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A26263	Awake Sampson, the Philistines are upon thee! or, A caution to England to take heed to her locks, least they being cut off by intrigues, she be made to grind at the mill of France ... by a lover of the true interest of his country.	Lover of the true interest of his country.	1696 (1696)	Wing A4275A; ESTC R14204	24,557	26

by the many Bills brought in and Acts past in the Reign of His present Majesty and he exposing his Royal Person in order to bring down that lofty Prince and shall we now by a few false friends and their sly insinuations be prevail'd upon to alter our minds and take those methods that most directly ruine us As for Example should I pretend to go for Exon or Berwick we know Ware is the Rode to one and Hounslow to the other and should be met at Gravesend Rochester c. and pursue that direct Rode by Land and Water any body that knows the Rode must conclude I design'd for France let my pretences be never so much to the contrary It 's grievous to think that when England is honoured with the greatest Priviledges of any Nation under Heaven and that it will be allowed its Laws as to the main of them exceeding other Nations but most backward as to execution that which is wanting is one general Law to put others in execution I am sorry I have the occasion to mention a particular case that past in my own sight the last Year viz. When some Overtures were made to settle a Trade betwixt us and the Duke of Savoy and Piedmont and discoursing with a great Gentleman concern'd in that Affair gave me the sight of the Agent who was then to go on this Affair being a Frenchman I asked him whether since the Trade to be promoted was for England it would not be more proper to send an Englishman To which he answered No for we were too sluggish to promote even our own real good had I not too much experience of the truth of his Answer I should have argued with him for I have generally observed the disposition of too too many guilty of this fault and more particularly noted by another Pen viz. We have been more careful to receive the Law from France in all their Modes both in Eating and Wearing than from the great Creator for our Conversation and so prevalent is the humour of that Country with us and so powerful the Ascendant it hath over us that we seem to be Frenchmen only we live in England so that they have sufficiently revenged themselves upon us by the loose Manners they have brought among us but I must needs say to their Credit they keep their Wits in their Debaucheries whilst we by over-doing them in the imitation of them lose both What is become of that Antient Education of the Kingdom our Integrity Gravity and Manhood which gave our Nation so great Reputation in the World is it not turned into Swearing and Drinking a Duel and a Wench their Prophaneness is their Wit and their base Crafts must be called Policy and as this we have learned from France as to our Men so let us consider as to our Women but where is that retired Breeding which made our Women so famous for Virtue as they were always for their Beauty Alas there hath been a sort of industry used to subdue their native Modesty as if it were an indecent thing to have it and Arts practised to make them hardy against their own blushes and master their shy and bashful disposition so peculiar to Chastity into an unconcerned Confidence as if it were their Perfection to be insensible of any ill and to be tam'd at all things Strange that sobriety should be turned into levity and lust call'd love and wantonness good humour this have been the effect of the French Modes given us And the same Author proceeds in the Description of a well-constitued Monarchy in ancient Times with the Mischiefs that befel them when they grew slotful and gave themselves to Pride Luxury c. which I crave leave to mention only for a Warning for us to consider of his words are these The first Empire had Nimrod's strength and the Wisdom of the Chaldeans to establish it and whilst prudence and sobriety lasted they prospered no sooner came Voluptuousness than the Empire decayed and was at last by the base Effeminacies of Sardanapalus in whom that Race ended transfer'd to another family It was the Policy of an Assyrian King to subdue the strength of Babylon then under good Discipline not to Invade it with Force but to Debauch it Wherefore he sent in Players Musitians Cooks Harlots c. and by those means introducing Corruption of Manners there was little more to do than to take it Nebuchadnezzar by his Virtue and Industry seen in the Siege of Tyre and of many great Enterprizes recovered and enlarged it to a mighty Empire and his Discipline was so excellent those times considered that it was praised in Scripture but when he grew Proud and Foolish for getting that Providence that had shewn it self so kind to him he became a Beast and grazed among the Beasts till God whom he had forgotten had restored him the heart of a Man and his Throne together I wish we may take up in time and observe how it was brought in amongst us for when the two late Kings to whom not only England but great part of Europe may attribute the present War that during their abode in France a foundation was laid for the ruine of England which was gradually put in execution as it would bear and it had certainly been effected had not the Revolution prevented It is very pertinent what is written by another hand on the observation of the 29th of May the Birth-day and Restoration of Ch. 2d viz. Now let us see how great cause we had to fall into so high and exceeding demonstration of joy let the event shew how great a Blessing this Restoration proved to the Nation We know sometimes God gives Kings in his Anger and takes them away in his Wrath. Plague War and Fire came in with King Charles but all little enough in comparison of that Floud of Vice and Corruption in the way of Prophaneness Impiety Debauchery c. which being encouraged by Example and Impunity followed him and like a mighty stream have so overflowed the Nation that in all likelihood it will require more Judgments and many years to come to purge the Land of it 't is overspread almost from the Child in the Cradle to the Old Man going to his Grave Whoredom and Wine take away the heart and our Understanding too which make us grow an Effeminate Nation contemptible to our Neighbours and made us cast away the Honour and Interest of the Country and become Tools of the Ambition and Greatness of those whose growing Power we ought to have opposed and which since made Europe groan and labour to be delivered from that Bondage or Danger we helped to bring it under We slighted the suits and offers of many Princes and States and Addresses of Parliament who offered their Lives and Fortunes to stop the growing Power of France which had her Emissaries of both Sexes in our Bosom by whose counsels Parliaments were Adjourned Prorogued and Dissolved whilst in less than 2 Years time

