl'd a manner.  
Their Folly and Madness in hoping to mend their own Condition, or that of the Nation, by another Change of Government, is so Stupendious, that I shall say nothing of it; for Men that can be so near the Level of Brutes, as to believe any Benefit can accrue to this Nation, by returning like a Dog to its Vomit, are uncapable of being argued with, persuaded to, or informed of any thing whatsoever. And if they know and believe, which they must do, if they are capable of knowing and believing any thing, that the Restauration of the late King James by the Power of France, would be the utter Ruin( to all human Appearance) of the Laws, Liberties and Religion now established and professed in and by this Nation; their execrable villainy in engaging in so Black a Conspiracy, is such as must render them Odious to God and Man, as being no better than very Devils in human Shape.  
But since common Charity inclines me to believe no Men do Mischief for Mischief's sake, I can more easily pronounce them Fools than Knaves; and the design of this Paper, is to prove them to be Fools by the greatest Instance of their Folly, that has yet appeared in public, Which is a Declaration Printed and Published here, in the Name of the late King James, inviting all his Loving Subjects to return to their Duty and Allegiance, and to assist him against the Prince of Orange and his Adherents.  
That Pretended Declaration has been Industriously dispersed in several Places in and about this Town, and that very lately, even since the Fleets were engaged, but before the News came to Town of their Majesties Success; and an Advertisement written upon it, that the English and Dutch Fleets were Worsted. By which we see not only how Industrious they are in the carrying on of their Design, but how great Assurance they had of Accomplishing their Execrable Treason; not questioning, but that through Treachery in our Fleet, the French would prevail, and then the Sea being open, the Troops in Normandy prepared for a Descent upon England, would presently be wafted over, with the late King James at the Head of them, who would have little or nothing to do, by reason of the Force he was to bring with him, the Assistance that was prepared for him here, and his supposed Interest in our Army( which I presume is much the same with what they persuaded him he had in the Navy) but to take Possession of what the Coxcombs call his Right. But as they have hitherto been Baffled in all their other Attempts, so they are at present( Thanks be to Almighty God) in this greatest and last Effort they will ever be able to make. The Defeat of the French Fleet has dashed all their Expectations; and it is to be presumed, has rendered them and their Interest as Despicable in the Eyes of their Patron Lewis XIV. as they were before in the Eyes of all Wise and Honest Men. Insomuch that I know not whether it be now worth while to offer at an Answer to the pretended Declaration, or at making any Reflections upon it, which has received so very seasonable, so full, and so late an Answer from Providence itself. Yet having designed to say something to it from the first time I got a sight of it, and having perused it carefully in order thereunto, I am not willing to be balk'd of my Fancy, though they are of theirs: And this Benefit at least may redound to the Nation by exposing it, to wit, the enabling them to set a greater Value upon the Mercy of God, in frustrating the Hellish Design that was formed against them, by acquainting them even from the Invitation that was made to them in the late King's Name, to return to their Allegiance, what a Condition they were like to be in under his Government.  
Perhaps the Pen-men of this Declaration, might have done their Cause as much Service by the Publishing of it without any mention of the French King at all, as they are like to do by acknowledging in the Introduction to it, The Promises made by him to the late King, to assist him in the Recovery of his Kingdoms, as soon as the Condition of his own Affairs would permit it: And the French King's lending him so many Troops as may be sufficient to untie the Hands of his Subjects, and make it Safe for them to return to their Duty, and repair to his Standard. They cannot but know how Odious the French Tyrant is to the People of this Nation, and they ought to know that it is Just he should be so; for that both we and all his Neighbors look upon it, as one of the Dreadfullest Calamities that in an ordinary course of Providence can befall a Nation, to come under his Power, or lie at his Mercy. The Friendship betwixt the late King and Lewis XIV. was none of the least Disgusts that his Government gave to the Nation; we looked upon ourselves as reserved to be swallowed up last, when by his successses upon the Continent, and the daily Increase of his Power by Sea, he should be grown too Powerful for us to Cope with. A War against France was the Cry of the Nation for some Years; and now that we have a War with France, a War prosecuted with vigour, and in which so many Princes and States are concerned as well as ourselves, a War in which we have great Prospect of Success both by Sea and Land, and by which in all likelihood the Tyrant's Power will be broken, and the Nation secured from him and his Successors; these fine-spun Politicians would have us return to his Friendship gratis, accept a King from him, let in his Troops, and be at his Mercy: And with such a Blunder as this, they represent their Pretended King, as beginning his Harangue to his Quondam Subjects, to persuade them to play the Fool and become so again.  
