THE
ADVANTAGES
OF
THE
Present
SETTLEMENT
,
&c.
THE
wonderful
Revolution
that
hath
fallen
out
in
the
Island
of
Great
Britain
since
September
last
,
1688.
is
justly
at
present
the
discourse
and
amazement
of
all
Europe
;
but
chiefly
in
the
three
Kingdoms
of
Scotland
,
England
and
Ireland
,
whose
Inhabitants
are
the
Parties
most
concerned
in
it
;
and
no
wonder
,
since
a
greater
Deliverance
,
more
unexpected
,
and
that
hath
plainer
Characters
of
a
Divine
Contrivance
and
Conduct
,
hath
neither
been
heard
of
,
nor
seen
,
in
any
place
of
the
World
,
in
any
of
the
former
Ages
of
it
.
But
there
is
a
greater
Wonder
now
to
be
observed
amongst
us
than
the
Deliverance
we
have
received
(
if
any
thing
can
be
greater
)
viz.
That
there
are
many
of
us
who
seem
to
be
much
discontented
with
it
,
and
express
themselves
in
such
a
manner
,
as
if
they
were
offended
with
Heaven
it self
,
for
being
so
propitious
to
us
;
and
seem
ungratefully
to
envy
his
Honour
,
whom
God
made
the
great
Instrument
of
our
Deliverance
.
Strange
!
that
another
Change
should
come
under
the
desires
of
reasonable
men
,
which
must
of
absolute
necessity
occasion
a
fatal
Relapse
into
the
same
Miseries
we
were
so
deeply
plunged
,
and
likewise
occasion
the
inevitable
and
lasting
ruine
,
not
only
of
our
potent
Deliverer
,
but
also
of
all
those
Royal
Branches
of
the
Royal
Family
,
in
whose
prosperity
all
the
hopes
of
England's
Happiness
are
certainly
reposed
.
While
I
frequently
hear
such
Murmurings
and
Whisperings
as
tend
to
such
a
fatal
End
,
I
cannot
but
be
surprized
,
both
with
astonishment
and
grief
:
astonishment
,
it
being
wonderful
men
should
be
displeased
with
their
own
Safety
and
Happiness
:
and
grief
,
it
being
easie
to
apprehend
those
ill
Consequences
to
the
Publick
,
that
usually
attend
such
Discontents
and
undutiful
Murmurings
,
so
maliciously
and
industriously
promoted
.
And
though
I
am
very
sensible
of
my
own
utter
unfitness
for
so
great
an
undertaking
,
as
the
allaying
of
those
Heats
and
Animosities
that
so
much
disturb
the
quietness
and
peace
we
have
in
our
hands
,
if
we
would
but
embrace
it
,
and
be
contented
to
enjoy
it
:
yet
I
hope
I
shall
be
forgiven
of
all
,
even
of
those
who
perhaps
may
have
an
aversion
to
this
Discourse
,
for
the
very
sincerity
of
my
Intention
;
for
the
Author
assures
his
Reader
,
that
his
Condition
is
so
obscure
,
his
Acquaintance
in
the
World
so
narrow
,
and
(
as
you
will
easily
perceive
by
this
Pamphlet
,
both
as
to
the
matter
and
style
of
it
,
which
falls
so
much
below
the
dignity
of
the
Subject
,
and
is
so
rude
and
unpolisht
)
his
Habitation
is
somewhat
solitary
,
and
in
a
manner
rural
;
and
thereforefore
it
cannot
be
imagined
that
Self-interest
should
share
in
his
Design
:
no
,
suffer
him
only
quietly
to
put
in
his
poor
mite
into
the
Treasury
,
and
if
he
in
any
measure
contribute
to
the
Publick
Peace
and
Happiness
of
that
Church
of
which
he
glories
to
be
a
Member
,
even
that
of
England
,
as
it
is
now
by
Law
established
;
and
of
that
Kingdom
,
which
he
accounts
it
the
greatest
part
of
his
civil
happiness
to
be
a
Subject
in
,
he
is
sufficiently
satisfied
;
which
design
he
is
sure
no
man
can
possibly
blame
.
I
would
therefore
,
as
an
Introduction
to
what
follows
,
ask
but
this
question
of
those
Persons
that
seem
so
discontented
with
our
present
Tranquility
.
Gentlemen
,
what
is
it
you
would
be
at
?
what
do
you
desire
?
If
they
speak
plainly
,
and
give
a
round
answer
to
this
question
,
it
must
be
this
;
We
would
have
King
WILLIAM
and
Queen
MARY
dethroned
again
,
and
have
them
either
voluntarily
to
return
back
from
whence
they
came
,
or
else
to
be
sent
back
again
by
force
;
we
would
have
King
JAMES
the
Second
restored
to
his
Crown
and
Dignity
,
and
reinstated
in
his
Throne
and
Government
.
This
must
be
the
Answer
,
or
else
I
cannot
imagine
what
some
men
keep
such
a
noise
for
.
Fair
and
soft
,
Sirs
!
This
is
a
demand
of
the
greatest
consequence
and
importance
that
ever
England
heard
;
I
assure
you
it
's
not
likely
to
be
yielded
to
without
very
mature
and
serious
deliberation
;
and
I
am
very
confident
,
would
men
suffer
their
Reason
to
act
freely
,
without
the
strong
Biass
of
Interest
or
Passion
,
they
would
see
it
as
unfit
to
be
asked
,
as
they
certainly
must
despair
of
having
it
granted
.
For
,
upon
the
whole
,
the
yielding
to
the
Proposal
,
would
be
a
fatal
Relapse
into
all
those
Miseries
,
under
which
we
so
lately
groaned
;
and
as
it
is
in
the
case
of
a
Relapse
into
the
same
Distempers
from
which
Patients
seemed
almost
to
be
freed
,
their
last
condition
is
much
more
dangerous
than
their
first
;
so
undoubtedly
it
would
be
with
us
.
And
this
will
the
more
clearly
appear
,
upon
a
serious
consideration
of
these
three
things
.
-
1.
What
condition
we
were
in
before
the
happy
arrival
of
their
present
Majesties
.
-
2.
What
condition
we
are
now
in
by
this
happy
Revolution
.
-
3.
What
a
miserable
condition
we
must
of
necessity
fall
into
upon
such
a
second
Revolution
as
would
satisfy
some
mens
desires
.
As
to
the
first
of
these
,
it
's
to
be
hoped
that
you
will
not
take
it
ill
,
if
upon
your
proposal
,
we
make
a
review
of
that
state
you
would
reduce
us
to
.
I
assure
you
,
we
are
as
sorry
,
even
for
King
JAMES's
sake
,
that
the
reflection
is
so
unpleasant
,
as
possibly
you
can
be
;
yet
if
we
find
it
to
be
a
miserable
Condition
,
you
will
,
I
hope
,
excuse
us
,
if
we
be
not
willing
desperately
to
rush
our selves
into
it
again
.
Now
I
know
not
what
in
all
the
World
is
dear
to
a
reasonable
Creature
,
that
was
not
(
as
our
Circumstances
were
)
in
the
greatest
hazard
of
being
utterly
lost
.
For
what
is
it
that
is
most
dear
to
us
as
Christians
?
Religion
.
What
is
most
dear
to
us
as
English
men
?
The
enjoyment
of
our
Liberties
and
Properties
,
secured
to
us
by
the
Laws
of
the
Land
.
What
is
most
dear
to
us
as
individual
single
persons
?
The
safety
and
protection
of
our
Lives
,
Persons
and
Families
.
Now
I
dare
appeal
to
all
unprejudiced
men
,
whether
in
any
Nation
under
Heaven
,
that
was
so
firmly
in
the
possession
of
all
these
as
we
were
a
few
years
ago
,
they
were
ever
in
greater
danger
of
being
utterly
lost
,
than
they
were
here
in
England
;
so
that
the
preservation
of
them
is
next
to
a
Miracle
.
That
there
was
a
Design
to
subvert
the
established
Religion
of
this
Church
and
Kingdom
,
I
hope
no
man
will
so
much
as
question
.
King
JAMES
did
quickly
let
us
see
what
was
so
much
feared
by
many
before
he
came
to
the
Crown
,
That
it
was
great
folly
to
imagine
that
a
Prince
so
great
a
Zealot
for
his
own
Persuasion
,
would
not
think
it
his
Duty
to
use
that
Power
God
had
given
him
,
to
the
promoting
of
that
Religion
he
was
so
Zealous
for
;
which
could
never
be
without
the
Extirpation
of
the
Established
Religion
,
accounted
by
him
a
Pestilent
Heresie
.
To
this
end
tended
the
Erecting
of
Chappels
for
Popish
Devotion
,
and
Publick
Schools
for
Popish
Education
.
Was
it
for
nothing
,
that
an
Ambassador
was
resident
at
Rome
?
And
a
Nuncio
publickly
entertained
here
,
for
a
constant
Correspondence
between
England
and
Rome
?
Why
were
all
the
Protestant
Nobility
and
Gentry
turned
out
of
all
places
either
of
Honour
,
Profit
,
or
Trust
;
and
Papists
put
in
their
Rooms
?
What
could
be
the
design
of
that
ducoy
of
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
at
a
time
,
when
since
the
first
beginnings
of
those
unhappy
divisions
of
Protestants
here
at
home
,
there
was
never
less
need
of
it
?
When
not
any
Protestant
Party
amongst
us
,
did
so
much
as
Petition
for
it
;
when
the
Generality
of
Dissenters
were
so
well
satisfied
with
the
Church
of
England
,
that
there
were
never
fairer
hopes
of
perfect
Unity
amongst
us
.
But
this
was
the
matter
;
the
division
of
Protestants
amongst
themselves
would
weaken
the
whole
Body
of
them
,
and
render
them
the
more
capable
of
an
easie
overthrow
;
a
design
,
which
the
wiser
sort
of
Dissenters
quickly
saw
,
and
even
the
generality
of
them
in
a
short
time
were
satisfied
in
.
For
since
it
's
as
easie
for
the
Arctick
and
Antarctick
Poles
to
meet
together
;
or
for
the
East
and
West
to
be
in
Conjunction
,
as
to
reconcile
Infallibility
of
one
Religion
,
with
a
Toleration
of
all
;
the
necessity
of
Extirpating
all
Hereticks
,
with
a
Connivance
at
all
Heresies
;
all
were
easily
convinced
what
such
a
Toleration
tended
to
,
and
none
were
entrapped
in
the
Snare
,
or
trepanned
with
the
Cheat
,
but
a
few
hot-headed
Zealots
,
ready
to
Sacrifice
all
to
Ambition
and
Revenge
.
What
could
be
the
design
of
putting
Papists
in
for
Heads
of
Houses
,
Masters
and
Fellows
of
Colleges
,
in
our
famous
Universities
?
What
could
be
the
design
of
Erecting
a
High
Commission
Court
for
Ecclefiastical
Causes
,
for
the
suspending
and
depriving
of
Bishops
and
Clergy
;
which
was
justly
termed
the
New
Inquisition
of
England
?
Why
was
that
ensnaring
Declaration
so
violently
,
and
yet
so
unnecessarily
prest
upon
the
Clergy
,
to
be
read
in
Churches
;
and
Seven
Bishops
imprisoned
,
and
the
whole
Clergy
of
the
Kingdom
threatned
with
Deprivation
for
Non-Compliance
?
If
these
things
,
and
a
great
many
more
,
will
not
satisfie
men
,
That
there
was
a
real
Design
of
subverting
our
Religion
,
I
know
not
what
will
.
Yet
to
demonstrate
this
matter
to
the
full
,
consider
only
the
mighty
endeavours
that
were
used
to
abrogate
the
Penal
Laws
and
Test
;
in
which
the
King
used
so
much
industry
,
that
he
truly
took
methods
too
much
below
Royal
Dignity
to
effect
it
.
What
a
mean
office
for
a
King
to
become
an
earnest
Sollicitor
of
his
Subjects
,
to
that
which
they
could
not
in
Conscience
nor
Honour
yield
to
;
and
then
a
disobliger
of
all
his
Kingdom
,
for
removing
them
from
all
places
,
upon
so
necessary
a
refusal
!
