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A41264 The fidelity of a loyal subject, of the kingdom of England: or, An honest act of fidelity to King James, King William, and the whole kingdom. 1698 (1698) Wing F848; ESTC R213732 3,745 4

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this that besides those Overt Acts into which he was thus Trapan'd if it was so there is not any thing charged against him which hath been made Good or so much as brought to Publick Examination Even that which in the Declaration is alleadged for One of the Principal Motives of the Expedition and was referred to Inquiry by a Parliament and was notoriously a Principal Means to move the Hearts of the People so unanimously in the Case hath not all this while been brought to Examination tho' King James himself as 't is said in a a Letter to the Convention did conjure the Lords and Gentlemen then met to make a thorough Examination of it I mean the Birth of the Prince of Wales as we must take him to be after so much Evidence upon Record and nothing proved to the contrary but such bold Offers of Proof by futer rejected Nay if things be what there is such Cause to suspect they are take it with all its Circumstances Antecedent Concomitant and Consequent and particularly amongst others the Death of King Charles I. the desperate Plot against both his Sons the Profane Flattery of King William at the first and the Diminution of his Majesty by Indignities offered him in the last Parliament design'd and introduced with the Old false Pretence of the Groth of Popery probably not more against his Person than against the True English Government it self it is what may justly be feared will render the English and their Protestant Religion very odious in the apprehension of all other Nations upon a Moral Consideration but if it be considered according to the Principles of true Religion and Conscience it is so great a Sin against the Omniscience as well as Justice of Almighty God that there is little Hope of Salvation for any who are knowingly concerned in it without Giving Glory to God by Publick Confession and their utmost Lawful Endeavour for Compleat Restitution though with Hazard of their Lives or for the Nation to escape some terrible Judgment of Divine Vengeance answerable to so Great Wickedness unless due Care be taken to expiate it in time Besides if there was nothing in this there is at present a very Considerable Opportunity to make both this Nation and our Neighbours Happy the Neglect of which if it should be neglected I can hardly think would escape without Considerable Evil Consequences There are Two pernicious Factions by which Multitudes of People are carried in different Streams the Papal and the Protestant between which True Christianity is Crucified as Christ himself was between the Thieves They are like two Mastif Dogs worrying one the other and neither can get the Mastery because both alike are faulty But would either amend their own Cause the other would not be able to stand up against it Here I am asured are many who see many Faults which they wish were amended and would see more if some Temporal Respects and a Servile Fear of the Civil Power did not becloud them And in France I have been informed by Intelligent Travellers are divers Worthy Persons among their Clergy who have like Apprehensions of Faults amongst them So that there seems a fair Opportunity and Advantage for the adjusting of Matters in Religion which have no small influence upon our Civil Concerns if proper Persons be inploy'd on both sides and much for the Honor of that side which begins And for Setling Matters of State the Opportunity is so manifest as needs not Words to declare it Other matters I have to declare but such as may be Communicated to all in due Season but this though in Print is only for the Consideration of proper Persons such as mention'd before FINIS