It's as silly to put these Words into his Mouth, We come to Deliver our Subjects from the Oppressions they lie under. What part of the People of England lie under any Oppressions from the present Government? Taxes given by Parliament were never accounted Oppressions, for they are legally due. If they are now somewhat greater than ordinary, 'tis a sign indeed how desirous the People are to return to their Allegiance, when they give such extraordinary sums of money to Support the Government under their present Majesties, in opposition to the late King and all his Adherents. To imagine any thing else under this Government, that looks like Oppression, is to Rave. And if any such thing were,  
Quis tulerit gracchoes de Seditione querentes?  
They complain that the People were Cheated into the late Revolution by the Arts of ill Men, and by the Prince of Orange's Declaration, which was then taken upon Trust, but was False in all its parts, and contained Promises which were never intended to be performed. It's a strange unaccountable degree of Impudence, that some Men arrive at, and I am apt to think the Pen-men of this Declaration are second to none, who have the face to affirm publicly that the princes Declaration was False in all the parts of it; whereas the whole Nation knows, that it consisted of a Scheme of the late King's Mis-government, and enumerated the several Methods that were taken by him, and his Evil Counsellors, to Subvert the Laws and Religion of this Nation; all which Methods there mentioned, were in every Particular not only true, but were notoriously known to the whole Nation so to be, and were indeed the only things that justified and warranted what was then done; and to say those things are False, shows how Lamentably our Traytors are put to't for Arguments, since they are forced to make such palpable lies their Refuge. As for the Promises, which they say were never intended to be performed, I should return them an Answer, if the Authors of the Declaration had mentioned, or if I myself could have called to mind any thing that looked like a Breach. But till then it may be enough to put them in mind of the late King's Promise upon his first Accession to the Crown, and of his Promise at his Coronation, which was solemnly Sworn to, and to appeal to their own Consciences how well either of them were kept.  
One would have thought, that in a Declaration pretended to have been emitted by a Prince, from whom his Subjects had withdrawn their Allegiance for his maladministration, to persuade and encourage them to receive him again, and thanked him into the Government, something should have been said, either to justify those Proceedings for which they took Offence at him, or to excuse them, and promise amendment for the future. But no such thing is so much as offered at in this Declaration: So far from that, that the Revolution is ascribed to an Ambitious Design of the Prince of Orange, and an Infatuation upon the People. They make the King say, That when he heard of the unnatural Design of the Prince of Orange of Invading the Kingdoms, be refused the French King's Assistance, and cast himself wholly upon the Courage and Fidelity of his English Army. And this they call Taking things from the Beginning. Whereas if they would really have taken things from the Beginning, they ought to have begun with the Late King's Raising Money without Authority of Parliament, with the barbarous Murders committed in the West by his Orders, with the bare-faced setting up for Popery, his Erecting illegal Judicatures, suspending the Execution of Laws, filling Church-Benefices, and Courts of Judicature, with such persons as would be subservient to the carrying on of his Designs, without any regard to their Integrity or Abilities, the invading the Rights of all Corporations by Quo Warranto's, and Surrenders of Charters, in order to the packing such a Parliament as might subvert the Government under a Colour of Law; And to make good these bold Attempts upon the People, his raising a Standing Army in time of Peace, without Authority of Parliament, which was neither better nor worse than waging a War against his own People. Had not these, and many such Enormities been committed during that short Reign of his, whatever Ambitious Design the Prince of Orange might have conceived, the late King would have retained his sovereignty to this Day. But the Government being such, as the People found themselves not safe under it, as neither enjoying the Benefit of the Laws for the present, and having nothing in prospect but an Entail of Popery and Slavery upon them, and their Posterity; they were very ready to lay hold of the Deliverance which God Almighty presented them with, and with open Arms received the Prince of Orange, as being sent, and so he was, by Almighty God, upon as Glorious an Errand as ever Man had the Honour to be employed in, to wit, the Rescuing an Oppressed People from the Jaws of Destruction. Their complying with the Prince, in assisting him to promote the Ends of his Declaration, which if they had neglected to do, they had been most extremely ungrateful to God and Him, wanting to themselves and their Posterity, and the Just Scorn of Mankind; is by the Authors of this Declaration, most impudently ascribed to an Infatuation upon them. Which is a pretty odd way of persuading a Nation to Receive a Dispossessed Prince again, to call them Fools for Rejecting him, without making any Enquiry into, or offering at any Answer to the Known Reasons for which they did it.  