The
design
must
be
mighty
great
,
when
Arts
both
so
mean
and
so
harsh
,
were
used
to
accomplish
it
.
But
this
was
it
;
The
Papists
had
then
stood
upon
even
ground
with
all
other
Subjects
;
and
the
great
advantage
of
Authority
on
their
side
,
would
quickly
have
raised
their
Ground
above
us
;
the
doors
of
both
Houses
of
Parliament
had
been
set
wide
open
to
them
,
whence
the
House
of
Peers
might
quickly
have
been
filled
with
new
Creations
,
and
the
House
of
Commons
as
quickly
made
Popish
by
Force
or
Fraud
in
Elections
,
Corporations
being
framed
and
regulated
agreeable
to
the
design
;
and
what
could
be
then
expected
,
but
a
sudden
Establishment
of
Popery
?
The
whole
Nation
did
see
this
Project
so
clearly
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
the
Dissenters
were
so
sensible
of
the
mischief
,
that
though
they
had
smarted
somewhat
hardly
under
the
Lash
of
the
Penal
Laws
but
a
little
while
before
,
yet
they
would
rather
venture
the
Continuance
of
them
,
than
run
the
hazard
of
ruining
the
substance
and
being
of
the
Protestant
Religion
amongst
us
;
nor
could
all
the
virulent
Pamphlets
thrown
about
to
exasperate
them
,
by
a
Tragical
Commemoration
of
their
former
Suffering
by
the
Penal
Laws
,
ever
perswade
them
so
far
out
of
their
Senses
,
as
not
to
be
fully
assured
,
that
the
Little
Finger
of
the
Popish
Inquisition
would
be
heavier
upon
them
,
than
the
Loins
of
all
the
Penal
Laws
made
since
the
Reformation
against
them
.
And
indeed
to
the
Fidelity
of
that
Party
at
that
Critical
time
,
are
we
to
ascribe
a
great
share
of
the
disappointment
the
Popish
Party
met
with
,
being
much
chafed
,
that
the
Grand
Cheat
of
the
Toleration
had
no
better
success
.
And
as
all
these
plain
matters
of
fact
,
are
more
than
sufficient
to
convince
us
of
the
Mischievous
Design
of
subverting
the
Established
Religion
in
these
Kingdoms
;
so
are
they
a
plain
and
evident
proof
,
that
there
was
certainly
a
Private
League
between
the
Late
King
James
and
the
French
King
for
bringing
this
to
pass
,
tho
there
were
nothing
else
to
evince
is
.
For
it
could
never
be
hoped
that
the
Popish
Party
here
in
England
could
do
it
,
their
Strength
and
Interest
were
not
sufficient
to
accomplish
such
a
Design
.
There
was
a
fine
Army
indeed
,
but
most
of
them
Protestants
,
who
would
hardly
be
commanded
by
Popish
Officers
,
to
ruine
their
Religion
;
for
men
must
certainly
fight
very
faintly
,
when
the
edge
of
their
Swords
is
turned
against
themselves
,
and
their
success
is
certain
desolation
to
their
Country
.
From
whence
one
of
these
two
things
must
follow
;
either
that
King
James
had
no
Resolution
to
change
the
Religion
of
this
Nation
,
the
contrary
of
which
appears
by
what
hath
been
said
;
and
besides
,
to
say
so
,
is
to
put
the
greatest
affront
and
dishonour
upon
the
Late
King
that
can
be
,
and
calls
his
Wisdom
and
Discretion
highly
in
question
,
in
the
conduct
of
his
Affairs
;
that
he
should
do
all
these
mean
,
harsh
,
and
suspitious
things
before
alledged
,
for
no
other
end
,
but
to
bring
an
obloquy
upon
himself
,
to
render
his
Government
uneasie
,
fearful
,
and
suspected
,
and
to
disoblige
all
the
three
Kingdoms
.
But
if
it
cannot
be
admitted
,
that
a
person
of
any
common
seuse
or
reason
,
should
be
guilty
of
so
much
Indiscretion
,
that
might
in
the
end
prove
so
fatal
to
himself
,
then
we
must
acknowledge
that
some
Foreign
Power
was
certainly
to
be
made
use
of
;
since
no
reasonable
man
proposeth
to
himself
any
end
,
but
withall
he
proposeth
means
proportionate
to
that
end
,
in
order
to
the
acquiring
of
it
:
and
now
we
would
fain
learn
,
what
other
Force
can
so
much
as
come
under
the
Probability
of
being
made
use
of
,
but
the
French
?
And
now
that
which
makes
this
Design
abundantly
the
more
inexcusable
in
it self
,
and
the
more
insupportable
to
us
,
is
this
;
That
this
Church
,
and
the
Religion
professed
in
it
,
run
such
a
great
hazard
from
a
Prince
,
from
whom
the
Members
of
that
Church
,
and
Professors
of
that
Religion
,
had
all
the
reason
in
the
world
to
expect
much
kinder
usage
.
For
I
am
sure
never
any
Prince
could
be
more
highly
obliged
by
Subjects
,
than
King
James
was
by
the
Members
of
the
Church
of
England
,
both
before
,
and
after
he
was
King.
Not
to
run
so
far
back
as
the
unhappy
Wars
in
his
Father's
time
of
ever
Blessed
and
Glorious
Memory
,
when
the
Church
of
England
was
ruined
,
and
a
great
many
of
the
Members
of
it
,
of
all
degrees
and
conditions
,
exposed
to
the
greatest
miseries
,
for
their
firm
adherence
to
the
Interest
of
the
Crown
.
Nor
yet
to
speak
of
his
Late
Majesty
King
Charles
the
Second's
happy
Restauration
;
it
's
enough
only
to
reflect
upon
our
dutiful
behaviour
to
King
James
himself
,
both
when
Duke
,
and
King.
Who
were
the
great
opposers
of
the
Bill
of
Exclusion
,
in
Parliament
,
both
in
the
House
of
Lords
and
Commons
,
and
out
of
Parliament
all
the
Kingdom
over
;
and
preferred
their
standing
fast
to
the
Duke's
Interest
at
that
time
,
to
all
their
own
Interest
in
the
World
:
What
Reproaches
,
Disgraces
,
Insolencies
,
nay
Threats
were
cast
upon
,
and
used
towards
us
,
we
very
well
remember
.
Was
there
ever
any
King
received
by
his
People
,
or
proclaimed
in
all
Places
,
with
greater
Satisfaction
,
Joy
and
Acclamations
,
than
he
was
?
For
who
then
doubted
of
the
Sincerity
of
King
James
the
Just
?
Who
were
they
that
so
readily
setled
the
Revenue
of
the
Crown
,
and
gave
larger
supplies
than
the
necessity
of
Affairs
required
?
Who
were
they
that
stood
the
Shock
,
and
ventured
their
Lives
in
suppressing
of
that
dangerous
Rebellion
of
Monmouth
?
Were
they
not
all
Members
of
the
Church
of
England
,
who
preserved
the
Crown
for
King
James
before
he
came
to
the
possession
of
it
,
by
opposing
the
Bill
of
Exclusion
;
and
kept
it
upon
his
Head
when
he
was
possessed
of
it
,
by
suppressing
Monmouth's
Rebellion
?
And
this
brings
to
my
mind
an
Expression
,
in
the
Oxford
Reasons
,
against
signing
the
Address
of
their
Bishop
Dr.
Parker
;
for
being
told
that
their
refusal
of
the
Address
would
exasperate
the
King
,
and
move
him
to
take
rougher
Methods
against
the
Church
;
their
Answer
was
,
That
if
the
remembrance
of
the
Services
of
the
Church
to
the
Crown
in
those
two
Affairs
,
of
the
Bill
of
Exclusion
,
and
Monmouth's
Rebellion
,
were
not
sufficient
to
secure
the
King's
kindness
to
,
and
protection
of
the
Church
of
England
and
its
Members
,
the
signing
of
such
insignificant
Addresses
would
never
do
it
;
and
truly
I
cannot
tell
what
else
could
do
it
.
But
the
truth
of
it
is
,
the
Papists
have
all
along
,
upon
all
occasions
so
ill
requited
the
Fidelity
of
the
Protestants
to
their
Popish
Princes
,
as
if
they
had
a
mind
never
more
to
be
obliged
in
that
nature
.
I
need
not
speak
of
the
obligations
put
upon
Queen
Mary
,
the
Daughter
of
Henry
the
Eighth
,
and
the
barbarous
usage
shewed
them
in
a
very
little
while
after
;
nor
of
former
dealings
of
that
kind
in
France
:
the
present
King
of
France
hath
demonstrated
this
to
the
full
;
he
ows
his
possession
of
the
Crown
of
France
,
and
consequently
all
his
Glory
he
so
proudly
boasts
of
,
to
the
firm
adherence
of
his
Protestant
Subjects
to
his
Interest
.
He
hath
several
times
publickly
owned
this
,
and
yet
his
Cruelty
to
them
hath
far
surpassed
all
Heathen
Barbarity
.
And
now
I
am
very
sorry
that
such
a
hearty
Endeavour
to
subvert
the
Religion
established
in
this
Church
,
which
could
not
be
,
without
the
ruine
of
those
,
to
whom
the
late
King
JAMES
was
so
highly
obliged
,
hath
given
such
another
fresh
Instance
,
that
Popery
will
not
suffer
Kings
so
much
as
to
be
grateful
to
their
Subjects
;
for
by
this
means
they
have
more
than
satisfied
the
World
,
that
it
's
utterly
unsafe
for
a
Protestant
Kingdom
to
be
under
the
Government
of
a
Popish
Prince
.
But
since
all
men
have
neither
that
knowledge
of
,
nor
that
zeal
for
their
Religion
,
that
it
were
heartily
to
be
wished
they
had
,
yet
every
man
is
very
sensible
,
when
their
Liberties
and
Properties
,
and
the
Laws
by
which
they
are
secured
,
are
invaded
:
and
lest
the
Endeavours
to
subvert
Religion
,
should
not
have
been
sufficient
to
have
provoked
the
Nation
,
there
was
added
to
this
a
plain
Invasion
of
the
Rights
of
the
Subject
,
and
of
the
Laws
upon
which
they
are
grounded
;
to
let
the
World
know
,
that
there
was
no
mistake
in
those
men
,
who
affirmed
,
that
Popery
could
never
be
introduced
into
this
Kingdom
,
unless
Slavery
ushered
it
in
.
It
were
endless
to
make
instances
of
this
;
the
Master
and
Fellows
of
Magdalen
Colledge
are
a
sufficient
proof
of
this
,
who
were
deprived
of
their
Freeholds
,
by
a
most
arbitrary
Sentence
of
a
Court
,
that
in
the
whole
constitution
of
it
,
was
utterly
illegal
;
and
in
an
Affair
of
this
nature
,
a
Judge
altogether
incompetent
;
where
the
Persons
concerned
were
admitted
to
no
legal
Tryal
,
before
the
competent
Judges
,
by
a
Jury
of
the
Vicinage
,
as
in
those
Cases
is
the
Law
of
the
Nation
;
but
were
removed
by
Persons
,
who
had
no
more
right
to
disposess
them
of
their
Freeholds
,
than
the
Persons
,
receiving
such
an
injurious
Sentence
,
had
to
dispossess
their
very
Judges
of
theirs
.
And
it
was
no
wonder
that
the
general
Cry
of
the
Nation
,
following
that
unjust
and
Arbitrary
Sentence
,
was
,
All
our
Freeholds
and
Estates
shake
by
this
Sentence
.
Another
proof
of
this
Invasion
of
our
Rights
and
Estates
was
,
the
most
exorbitant
and
extravagant
Fines
,
put
upon
persons
by
the
plain
Arbitrary
Will
of
the
Judges
,
as
if
they
would
declare
to
the
World
,
their
design
was
rather
to
ruine
the
Delinquent
,
than
punish
the
Delinquency
.
This
was
so
frequent
,
that
every
Term
shewed
how
easily
,
for
very
small
faults
,
men
might
be
ruined
in
their
Fortunes
in
a
trice
.
The
invading
the
Rights
of
Corporations
,
was
more
than
sufficient
proof
,
that
our
Liberties
,
Estates
and
Laws
were
in
the
greatest
hazard
.
