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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28440	King William and Queen Mary, conquerors, or, A discourse endeavouring to prove that Their Majesties have on their side, against the late king, the principal reasons that make conquest a good title shewing also how this is consistent with that declaration of Parliament, King James abdicated the government, &c. : written with an especial regard to such as have hitherto refused the oath, and yet incline to allow of the title of conquest, when consequent to a just war.	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3309; ESTC R23388	40,332	68

Judgment even where at the first I have had some measure of Assurance I distrust my Performance But when I abstract from my own Management set aside the Sence I have of my own Weakness and consider the force of the Arguments themselves I cannot but think them convincing and if I did not think so I would never have written However I shall leave all to the Reader 's Censure and to the Consideration of such as have hitherto refused the Oath of Allegiance when I have desired of them these few Things 1. That they would lay aside all Prejudices and read with Minds prepared to receive satisfaction 2. That they would not pass a Judgment against what I offer before they fully understand me and comprehend the force of my Reasoning 3. That they would consider over and over the Force of each Argument where several are offered and of each Answer to such Objections as are made and if one or more shall prove unsatisfactory that it may not hinder them from weighing impartially the rest Lastly that they would take in good part my charitable meaning And if any Man is pleased to write against what I have said I desire he will write like a Person that contends for Truth rather than Victory That he will neither trouble the Press nor me with any thing that I have already answered either explicitely or implicitely or that he himself can answer That he will avoid all undue Reflections and all bitter provoking Sarcasms remembring that he and I are both Christians however we differ about the Matter in dispute KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY CONQUERORS SECT I. Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary had a just Ground of War with King James THE Question is Whether or no the Subject do owe Allegiance may lawfully and ought when required to swear Allegiance to K. William and Q. Mary in these Words I A. B. do sincerly Promise and Swear That I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God I have undertaken to make good the Assirmative and before I proceed to Argument it is necessary in order to avoid Confusion hereafter that I premise Two Things 1. What I mean by being Faithful and bearing true Allegiance And here I shall grant the Non J 〈…〉 rs all they can desire 〈◊〉 That these Words ought to be understood in a Sense that a scrupulous Mind would last swear in That the Oath when taken doth not only oblige a Man to be a true Prisoner to pay Taxes and not to disturb the Government but to bear all the Allegiance to their Present Majesties that was ever owing to any King of England whatever although his Title was most indisputable so as is the late K. James himself should land in England and lay with an Army on the left Hand and K. William and Q. Mary with an Army on right yet so long as K. William and Q Mary were possessed of the Crown and the Regalia the Subjects were bound in Conscience to look upon J. as an Invader and every Man in his Place and Calling were to be aiding and assisting to K. William and Q. Mary the Priesthood with their Prayers the Militia with their Arms and the People with their Purses c In this Sense I am content to understand the Oath and I think it very probable that this is the Sense of the Imposers because they intended it as a means to secure the Crown to those on whose Heads they had plac'd it and less than this will not do it The 2d Thing to be premised is That I make no difficulty at all about any Title that Q. Mary may by some be supposed to have antecedent to that of K. William Because she having submitted her Right and being very well satisfied with the Share allotted her by the Convention no Man else hath any thing to do to move any Controversie about it Wherefore when I say Allegiance is due to K. William and Q. Mary I mean it in the Sense that the Oath it self implies it to be due to each of them which for ought any Man knows is the very Sense that each of them do best like of And these things being premised I now proceed There are three Topicks from whence we may argue for the Oath and as it seems to me from each of them very solidly 1. We may affirm That their present Maje●●ies had a just Quarrel against the late King and conquered him and that Conquest is in such a Case a good Title 2. That the late King Abdicated the Crown and left the Throne vacant And that although the former Tit'e were not good yet the Convention having place I them there and the Body of the Nation submitted to them they have thereupon a good Title And 3. That their Majesties are possessed of the Crown and that Possession is in their Case a good Title although the other two should fail The two last I shall wave because they have been already very largely prosecuted by others and as it seems to me to good purpose however they have not hapned to give satisfaction to some Men. The first I shall endeavour to manage because however it may have been touch'd upon by some others yet hath it not been so fully laid open and urged by any that I know of as the other Two If in this I am mistaken I must plead for my excuse the Circumstances I am in especially my ●istance from Business and such Books as have been lately written which is to me unavoidable But the chief Reason that hath at this time determined my Choice to this Argument is Because I find that several who are not yet satisfied with any thing that hath been hitherto offered do declare That if it could be made appear that their present Majesties have on their side all the Right of Conquest they would entirely submit to the Government and take 〈◊〉 O 〈…〉 They are to be understood of a Conquest consequent to a just Quarrel and therefore it is that they so importunately demand our proving either the League with France or that the pretended Prince of Wales is not Genuine They seem to own that either of these would have been on the then Prince of Orange's part a just Ground of War and that thereupon he might lawfully have made use of his Success And if this be true then must the Conclusion be the same by whatever Argument we prove the Premises Wherefore for these Mens Satisfaction as well as for the vindicating of their Majesties and their Loyal Subjects in point of Honour and Conscience I have undertaken to do it And to put the matter if it be possible out of Controversie I shall endeavour to prove these three things 1. That their Majesties K. William and Q. Mary had a just Ground of War with K. James 2. That they conquered him And 3. That Conquest is in this their Case a good Title 1. Their