The Prince of Orange's Expedition is termed an Unnatural Design of Invading the Kingdom. The Prince had no Design of Invading the Kingdom, but could not come over with any Safety, without such a Strength as might be able to defend him against an Illegal Force raised here. But the terming of his Design Unnatural, because, forsooth, of the Relation he has to the Late King by Blood and Marriage, proceeds from the silly Conceptions of those Narrow-spirited Mortals, who cannot distinguish betwixt a Kingdom, and a Family; and think a whole Nation ought to perish, rather than a Nephew and Son in-Law should save it, whether his Uncle and Father will or no: Not to mention the Concern the Prince had upon him, by Reason of his own Interest in the Succession.  
To defeat this Unnatural Design, the Courage and Fidelity of the English Army, was what the Authors of this Declaration tell us the Late King relied on. Whereby they make him own, as the truth is, that his Government and Carriage towards his People had been such, as he conceived he had but little Reason to rely upon them. And if then they saw Cause to desert him, when his Reliance and dependence, next under God, was an Army of their own countrymen, how much less Reason have they to receive him again now, when they see he relies upon an Army of foreigners, Professed Enemies to the Nation, and Subjects to a Prince, whose Power and our Safety are things incompatible.  
They tell us, that when the King had Notice of the princes Design, he took what care he could to prevent the Mischief, by undeceiving the People, though he was not believed, till it was too late: That the Infatuation being such as to take hold of the Vital Parts of the Kingdom, and spread itself through his Army, his Court and Family, and the Revolution coming on so fast, that he found himself wholly in his Enemies Power, it was time for him to consult the Safety of his Person, by withdrawing from the Guard of foreigners that was set upon him, and arriving in France, the only place in Europe to which he could retire with safety. And this withdrawing himself in the Circumstances he then was, the Penmen of the Declaration make him complain of, for being construed by the Prince of Orange's Faction in England, to be an Abdication; a word, when applied to Sovereign Princes, that never signified any other than a Voluntary Resignation of a Crown, as in the Case of the Emperour Charles the Fifth, and the late Queen of Sweden The Convention that did this, they call, a Company of Men illegally met together; and make an hideous Out cry, that they, who by their own confession, had no Power to charge the least Subject of the Realm( for it was before they had Voted themselves a Parliament), should yet destroy the whole Constitution of the Government, to make an Aucient Hereditary Monarchy turn Elective; and settle the Succession in so odd and extravagant a manner.  
The Design of this long Discourse is to show, That the King's absenting himself out of the Kingdom, when he apprehended himself not safe in it, was improperly termed an Abdication; and that the Convention had no Authority to do what they did. To the latter of which I shall say nothing but this, That enough has been said already to Vindicate the Authority and Justice of their Proceedings, and that they have been proved abundantly to be warranted by the Laws of this Realm, and the practise of their Ancestors in the like Cases; and have since been Justified and Declared to be Legal by a Parliament called according to Form. And that if all that were wanting, yet there was, and is another Law, superior and Antecedent to the Municipal Laws of Nations, called, the Law of Nature, and Right Reason, which such abject Souls as the Penmen of this Declaration are endowed withal, are not acquainted with, by which it is not only Lawful, but a Duty incumbent upon all Nations, to provide for their own Safety and Security by the best and most prudential Methods, that it shall please God to direct them to, when the Government is off the Hinges, whatever becomes, or however they shall think fit to dispose of those Princes, whose exorbitant Abuse of the Legal Power committed to them, has brought them into Disorder and Confusion.  