The
despoiling
them
of
all
their
Ancient
Privileges
,
struck
at
the
very
Foundation
of
the
Government
it self
;
the
altering
all
the
Ancient
Prescriptions
in
choosing
of
persons
for
Representatives
in
Parliament
,
struck
at
the
very
Fountain
of
our
Laws
,
both
in
being
,
and
to
be
made
.
But
above
all
things
tending
to
the
ruine
of
all
our
Security
in
our
Laws
,
Liberties
and
Properties
,
none
is
more
worthy
of
our
serious
consideration
,
than
that
Hellow
of
Dispensing
Power
,
that
would
have
devoured
all
at
a
morsel
,
and
swallowed
all
at
one
draught
,
if
need
had
been
;
there
was
no
Law
,
no
Privilege
able
to
stand
in
the
way
of
this
Leviathan
.
This
was
such
a
Power
,
that
once
being
yielded
to
,
in
the
full
latitude
it
was
claimed
,
would
have
rendered
all
Laws
in
England
not
only
uncertain
and
insecure
,
but
utterly
needless
;
nay
,
altogether
ridiculous
.
For
to
what
purpose
should
the
Nation
be
put
to
so
much
trouble
and
charge
,
to
elect
Representatives
for
the
House
of
Commons
;
or
why
should
Persons
,
who
have
either
a
natural
Right
,
as
Noblemen
,
or
a
deputed
Right
,
as
Commoners
,
go
from
all
parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
to
enact
Laws
for
the
good
and
profit
of
the
Realm
,
if
the
Sovereign
Power
can
dispense
with
them
,
whenever
their
backs
are
turned
?
To
what
purpose
is
all
this
wast
?
Or
why
should
the
Nation
be
fooled
with
Laws
,
which
when
made
,
promise
us
the
greatest
security
,
in
all
things
that
are
most
valuable
;
when
in
the
mean
time
,
at
the
mere
will
of
the
Prince
in
dispensing
with
these
,
all
our
Security
is
turned
into
Despair
;
and
all
our
Expectations
,
grounded
on
those
Laws
,
wholly
frustrate
,
and
quite
blown
up
?
The
Imprisonment
of
the
Seven
Bishops
,
who
all
deserve
to
have
Statues
erected
to
their
Memories
,
for
so
couragiously
stemming
that
Tide
of
Oppression
,
that
was
like
to
have
sunk
us
into
the
deepest
miseries
both
in
our
Religious
and
Civil
Rights
:
This
Imprisonment
,
I
say
,
tho
it
was
dismal
and
gloomy
,
yet
blessed
be
God
,
their
Tryal
that
followed
upon
it
,
occasioned
the
absolute
baffling
of
that
Dispensing
Power
,
by
those
learned
and
stout
Gentlemen
,
their
Council
,
who
dared
at
such
a
time
,
to
vindicate
our
Laws
from
so
much
Violence
,
and
our
Liberties
from
such
Oppression
.
But
then
if
we
add
to
all
this
,
That
we
were
not
so
much
as
safe
in
our
Persons
and
Families
,
our
Condition
will
appear
the
more
deplorable
.
How
many
were
there
,
who
abandoned
their
Native
Country
,
upon
the
apprehension
of
those
Dangers
that
Innocency
it self
was
not
able
to
secure
them
from
?
Was
not
the
Lord
De
La
Mere
exposed
to
the
greatest
danger
by
a
false
Accusation
,
and
pressed
earnestly
to
acknowledg
a
Capital
Crime
,
of
which
in
the
end
he
was
found
innocent
?
Was
not
the
now
Reverend
Bishop
of
Salisbury
forced
to
fly
for
his
Life
,
and
could
hardly
obtain
the
liberty
of
breathing
in
a
Foreign
Air
,
or
the
benefit
of
the
Protection
of
Foreign
States
and
Princes
;
excepted
in
all
Acts
of
Grace
as
the
greatest
Criminal
?
And
yet
upon
the
strictest
enquiry
into
the
reason
,
why
Royal
Power
was
so
armed
against
this
Person
,
it
will
be
hard
to
find
any
other
,
than
this
,
that
he
was
the
Author
of
the
History
of
the
Reformation
;
which
will
be
a
sufficient
Monument
for
that
Great
Man
when
he
is
dead
,
and
for
his
undaunted
Courage
and
Zeal
for
,
and
great
Abilities
and
Industry
in
defending
a
Religion
his
then
Majesty
had
so
great
an
aversion
to
.
Add
to
this
,
the
cruel
Corporal
Punishments
,
inflicted
upon
several
Persons
both
in
City
and
Country
.
In
fine
,
The
unspeakable
Oppression
of
the
Souldiery
,
by
vertue
of
whose
quartering
at
pleasure
,
neither
men's
Families
or
Persons
were
secure
from
the
greatest
violence
;
most
of
the
Corporations
of
the
Kingdom
are
too
too
able
to
give
a
sad
and
deplorable
account
of
this
,
who
felt
the
Insolencies
of
Mercenary
men
,
permitted
in
all
their
Extravagant
Mischiefs
,
to
inure
the
Nation
by
degrees
to
Slavery
and
Oppression
.
I
know
that
many
will
not
be
pleased
with
such
a
representation
of
our
late
Miseries
;
But
they
must
pardon
us
,
if
we
judg
it
fit
to
reflect
upon
them
,
since
they
seem
so
extreamly
desirous
to
involve
us
in
them
again
.
For
upon
a
review
of
these
Particulars
,
which
are
undeniable
matters
of
Fact
,
we
cannot
possibly
think
that
a
continuance
in
such
a
miserable
Condition
,
was
,
or
is
,
or
can
be
a
desirable
State
,
tho
it
never
advanced
further
;
much
less
can
we
think
it
tolerable
,
when
the
whole
Nation
were
more
than
satisfied
,
that
these
were
but
the
beginning
of
those
Sorrows
we
had
such
a
dismal
Prospect
and
Apprehension
of
,
had
the
designs
afoot
made
a
further
Progress
;
And
we
would
pray
them
to
pardon
us
,
that
we
are
not
willing
to
be
so
treacherous
to
our selves
,
and
our
Posterity
,
as
to
throw
our selves
into
that
Misery
,
from
whence
we
have
been
so
miraculously
delivered
.
Now
,
tho
I
do
not
find
any
Man
that
will
take
upon
him
the
impossible
Task
of
justifying
these
Proceedings
;
but
rather
all
of
force
must
acknowledg
there
were
very
many
Male-administrations
in
the
Government
,
yet
they
strive
to
excuse
them
,
as
much
as
may
be
.
I
must
tell
them
,
would
the
matter
bear
it
,
we
would
be
as
willing
to
do
it
as
they
.
And
we
must
let
them
know
,
that
our
case
is
the
more
to
be
pitied
,
because
we
were
so
like
to
be
ruined
and
undone
by
a
Prince
,
whom
no
honest
Man
in
the
Nation
,
did
ever
so
much
as
desire
,
should
fall
into
those
misfortunes
that
have
overtaken
him
;
but
upon
the
contrary
,
were
extreamly
afflicted
,
to
see
a
●atal
necessity
of
the
ruin
of
either
King
or
Kingdom
in
a
very
short
time
,
and
would
most
willingly
have
contributed
our
utmost
to
the
preventing
of
it
,
had
it
lain
in
our
Power
.
But
this
is
the
misery
,
the
more
pains
men
take
to
palliate
these
things
,
the
more
still
it
appears
,
there
was
a
wilful
,
fixed
and
unmovable
Resolution
of
driving
these
things
to
the
height
.
For
while
it
's
said
,
That
the
Late
King
,
being
very
zealous
for
his
Religion
,
and
giving
the
Conduct
of
his
Conscience
to
the
guidance
of
men
sworn
to
that
interest
;
we
cannot
wonder
if
their
perpetual
solicitations
,
and
unwearied
importunities
,
highly
prevailed
upon
him
to
gratifie
their
desires
,
in
which
he
was
withal
satisfied
that
he
was
doing
God
singular
good
service
;
this
very
excuse
is
our
greatest
Complaint
.
For
was
it
not
easie
to
divine
what
a
Protestant
Nation
had
reason
to
expect
from
a
Prince
altogether
guided
by
those
who
have
sworn
their
destruction
?
And
the
very
taking
of
these
men
into
his
secretest
Councils
,
was
an
open
declaration
to
the
Three
Kingdoms
,
that
their
destruction
was
at
no
great
distance
;
for
we
know
,
and
all
the
World
knows
,
that
such
men
as
swarmed
about
Whitehall
,
were
employed
in
nothing
more
,
than
in
contriving
and
projecting
the
utter
destruction
of
Heresie
and
Hereticks
,
as
they
account
us
all
to
be
:
And
therefore
had
the
late
King
James
consulted
either
his
own
or
his
Peoples
safety
,
he
would
never
have
been
so
influenced
by
such
men
,
nor
given
the
least
suspicion
that
he
was
so
.
But
his
making
a
Jesuit
openly
a
great
Minister
of
State
,
whose
very
being
in
the
Kingdom
was
Treason
;
his
entertaining
openly
a
Nuntio
from
Rome
,
the
swarming
of
Priests
both
Regular
and
Secular
,
of
several
Orders
about
him
,
cannot
but
shew
that
their
Assumption
into
such
Privacy
,
so
destructive
to
his
People
,
was
really
a
matter
of
his
own
mere
choice
.
And
here
let
me
add
,
That
the
Priests
and
Jesuits
in
their
management
of
Affairs
in
the
late
King's
time
,
were
both
the
falsest
and
the
foolishest
men
in
the
world
,
tho
they
had
the
fairest
game
to
play
,
that
ever
men
in
their
Circumstances
could
wish
for
before
,
and
fairer
than
I
trust
they
will
ever
obtain
again
.
They
were
very
false
and
treacherous
to
their
great
Patron
and
Benefactor
;
for
they
consulted
their
own
interest
so
much
,
that
they
minded
neither
the
Honour
nor
Safety
of
their
King.
For
while
he
was
driving
so
Jehu
like
,
it
was
their
duty
faithfully
to
have
represented
to
him
,
what
was
like
to
be
the
issue
of
such
proceedings
,
what
dishonour
the
so
frequent
breach
of
his
Word
must
be
,
and
how
fatally
dangerous
the
exasperating
of
three
Kingdoms
must
be
;
and
therefore
seriously
to
have
advised
him
to
slower
and
milder
methods
;
and
to
have
declared
their
satisfaction
,
that
they
had
rather
commit
the
great
design
its
self
to
the
Divine
Providence
,
in
methods
more
agreeable
to
the
Genius
of
the
Nation
,
than
hazard
his
Majesties
Honour
and
Safety
in
such
violent
and
harsh
measures
.
But
the
truth
of
it
is
,
they
saw
they
had
nothing
to
rely
upon
,
but
the
King's
Life
;
and
that
was
as
uncertain
as
any
other
mans
;
and
therefore
they
were
willing
to
drive
at
all
furiously
:
For
(
say
they
)
if
we
succeed
,
we
have
our
aim
,
the
day
is
our
own
;
if
not
,
we
know
the
worst
of
it
,
we
are
but
where
we
were
;
we
can
as
easily
retire
to
the
Cells
we
crept
from
,
as
we
left
them
;
but
whether
the
King
sink
or
swim
,
is
the
least
of
our
concerns
.
And
ah
!
that
these
Wretches
had
fallen
alone
,
without
drawing
such
a
Prince
into
such
misfortunes
with
them
,
by
their
precipitate
Counsels
!
Let
this
therefore
be
for
ever
another
instance
of
Popish
Treachery
and
Falshood
to
their
Princes
;
for
these
men
always
act
as
if
they
gloried
in
being
the
Instruments
of
the
Destruction
of
Kings
,
or
Kingdoms
,
or
Both.
And
as
they
were
the
falsest
Men
to
their
Prince
,
so
they
were
the
foolishest
;
for
never
Men
took
so
improper
means
to
attain
their
Ends
,
as
they
did
.