King 's leaving Salisbury by a person privy to that King's Design that there were betwixt Calis and Bullen about thirty thousand French Soldiers design'd to Embark for England and Dover-Castle was to protect such as should Land there and Shereness and Tilbury Fort were to receive others to block up London and Chatham and had not the Lord by the same Providence defeated their Designs partly by the Divisions of the late King's Council as in the case of Absolon and by the measures that the French King took thereupon as in another Discourse enlarged which had it not been thus but that the French Army had Landed and any considerable part of the King's Army stood by him what Confusion must this poor Nation have been in viz. England before now might have had the same fate of Germany and Flanders where the French hath destroyed or are in possession and thereby the English Government and the Protestant Religion at once had been endangered if not destroyed and been subject to the French King's Tyranny And that some of those persons that then invited and encouraged the Prince of Orange now our King not only to expose his Royal Person in coming hither from Holland but also when come in pursuance of the said Invitation desired his acceptation of the Government and put the Sword in his hands why such persons in so short a time should oppose what they had then just before done I will not presume to be judge of but this I may say what was then matter of fact viz. the hindring a speedy Reduction of Ireland which for that reason occasioned the spilling of so much Bloud and expending so vast a Treasure to the undoing several Thousands thereby And we cannot but own also a Divine Hand in that Reduction when that whole Kingdom except Londonderry and some few Forts were then in the hands of the French for I look upon the late King to be but his Deputy if so much And why English Protestants should so soon contradict themselves in so short a time is strange and oppose that Deliverance from the French Tyranny which they well knew was all along design'd in both the late Reigns and more plainly appearing by Coleman's Letters and several other Transactions publickly detected since And that Freemen should so earnestly long to be in Bondage and Slavery to that most Vnchristian King may seem strange who hath so much delighted in Bloud and not only destroyed without cause so many Thousand Subjects of other Princes but also of those whom he hath himself owned to be his most Industrious and Loyal Subjects which may appear in a Letter to the Elector of Brandenburgh dated the Sixth of September 1666. The French King's Letter to the Duke of Brandenburgh BROTHER I would not have Discoursed the matter you wrote to me about on the behalf of my Subjects of the pretended Reformed Religion with any other Prince besides your self but to shew you the particular esteem I have for you I shall begin with telling you that some persons disaffected to my service have spread Seditious Pamphlets among Strangers as if the Acts and Edicts that were passed in favour of my said Subjects of the pretended Reformed Religion by the Kings my Predecessors and confirmed by my Self were not kept and executed in my Dominions which would have been contrary to my intentions For I take care that they be maintained in all the Priviledges which have been Granted them and be as kindly used as my other Subjects to this I am engaged both by my Royal Word and in acknowledgment of the proofs they have given me of their Loyalty during the late Troubles in which they took up Arms for my Service and did vigorously oppose and successfully overthrow the ill designs which a Rebellious Party were contriving within my own Dominions against my Authority Royal. What his Hypocrisie was then appears in his Edict October 1685. viz. when he thought he was ready to put in execution his Design and had the late King James to join with him to carry it on in which Edict he exposes his Granfather Henry the Great who had so nobly declared himself in his Edict of Nants April 1598. he begins thus The Edict of Henry the Great the French King's Grandfather NOW it hath pleased God to give us a beginning of enjoying some rest we think we cannot employ our selves better than to apply to that which may tend to the Service and Glory of his Holy Name and to provide that he may be adored and prayed to by all our Subjects and if it hath not yet pleased him to permit it to be in one and the same form of Religion that it may at least be in one and the same intention and with such Rules that may prevent amongst them all Troubles and Tumults and that we and this Kingdom may always conserve the Glorious Title of Most Christian and by the same means take away the cause of Mischief and Trouble which may happen from the Actions of Religion which of all others are most prevalent and penetrating for this cause acknowledging this Affair to be of the greatest Importance and worthy of the best consideration after having considered the complaints of our Catholick Subjects and having also permitted to our Subjects of the Reformed Religion to assemble themselves by Deputies for framing their Complaints and making a Collection of all their Remonstrances Having therefore conferred divers times with them we have upon the whole judged it necessary to give to all our said Subjects one general Law clear plain and absolute by which they shall be regulated in all differences which have heretofore risen among them or may rise hereafter having had no other reguard in this deliberation than solely the zeal we have to the Service of God praying that he would henceforward grant to all our Subjects a durable and established Peace And we Implore and Expect from his Divine Bounty the same Protection and Favour he hath always bestowed upon this Kingdom from our Birth and that he would give our said Subjects the Grace to understand That in observation of this our Ordinance consisteth next to their Duty towards God and Vs the principal foundation of their Vnion Concord Tranquility Rest and the re-establishment of this State in its first Splendour Opulency and Strength As on Our part We promise that all the parts of it shall be exactly observed without suffering any contravention And for these causes having with the Advice of the Princes of our Bloud other Princes and Offieers of our Crown and other Great and Eminent Persons of our Council of State well and diligently weighed and considered all this Affair we have by this Edict or Statute perpetual and irrevocable said declared and ordained c. That after the said Edict of Henry the Great was so long quietly enjoyed by the Protestants in France who continued always Loyal to their Prince and as the present French King confesseth in his Letter to