As for the Word Abdication; indeed our Lords and Commons did not think convenient to consult Grammarians, and little pedantic Scholars, about the Propriety of a Word, when the Safety of a Nation was at stake. They did a Just, Lawful, Honourable, and Necessary Work, and made use of such Expressions as they thought fit. But the Penmen of this Declaration, if at least they have informed themselves in some measure, of the common acceptation of the Word out of some Civil-Law Lexicon; do not understand, or industriously conceal how the Convention used and applied it. They do not call the King's bare withdrawing himself, an Abdication; the Words of their Vote run thus; viz. That the late King James, having by the Advice of Jesuits, and other Wicked Men, broken the Original Contract betwixt King and People, and endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Realm, and since withdrawn himself, hath Abdicated the Government, &c. So that the Abdication relates to the whole, his endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws, as well as his withdrawing himself. And a Prince may properly be said to waive, or forego his Legal Authority; when by endeavouring to subvert the Laws, upon which it is grounded, he assumes to himself an Arbitrary, and Tyrannical Power instead thereof: If the Convention thought fit to call this an Abdication, all Men, but Pedants, and Men of Dictionaries, will allow such Assemblies to conceive their Votes in their own Expressions, nay tho they should proceed so far, as to stamp a New Signification upon an Old Word. I will not say, that King James's forfeiting his Crown by his Misgovernment, and their deposing him for it, was what he did, and what they meant, however they thought fit to express themselves; But this I know, that the Scots spoken plain English.  
One Observation more I must make upon this Paragraph; to wit, That when the late King thought fit to leave England, He look't upon France, as the only Part in Europe, to which he could Retire with safety. By which we see, how much that Prince is in the Interest of his People, who could think Himself safe no where else, but with their Mortal Enemy.  
In the next Paragraph, the Penmen of the Declaration, put us in mind, how little the Kingdom is a Gainer by the Change; and instance in Three Particulars, wherein they would have us think ourselves Losers by the Bargain; viz. The expense of English Blood, The Loss of Ships, and The sums of Money that have been drained from us. They mention to us, how great things might have been done with the expense of so much Blood as has been  shed in this War; but do not tell us, what things, in particular, we might reasonably expect would have been attempted to have been done. And we know very well, that there was not then, nor is now, any other occasion of expense of English Blood, but to pull down a Tyrant, whom the Friendship and Alliance of our Two Late Kings, raised to such a height of Power, that neither We, nor any Nation about him, can have any Prospect of Security, till it be abated. 'T is Ridiculons to say, We should not have had a French War, if we had kept the late King. For He would have been growing in Strength, till We, tied up with our King's Alliance with Him, from Checking Him in his Career, should have become an easy prey to Him. His pretended Friendship to King James, were a miserable Security for the Nation to have relied upon. We know how much English Blood was  shed in a late Reign, to destroy a Protestant State; and by whose Counsels those Two Mischievous Wars were set on foot; And may guess by that, which way the Power of this Nation would be turned, if somebody had tht Ordering of it again. As for the Loss of Ships, and Payment of Money, they are both the Necessary Concomitants of a War. And notwithstanding the Loss of some Ships, which is to be lamented, as a Loss to the Nation, such is the Care of the Government, that the Navy is in as good, if not a better Condition than ever. As for Money, the People of England have never been unwilling, under former Tyrannies, to be at the Charge of their Deliverance; nor ever grudged to pay Taxes, when the Exigencies of a good Government required it. Nor are they so voided of common Sense, as to return to Slavery to save Charges.  
The Next Paragraph in the Declaration, is Railing and prophesy; Usurper, Nero, Fraud and Violence: And that the Beginning of Tyranny will prove the mildest part of it. But His Majesty is above their Scolding; and for their prophesy, we are willing to appeal to the Event.  
Then they advice us to consult the Benefit of our Posterity, and tell us, That if it should happen, as one of the severest Judgments of God upon this Nation, that the late King should not be restored during his Life, yet an Undoubted Right to the Crown would survive in his dearest Son the Prince of Wales, and his Issue, and such other Sons, as( the Queen being now with Child) he may happen to leave behind him: And they tell us upon this occasion, what Calamities the Commons underwent by plunder and free quarter in the Contention betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster; and that such struggles will always be, where there is an injured Right, and an unjust Possession.  