In
truth
they
left
nothing
undone
,
which
any
man
could
wish
them
to
do
,
who
never
so
earnestly
wished
a
disappointment
of
all
their
Designs
;
as
a
Reverend
Divine
and
great
Man
of
our
Church
said
,
in
his
Sermon
on
the
Thanksgiving-day
,
they
were
Politicians
by
Book
,
and
never
consulted
the
Genius
and
Humour
of
that
People
they
had
to
do
with
.
It
may
be
they
are
thought
very
wise
Men
and
great
Politicians
in
other
Countreys
,
but
they
can
never
in
England
expect
any
thing
but
the
reputation
of
the
most
imprudent
and
unpolitick
of
Men
;
and
I
hope
this
great
Instance
will
be
sufficient
to
convince
all
Princes
,
how
unsafe
it
is
for
them
to
trust
Men
of
little
Honesty
,
and
less
Discretion
.
If
it
be
again
said
,
That
the
late
King
,
in
all
these
things
so
deservedly
decried
,
was
inform'd
of
the
Legality
of
them
by
his
Judges
,
whose
Advice
in
the
like
Cases
all
our
Kings
have
relied
upon
;
so
if
he
erred
,
it
was
their
fault
;
and
besides
,
such
as
do
unlawful
things
by
the
King's
Command
,
are
liable
to
answer
for
it
notwithstanding
,
but
not
the
King
Himself
.
To
this
the
Answer
is
very
easie
:
The
whole
Nation
knoweth
very
well
,
that
when
the
Judges
at
any
time
gave
just
and
good
Advice
,
according
to
the
Law
,
and
the
best
of
their
knowledge
,
if
it
thwarted
the
Design
intended
,
there
was
a
Quietus
ready
at
hand
for
their
descent
from
the
Bench
;
and
thus
,
the
whole
Reign
of
King
James
,
there
was
a
perpetual
Change
of
the
Judges
,
till
they
were
so
modelled
,
as
to
secure
the
Interest
driven
at
;
nay
in
the
very
last
famous
Tryal
of
the
Seven
Bishops
,
all
know
,
that
two
of
the
Judges
were
immediately
removed
,
for
giving
their
Opinion
contrary
to
that
Interest
.
So
that
it
is
extremely
plain
,
the
King
was
not
advised
by
his
Judges
,
but
the
Judges
by
him
,
how
they
should
act
at
their
Perils
,
and
he
would
have
no
other
than
such
as
would
serve
his
design
;
as
for
such
as
acted
by
his
Authority
,
either
in
Civil
or
Military
Affairs
,
it
's
plain
few
or
none
were
allowed
of
,
but
such
as
would
serve
the
Popish
Interest
;
what
meant
else
the
Change
of
Charters
;
the
Regulating
of
Corporations
;
the
so
frequent
alterations
of
the
Governors
of
them
;
the
removing
of
all
Officers
that
would
not
comply
;
the
previous
Questions
put
so
diligently
all
over
the
Kingdom
,
to
Deputy-Lieutenants
,
Officers
of
the
Militia
,
Justices
of
Peace
,
Magistrates
of
Cities
and
Boroughs
,
concerning
Elections
of
future
Members
of
Parliament
?
The
King
then
was
so
far
from
suffering
Persons
to
be
brought
to
Tryal
for
their
unjust
and
illegal
Actions
,
that
as
he
would
have
no
other
Persons
in
his
Service
,
so
he
avowed
their
Protection
.
In
vain
it
was
to
expect
a
redress
of
these
things
,
since
even
in
the
beginning
of
that
Reign
,
when
that
King
was
so
much
obliged
to
the
Fidelity
of
the
Nation
,
for
opposing
the
Duke
of
Monmouth
so
vigorously
,
yet
that
very
House
of
Commons
,
who
but
a
little
while
before
,
was
so
highly
cajolled
and
caressed
by
the
King
,
went
away
with
a
Repulse
to
their
honest
Address
,
against
Papists
bearing
Offices
without
legal
Qualifications
,
and
in
a
sew
days
after
,
he
prorogued
them
,
and
never
met
them
more
.
Since
then
,
the
late
King
would
have
no
other
Persons
to
serve
him
,
nor
any
in
places
of
Trust
,
but
such
as
highly
disserved
the
Nation
;
since
he
protected
such
Persons
in
all
their
illegal
Proceedings
;
certainly
all
they
did
,
is
clearly
imputable
to
himself
,
for
so
he
would
have
it
,
and
no
otherwise
.
In
fine
,
while
it
's
said
,
King
James
was
lawful
King
of
England
,
accountable
to
none
for
his
Actions
,
but
God
only
;
that
all
we
had
to
do
,
was
to
submit
either
Actively
or
Passively
;
that
our
Oaths
had
obliged
us
against
all
Resistance
of
his
Majesty
,
or
those
commissioned
by
him
;
and
therefore
let
the
worst
be
supposed
that
can
be
,
we
cannot
justify
our
reliction
of
him
,
or
transferring
our
Allegiance
from
him
.
Now
in
the
first
place
,
this
is
a
plain
acknowledgment
,
That
we
had
very
great
cause
of
complaining
;
and
only
helps
us
with
this
Accumulation
of
our
Misery
,
we
have
no
possibility
of
Redress
.
Now
it
's
a
desperate
Condition
a
Prince
is
brought
to
,
that
the
only
Justification
of
his
Proceedings
,
consists
in
asserting
an
unlimited
and
uncontroulable
Power
;
and
indeed
,
it
is
much
the
worse
,
when
this
is
done
to
a
Nation
that
never
have
,
nor
never
will
acknowledg
themselves
to
be
Slaves
to
be
ruled
by
the
Arbitrary
and
Despotick
Power
of
their
King
;
but
are
Subjects
governed
by
their
King
in
the
Execution
of
the
Laws
of
the
Land
.
Again
,
There
is
nothing
more
certain
than
this
,
That
there
is
so
great
reference
to
be
had
to
Governors
and
Government
,
that
every
small
irregularity
in
Government
ought
not
to
lessen
the
Affection
or
Fidelity
of
Subjects
,
such
as
Injuries
accruing
only
to
some
private
Persons
;
or
if
they
be
of
a
publick
and
general
Nature
,
yea
,
even
against
Laws
in
force
;
yet
,
if
it
be
in
matters
of
small
concern
and
importance
,
it
is
rather
to
be
born
with
,
than
the
Peace
of
the
Government
to
be
disturbed
;
it
is
in
such
Cases
duly
to
be
considered
,
that
nothing
perfect
is
to
be
found
under
the
Sun
;
that
Changes
and
Alterations
upon
such
small
accounts
,
would
render
Government
very
unsteady
and
uneasy
,
to
the
main
end
of
it
,
which
is
the
peace
of
Mankind
.
But
,
what
if
the
Case
be
such
,
that
there
is
no
less
attempted
than
the
ruin
of
Souls
and
Bodies
,
and
Fortunes
,
of
far
the
greatest
part
of
the
Subjects
?
What
if
those
Laws
are
laid
aside
,
and
rendred
useless
,
which
were
enacted
of
set
purpose
,
to
secure
the
Religion
and
Property
of
all
the
Subjects
,
without
ever
consulting
the
Legislative
Power
;
nay
,
after
a
great
part
of
that
Power
hath
remonstrated
against
it
?
What
if
such
Courses
be
taken
,
as
perfectly
destroys
the
very
being
of
Parliaments
,
and
makes
a
summoning
of
them
utterly
impracticable
,
according
to
the
Fundamental
Constitutions
of
the
Kingdom
?
Does
not
these
,
and
such
like
Proceedings
,
perfectly
dissolve
the
Government
to
our
hands
,
and
deprive
the
King
of
the
best
Security
he
hath
for
his
Crown
,
to
wit
,
the
Security
of
the
Laws
so
dissolved
?
And
that
this
was
our
Case
,
is
apparent
by
what
is
before
written
:
And
this
brings
to
my
mind
,
a
saying
of
the
late
King
James
,
at
his
first
Accession
to
the
Crown
,
That
he
desired
to
be
no
greater
King
,
than
the
Laws
of
England
made
him
;
and
upon
my
Conscience
had
he
continued
always
in
that
mind
,
and
acted
accordingly
,
he
might
,
nay
,
he
would
have
Reigned
a
Glorious
King
,
to
the
great
Joy
and
Satisfaction
of
all
his
Subjects
.
I
suppose
it
will
be
granted
,
That
the
end
of
all
Government
is
the
Protection
and
Peace
,
and
Security
of
the
People
,
by
governing
of
them
agreeably
to
the
Laws
enacted
for
that
end
;
now
,
if
this
end
cease
,
and
all
things
be
acted
contrary
,
is
there
not
an
end
of
that
Government
,
with
relation
to
the
Peoples
concerns
in
it
?
And
in
such
case
,
what
can
reasonably
be
expected
from
them
by
the
Laws
of
God
,
of
Nature
,
and
Self-preservation
,
the
first
and
great
Principle
of
Nature
,
but
that
they
should
look
for
better
terms
where
they
may
have
them
?
All
this
whole
matter
is
grounded
upon
a
false
Opinion
of
Government
being
Jure
Divino
,
even
with
relation
to
the
species
or
kind
of
Government
;
nay
,
to
the
very
Person
or
Family
regnant
;
than
which
there
cannot
well
be
a
greater
Paradox
;
for
tho
it
be
most
true
,
that
Government
in
general
,
is
of
Divine
and
Natural
Right
;
yet
all
the
World
will
never
be
able
to
make
either
of
these
two
things
appear
,
viz.
either
that
this
or
that
Species
of
Government
,
is
of
such
a
right
;
for
example
,
Monarchy
in
contradistinction
to
all
other
;
or
much
less
,
that
this
or
that
family
or
person
hath
such
a
Divine
or
natural
right
to
such
or
such
a
Kingdom
or
Dominion
:
for
upon
this
Principle
we
condemn
all
other
kinds
of
Government
as
sinful
;
we
oblige
our selves
to
perpetuate
the
Succession
of
the
same
Family
,
in
a
direct
Line
,
in
the
same
Dominion
;
a
thing
by
the
experience
of
all
Ages
known
to
be
impossible
,
and
of
which
this
Kingdom
,
on
several
occasions
,
hath
taken
very
little
notice
.
For
he
is
a
mighty
stranger
to
the
English
Histories
,
who
knows
not
that
some
Persons
have
been
removed
from
the
Administration
of
the
Regal
Power
,
by
the
Authority
of
Parliament
;
and
others
Crowned
in
their
stead
,
while
the
former
were
in
being
:
and
likewise
in
the
Succession
of
the
Crown
,
little
regard
hath
been
had
to
the
next
in
Proximity
of
Blood
,
whatever
outcry
we
make
now
;
and
certainly
when
it
was
Enacted
in
Queen
Elizabeth's
time
,
That
it
should
be
a
Praemunire
for
any
person
to
affirm
,
That
it
was
not
in
the
power
of
the
Parliament
to
settle
the
Succession
of
the
Crown
,
they
were
far
from
dreaming
of
this
Chimaera
of
Divine
Right
.
And
certainly
when
a
Parliament
in
Henry
the
8th's
time
gave
that
King
Power
to
settle
the
manner
of
the
Succession
,
and
nominate
the
Successors
as
he
thought
fit
,
they
were
far
from
this
Divine
Right
too
.
Nay
,
this
Opinion
that
men
would
so
fain
impose
upon
us
,
is
destructive
of
all
Right
of
Conquest
or
Prescription
;
for
against
Divine
and
Natural
Right
,
none
of
these
are
prevalent
;
for
still
the
former
Obligation
remains
to
the
kind
of
Government
and
Family
pleading
such
a
Divine
Right
;
which
would
be
so
far
from
conducing
to
the
Peace
of
Mankind
,
the
great
End
of
all
Government
,
that
it
would
certainly
perpetuate
Blood
,
War
,
and
lasting
Confusions
.
