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A39629 Five questions propounded to the people of England 1690 (1690) Wing F1119; ESTC R24035 1,412 1

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Five QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED To the People of England 1. IF the present King came for the good of England and not for his own ends at the Nations Cost Why then did he not embrace and improve the happy occasion of King James's voluntary return from Feversham since it is plain he could have no other thing in his Eye by his coming and message to King William and Invitation of him to St James's then an Accomodation for he put himself thereby into King William's hands and had hardly any other use of his own then to sign a National Agreement 2. Whether since that very time the Hand of God has not eminently shown it self against King William for that unnatural Ambitious and destructive refusal and treatement of his Father first by the perplextity that fell immediately upon him about the very thing he desired viz. the Crown witness the hot contest in the Convention and with what Clossetting Threats Bribes Promises c. he carried it and with that small advantage of Votes above his opposers that any Law would stand loosely that had no better concurance at its making In the next place by the Baffles upon his Forces by Sea and Land by the hand of Man and by the visible severe Hand of God insomuch that no time or age these six Hundred Years can parralel such a Years loss of Men Treasure and Shipping as this poor Kingdom has sustained since the coming of this present King Lastly the many factions and great instability of Councels such as God is accustomed to bring upon those that devise mischief or seek themselves or abuse the providences of God 3. Whether yet it be too late to retrive this matter and recover this bleeding Nation in case King William and Queen Mary would return to their natural and Christian Duty to their Father and incline to forgo their present untimely and perplexed Dignity and that thereby a good agreement may not be made for our Religion Laws and Liberties without more Blood Treasure and Misery 4. Whether if King William and Queen Mary will not do this the People for their own sakes ought not to think of the next best expedient to compel them to it as by addressing them for their Fathers return and by Refusing their Purses in the maintenance of their unjust quarrel against him and perticularly by oppressing forreign Mercinary Forces that are half of them of that very Religion their Lawful King is expelled for professing and which are all of them brought in without Advice or Consent of Parliament a Parliament then setting A thing without president for above a Thousand Years and what was never done by the greatest and most arbitrary of our lawful and undoubted Kings of England and never attempted but by Vortigern the last British King who to uphold his usurpation of the Crown called in the Saxons by which the Kingdom became a Conquest to that People 5. Whether if the People of England shall suffer themselves to be so far imposed upon that against the Eminent Hand of God and their own Intrest they will persevere in the upholding the title of King William and Queen Mnry for that is the quarrel and so it is must and will be stated all other things being by King James already granted in his soft and gracious Letter to the Convention this time twelve Month which they would not vouchsafe to read but has often been made publick containing the correction of past Errors the oblivion of our present Faults the Establishment of the Protestant Religion by secureing the Church of England in her Rights and the Dissenters in their Liberty desiring no more for his own Friends then in their own Houses and refering the whole to a free Parliament Whether I say the Blood Misery and Destruction that shall follow an obstinate opposition to a lawful King offering these Good and Gracious Terms will not lye at our doors before God and Men and so make it Just in him to acquire his Kingdoms at any price and rule them if he Succeed how he pleaseth Hear Fear and Beware