The Argument here is no other than this, viz. It is the Interest of the People of England to Restore King James, and undo again the present Settlement, for fear of a Civil War, God knows when, to be occasioned by the Late King's Male Issue, vindicating their pretended Right. We must return to Slavery, for fear of a Civil War; that is, to all the Calamities that being conquered can bring upon us, rather than run the hazard of being engaged in a War in our own defence. But God be praised, a Civil War upon that score is very remote in prospect. For who should abet the pretended Prince of Wales his Title? Our malcontents are too inconsiderable a body of Men, to give the Government any Disturbance. They have not been able to do it all this while, notwithstanding the difficulties we have struggled with in Scotland and Ireland; notwithstanding their Encouragement and Assistance from France. What will they signify when all things being quiet at home, and the French power broken abroad,( which these very few days last past are so happy a praeludium to,) they shall be left alone to assert the Title of a Popish young Prince, whom the Nation does not know nor so much as believe to be any prince at all. But bloody Wars, the extirpating of many Noble Families by Executions and Attainders, Plunder and Free-quarter of and upon the Commons, ensuing upon the Contentions betwixt the Houses of York and Lancaster. That is in a great measure true: But those two Famllies were not of a different Religion, no discontents nor fears of Innovations under either of them; no Arbitrary power dreaded: The Princes of those two Lines were both very powerful by their Interest in the Nobility and Body of people: Whereas the pretended Prince of Wales his Interest will be, if any where, amongst a very few Grumblers only; whom all considering persons must needs be ashamed to side with, considering how unsuccessful they are in all their Attempts; and how fatal it has been but within these few days to a very great Prince, to suffer himself to be fooled into their Cause.  
The pen-men of the Declaration, in their next Paragraph, out-do themselves in Folly and Extravagancy: They remind how great Advantages might have been had against the Common Enemy, and what an opportunity there was of enlarging the bounds of the Christian Empire, greater than any that ever were since the declining of the Roman, if this present War had not been; which they would insinuate to us has been occasioned merely by the Late King's being disposses'd of his Power. To believe which we must take for granted that the French King has engaged in this Quarrel, out of pure good Nature to his injured Ally; and that if their Late King James had continued in his Government, Europe would have been at a perfect Peace within itself. But we all know that the French King for Thirty years last past has neglected no opportunities to disturb the peace of Europe; that his aiming at an Universal Western Empire, has occasioned all the Convulsions that so great a part of Europe has undergone in all that time. That England was capable of putting a stop to his Ambitious Designs; and that he, being very sensible of it, cultivated an alliance with our two last Kings, to tie up the Hands of the English Nation from obstructing his Growth: That under a Protestant and an Heroical Prince, a Prince deservedly his Enemy, because he is the Enemy of Mankind, England would be let loose upon him( as we see at this day to his Sorrow.) And therefore it was that he struck in with the Interest of the Late King, knowing that under his Government, we should not be capable of molesting him. So that it is the French King's Ambition, and not King James's Abdication, that is the cause of the War. O, but the Christian Empire might have been enlarged. Who should enlarge it? The French King? Who contracted an alliance with the Grand Seignor, and encouraged him to make War upon the Christians, who in order thereunto sent him Officers, Soldiers and Engeniers to instruct his people in the Art of War? Or might the Emperour of Germany have been more at leisure to do it, if he were not engaged as he is in the Confederacy against France? Besides that the Supposition is wild and extravagant, how sensible a thing is it, That a Western Protestant Kingdom should be persuaded to let in Popery and Slavery, that Eastern Papists may be more at leisure to fight against the Turks? Such fulsome nonsense do those Men accost us with, and would have us believe that such trash was emitted by the Late King's Order; whom if they had that Honour for, which they pretend to have by Asserting his Title so indefatigably, they would not have cast such a blemish upon his Understanding, as to ascribe such a Paper as this to him: At least not to have inserted so silly a thing as this in it.  
While the Late King remains unrestor'd, they tell us, no prospect of a Peace is capable of being formed; but that being done, the thing will be easy, and he will use his endeavour with the Most Christian King to effect it. I thank God the Nation is not yet so weary of the War as to accept of a peace upon those Terms. Nor have we any reason to believe that whenever it shall please God to sand us peace, we shall be beholden to the most Christian King for it. The Destruction of his Navy will in a great measure disable him from giving peace to Christendom.  