In
a
word
,
I
am
sure
our
Government
is
such
,
as
will
acknowledge
,
That
the
Kings
of
England
are
bound
to
govern
their
People
,
not
as
they
please
,
but
according
to
the
Laws
of
the
Land
:
Now
I
would
fain
ask
these
few
Questions
upon
this
Concession
,
Whether
it
be
just
,
that
the
King
should
be
absolutely
secured
by
the
peoples
Oath
of
Fidelity
to
him
;
and
if
they
break
it
,
Gibbets
,
Axes
,
Whipping-Posts
,
Pillories
,
Exile
,
Confiscations
of
Goods
,
are
their
just
and
deserved
Punishments
;
and
yet
the
People
should
have
no
Security
in
the
Earth
,
by
any
Oaths
the
King
makes
to
them
,
but
he
is
still
at
his
liberty
to
break
them
,
and
the
People
without
all
possibility
of
redress
,
if
he
do
so
?
And
consequently
,
Whether
the
Coronation-Oath
be
a
meer
matter
of
form
,
and
administred
only
to
mock
God
and
the
Nation
;
since
after
all
,
the
King
may
at
pleasure
break
it
,
and
the
whole
Kingdom
hath
no
remedy
but
God
help
?
Whether
when
Christ
and
his
Apostles
prescribed
to
us
general
Rules
of
Subjection
and
Obedience
to
Government
;
they
did
not
leave
the
several
Nations
in
the
possession
of
those
Civil
Rights
they
enjoy'd
notwithstanding
,
but
engag'd
Mankind
to
be
all
Slaves
to
the
Lust
and
Will
of
their
Governours
,
without
possibility
of
controul
?
Whether
any
acting
in
this
Kingdom
by
an
illegal
Commission
,
can
possibly
be
esteemed
to
act
by
the
King's
Commission
,
which
we
are
sworn
not
to
resist
;
since
it
's
certain
that
all
Illegal
Commissions
are
null
and
void
in
themselves
,
and
that
Men
are
bound
to
resist
such
in
their
own
defence
;
since
the
Subject
is
never
to
suppose
any
private
Will
of
the
King
in
the
governing
of
his
People
,
contrary
to
the
publick
Will
of
his
Laws
;
and
is
always
to
be
supposed
,
that
he
who
takes
upon
him
the
just
defence
of
the
Laws
,
is
so
far
from
resisting
the
King
,
that
he
is
really
defending
of
him
?
If
the
Case
be
not
thus
,
then
we
certainly
are
commanded
to
swear
,
and
actually
do
swear
,
to
expose
our
Persons
,
Families
,
Fortunes
,
Laws
,
Liberties
,
nay
Religion
it self
,
to
as
many
Mens
Wills
as
may
have
the
Conscience
to
act
against
us
,
or
ruine
us
in
any
or
all
these
particulars
by
Illegal
Commissions
.
In
fine
,
Whether
the
King
's
being
generally
said
to
do
no
wrong
,
be
not
to
be
interpreted
,
either
because
he
most
commonly
employs
other
persons
in
the
execution
of
his
Commands
,
either
Legal
or
Illegal
;
or
else
in
respect
that
the
King
being
sworn
to
govern
by
Law
,
he
is
not
to
be
supposed
to
act
against
it
?
If
the
First
,
then
they
that
execute
illegal
Commands
,
are
liable
to
be
called
in
question
and
punished
for
so
doing
;
but
if
the
King
protecting
them
with
all
his
Power
,
prevent
this
Justice
,
doth
he
not
then
make
these
Illegal
Executions
his
own
,
whether
we
will
or
no
?
If
the
Second
,
then
we
are
to
conclude
,
That
no
Illegal
Act
is
a
Regal
Act
;
and
consequently
,
if
a
King
either
by
Himself
,
or
by
Others
commissionated
by
him
,
oppress
and
ruine
his
People
in
all
particulars
that
are
of
greatest
concern
to
Mankind
,
he
so
far
Unkings
himself
,
and
puts
his
People
upon
an
absolute
necessity
of
Self-defence
.
As
for
the
lawfulness
of
transferring
our
Allegiance
to
Their
present
Majesties
,
the
Reverend
Bishop
of
Salisbury
,
in
his
excellent
Letter
to
his
Clergy
,
hath
so
fully
cleared
that
Point
,
that
it
were
presumption
in
me
further
to
undertake
the
Defence
of
it
.
Let
me
only
add
,
That
the
late
King
shewed
the
most
fixed
Resolution
in
the
World
,
by
his
going
to
France
;
for
what
was
this
,
but
rather
than
suffer
any
Redress
of
the
insupportable
Grievances
of
his
People
,
he
would
rather
forsake
and
abandon
them
,
and
apply
himself
to
the
sworn
Enemy
of
his
Kingdoms
,
both
in
their
Religion
and
Civil
Rights
?
King
James
sent
to
the
Prince
of
Orange
some
Noblemen
to
treat
with
him
,
but
had
not
the
patience
to
stay
long
after
the
Answer
;
but
rather
than
listen
to
the
calling
of
a
Free
Parliament
,
withdrew
himself
voluntarily
,
when
no
Enemy
was
near
him
.
His
coming
back
again
to
Whitehall
was
a
meer
force
put
upon
him
;
for
at
Feversham
,
when
Persons
of
Quality
in
those
parts
tendred
him
their
best
Service
,
his
constant
Answer
was
,
The
most
acceptable
service
you
can
do
me
,
is
to
facilitate
my
departure
,
and
procure
means
for
my
going
beyond
Sea
:
And
whatever
noise
is
made
about
his
leaving
Whitehall
the
second
time
,
yet
it
's
plain
his
resolution
was
still
to
depart
,
as
a
thing
he
was
before
most
solemnly
engaged
to
do
;
and
so
to
leave
his
People
,
rather
than
enter
upon
fair
and
legal
ways
of
giving
them
satisfaction
:
and
this
the
Lords
and
Commons
in
Convention
,
as
freely
chosen
as
ever
Representatives
were
to
any
Parliament
in
England
,
have
avowed
to
be
an
Abdication
of
his
Government
,
and
Vacating
of
his
Throne
.
And
I
would
know
but
these
two
things
in
this
particular
,
Whether
,
in
the
condition
we
were
left
by
the
King's
departure
,
any
better
,
juster
,
or
speedier
course
could
be
taken
,
to
save
the
Nation
from
those
Miseries
and
Confusions
it
must
necessarily
have
fallen
into
,
in
that
state
of
Anarchy
the
King
left
us
,
than
that
of
calling
such
a
Convention
?
And
then
,
Whether
such
a
Convention
,
so
freely
called
and
chosen
,
when
met
,
doth
not
conclude
the
Nation
by
their
Resolutions
,
since
all
knew
their
Election
was
for
this
very
purpose
,
to
restore
us
the
Happiness
of
a
settled
State
,
and
by
electing
of
them
,
included
Themselves
and
their
Consents
to
their
Resolves
,
as
much
as
ever
they
did
in
other
Elections
to
Parliament
.
As
for
those
Redresses
that
were
made
just
upon
the
News
of
the
Prince's
Intention
for
England
,
they
were
done
at
such
a
time
as
too
plainly
shewed
it
to
be
the
product
of
Fear
and
Necessity
,
not
of
Choice
;
and
it
's
well
known
,
that
what
Kings
in
straits
are
forced
to
do
;
when
free
,
they
voluntarily
and
readily
undo
;
and
the
worst
wish
I
wish
King
James
is
,
That
what
he
did
then
,
he
had
done
a
twelve-month
before
;
tho
even
then
the
greatest
matters
continued
as
they
were
,
viz.
Persons
in
all
Offices
of
Trust
without
legal
qualifications
,
by
virtue
of
the
Dispensing
Power
,
then
not
in
the
least
disowned
.
By
what
I
have
said
,
it
plainly
appears
,
that
our
Condition
,
when
their
Majesties
arrived
here
,
was
most
deplorable
,
without
any
hope
of
a
redress
,
our
Miseries
daily
growing
upon
us
;
and
it
's
not
uneasie
for
any
man
to
divine
,
what
our
Case
must
certainly
have
been
,
had
not
God
raised
up
this
mighty
Deliverer
,
our
present
King
,
to
put
a
stop
to
those
unhappy
Proceedings
;
and
if
we
be
so
insensible
of
this
great
Deliverance
▪
and
so
soon
have
forgot
our
former
Thraldom
,
and
our
just
fears
of
worse
;
I
can
say
no
more
,
but
that
we
are
as
bad
as
the
Israeliets
,
desiring
Egypt
again
,
when
their
faces
were
towards
Canaan
;
and
lusting
for
the
Flesh-pots
there
,
when
they
were
feeding
on
Angels
Food
.
And
so
I
come
to
shew
the
danger
of
our
Relapse
,
by
considering
the
happy
Estate
and
Condition
we
are
in
by
this
blessed
Revolution
.
We
may
take
up
in
these
Nations
that
Song
of
David
,
When
the
Lord
turned
again
the
Captivity
of
Sion
,
then
were
we
like
unto
them
that
dream
.
The
Deliverance
was
so
strange
and
wonderful
,
that
it
appeared
plainly
the
Lord's
doing
,
and
therefore
marvelous
in
our
eyes
.
We
may
look
upon
the
Providence
that
gave
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
our
now
most
Gracious
King
,
so
just
a
right
to
succour
us
,
as
wonderful
,
even
that
happy
day
,
wherein
the
Auspicious
Marriage
of
that
Royal
Pair
was
consummated
,
to
the
great
joy
and
lasting
security
of
the
Peace
and
Happiness
of
these
Nations
.
This
was
,
I
am
sure
,
a
great
earnest
of
the
Divine
Goodness
,
and
a
happy
Omen
of
this
blessed
Fruit
of
it
.
I
know
not
what
to
admire
most
at
in
this
prodigious
Deliverance
;
That
a
matter
of
so
great
importance
,
that
must
of
necessity
be
communicated
to
several
persons
both
at
home
and
abroad
,
should
take
no
air
all
the
while
,
till
just
it
was
ready
to
be
executed
;
so
that
the
Deliverance
was
sudden
and
unexpected
,
no-ways
looked
for
at
that
time
,
or
in
that
manner
,
is
scarce
to
be
exemplified
:
the
means
used
to
effect
this
Design
,
being
so
unproportionate
to
this
great
end
designed
,
makes
the
success
a
Prodigy
.
The
extent
of
this
Blessing
is
not
the
least
thing
considerable
in
it
;
it
is
general
to
the
whole
Nation
,
every
one
shares
in
the
Deliverance
;
those
only
excepted
,
that
would
fain
have
made
us
miserable
.
For
as
the
Religion
and
Civil
Interests
of
all
were
equally
in
danger
,
so
the
Security
of
both
is
extensive
to
all
:
Nay
,
this
Revolution
secures
Truth
,
and
the
Profession
of
it
,
to
other
Nations
;
for
it
's
well
known
what
hazard
the
Protestant
Religion
every-where
had
been
in
,
had
it
been
subverted
in
this
famous
Island
.
And
therefore
,
however
ungrateful
we
may
be
,
who
yet
have
the
more
immediate
advantage
of
it
;
yet
I
am
sure
all
Protestant
Europe
are
li●ting
up
their
Hearts
,
Hands
and
Tongues
in
the
Praises
of
the
God
of
Truth
,
who
hath
so
signally
appeared
for
our
Deliverance
;
and
in
that
,
for
their
security
.
Let
us
look
upon
our
present
Condition
;
Would
we
be
content
to
be
happy
,
and
compare
it
to
what
we
were
a
Twelve-Month
ago
?
then
we
were
almost
in
Despair
,
sadly
thinking
with
our selves
,
to
what
strange
Countries
we
should
repair
to
avoid
the
impending
Storm
;
our
Bishops
were
thrown
into
Prisons
,
our
Clergy
threatned
with
Deprivations
and
Suspensions
,
our
Universities
pursued
with
Quo
Warranto's
,
our
Colledges
invaded
by
the
Locusts
of
Egypt
;
the
Abomination
of
the
Mass
,
and
Idolatry
and
Superstition
of
Popery
set
up
in
all
the
Corners
of
City
and
Countrey
;
our
Judges
carrying
about
Shavelings
,
to
preach
before
them
in
their
Circuits
;
and
they
themselves
in
their
Charges
,
at
Assizes
,
preaching
Sermons
of
Transubstantiation
,
and
Submission
to
the
See
of
Rome
:
Protestants
discountenanced
,
discarded
,
disgraced
;
Papists
every
where
,
in
City
,
in
Countrey
,
in
Court
,
in
Armies
,
in
Forts
,
in
Navies
,
in
Corporations
,
in
Counties
,
lording
it
over
us
.
