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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65409	An answer to the late King James's declaration to all his pretended subjects in the kingdom of England, dated at Dublin-castle, May 8, 1689 ordered by a vote of the Right Honourable the House of Commons, to be burnt by the common-hangman.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1298; ESTC R38525	17,178	40

capacity conform to the Holy Dictates of that Church and the laudable Example of Lewis XIV to put an end to all Divisions in point of Religion by forcing them to return to the Mother-Church by the calm Methods of late so happily used in France And this I am very inclinable to believe he may with a safe Conscience take God to Witness was always his Design I am something surprized to hear King Iames his Secretaries pop out their Master 's secret Designs that were so much his Interest to conceal but the Truth is we knew them before to our Cost and we hope are on the way to be sufficiently secured against any further Effects of them In the end of this Paragraph we are told That several Protestants are now returned to their Country and Habitarious and that more would follow if the Ports were open But the Usurpers as he pleases to call their present Majesties know too well the Sincerity of his intentions to permit a free Passage for them This indeed is all of a piece with the rest We are Witnesses every Day of hundreds of poor Protestants of that Country grasping every Opportunity they can at any rate purchase to abandon their Homes and all that 's dear to them that they may but escape with their Lives And I defie any of King Iames his Friends to instance me one single Person of any Condition that have dared to return Home since his Arrival in Ireland none of them being so far in love with Destruction as to venture on his Protection In this Epithet King Iames is pleased to bestow on their Majesties he imitates his Patron Louis le Grand who I confess has the greatest Reason of Hatred against his Majesty as being the great Supporter of the Liberty of Europe and who in conjunction with his Allies is best able to bring to Reason that insupportable Enemy of Christendom yea of Mankind it self It were an impertinent piece of Boldness or rather unpardonable Impudence to offer to vindicate their Majesties from that injurious Designation since the Wisdom and Power of the Parliament is paramount to all private assertions of their Majesties just Right And that the most if not all the Crowned Heads and Soveraign Princes and States of Europe not only rank our present King among the best and greatest Kings of England but promise to themselves from his Assistance to bridle Louis le Grand within his proper Boundaries It was ever looked upon as a Principle of common Law That an Heir in Remainder has just Cause to sue him that is in Possession if he makes Wastes on the Inheritance that belongs to him in Reversion That the Heir of a Crown should interpose when he sees him that is in Possession hurried on by bad Counsels to subject an independant Kingdom to a Foreign Jurisdiction is much more reasonable since the thing is of much more Importance and that this was King Iames his Case is apparent by the Transactions of the Earl of Castlemain at the Court of Rome and the rather that by a great many Statutes it was Treason to have Correspondence with that See This joined to the setting up of a pretended Heir in such a manner as the whole Kingdom believed him supposititious was a just and lawful Ground for one Sovereign Prince such as his Majesty was when Prince of Orange to make War against another that had so abused his Power and 't is an unquestionable Maxim among Lawyers That the Success of a just War gives a lawful Title to that which is acquired in the Progress of it Therefore King Iames having so far sunk in the War that he both abandoned his People and deserted the Government all his Right and Title to the Crown did thereupon accrue to his present Majesty in the Right of Conquest So that he might have lawfully then assumed the Crown But his present Majesty chose rather to leave the Matter to the determination of the Peers and Representatives of the People assembled with all Freedom in the Convention who did thereupon declare him King so that tho' he was vested with a just Title of Conquest he chose rather to receive the Crown by their Declaration than to hold it in the Right of his Sword. This I thought fit to say not so much for Confutation of the injury done their Majesties in the above-mentioned Designation which needs not my Pen but to state their Right to the Crown in such a Light as may remove needless scruples of swearing Allegiance to them In the beginning of the third and last Paragraph King Iames tells us That nothing but his own Inclinations to justice could prevail with him to such a Proceeding as that of his Care of his Protestant Subjects in Ireland and hopes his Protestant Subjects in England as he calls them will make a Iudgment of what they may expect from him Indeed it is no difficult Matter to make a Judgment of what we may justly expect from him if ever Divine Judgment as the Reward of our Ingratitude for so great a Deliverance should permit us to fall again under the heavy Yoke of a Popish Prince whom we have so justly and happily thrown off King Iames is of a Religion that has in a famous Council decreed That no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks much less with Subjects that he looks upon as so many Rebels and will not miss to treat them as such whenever they give him the Opportunity of doing it For his greatest Admirers do not run to that heighth of Idolatry to imagine him so much Angel as not to take all Methods to revenge such an Affront and secure himself at our Cost from such Treatment for the future The Apprehensions of which Resentment would strike such Terror in Men's Minds that nothing would be capable to divert them from offering up All for an Atonement and Popery and Slavery will be thought a good Bargain if they can but save their Lives Then we might lament our Miseries when it should be out of our Power to help them for a Prince of Orange is not always ready to rescue us with so vast expence and hazard of his Person And I must say if ever our Madness should hurry us thus far we should become rather the Objects of Laughter than of Pity Therefore King Iames promises and declares That nothing shall ever alter his Resolutions to pursue such and no other methods as by his said Subjects in Parliament shall be found proper for their common Security peace and happiness Such silly bates as these will not now take and here is a great deal of Pains lost to perswade us to relie upon Promises so often made already and as often broken What Adjournments Prorogations and Dissolutions of Parliament we have had of late is not easie to be forgotten We have found to our sad Experience that the Interest of the Court and that of the People were two incompatible things and to endeavour a Redress of