The next thing that occurs is their forbidding us to contribute to the support of the present Government by collecting or paying Taxes, &c. But it will be time enough for them to command that, when their King is in possession of some part of the Kingdom again; then he may forbid them that are under his power to pay Taxes to any other. Till then the people will pay to the powers in being. And they have the less reason to expect our obedience to this part of their Declaration, because I cannot learn that any of their own Faction here in England refuse to pay their Taxes imposed by this Government: They would do well to set us a good Example. But instead of that, in direct opposition to and in contempt to their Master's Authority, some of them contribute to the support of the Government more than we do, by paying double.  
But to show how merciful a Prince their Master, tho the whole Nation has offended him, he will not be revenged upon all of it: Some shall survive his Indignation, that he may not be without Subjects. He therefore excepts only,  
1. About Thirty Persons by name.  
2. All such as offered personal Indignities to him at Feversham.  
3. All those, who as Judges, Jury-Men, or otherwise acted in the barbarous Murders of Mr. John Ashton, and Mr. across, or any others that have suffered for their Affection and Loyalty to him.  
4. Spies and such as have betrayed his councils.  
5. Such as shall appear in Arms against him at his Landing.  
6. Such Magistrates as shall not cause his Declaration to be published upon the receipt of it.  
7. gaolers of Prisons, that do not Discharge out of Custody all persons committed for their Loyalty to him.  
All others how guilty soever they may have been, shall have their pardons under the Broad-Seal of England; and the Parliament shall have it recommended to them, to pass an Act of Indemnity for quieting the minds of all People.  
They that penned this Declaration take upon them very freely to hang and save whom they please; and well they might, if their game had been so sure as they apprehended. They thought their Design so laid, as there was no room left for Fortune; nay scarcely for Providence to blast it. We know what they had in prospect; to see the Late King Land at the Head of betwixt Twenty and Thirty Thousand French, Irish and Scotch. The Dutch Fleet destroyed, and ours betrayed into their Hands: An Insurrection here to join with their King, and bring him to his Palace: The Army to revolt: The Queen to be seized, and the King assassinated: And all this so laid, as to be designed to be effected at one and the same time.  
The Enemies said, I will pursue, I will overtake, 
Exod. cap. 15. v. 9.10, 11.  I will divide the spoil; my Lust shall be satisfied upon them: I will draw my Sword, my Hand shall destroy them.  
Thou didst blow with thy Wind: The Sea covered them: they sank as led in the mighty Waters.  
Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the Gods! Who is like unto thee! glorious in Holiness, fearful in Praises, doing Wonders!  
The Officers and Soldiers of the Army that will quit the Usurper's Service, and return to their Duty, &c. shall have all their Arrears paid them: And the Foreigners shall be transported to their own Countries, or whither they shall reasonably desire. This perhaps, it would be in the Late King's power to perform, if he were once got into possession of the public Revenue. But who shall pay the French King the vast expense of this War, which he has engaged in for King James his Restoration? Will those Arrears be remitted, or must we, who are pretended to be oppressed already under this pretended Tyranny, come under real Oppressions, under a Tyranny truly and properly so called: and have all we have taken from us, and little enough too, to repay the French King's Charges for above three years War, and the loss of so many of his Subjects, and now of late for the loss of his Fleet, or must our Fleet be delivered to him in lieu of his own, which has been lost in our pretended King's Service? They that advice us to receive the King again in order to save Charges by living in Peace, and think we cannot but be induced thereunto by casting up our Accounts, and perceiving how much we are losers by the Bargain, may assure themselves, that, though we have not cast up this Account( because it exceeds our arithmetic) yet we are very well apprized that it will amount to an infinite sum; and are not so mad as to carry the Cause and pay Costs.  
