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A41194	Whether the preserving the Protestant religion was the motive unto, or the end that was designed in the late revolution in a letter to a country gentleman as an answer to his first query.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing F766; ESTC R35674	40,307	48

injured Monarch being fully assured in himself that he never designed to prejudice us in our Liberties Properties or Religion but that all he aimed at was to make us a free rich and glorious People he cast himself entirely upon the Loyalty of his own Subjects for the Safeguard of his Person and Crown at the time when he saw he was to have his Dominions invaded and an Attempt to be made for turning him out of his Throne All which Designs he might have easily defeated had he but accepted the French Ships and Troops that were offered him But to his Glory and our indelible Infamy he chose rather to be forsaken and betrayed by his own People than to distrust them as knowing he had always lived in an Abhorrence of giving them just and real Cause to be false to him And indeed the Misfortune and Distress which befel him upon whatsoever Motives they were occasioned yet they must be resolved into his own Uprightness and Integrity as the contributing means and that being an honest Man himself he drew other Mens Pictures by his own Original Whereas he had continued safe and happy if he had drawn those of a great many People by the Reverse of his own I know that the Earl of S doth in a Letter from Holland to his Friend in London printed March 1689. endeavour to rob the King of the Honour due unto him for having refused the French Assistance and challengeth it to himself by telling us That he opposed to death the accepting of them and that he was the principal means of hindering the receiving both the Ships and Men. But all this was then published to put a M●rit upon his own Treachery to the King and to reconcile himself to the Mercy and Favour of the Nation to whose Anger and Wrath he stood at that time highly obnoxious For no M●n can imagine that either the Earl or those other Lords with whom as he tells us he consulted every day and they with him and by wh●m he was helpt to prevent the accepting both French Ships and Tro●p● which they thought would be a great Prejudice if not ruinous to the N●tion would have been able to have prevailed with his Maj●sty to have refused so seasonable and necessary Assistance if he had been any ways conscious to himself that he had been harbouring and carrying on Designs which might make him distrust the Loyalty of his People or which might give him cause to apprehend that his Subjects had just and reasonable Pretences of departing from their Fealty or for denying their Aids to defend him No● would any Thing but a clearness of Mind as to his own Innocency from any sinister Intentions against our Religion and Laws have influenced as well as suffered him to reject the offers made unto him at that time by the King of France But though this was the only Motive upon which his Majesty could do it in any consistency with common Discretion yet we sufficiently know upon what Inducements and to what Ends that Earl advised him to it Nor hath he been either Shy in concealing of it or gone without very liberal Rewards for it For he told Ginckle once at his own Table That though it was his Honour to have subdued the King's Forces in Ireland and to have wrested that Kingdom from his Majesty yet the Glory belonged unto himself of having contrived the Provocations to the Revolution and having laid the Foundations for deposing his Majesty from his Royal Dignity and Throne And the inward Confidence he is admitted into with the Prince of Orange and the vast Sums he has obtained and continues still to receive from him are plain Evidences as well as they are thankful Recompences of the Councels which in favour of the Prince's Designs he gave unto his Master But would any one that hath not lost all common Prudence and true Sense as well as renounced his Loyalty to his Rightful Prince have published in the same Letter a Thing so visibly false and so easy to be contradicted and exposed namely That when the first News came of the Prince's Designs they were not looked upon as they proved no Body foreseeing the Miracles he has done by his wonderful Prudence Conduct and Courage in that the greatest Thing which has been undertaken these Thousand Years or perhaps ever could not be effected without Vertues hardly to be imagined till seen nearer hand Whereas it was obvious to vast Numbers then as it is now to the whole Kingdom That there was neither Prudence Conduct nor Courage and much less Vertues hardly to be imagined guiding and influencing the Prince of Orange's Success but that his whole Prosperity in his Undertaking is to be resolved in and ascribed unto the Disloyalty and Treachery of some of his Relations bosom Friends Councellors Officers and Souldiers and into the Rebellious Principles of too many of his Subjects For to omit speaking of the great Effects which the Prince of Orange hath so often and wonderfully given in Flanders of his Prudence Conduct Courage and other Vertues hardly to be imagined it is but for us to recollect his Behaviour at and before Limerick in Ireland where he became the subject of the Derision and Contempt of all that were there and by which he hath furnished us here with matter of Diversion ever since when we have a Mind to be pleasant and we may from thence take the Measure and Extent with all the Dimensions of his political and military Excellencies But the Passage I have quoted out of the Letter serves to confirm me That it is an usual and righteous Judgment of God upon those that turn Knaves to give them over to become Fools also And for the Thousand Years or the perhaps ever that he mentions wherein the like hath not been untertaken and executed It is neither for the Reputation of the Prince of Orange nor for the Credit of this Kingdom but for the perpetual Dishonour and Infamy both of him and us that we should have been guilty of so much Treachery and Villany and he of such an unbounded Ambition and unnatural Crimes as there are no Examples of nor Presidents for And as the King harboured no Thoughts nor drove on any secret Designs for the Extirpation of our Religion so I will affirm that the preserving the Protestant Religion was so far from being the true and real Motive to the late Revolution though so much pretended and so often alledged in Vindication of those who engaged in it that most of those that were the first Instigators unto and who principally concurred and cooperated to the bringing it about are not Persons disposed by their Judgments nor prepared by Vertue and Grace to be concerned for any Religion farther than as the seeming to own One ministers to their secular Ends. Now this if clearly demonstrated being as likely a means as any for undeceiving the credulous and well-meaning Body of the People and for taking them off from

