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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57020	A Reply to the answer Doctor Welwood has made to King James's declaration which declaration was dated at St. Germaines, April 17th, S.N., 1693 and published also in the Paris Gazett, June 20th, 1693.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1694 (1694)	Wing R1066; ESTC R24075	49,724	48

A Reply to the Answer Doctor Welwood has made to King Iames's Declaration which Declaration was dated at St. Germaines April 17th S. N. 1693. and Published also in the Paris Gazett Iune 20th 1693. Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit Nos nequiores Horat. People endure Oppression with more Patience from an Usurper then one ascending through a long Succession as esteeming it more Natural and no less then they look'd for or as acknowledging to have deserved it for not seeing when they were well Osborne's Advice to his Son Second Part. The PREFACE I am so far from triumphing over our Misfortunes that I call God to witness England can receive none that do not sensibly wound me but the Wise Man in the Scripture advising us To consider in the day of Adversity I think it not unseasonable at this time to recollect the present State of our Affairs and under a few short Heads expose the Calamitous Condition of our Country to the view and the consideration of all disinterested and honest People Some of those things I shall offer here have been already mentioned in Print and others in private Conversation amongst such whose Judgments tho' in some particulars differed from mine yet who I have the Charity to believe are guided by Principles of Integrity and in the pursuit of the ends they drive at prefer the publick Good before any private Advantage of their own But tho I have sometimes discoursed to the same purpose with men in Place and Power and such too as have the reputation of good Sence yet what I have delivered with all the Sincerity man is capable of has generally met with the Fortune incident to such meagre Doctrines as won't make the Pot boyl and I have been listened to as Sermons are more for decency than application I have therefore restrained my self hitherto from publishing my thoughts so freely unwilling to oppose the rapid Tydes of Passion and Interest which for these last five Years have born down all before them and overflowing the defences of Law and Reason have brought a deluge of Miseries upon t●is distracted Nation But now that the Fulness of time is at hand and our Ruin almost quite accomplish't I think I am obliged to contain my self no longer within Table talk but to do my Country all the Service I am capable of from the Shade I live in by endeavouring to dispel those Mi●ts of Prejudice from before their Eyes and demonstrating tha● a Du●ch Government that never was founded in any Religion has been much more destructive to us then a Popish one could have been tho' seasoned with too m●ch For I don 't in the least doubt but that most of those who were the chief Incendiaries in the Late Revolution and who scattered the Fears and Jealousies of Popery most would now acknowledge if they du●st speak out that all the Provocations of the last R●ign were in themselves as Impotent as Unjust and that it was impossible for so inconsiderable a Party to contrive any Mischiefs that required such violent Remedies as were pre●cribed For whoever heard that a Country govern'd by Laws was enslaved by a Prince whom his Subjects had entertained inveterate apprehensions of even before his accession to the Crown or would not laugh at the pretence of five or six thousand Papists endangering our Religion and Property when there was a Million of Protestants keepers of the Liberties of England It was therefore a vain Phantome to imagine that a King whose Subjects were suspitious and watchful over could surprise us with any material Innovati●ns in Religion or undermine the Fundamentals of our Government for as no man can be dangerously betrayed but by a Friend so no Government can be subverted but by a Magistrate in whom a Trust and Confidence is reposed agreeable to which is a Maxim of our modern Polititians That the English Liberties were never so much endangered as under vertuous Princes the meaning of which is that our People charmed with an Opinion of their Justice have been too unwarily apt to submit to such extensions of the Prerogative that by the abuse of evil Successors have become Presidents for a too exorbitant exercise of their Power This consequence is much worse because nearer at hand if the Prince be vertuous only in the giddy conceit of the Populace deluded by the fallacies of artificial men for such an one carries the secret Venom about him and is impatient of opportunities to profit himself upon the dupes of his own Reign And this is just our case for by starting at a Shadow we have embraced the very Substance that we feared in deposing a Lawful home-born Monarch who could not nor had a thought to hurt us and exalting with a popular but blind Zeal a little Forreign Prince who has imbibed by his Education a dislike for English men and has so modell'd his Affairs as if the King truckled to the Statholder and in●ended these three Kingdoms should be Provinces subservient to the Seven from whence he comes This may be deduced from every Act since the first Scene of this so fatal and expensive Reign but it not being the subject of this place to launch into a thorow Comentary I will only hint at what is freshest in our Memories and put you in mind of the late admirable Caution in the Conduct of our Fleets and Army Was it from his Love to England that he broke his Promise to the King of Spain to send a Squadron of men of War into the Mediteranean which was to be there before the beginning of last Spring to act in Conjunction with the Spanish Admiral in case the French attempted any thing in Naples or in Catalonia Was it from his love to our Merchants that he detained our Ships that had been a Year loaden at Spithead and might safely have ventured last November out without a Convoy But were kept in under an Embargo because the Dutch were not ready and and neither Sir G. Rook nor they permitted to sail until our Holland Friends were pleased to joyn them at such a time that it was true a Convoy became necessary but such a Convoy as ought not to have been less than the whole Na●al strength of England By this breach of Word with an Ally his Catholick Majesty owed the safety of his whole Fleet at Naples only to the Storm that dissipated Mr. d' Estrees Squadron but by it has since actually lost Roze and by his tender care of our Smirna Fleet in keeping them safe so long in Harbour and hugging them as Monkeys do their young ones to death our Turkey Trade nay and the whole Exchange of London were all at once upon the utmost precipice and brink of ruin I cannot but admire the Courage of our Sanguine Citizens that still bears up against so many repeated Losses for tho' the richest of their Tu●ky Ships were sunk at Gib●altar and Malaga and those that escaped have lost a whole years Trade and