Parliaments
intended
us
worse
than
none
,
the
Complement
of
our
Miseries
being
expected
from
them
,
as
Elections
were
then
ordered
;
which
made
all
good
Men
wish
from
their
Souls
,
That
whatever
our
Condition
was
,
or
might
be
,
yet
we
might
never
see
a
Parliament
sit
in
England
,
during
King
James
the
Second's
Reign
;
since
they
would
never
be
suffered
to
do
us
good
,
and
in
all
probability
could
not
fail
in
doing
us
much
harm
.
The
Case
is
quite
altered
now
,
as
is
obvious
at
first
sight
;
our
Religion
hath
the
greatest
Security
,
our
Bishops
and
Clergy
the
greatest
Protection
,
our
Vacant
Bishopricks
are
filled
with
the
most
wise
and
learned
of
the
Clergy
,
Colledges
are
restored
to
their
proper
Owners
;
the
Idolatry
of
Popery
dare
not
shew
it self
any where
;
the
Wind
hath
blown
these
Locusts
of
Priests
,
Jesuits
,
&c.
beyond
the
Seas
,
to
their
former
Lurking-Places
;
every
one
sits
safe
under
his
own
Vine
,
enjoying
securely
the
Liberty
of
an
Englishman
,
the
Property
he
is
possest
of
;
our
Councils
,
Navies
,
Armies
,
Magistrates
,
are
Protestants
;
and
a
Security
to
our
Religion
,
dearer
to
us
than
our
Lives
:
our
Judges
are
as
at
the
first
,
and
our
Counsellors
as
at
the
beginning
.
Pray
Gentlemen
recount
with
your Selves
,
What
was
our
greatest
Hope
,
our
only
Comfort
on
Earth
,
in
those
Days
of
our
Dustress
?
What
was
it
that
sustained
our
Spirits
and
delivered
us
from
utter
Dispair
?
What
did
we
discourse
of
every-where
to
one
another
,
as
the
sole
Foundation
of
our
Hopes
of
Freedom
and
Relief
?
Was
it
not
that
the
King
was
a
Mortal
Man
,
and
after
him
we
had
a
Reserve
of
the
Prince
and
Princess
of
Orange
for
our
Security
?
How
often
then
did
we
cast
our
Eyes
and
Hearts
upon
the
Belgick
Shore
,
trusting
that
at
last
the
Providence
of
God
would
whaft
over
that
blessed
Pair
to
the
lasting
Joy
of
this
British
Island
?
The
Papists
knew
this
very
well
,
and
could
never
think
themselves
safe
,
till
these
Princes
Interests
were
defeated
,
and
thereby
,
as
they
thought
,
all
our
Hopes
frustrate
.
But
God
that
brings
Good
out
of
the
greatest
Evil
,
by
his
infinite
Wisdom
and
Power
,
converted
that
Project
by
which
they
intended
to
perpetuate
the
Slavery
of
these
Nations
,
to
an
accelerating
or
hastening
our
Deliverance
,
sooner
than
ever
we
hoped
for
it
;
for
never
was
there
a
juster
Cause
given
any
Prince
,
to
quarrel
with
a
Possessor
,
than
was
given
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
when
he
saw
not
only
all
our
Laws
violated
,
and
the
People
of
England
enslaved
,
but
likewise
his
just
Interest
in
the
Crown
,
in
Right
of
his
Princess
the
immediate
Heir
,
so
violently
invaded
,
without
any
Satisfaction
given
,
usual
in
such
Cases
,
of
the
Sincerity
of
that
Affair
of
the
pretended
Prince
of
Wales
;
in
which
not
only
this
whole
Nation
was
violently
suspicious
,
upon
very
great
Grounds
,
but
likewise
the
intended
Fraud
was
the
Discourse
of
Europe
.
This
Matter
hath
been
sufficiently
written
of
,
and
for
my
part
,
if
there
were
no
more
to
create
a
Diffidence
in
me
not
possible
of
receiving
any
Satisfaction
,
this
would
be
more
than
sufficient
,
that
I
never
heard
of
any
Satisfaction
given
,
to
the
Great
and
Vertuous
Lady
the
Princess
Ann
of
Denmark
in
this
whole
Affair
;
and
yet
it
was
highly
just
she
should
have
received
it
,
in
respect
of
her
Proximity
to
the
Crown
;
and
likewise
in
regard
of
that
Fruitful
Womb
,
God
hath
been
pleased
to
bless
her
Highness
with
,
whose
Children
have
a
very
fair
Prospect
to
the
Royal
Inheritance
:
it
had
been
likewise
very
easy
to
have
done
it
,
because
her
Highness
was
perpetually
upon
the
very
place
where
the
Scene
was
acting
,
just
till
the
time
of
its
finishing
,
and
then
it
was
most
necessary
she
should
have
been
there
;
and
it
's
impossible
to
imagine
,
had
it
been
a
real
Thing
,
care
would
have
been
taken
that
she
should
have
been
present
;
but
on
the
other
Hand
,
if
it
was
not
real
,
then
it
was
altogether
necessary
,
that
of
all
Persons
she
should
be
out
of
the
way
,
and
such
care
was
accordingly
taken
:
And
as
her
Satisfaction
was
both
just
and
easy
,
so
it
would
have
been
of
mighty
advantage
to
the
convincing
of
the
Nation
of
the
Truth
of
it
,
her
Highnesse's
Evidence
would
have
been
of
more
weight
,
than
all
those
at
Council-Board
,
in
respect
none
will
bear
witness
against
their
own
Interest
,
especially
in
a
matter
of
so
great
Moment
,
unless
it
be
very
true
.
All
the
answer
ever
I
could
hear
to
this
most
material
ground
of
Suspicion
,
is
,
either
that
there
was
no
Obligation
to
give
any
such
Satisfaction
,
or
that
the
Princess
did
not
desire
it
,
and
was
not
curious
of
being
satisfied
.
To
which
this
is
only
fit
to
be
said
by
way
of
Reply
,
that
the
first
is
a
desperate
,
and
the
second
a
senseless
Answer
.
Is
it
not
then
a
great
Favour
of
God
to
us
,
that
the
Deliverance
we
so
earnestly
wished
,
and
the
Persons
on
whom
our
Eyes
were
fixed
,
are
thus
come
to
our
Deliverance
?
our
very
Enemies
hastening
it
sooner
than
ever
we
looked
for
it
.
Is
it
not
the
Joy
of
all
good
Men
,
who
love
the
Prosperity
of
our
Sion
,
and
pray
for
her
Peace
,
to
see
a
Protestant
King
and
Queen
in
England
,
a
Happiness
Britain
hath
not
been
favoured
with
,
since
the
Death
of
Queen
Ann
the
Wife
of
King
James
the
First
?
We
have
no
Dalilah
in
the
Bosom
of
our
Sampson
,
to
allure
him
to
betray
his
own
and
the
Nations
Strength
,
that
we
may
be
the
easier
Prey
to
the
Philistines
:
The
Marriage
of
our
Kings
,
to
Ladies
of
the
Popish
Persuasion
,
hath
been
so
plain
a
Cause
of
the
Nations
Misery
,
that
we
have
great
cause
to
rejoice
in
so
happy
a
sight
,
as
both
King
and
Queen
to
be
of
the
same
Religion
,
and
that
which
is
the
professed
and
established
Religion
of
their
Kingdoms
:
and
it
s
greatly
to
be
hoped
,
the
Wisdom
of
our
Parliament
will
make
it
no
small
part
of
their
Care
,
to
prevent
the
Mischiefs
that
have
so
constantly
attended
our
Kings
being
so
unequally
yoked
.
Our
King
and
Queen
draw
not
now
several
Ways
,
their
Principles
are
the
same
;
as
they
are
in
Bed
and
at
Board
one
,
so
it
's
our
great
Comfort
to
see
them
repair
to
the
same
Churches
,
exercised
in
the
same
Devotions
,
addressing
to
the
same
Altar
;
in
a
word
,
of
the
same
Faith
and
Religion
,
to
the
great
encouragement
of
their
Subjects
,
to
follow
so
pious
,
so
great
an
Example
:
So
that
there
are
no
hopes
now
of
the
Philistines
plowing
with
Sampson's
Heifer
.
The
Royal
Interest
is
now
absolutely
the
same
with
that
of
the
People
;
for
their
Majesties
and
their
People
,
are
more
surely
tyed
together
by
the
Bonds
of
that
Religion
,
for
which
both
have
an
equal
Zeal
,
than
by
any
Political
Obligations
whatsoever
;
so
that
now
both
rejoice
in
the
mutual
Prosperity
of
each
other
,
their
Majesties
rejoicing
in
their
Peoples
Security
,
and
they
again
in
the
Royal
Protection
,
as
in
all
Things
,
so
chiefly
in
that
which
is
the
best
of
all
Things
,
Religion
.
Neither
are
we
to
neglect
the
Consideration
of
that
,
which
deservedly
makes
his
present
Majesty
the
Darling
of
these
three
Kingdoms
,
nay
,
like
another
Titus
,
the
Delight
of
Mankind
,
viz.
that
the
King
,
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
had
no
such
great
matters
to
look
for
as
to
his
own
Interest
,
to
move
him
to
encounter
so
great
Dangers
,
to
undergo
so
much
Trouble
.
He
was
considerably
great
in
the
Low-Countries
;
he
hath
no
Children
to
enjoy
the
Crown
after
his
own
Death
:
so
that
it
plainly
appears
his
Zeal
for
Religion
,
his
great
concern
for
the
bleeding
state
of
these
Nations
,
his
love
to
Justice
,
did
much
more
prevail
with
him
to
this
Heroick
and
Glorious
Undertaking
,
than
any
concern
of
his
own
in
the
Case
.
Now
upon
the
whole
,
if
we
despise
so
wonderful
a
Mercy
,
and
become
so
bereft
of
Reason
as
to
be
weary
of
Happiness
,
and
court
perpetual
Slavery
,
and
abandon
our
present
Security
and
Tranquillity
,
for
those
Miseries
we
have
reason
to
look
for
upon
such
an
unwise
change
;
What
can
we
then
expect
but
to
be
treated
by
God
as
the
despisers
of
his
greatest
Goodness
,
and
to
perish
without
so
much
as
the
pity
of
Men
,
since
we
knew
not
how
to
prize
a
lasting
Security
,
when
we
had
it
in
our
Hands
,
and
consequently
that
our
Relapse
must
be
very
miserable
to
us
?
But
if
at
last
we
propose
to
our Selves
the
Miseries
that
must
unavoidably
fall
upon
us
;
if
the
Sins
of
this
Nation
so
provoke
God
,
as
to
bereave
us
of
that
Happiness
we
now
enjoy
,
and
if
we
be
wise
may
entail
it
upon
our
Posterity
,
by
another
Revolution
some
Men
so
eagerly
desire
,
we
cannot
but
be
convinced
that
a
Relapse
is
highly
dangerous
;
I
do
profess
,
that
the
Calamities
that
fatally
attend
such
a
Revolution
,
are
so
tremendous
and
horrible
,
that
the
very
apprehension
of
them
cannot
but
strike
considerate
Men
into
the
greatest
Confusion
and
Amazement
:
we
can
expect
nothing
else
,
but
that
our
Miseries
should
occasion
our
being
a
Proverb
and
a
By-word
,
a
hissing
and
reproach
of
Popish
Nations
,
who
gape
for
our
Ruine
,
and
greedily
thirst
after
our
Destruction
;
and
on
the
other
Hand
,
that
we
should
be
followed
with
Execrations
and
Curses
,
from
the
Protestant
World
,
for
so
treacherously
betraying
that
Truth
we
had
so
great
a
Zeal
for
;
that
a
Nation
that
glorified
so
justly
in
being
accounted
the
Bulwark
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
should
so
fatally
occasion
the
total
overthrow
of
it
.