that was which I have now mentioned can have no other Designs concerning either the Protestant or any Religion but the making it a Stale for the better compassing his own Ends. And suffer me upon this occasion to entertain you with a Passage of Benting who is the Earl said to be made on the new Foot of merit that I have mentioned to a certain Gentleman in a private Conversation between them For the Gentleman having asked him why they did not discover and make appear the Illegitimacy and Supposititiousness of the Prince of Wales Seeing as the Belief of it had served more to draw the Nation into the Interest of the Prince of Orange than any thing else so a Legal and Parliamentary proof of it would inseparably link most Men to him and preserve them in a perpetual Alienation from King James Benting told him by way of Reply That they neither questioned the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales nor were concerned about it for that the Prince of Orange was now got into the Throne and was resolved to keep it so long as he lived and cared not who ascended it when he was gone Nor did his Letter to the Army and Fleet for debauching them from their Duty and by which he courted them to revolt from the King savour of or stand in consistency with any Religion but proclaims him both highly Impious and Atheistical it being not only to countenance breach of Trust and Disloyalty but to advise and authorize Perjury And whosoever tempts others to forswear themselves have been accounted by all Nations as Despisers of a Deity Supplanters of the only Ground of all human Commerce and Conversation and the Subverters of the Foundation upon which all Societies are established And his inviting those to desert and forsake his Majesty who not only eat his Bread and received his Pay but who stood bound to him both by their Allegiance and Oath of Fealty as they were his Subjects and by a military Oath as they were Souldiers enrolled under his Banners shews his own Irreligion that advised it as well as theirs that hearkened unto him And may be it will sooner or later return upon him wherein not only God will be Righteous but those that forsake the Standards of the Prince of Orange Justifiable provided they do it from a just and penitent Sense of their Crime in violating the Lawful and Righteous Oath they were under to the King from the Sanction and Obligation whereof no human Power can ever acquit them and also from a Conviction of the Unlawfulness of that Oath which they have taken to the Usurper I might add That the pretending to have come hither for the Safety Honour and Interest of the Protestant Religion will appear the most shameful Banter that ever was put upon the Understandings of a whole Nation if we consider the Treaty at Ausbourg and with whom the Prince of Orange concerted the Invasion that was to be made upon the King For they must have forfeited common Sense as well as moral Honesty who can be prevailed upon to allow that the many Catholick Princes who approved of that Undertaking could design any good to the Protestant Religion or believe that any Advantage would accrue unto it by that Attempt It is to Buffoon us and treat us in Ridicule to endeavour to impose upon our Belief That the late Prince Palatine who together with the Prince of Orange was the original Contriver of a Descent upon England or that the Emperour King of Spain Elector of Bavaria c. who concurred unto and countenanced it or that old Odiscalchi and Innocent the XI who winked and connived at it though against both a Catholick Monarch and the first of the Romish Communion that hath sat upon the Thrones of Great Brittain for above these hundred Years could do it in Kindness to the Protestant Religion or foresee that it was undertaken by the Prince of Orange upon any Motive relating to the Safety of it No they very well knew that there was nothing of Religion in this Case but they were willing to make use of the Ambition of the Prince of Orange to seek their own Revenge against France and to raise a War of Interest and State upon his haughty Aspirings after a Crown and on our being bubbled into it through a foolish Credulity that it was entered upon in behalf of our Religion Nor is it unworthy of Remark That the last Duke of Brandenburgh who was both one of the wisest and bravest Princes in Europe and one of the sincerest and most zealous for the Protection Glory and Advancement of the Reformed Religion would neither embark in a Design against the King of England nor suffer the Prince of Orange to enter actually upon it so long as he lived Which made his Death to be received and entertained at the Hague as a happy and seasonable Providence in that his Son who succeeded would not have the Prudence to avoid being ensnared unto it being withall under the Influence of those mighty Expectations he stands entitled unto as he is the Prince of Orange's Cousin German and thereupon Rightful Heir to all his Personal and Hereditary Estates And to put it beyond all reasonable Contradiction that the Prince of Orange did only Sham Abuse and Banter Mankind in pretending to come hither upon Motives of Favour and Kindness to our Religion than that the only Two Protestant crowned Heads in the World did neither antecedently concur unto it nor have they to this day engaged in the War against France which was the immediate and natural Consequence and Effect of that Undertaking But to advance a little farther Does not the whole Tenor of the Prince of Orange's publick Government as well as his personal and private Conduct lie in a direct Contradiction to his being under the Impressions of any Religion and much more to his being under the Efficacy of what we call the Protestant I am not at leisure to give you the full History of his Usurpation which some are pleased to stile his Reign but there are those who will do it to purpose in due time it being necessary that the vertuous Memory of the Hero and of our Folly should be recorded for the Instruction of Posterity All therefore I shall do at present is to bestow a few Strictures upon his Administration there being no more needful to my purpose Let me then ask Whether he hath done any Thing for bettering our Laws and enlarging our Liberties which were some of the main Things he came hither for Or hath he not on the contrary more avowedly superseded and departed from our known Laws and put more Negatives on publick Bills prepared by both Houses for the Royal Assent than any of the Kings that went lately before him did Has he performed any one Thing he undertook and which was expected from him that he could avoid the doing of Hath he kept one Promise he ever made that he has been in a