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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48827	The pretences of the French invasion examined for the information of the people of England	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1692 (1692)	Wing L2690; ESTC R20528	11,190	19

May 25th 1692. Let this be Printed Nottingham THE PRETENCES OF THE French Invasion EXAMINED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE PEOPLE of ENGLAND LONDON Printed for R. Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1692. A Catalogue of some Books lately Printed and Reprinted for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in S. Paul's Church-Yard THE State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's Government in which their Carriage towards him is justified and the absolute Necessity of their Endeavouring to be freed from his Government and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated Writ by Bishop King Licensed by the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham The Third Edition with Additions The Frauds of the Romish Monks and Priests set forth in Eight Letters lately Written by a Gentleman in his Journey into Italy The Third Edition very fairly printed Observations on a Journey to Naples wherein the Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests are farther discover'd By the Author of the former Book Forms of Private Devotions for every Day in the Week by a Method agreeable to the Liturgy with Occasional Prayers and an Office for the Holy Communion and for the time of Sickness L. Annaei Flori Rerum Romanarum Epitome interpretatione Notis illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri Filia Jessu Christianismi Regis in usum Serenissime Delphini In a large 8vo curiously Printed LEVSDEN's Greek Testament The Fifth Edition A Defence of Pluralities or holding two Benefices with Cure of Souls as it is now practised in the Church of England THE PRETENCES OF THE French Invasion EXAMINED For the Information of the People of England THat the Sword hath thus long been kept from destroying among us is a Blessing which we cannot sufficiently understand unless we consider the woful Desolation it hath made in all Neighbouring Nations Nor are they at all sensible how much they owe to God and their Majesties for keeping us in Peace who give the least Encouragement to this intended Descent which must turn our Land into an Aceldama and will make such woful Havock of our Lives and Fortunes while one party fights for Safety and the other for Revenge that no Age can parallel the horrid Consequences of such a Civil War as this will prove And if Papists only blinded by Zeal for their Religion and blown up with hopes of absolute Empire encouraged this bloody design it would be no Wonder and could have no Success considering the general Aversion of the People to them and the fresh Instances of their Insolence and Cruelty But alas It appears that many who call themselves Protestants are engaged in this fatal Conspiracy against their Religion and their Native-Country which is so prodigious and amazing that a Man would wonder who hath bewitched these foolish Galatians to push on their own and the Churches Ruin And every one must be inquisitive into the specious pretences by which these Men are induced to become their own Executioners Now the pretended Motives are these 1. Repairing the Injury done to the late King 2. Delivering us from the Oppressions we suffer under the present King 3. Setling the Government upon its old Basis. 4. Securing the Protestant Religion for all future Ages Now it becomes every true English Protestant to examine these Pretences very well before he venture on a thing of so evil Appearance and dangerous Consequence as is the joyning with these Invaders First It is pretended the late King was unjustly deprived of his Birth-right by his Subjects who by Nature and Oaths were bound to defend him in the Possession of it And now that he comes to demand his own all that ever were his Subjects must either assist or at least not oppose him But let it be considered that all the late Kings Sufferings were owing to and caused by the Counsels of his Popish-Priests and the Bigots of that Persuasion Protestants were not the Aggressors he might have kept his Possession to this day undisturbed if he had not made such open and bold Attempts upon our Laws our Religion and Properties so that he was the first and only Cause of his own Sufferings and why should Millions be involved in Blood and Ruin who are perfectly Innocent of doing this Injury No free Nation did ever bear more or greater Injuries or endure such Violences so long or so patiently as we did And when some Stop was to be put to the final Ruin of our Liberties and Religion it was done at first by Petitions and Complaints and when they were despised none but defensive Arms were taken up by some few and by a Foreign Prince only to cover their Heads while the Grievances were fairly redressed not to take away his Rights but to secure our own Nor did the Prince of Orange or these Gentlemen devest or deprive him of his Throne but owned his Right by offering a Treaty during the continuance of which he disbanded his Army dissolved his Government and as much as in him lay attempted to desert the Throne and seek Aids from an Enemies Country which might secure him against redressing any Grievances and enable him to be revenged upon the injured Complainers We did not make the Throne vacant but the late Archbishop and other Peers at Guildhall believed he had left it void or else they would not without his Consent have seized on the Administration of the Government secured his Chancellor taken possession of the Tower and offered the Exercise of the Supream-Power to the Prince of Orange He left us in Anarchy and we provided for our selves in the best manner such a Juncture would allow I will not enquire now whether these Subjects who are so Zealous for his Return were not bound to do more than they did to keep him in his Throne while he had it their Conscience then permitted them to look on and let him sink while his Security had been far more easily compassed But they who have now these unseasonable Pangs of their old Loyalty must consider that a Man may leave his Right when he pleaseth but may not take it again at his pleasure especially not by Force and this most especially as to Soveraign Power Some Body must govern when he would not the next undoubted Heir in an Hereditary Monarchy must and whoever doth govern in Chief in this Nation must be King by our Constitution and must have Power sufficient to protect himself and the Nation against all their Enemies and that cannot be without Swearing new Allegiance Now when a King and Queen are declared submitted to and owned by Oaths and all other Methods required in such Case The King is not at liberty to give up his own Power and the Protection of us nor are the People free to joyn with him that deserted them or to venture their Necks or their Countries Ruin to restore him I dare say that the French King will not grant that the Citizens of those Cities who were Subjects to Spain or the Emperour and bound