I
will
but
briefly
recount
some
of
those
Mischiefs
,
that
any
reasonable
Man
cannot
but
apprehend
must
overtake
us
upon
such
a
Relapse
;
if
we
consider
with
what
Rage
and
Fury
,
with
what
thirst
of
Revenge
,
not
only
the
late
King
,
(
whose
natural
Temper
doth
not
much
dispose
him
to
a
forgetting
of
Injuries
)
but
all
of
the
Popish
Party
must
return
amongst
us
,
what
are
we
to
expect
?
Is
the
late
King
ever
the
less
a
Papist
than
before
?
Hath
he
abated
any
thing
of
his
Zeal
for
that
Superstition
?
Have
the
Jesuits
,
&c.
any
other
Sentiments
of
us
and
our
Religion
than
they
had
?
ask
the
Protestants
of
Ireland
,
and
they
will
inform
you
,
who
fly
as
fast
out
of
that
Kingdom
,
as
ever
the
French
Refuges
forsook
France
.
If
we
were
so
unjustly
used
when
we
had
given
no
Offence
,
what
are
we
to
look
for
when
the
worst
of
Crimes
shall
be
laid
to
our
Charge
?
If
our
Religion
〈◊〉
●ear
lost
,
our
Laws
and
Liberties
invaded
,
when
all
the
Obligations
of
the
Earth
were
upon
the
Prince
to
protect
them
,
how
utterly
must
all
be
lost
,
when
the
Resentments
of
so
late
Affronts
,
shall
expose
us
to
all
the
direful
Effects
of
an
ungoverned
Zeal
,
and
enraged
Revenge
?
But
besides
,
How
are
we
to
expect
that
such
a
Revolution
should
be
brought
about
?
I
am
very
confident
England
and
Scotland
,
will
never
be
willing
to
afford
so
great
a
Strength
as
is
sufficient
for
such
an
Enterprize
;
some
hot-headed
Men
may
assist
a
stronger
Party
from
Abroad
,
but
they
will
never
undertake
to
do
it
alone
:
No
,
no
,
we
plainly
see
it's
an
Irish
and
French
Power
must
do
this
;
thence
Men
,
Money
,
and
Arms
must
come
:
this
is
so
certain
,
that
I
do
not
believe
any
Man
in
the
Nation
so
bereft
of
Sense
,
as
to
expect
it
any
other
way
.
And
now
what
a
Train
of
Miseries
this
Dragons-Tail
draws
after
it
,
is
not
easy
either
to
be
thought
or
exprest
:
if
ever
such
a
dismal
Calamity
should
befal
us
,
we
shall
want
another
Jeremiah
to
write
the
Lamentations
of
our
Judah
and
Jerusalem
.
I
do
not
think
that
ever
any
Nation
under
Heaven
was
exposed
to
a
more
barbarous
Desolation
,
than
this
poor
Nation
must
be
upon
such
an
unhappy
Change.
How
hath
the
French
King
used
his
own
Subjects
,
to
whom
by
the
Oaths
of
God
,
upon
his
Soul
,
he
owed
all
Protection
?
and
if
so
cruel
at
Home
,
what
are
we
Strangers
to
expect
from
his
Armies
,
but
all
the
Outrages
that
attend
an
insulting
Conquest
,
of
an
Enemy
,
who
hath
resolved
our
Ruine
,
and
sworn
the
Extirpation
of
our
Religion
?
If
the
cutting
us
off
from
being
a
People
should
be
the
price
of
it
;
what
are
we
to
expect
,
whose
unhappy
Connivance
hath
occasioned
all
his
Greatness
,
and
whose
Strength
and
Riches
,
are
the
Shears
that
now
clips
his
Wings
,
from
soaring
to
that
height
of
Universal
Empire
,
he
so
vainly
and
proudly
grasps
at
?
And
the
Truth
is
,
this
is
a
great
Misery
,
that
upon
such
a
Change
the
Crown
of
England
is
most
likely
to
devolve
,
not
from
King
William
to
King
James
,
but
from
King
William
to
King
Lewis
of
France
;
which
the
great
God
of
Heaven
avert
.
We
have
heard
of
Princes
sposled
of
their
Dominions
by
that
King
,
but
never
could
hear
yet
of
any
Prince
restored
by
him
.
Can
it
possibly
enter
into
the
Thoughts
of
any
reasonable
Man
,
that
the
King
of
France
will
employ
his
Forces
by
Sea
and
Land
,
and
spend
his
Treasures
,
in
conquering
of
these
Kingdoms
,
and
then
quietly
deliver
them
up
to
another
to
possess
?
who
himself
labours
so
deeply
of
the
Dropsy
of
enlarging
his
Dominions
,
that
neither
Faith
of
Treaties
,
Laws
of
Nations
,
Oath
of
God
,
nor
the
sence
of
common
Equity
and
Justice
,
could
ever
yet
bind
him
,
from
making
the
most
unjust
Encroachments
upon
his
Neighbours
wherever
he
could
.
And
this
is
the
more
to
be
considered
,
because
it
's
very
easy
to
believe
that
the
Popish
Clergy
of
England
would
be
willing
enough
it
should
be
so
,
King
Lewis
being
more
able
to
maintain
his
Conquest
,
than
King
James
can
ever
be
supposed
to
be
to
maintain
his
Possession
,
and
their
Security
;
and
if
the
Popish
Clergy
may
justly
be
supposed
to
become
so
indifferent
in
this
case
,
it
's
easy
to
foresee
,
how
the
Laity
of
that
Persuasion
might
be
induced
to
a
Satisfaction
,
since
these
so
slavishly
,
and
indeed
so
brutishly
,
hang
their
Consciences
at
those
Mens
Girdles
;
so
that
upon
the
whole
,
King
Lewis
is
like
to
be
the
only
Gainer
,
altho
I
am
far
from
thinking
that
they
who
make
this
noise
amongst
us
,
aim
at
any
such
thing
,
yet
it
is
worth
their
while
seriously
to
consider
,
whether
it
will
lye
in
their
Power
to
prevent
or
help
it
.
As
for
the
Irish
,
their
Carriage
to
Protestants
in
King
Charles
the
First
's
Time
,
and
now
to
the
Protestants
at
this
very
instant
,
is
more
than
sufficient
to
satisfy
us
what
Measures
we
are
to
expect
from
them
;
their
natural
Barbarity
,
their
constant
Aversion
to
the
English
Nation
,
their
thirst
after
a
Reprisal
upon
Protestants
Estates
,
to
make
up
the
pretended
Damages
they
have
sustained
,
their
ignorant
and
blind
Zeal
for
a
rooted
Superstition
,
are
too
much
to
convince
us
,
with
what
Intentions
they
must
invade
us
;
and
what
are
like
to
be
the
Effects
of
their
barbarous
Cruelty
?
In
a
word
,
it's
Papists
are
certainly
to
be
employed
to
do
this
grand
Feat
,
who
will
be
sure
to
give
the
Protestants
,
that
shall
be
so
unwise
as
to
assist
them
,
the
same
Thanks
that
Queen
Mary
gave
those
of
Suffolk
;
that
the
King
of
France
hath
given
his
Protestants
;
and
that
the
late
King
James
did
so
lately
give
the
Church
of
England
;
they
will
find
,
at
last
,
to
their
Cost
,
the
Effects
of
that
unalterable
Maxim
amongst
them
,
That
no
Faith
is
to
be
kept
with
Hereticks
.
But
then
how
is
it
possible
for
us
,
without
the
highest
concern
in
the
World
,
to
represent
to
our selves
the
Consequences
of
such
a
Change
,
with
relation
to
their
present
Majesties
,
and
the
Princess
Ann
of
Denmark
?
I
am
very
loth
to
insist
too
long
upon
this
,
it
s
so
extreamly
Tragical
;
Is
this
the
Gratitude
we
owe
to
the
most
magnanimous
,
couragious
,
and
charitable
Undertaking
,
that
ever
was
,
to
rescue
three
Nations
out
of
the
Jaws
of
Popery
and
Slavery
?
Can
we
find
in
our
Heart
to
expose
our
great
Deliverer
to
so
much
Danger
in
his
Person
,
and
Ruine
in
his
Fortune
,
who
so
readily
ventured
Life
and
Fortune
for
our
Good
?
Can
we
so
willingly
deprive
our selves
of
all
our
Hopes
reposed
in
these
Protestant
Branches
of
the
Royal
Family
,
as
for
ever
to
render
them
uncapable
of
doing
us
any
further
Kindness
,
or
affording
us
any
further
Protection
?
Have
we
so
little
sense
of
the
most
steadfast
Constancy
,
and
the
unmovable
Fidelity
of
these
great
Persons
,
to
the
Religion
and
Interest
of
these
Nations
,
which
could
never
be
byaffed
by
the
Authority
of
a
King
and
Father
,
nor
shaken
by
the
violent
Temptations
,
and
Assaults
upon
their
Constancy
?
Who
by
their
fixed
Resolutions
to
adhere
to
our
Interests
,
had
the
worst
of
Arts
used
to
deseat
them
of
their
just
Rights
;
for
would
they
have
but
complyed
with
the
Designs
projected
against
us
,
I
dare
say
neither
they
nor
we
had
ever
been
troubled
with
a
Prince
of
Wales
.
Can
we
expect
in
another
Deluge
of
Misery
,
to
have
another
Prince
of
Orange
,
so
successfully
and
miraculously
to
draw
us
out
of
it
:
No
,
no
,
it
's
to
be
hoped
the
Nation
will
never
be
prevailed
upon
to
incur
the
Guilt
of
such
Ingratitude
to
Persons
we
owe
our
Religion
,
Laws
and
Liberties
to
:
We
will
never
do
that
which
will
so
justly
expose
us
to
the
Censures
of
the
World
,
and
render
us
unworthy
,
in
any
Circumstances
,
of
any
Foreign
Assistance
,
so
utterly
inconsistent
with
the
Safety
of
those
who
afford
it
.
In
a
Word
,
we
will
be
so
just
to
our Selves
,
as
not
to
entail
Popery
and
Bondage
to
our
Posterity
;
for
if
we
lose
these
great
Persons
,
where
can
we
fix
our
hopes
of
any
Relief
?
Can
we
likewise
,
without
Astonishment
,
think
upon
the
Condition
of
Lords
and
Commons
,
in
this
present
Parliament
,
in
case
of
any
such
Change
of
Affairs
,
without
Horror
?
Have
we
chosen
so
many
worthy
Patriots
,
to
represent
us
there
,
only
to
expose
them
to
the
greatest
Mischiefs
?
Have
they
been
so
faithful
to
re-settle
us
into
a
most
happy
Condition
,
by
securing
our
Religion
,
Laws
,
and
Liberties
,
to
be
left
at
last
to
the
Fury
and
Malice
of
Popish
Vengeance
?
Did
the
Famous
Nobility
and
Generous
Gentry
of
this
Kingdom
,
venture
all
for
the
Security
of
the
Nation
,
to
no
other
purpose
,
than
to
lose
Honour
,
Estate
,
Life
,
and
all
,
for
their
Zeal
to
their
Religion
,
and
Love
to
their
Country
?
Surely
as
we
cannot
but
believe
,
that
this
must
be
the
Consequence
of
such
an
unhappy
Change
,
with
relation
to
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
this
Kingdom
;
so
it
's
not
to
be
doubted
but
that
all
England
will
conceive
a
just
Indignation
,
against
such
Ingratitude
,
and
will
apprehend
themselves
obliged
to
espouse
their
Interest
cordially
and
unanimously
,
who
have
so
wisely
,
and
with
so
much
Courage
,
secured
to
us
all
Things
capable
of
our
utmost
Esteem
.
In
a
word
,
when
we
seriously
consider
the
great
Danger
the
Protestant
Interest
is
exposed
to
all
over
Europe
,
that
nothing
less
is
intended
,
than
the
rooting
out
of
that
vile
pestilent
Northern
Heresy
,
as
the
Enemies
of
our
Holy
Religion
are
pleased
to
call
it
;
I
hope
we
will
think
more
than
once
upon
it
,
before
we
contribute
so
highly
,
to
the
utter
Subversion
of
the
Protestant
Religion
in
general
every
where
,
as
the
cutting
off
of
these
three
Kingdoms
from
it
must
necessarily
occasion
.
