An honest man's wish for the Prince of Orange. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09244 of text R178111 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09244 80922823 Wing H2588 ESTC R178111 ocm 80922823

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 eng William -- III, -- King of England, 1650-1702 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Revolution of 1688 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo An honest man's vvish for the Prince of Orange. n/a 1688 1 972 1 0 0 0 0 0 10.29 C The rate of 10.29 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An Honest Man's WISH FOR THE Prince of ORANGE . I. I Could Wish ( though now indeed it is too late to Wish , ) That the King had so well consulted the Happiness of his own Person , his Children , and Subjects , as not to have deserted his Kingdomes , but to have treated and complied with the Prince of Orange , who ( I believe ) came not to demand the least thing Unreasonable . But since he is gone , and another Governour must be sought for , II . I could Wish , That the Prince of Orange's Title had not been so far Distant from the Crown : And that not only because He has with the greatest Toyl , Hazard , and Expence so generously undertook ( and , I hope , compleated ) our Deliverance from the very worst of Slavery and Bondage ; but also because I believe Him to be a Person for Virtue , Goodness , Courage , Conduct , and all other Princely Qualifications most fit to Govern . III . I could Wish , That for these High Services and Merits , an answerable Recompence might soon be thought of , and made to His Royal Highness . But then what is there in this World that can truly answer them ? Surely these Three great and flourishing Kingdomes will never sufficiently requite such wonderful Desert . However IV . I could Wish , That some Men who now seek to requite Him the Crown , would consider whether they do not at last requite Him with the greatest Affront and Injury . For whilst they pretend to Bestow or Give it , they do indeed confront the very Words of the Prince's own most Gracious Declaration , where in he assures Us that He came to preserve the Right of Succession . Now the Giving of it ( I presume ) must Suppose it to be in their Power or Disposal ; and so it shall become meerly Elective , which will quite destroy the Right of Succession that He by Promise has engaged Himself to maintain . And then if there be any such thing as a Right of Succession , whilst they suppose that the Prince of Orange will accept the Crown from their Hands , they must needs suppose Him to be Unjust in receiving that which as yet belongs to another , unless they can prove that the Two next which ought to come in before him have any way forfeited their Right . And all this , I think , is no very Friendly Requital . But this may not prove the worst yet . For whilst they break the cou●se of Succession by Giving the Kingdome to Him , and make it thus Elective , they may possibly do the greatest Injury both to Him , and his Heirs after Him , though they should be the Issue of his own very Body . For the Son will have no better a Title than the Father : And as no Man knows whether his Son shall be a wise man , or a fool ; so if he should seem a Fool in the Eyes of a Reigning Parliament or Convention , and not fit to Govern , then what is become of his Inheritance ? And so for the Prince himself : should he receive the Crown now as a Gift from the Parliament or Convention , and that also by their most Unanimous Consent ; yet still , I fear , he would not be very secure in the possession of it . For the Power that gives may soon challenge the same Power to take away likewise . And as the Humours of the Body Natural are said to be all changed once in Seven Years , so may it be ( if not much sooner also ) in such a Body Politick . Nor can this be any strange thing to suppose , if we consider the Years that are past . So that the Prince after all ( if he receive the Crown by way of Donation , must be bound up to His Good Behaviour , and have a great care of Provoking or Disobliging , lest the very Donor pretend some kind of Forfeiture . Again , suppose a great part of the Three Kingdomes should be possessed with the Injustice of His Title , and appear in Earnest for One whose Right it is , who knows but such Struglings and Convulsions may follow , as may make Him the most Unhappy who is doubtless the most Meritorious among Princes ? And therefore for these Reasons , Lastly V. I could Wish , That the Wisdome of the Nation at this time Conveen'd , would think of some other way to express their Gratitude to this Most Excellent Prince , who under God has been Our only Deliverer . And doubtless no good Protestant can ever think they go too far , whilst they act by the Rules of Law and Justice , without Subverting the Old Foundation . But because after all , nothing that we can do will be a Valuable Compensation for His Merits ; I shall turn my good Wishes into most hearty Prayers , begging earnestly of God , That he would become His Exceeding great Reward , and give Him the Blessing of Abraham , who has been the wonderful Preserver , as he was the Father of the Faithful ; That he would make his Temporal Glory , Joy , and Happiness great and lasting , and then change it into that which is Infinite and Eternal .

Printed in the Year , 1688.