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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60805	Some modest reflections upon Mr. Stephens's late book, entituled, A plain relation of the late action at sea, between the English, Dutch, and French fleets, from June 22 to July 5 last with reflections thereupon, and upon the present state of the nation, &c. : with a vindication of the Church of England from what he has therein advanc'd against her / by a hearty lover of King William and Queen Mary.	Hearty lover of King William and Queen Mary.	1691 (1691)	Wing S4523; ESTC R17992	20,922	32

'd fain know who had deserved best of Jerusalem when besieged by the Romans He who shou'd have been of any particular Party chuse which he wou'd and rail at all the rest as Cause enough there was all round there as well as here or he that shou'd have endeavour'd a lasting peace among 'em obliterating the very Memory of all those odious distinctions which had such fatal effects In the same Nature one wou'd think a Man that loved his Country shou'd at this time endeavour to make them all Friends not Enemies to dress every Party as fairly not as frightfully as possible and by uniting their Affections melt down the inveterate Enmity Which if 't were this Gentleman's design he has certainly taken a very unlucky way to accomplish it I am much of the same Mind with my Author concerning admitting Persons into publick Employments which he treats of Page 23. but perhaps for different Reasons from what he ever thought upon One is That the Number of those who dissent from the publick Establishment supposing they were admitted into Employment is not so great as if they design'd any such thing to effect any considerable Alterations Another Reason is That Interest being the great quarrel quiet but that and all will be friends But the mischief is this Hypothesis of his as well as other fine ones is impracticable and does not any good at all laying open to the grand Objection of those Men whom he 'd ease by it He wou'd have none admitted to publick employ but such as take the Sacrament though the limit's larger than before in some solemn Assembly of Protestant Dissenters or others But here still lyes the Objection we are not fit fo● t Why shou'd such a holy thing be made a State-Engine 'T is against our Consciences cry they to take it at all and you throw us on a dreadfull hazard either to lose all our employs or to eat and drink our own Damnation and I appeal to any Man whether the business is not thus fairly stated so that after all our whipping and heaving you see we are but just where we were or but very little advanced Page 24. He seems to teach all the Princes in the World a new Scheme of Politicks and wou'd perswade 'em not to oblige Enemies calling that Noble part of Divine as well as Humane Prudence little Arts and pieces of vulgar Craft and Page 25. pronounces very awfully I have always lookt upon a certain Condescention to and compliance with some of that Party to be one of the first steps which have been made since the Revolution and a Daubing into which we were betray'd by the pedantick Policy of some c. as inconsistent with true Divinity you may see which way he squints as with true Policy This is indeed a tender Subject but we may venture to say on 't That surely he is one of the first good Men who ever blam'd a Prince for those truly Royal Virtues of Clemency and Goodness The truth is all sides have play'd the fool and been mad in their turns Blood enough has been shed Mischief enough happen'd and Quarrels long enough fomented All this the present Government takes no notice of but makes use of whoever are capable of serving it this at the bottom displeases some who perhaps thought to have shared all between ' em Show us a Prince that ever came into a distracted Kingdom without obliging those who may else possibly not be very easie And shew me he that can a parallel of any Revolution in the World of this nature made so suddenly with less confusion and blood attending it not so much as one Insurrection or Rebellion from the very beginning A sufficient proof that no little Arts or vulgar Tricks but true Politicks and a right Spirit of Government have had the Management of Affairs ever since Which has consider'd the Nature of Mankind and acted accordingly and the Event has abundantly made good the firmness and validity of those Principles on which the Government has all along proceeded At the close of this Page he breaks out into a very pathetick Ejaculation Poor Prince speaking of His Majesty how did my Heart ake for him about this time tho' I knew not what was the matter A perfect Impulse Poor Man and just in the same condition he has been ever since But he goes on Princes are Men ay and so are Authors and at least as liable to mistakes as they He comes to yet worse news than all this Page 27. How dangerous a condition the King and Queen are in of being deliver'd up an expiatory Sacrifice to their Enemies and these Nations of being involved in Blood and Confusion One half of this the truth is wou'd be enough to make any honest Man's heart ake as well as the Author's all the hopes is it mayn't be true and tho' he calls what he has heap't together Demonstrations there need more to perswade an unprejudic'd person to believe it He comes to enquire into the Means to prevent all these fatal mischiefs and throws 'em upon our Debauchery as one great Cause of all 'T is confess'd Sin is the cause of all the miseries of Mankind but 't is an impossible thing so to see every circumstance as to affirm any thing of certainty in these matters How often is a good Cause and good Men unsuccessfull Are the French the most virtuous People in the World or must not most of these matters necessarily be left to a day of Judgment to declare the Equity of Providence which seldom seems so exact in these outward distributions as this good Man supposes it He seems to desire that none but virtuous persons might have publick Employment And 't is no more than every good Man wishes practicable But as was said in another case if we 'll converse with no ill Men we must go out of the World so if we 'd make use of none else we must e'en go the same way God himself makes use of ill Men both for good and evil to the rest of the World whereas he needs 'em not in either of those cases Princes must do the same especially when newly settled and perhaps sometimes all their Reigns after We know all David's Souldiers were not of the most extraordinary Character who tho' he himself were a Man after God s own heart many under him were far otherwise And tho' he says he who leads a Godly life shall be his Servant yet politick Reasons the safety of his Country and security of his Throne made him make use of a bloody Joab because a brave General all his life-time And did he not receive and kindly treat a treacherous Abner while the true undoubted Heir of his Soveraign was alive and who left him meerly out of Revenge and rage being gently accus'd of incontinency by his timorous Master To come a little nearer Were all those Saints with the then Prince his present Majesty or had he done well to have