It
's
well
known
that
these
Churches
of
Great
Britain
and
Ireland
,
and
more
particularly
that
of
England
,
have
been
justly
look'd
upon
,
as
the
Bulwark
of
the
Protestant
Religion
in
general
;
and
therefore
the
Papists
have
used
their
utmost
Fraud
in
undermining
of
her
,
and
their
utmost
Violence
in
raising
up
their
Batteries
against
her
,
assuring
themselves
,
if
they
could
but
once
gain
this
Bulwark
,
they
would
quickly
,
and
with
Ease
make
themselves
Masters
of
the
whole
Fort
;
it
's
well
known
,
that
the
French
King
durst
never
have
used
his
Protestant
Subjects
,
as
he
both
perfidiously
and
barbarously
did
,
if
England
had
had
the
liberty
to
have
espoused
their
Interest
,
and
it
was
justly
look'd
upon
as
a
wonderful
Thing
,
that
the
King
of
England
,
should
be
declaring
himself
so
much
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
here
,
and
yet
on
the
other
side
of
the
Water
,
the
French
King
should
be
using
all
sorts
of
Cruelties
upon
those
of
our
Religion
wholly
to
extirpate
it
,
and
yet
King
James
should
never
become
their
Intercessor
,
nor
declare
to
that
King
his
just
Resentments
of
his
Acting
so
contrary
to
his
constant
Principles
,
especially
when
his
using
his
Subjects
so
could
not
but
strike
all
his
own
English
Subjects
into
an
Alarm
,
and
put
them
upon
sadly
divining
what
in
all
probability
was
like
to
be
their
own
Fate
in
time
.
Why
have
the
Protestant
Princes
and
States
entered
into
so
strong
a
Confederacy
,
looking
upon
their
present
Majesties
as
the
Chief
support
of
it
,
but
upon
the
certain
knowledg
they
had
,
of
a
Design
on
Foot
to
ruin
them
?
and
thus
it
may
be
easily
conjectured
,
what
must
be
the
Danger
of
the
Protestant
Religion
abroad
,
if
England
be
rendred
uncapable
of
giving
Assistance
to
its
Professors
;
nay
more
,
if
the
strength
of
England
be
made
use
of
to
promote
their
Destruction
.
But
it
s
obvious
this
must
be
the
result
of
the
return
of
Popery
and
Slavery
amongst
us
;
so
that
upon
the
whole
Matter
,
if
ever
such
a
Judgment
from
Heaven
,
should
overtake
us
,
as
the
return
of
this
unclean
Spirit
of
Popery
,
and
its
Usher
Slavery
,
among
us
,
we
cannot
but
expect
that
not
only
Seven
,
but
a
Legion
of
Miseries
worse
then
we
have
felt
,
must
return
with
it
,
sufficient
to
make
our
last
Case
worse
then
our
first
.
The
Case
being
so
plainly
thus
,
is
it
possible
that
Men
can
ever
be
in
love
with
such
Miseries
as
these
,
not
only
upon
themselves
,
but
upon
their
Innocent
Posterity
.
For
the
Word
is
Now
or
Never
,
and
Now
and
Ever
.
And
that
we
may
never
feel
the
Mischiefs
of
the
last
part
of
this
Sentence
,
I
hope
we
will
take
Care
to
Secure
the
first
,
that
because
not
now
therefore
they
never
shall
prevail
upon
us
.
I
beseech
you
,
Gentlemen
,
who
seem
to
be
so
willing
to
bereave
us
of
our
present
Tranquillity
,
and
to
contribute
what
in
you
lies
to
bring
a
Deluge
of
Miseries
upon
us
,
in
which
you
your selves
must
certainly
be
overwhelmed
,
if
ever
you
be
truly
Zealous
for
,
and
faithful
to
the
Truth
of
God
profest
in
this
Nation
;
I
pray
you
to
consider
with
your Selves
,
that
if
your
Desires
should
succeed
,
and
you
should
be
aiding
and
assisting
to
it
,
what
late
Repentance
and
Horror
must
seize
upon
you
,
while
you
shall
sadly
then
,
when
it
is
to
late
,
reflect
upon
that
Destruction
you
have
brought
upon
your
Country
and
Fellow-Country-Men
,
and
it
's
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
at
last
upon
your Selves
too
!
But
if
Men
will
continue
obstinate
in
Mischief
,
and
are
resolved
to
use
their
utmost
Endeavours
to
rush
us
again
into
Confusions
,
and
to
set
all
in
a
Flame
,
it
's
to
be
hoped
his
Majesty
will
have
such
a
special
regard
to
the
Welfare
of
these
Nations
,
in
which
that
of
his
own
,
and
all
the
Protestant
Branches
of
the
Royal
Family
,
is
so
closely
wrapt
up
,
that
he
will
most
diligently
inspect
into
the
wicked
Practices
,
and
most
villanous
Designs
of
such
ill-minded-Men
;
and
indeed
they
ought
betimes
to
bethink
themselves
,
what
the
whole
Kingdom
must
think
those
Men
worthy
of
,
who
are
Haters
of
their
Peace
,
and
Contrivers
of
their
Destruction
:
for
what
ever
Eyes
they
look
with
,
and
whatsoever
Prospective-Glass
they
make
use
of
,
they
must
pardon
us
,
who
can
see
nothing
but
lasting
Misery
,
attending
their
Projects
and
Designs
:
and
therefore
however
they
may
hope
his
Majestys
Clemency
(
which
by
their
undutiful
Language
,
bold
and
ungrateful
Speeches
,
and
insolent
Attempts
,
in
the
Face
of
a
Nation
,
resolved
to
continue
their
Happiness
,
by
most
constantly
adhering
to
his
Majesties
Interests
)
they
have
already
too
much
tryed
;
yet
they
are
Fools
to
imagine
his
Majesty
will
suffer
his
innate
Lenity
and
Gentleness
,
to
be
the
greatest
Cruelty
to
his
faithful
Subjects
,
by
extending
it
to
Persons
obstinately
bent
upon
his
and
their
Ruin
;
nor
can
they
dream
,
that
a
whole
Nation
,
now
secured
of
all
that
's
dear
to
them
,
will
much
longer
bear
the
bantering
Affronts
,
and
not
only
undutiful
,
but
even
Treasonable
Practices
of
such
Men
who
so
carry
themselves
,
as
if
they
longed
for
nothing
more
than
our
Destruction
.
And
just
as
I
was
writing
this
,
came
to
my
Hands
that
Paper
,
pretended
to
be
a
Declaration
from
King
James
the
Second
to
all
his
Loving
Subjects
in
the
Kingdom
of
England
.
Perhaps
there
was
never
a
greater
piece
of
Insolence
acted
in
any
Nation
,
than
dispersing
of
these
in
a
Kingdom
,
where
there
is
a
King
de
facto
upon
the
Throne
;
and
the
Resentment
the
House
of
Commons
has
shewed
,
is
a
sufficient
proof
of
what
I
have
just
now
said
;
but
for
the
Paper
it self
,
it
carries
all
the
Marks
of
Forgery
that
possibly
can
be
:
for
would
ever
the
late
King
tell
his
Subjects
of
England
,
of
his
kind
usage
to
his
Protestant
Subjects
in
Ireland
,
who
are
so
infallibly
convinc'd
of
the
contrary
?
For
why
should
so
many
of
the
Bishops
and
Clergy
,
so
many
People
of
all
Conditions
fly
out
of
that
Kingdom
,
even
since
his
arrival
there
,
and
leave
their
Estates
and
Habitations
,
and
cast
themselves
upon
the
Charity
of
England
for
a
present
Subsistance
,
if
this
Libel
were
true
?
Why
,
even
at
this
very
Time
,
do
they
embrace
all
opportunities
of
Transporting
themselves
,
into
this
Island
,
with
great
Joy
and
Thankfulness
?
If
Protestant
Persons
,
Fortunes
,
Religion
,
were
in
so
much
Safety
,
what
makes
the
Protestants
of
Londonderry
,
&c.
rather
venture
their
Lives
in
their
own
Defence
,
and
endure
the
Perils
and
hardship
of
a
dangerous
Siege
,
if
the
Protestants
there
were
in
so
great
Security
?
Surely
the
Forgers
of
this
Libel
imagine
it
possible
to
put
out
our
very
Eyes
,
and
to
hood-wink
us
to
Destruction
.
Can
we
ever
think
that
Protestants
will
ever
be
safe
,
or
apprehend
themselves
so
,
where
the
French
domineer
,
at
the
rate
they
must
certainly
be
presumed
to
do
in
Ireland
?
For
it
's
very
reasonable
to
conclude
that
seeing
Men
,
Ammunition
,
Money
,
and
whatsoever
is
necessary
for
War
,
cometh
from
the
French
,
that
King
will
,
nay
,
must
rule
the
Roast
.
We
will
therefore
believe
our
own
Intelligence
much
better
then
this
piece
of
Forgery
,
viz.
that
the
very
Papists
of
Ireland
,
are
so
apprehensive
of
the
French
Tyranny
,
that
they
begin
to
wish
for
the
mild
Government
of
Protestant
England
,
rather
than
ly
under
the
insupportable
Tyranny
of
Popish
France
.
As
for
the
large
Promises
made
to
England
upon
a
surrender
these
Forgerers
invite
us
to
,
I
have
said
enough
already
,
that
Popish
Faith
can
never
be
more
truned
by
Protestants
,
and
we
are
very
well
assured
,
that
if
it
were
possible
for
the
Host
of
Heaven
to
come
down
upon
Earth
,
to
be
Guarantee
for
the
Fidelity
of
Papists
to
Protestants
in
any
Treaties
made
with
them
relating
to
Religion
;
they
would
notwithstanding
,
upon
the
first
safe
Opportunity
,
violate
them
;
and
if
these
blessed
Spirits
should
take
upon
them
the
Desence
of
the
Guarantee
and
the
Honour
of
it
,
they
would
presently
disown
their
Patronage
,
and
deprive
them
of
the
Honour
of
their
being
their
Intercessors
,
and
charge
them
with
being
Favourers
of
the
vilest
Hereticks
;
for
we
would
desire
but
one
Instance
wherein
ever
Protestants
were
used
kindly
by
Papists
where
ever
it
was
in
their
Power
to
use
them
otherwise
.
Go
on
then
,
Great
Sir
,
in
the
perfecting
of
that
,
which
your
Majesty
hath
so
gloriously
begun
,
and
so
magnanimously
undertaken
,
and
have
had
the
assistance
of
the
God
of
Truth
,
to
the
Joy
of
these
Nations
,
to
the
Despair
and
Confusion
of
your
Enemies
,
to
the
Security
of
the
Protestant
World
;
your
Majestie
hath
the
Hearts
,
the
Hands
,
the
Purses
of
your
People
at
your
Devotion
;
you
have
a
Parliament
,
who
having
engaged
whatsoever
is
worthy
of
Men
of
Honour
,
of
Fortune
,
of
Religion
for
your
Assistance
,
will
never
be
wanting
to
enable
you
to
compleat
Yours
,
Theirs
,
Ours
,
nay
Europe's
Happiness
;
You
have
the
greatest
Security
of
the
Protection
of
that
God
,
who
is
the
Disposer
of
Kingdoms
,
by
whom
Kings
reign
,
who
hath
hitherto
blessed
you
with
Success
to
a
Miracle
,
You
have
,
in
fine
,
the
best
and
most
Glorious
Cause
,
even
the
preserving
of
these
Nations
(
to
which
God
,
and
Nature
,
and
a
General
consent
of
your
People
,
have
given
you
such
a
close
Interest
and
near
Relation
)
from
all
the
Calamities
that
could
befall
either
the
Souls
,
Bodies
,
or
Fortunes
of
Us
and
our
Posterity
.
This
I
am
sure
is
the
hearty
Prayer
of
all
that
are
lovers
either
of
our
Civil
or
Religious
Rights
,
and
our
secure
,
peaceable
,
and
lasting
enjoyment
of
them
,
that
your
Enemies
may
be
clothed
with
shame
,
but
upon
your
Head
the
Crown
may
long
Flourish
.
FINIS
.