The farther they proceed the more ridiculous they grow. The Church of England as established by Law, is to be protected in all its Rights and Privileges, and upon the Vacancies of all Spiritual Livings and Dignities in the King's Disposal, they shall be filled up with the most worthy Persons of their own Communion. And Liberty of Conscience shall be recommended to the Parliament to be establisted by Law, as a lasting Blessing to these Kingdoms. What would the Nation have more? The Great Lewis the 14th. who has extirpated the Protestant Religion in his own Kingdom; is for the Church of England here in this. The late King, who endeavoured the Subversion of it, and in a manner openly disowned the Protection of it whilst he was here, not only by the whole Course of his Actions and Government, but by disowning himself to be the Head of it, by Discountenancing the Oath of Supremacy, and submitting himself to another Head in Spirituals, will upon his return Steer another Course, and Protect the Church of England as Established by Law; and his Word must be taken for it now, tho a more Sacred thing than the Word of a King could not bind him heretofore. He that in Ireland shew'd sufficiently what he would do in England, as soon as he should have Power, contrary to what he there promised as Solemnly as he can do by any Words that the Pen-men of this Declaration are able to put into his Mouth( as any Man may be informed, that will take the pains to red that excellent Book of Dr. King's, who was an Eye-witness of his Conduct there) will recede from his Principles an Act contrary to his own Nature here, and that in Favour of a People, against whom he is Exasperated to the utmost Degree of Extremity; and upon whom he will have it in his Power to execute his Revenge, if ever by the Power of France, he should come to be re-instated in the Government. The very naming of the Church of England, which was so Odious to him formerly, and is much more so now, that he looks upon them as Men, who by their Carriage to him at the time of the late Revolution, contradicted their own Principles, and are no longer to be trusted and relied upon by him, yet must be supposed so Silly, as to believe him upon the bare Words of a Declaration, Published, in all likelihood, without his Order, or so much as his Knowledge.  
They make him promise, That Vacancies of Livings in his Disposal, shall be filled up by the most worthy Men in the Communion of the Church of England. But they tell us not who they are that must Judge of their Worthiness. And we know that if he receives Characters of them, from such as recommended Men to him formerly, to be preferred both in Church and State, we are like, for the most part, to see Men advanced to Livings and Dignities in the Church, that are and will be a Scandal to their own Communion.  
As for Liberty of Conscience, that doctrine Sounds so Vilely from St. germans, that it's an Insufferable Imposition upon our Understandings to mention it.  
In the two last Paragraphs they promise for him, That he shall Restore the Navy and Stores to the Condition they were in when he left them, To Increase the Trade and Bullion of the Kingdom, and Spend the Remainder of his Reign( as he always designed since his first coming to the Crown) in advancing the Greatness of the Monarchy, and settling it upon its true Foundation, the Unity and Affections of the People. Then( as having given Reasons sufficient to draw the People over to him again, and answered all Objections to the contrary) they threaten such as shall yet remain Obstinate, with falling under the Severity of his Justice, and being accountable to God for the Blood that shall be  shed in this Quarrel.  
These are all the Arguments, Promises and threatenings made use of in that long Declaration; which are such as in my Opinion, the Declaration itself might very well have been spared; for those few that are already in the late King's Interest, needed no Declaration to invite them to return to their Allegiance; and such as adhere to the Present Government, which( God be thanked) is infinitely the greater part of the People, do so upon Principles which are not shaken in the least, nor indeed so much as touched upon in this Declaration. But for Fashion-sake a Declaration must be had, and for Fashion-sake I have made some Observations or Reflections upon it; which how inconsiderable soever they may be, cannot possibly be so weak as their Subject.   

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State Tracts: Being a further Collection of several Choice Treatises relating to the Government; from the Year 1660 to 1689. Now published in a Body, to show the Necessity, and clear the Legality of the Late Revolution, and Our Present Happy Settlement, under the Auspicious Reign of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary.  
The State of Savoy: In which a full and distinct Account is given of the Persecution of the Protestants by means of the French Councils. With the Unreasonable Conditions and Demands that the French King would have put on the Duke of Savoy, and of the Just Causes and Motives, that induced that Duke to break off from the French Interest, and join with the Confederates. Together with the most Memorable Occurrences that hath since happened there. As also the True Copies of all the Letters and Dispatches that passed between them.  
Mathematical magic: Or the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanical Geometry. In two Books, concerning Mechanical Powers and Motions. Being one of the most easy, Pleasant, Useful( and yet most neglected) part of the mathematics. Not before treated of in this Language. By J. Wilkins, late Lord Bishop of Chester. The Fourth Edition.  
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The Cabinet opened: Or the Secret History of the Amours of Madam de Maintenon, with the French King. Translated from the French Copy.  
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