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A25258 Chuse which you will, liberty or slavery: or, An impartial representation of the danger of being again subjected to a popish prince; Character of a bigotted prince. Ames, Richard, d. 1693. 1692 (1692) Wing A2975AD; ESTC R213413 14,440 31

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but our own groundless Fears and Jealousies in which unaccountable Humour if we still persist like the Seditious amongst the Jews we shall do our selves more Mischief within the Walls than our Enemies could possibly do without when the Glory of their City and Nation yeilded to the Arms of the Romans who could never have Conquered them had not their Murmurers within done more Execution to themselves than all Battering Rams of Titus could possibly Effect against their Walls But now to shew the Reverse of the Medal If King Jame's return to re-assume his justly Forfeited Right as no Human Reason can possibly suppose him to come in without the Assistance of the French let us consider what a Field of Blood will our Country be he coming in like a Conqueror will make us quickly Feel the Difference between the Easy Government we now Live under and the Insupportable Tyranny we must then endure his imaginary Zeal for the Defence of the Protestant Religion being long since quench't by the Affronts he pretends to have suffered by those of that Communion then will Rome Erect her Standard in Defiance to all the Methods of the Reformation and Popery become the standing Religion of the Nation It cannot be suppos'd that the Instructions he has Receiv'd from his great Patrone Lewis will easily be forgot and he who when in a private Capacity would ever hardly forgive one whom he suppos'd had done him Wrong will now be hardly brought to forget a National Indignity he will never certainly listen to any Overtures of Capitulation and 't is impossible to believe that things can be ever Accomodated between an Incens'd Prince and as he supposes a Rebellious People He has not so long Breath'd in the Air of France as not to learn its Tyrannical and Arbitrary Maxims and the as he thinks Meritorious Zeal of Propagating his own Religion will let him stick at nothing how Arbitrary soever to Establish it We may indeed imagin him to be of a Merciful Nature and that all shall be forgotten as if never done and that an Act of Indemnity will make all even again but those who are so blinded as to believe these fair Promises et them but look into an Act of his own Dated at his Residence in Dublin And in a Proclamation of his to his Pretended Subjects in Scotland May 4. 1689. He is most Graciously Pleas'd not only to Incourage his Friends to be Destoryers of Mankind but likewise offers them Pardons for such Inhuman Cruelties Telling them in the said Proclamation 'T is his Pleasure they should Rise in Arms and Assault and Destory and what ever Blood-shed and Slaughter Mutilations or Fire-raisings should be done to these Rebels as he calls the Scotch his Proclamation should be their sufficient Warrant for such Acts. If this is his Kindness for the Scotch Nation can we think the English will more civilly be Treated No no let us no longer Amuse our selves with Fancies of his Clemency and Kindness We live under a Government where we may be Hapy if we please and nothing but our Discontent can render us Miserable for as certain as there is a Providence if ever such a Fatal Revolution should happen not Savoy nor Piedmont nor all the places where the Arms of the French have Ravag'd were ever such Scenes of Blood and Confusion as England will be We are now in our Crisis and a few Months will in all probability determine the fate of Europe in General and of our own Country in particular and upon the Success of the Confederate Army Headed by our most Victorious Prince depends the Liberty or Slavery of the most Civiliz'd part of the World Postscript AT the conclusion of this Discourse I imagin some Smiling Reader finding fault and by his Looks would seem to tell me the Landskips are as ill Drawn as they are ill Design'd and that the Lyon is not so fierce as he is Painted nor will the Return of a Prince of the Romish Commifon be so Terrible to his Protestant Subjects as I would seem to represent But in Answer to this I must acquaint the Gentleman that I fear I have communited an Error on the other Hand and instead of adding fierce Colours to make the Piece seem Tremendous I have used such faint shadows as do not heighten the Picture Partiality and Prejudice are very ill Spectacles and but too often cause a false Medium I have seen a Picture which if one lookt Obliquely upon on the left Hand were represented the Heads of three fair Ladies but if you chang'd the Position of your Body and stood on the right Hand of the Design the very same Picture shew'd you a Monkey and two Parrots I know not on which hand my Reader 's Judgment stands which valued Faculty of ours we find to be very often deluded for if I may apply a place in Holy Writ very pertinent to this purpose only exchanging the Case of the Father for that of the Son they who form such terrible Ideas of the Imaginary Severities they feel under the present Reign where they are only beaten with Rods will at the Return of their Idoliz'd Prince be Chastis'd with Scorpions FINIS Books Printed for R. Baldwin NEW Predictions of the Fate of all the Princes and States in the World price 4. Sodom Fair Or the Market of the Man of Sin Containing a true Account of the Prices of the Pope's Pardons and Dispensations being a Treatise very useful and necessary for all young English Papists who intend to take Holy Orders or Travel through Italy and all such as intend to be cheated both out of their Souls and Mony To which is added the History of ADULTERY as it is now at Rome by Law Established with the Life of Clement the Sixth and Blasphemous Bull which he Published for the year of Jubile 1350. A Journal of the late Motions and Actions of the Confederate Forces against the French in the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands With curious Remarks on the Situation Strength and Rarities of the most considerable Cities Towns and Fortifications in those Countries Together with an exact List of the Army The Present State of Christendom consider'd in nine Dialogues between I. The present Pope Alexander the VIII and Lewis the XIV II. The Great Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Savoy III. King James the Second and the Marescal de la Feuillade IV. The Duke of Lorrain and the Duke of Schomberg V. The Duke of Lorrain and the Elector Platine VI. Louis the XIV and the Marquis de Louvois VII The Advoyer of Berne and the Chief Syndic of Geneva VIII Cardinal Ottoboni and the Duke de Chaulnes IX The young Prince Abafti and Count Teckly