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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

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be accounted Arguments and held for Evidences of the Prince of Orange acting upon Motives of love unto and care for the Protestant Religion in the invading his Uncle's Kingdoms and usurping his Crown there are none else discoverable in the whole course of his Administration and they must be either more sottish than the Soldanians in Africk or more irreligious than the Cannibals in America who can conconclude from the foregoing Practices and from such other as stand in affinity with them That he has any Religion at all or that he acts for any End but the satisfying his Ambition or upon any Motives save Pride and Haughtiness To which let me add in the last Place That if his Errand hither had been to take care of the Protestant Religion he might have done it effectually without driving his Majesty out of his Dominions Seeing there was not that Security that could have been wished or desired in order thereunto but what the King was ready to have consented unto and that more from his own Choice and Goodness than from the Influence of the Condition he was in And as all Things of which his Enemies accused him and whereof they took Advantage into which he had been misled were rectified and redressed by Acts of his own Wisdom and Grace before ever the Prince of Orange came out of Holland so he had ordered the Issuing out Writs for calling a Parliament in which the Nation might in the Ancient and Legal way have made what Provisions they had pleased for the preserving and securing our Religion and Liberties Nor is there that Man in England who retains the least Measure of Reason and good Sense let his Malice to the King be never so furious and obstinate but he must acknowledge That if the Prince of Orange had come hither upon any other Design save that of dethroning the King and usurping his Crown he might have easily compassed all the Ends published in his Declaration either by way of a private Treaty with the King himself or by the Method of a Parliament freely and indifferently chosen and permitted to sit without an armed Power and military Force upon them And as this would have redounded to the Honour of the Prince and gained him the Admiration of his Enemies and the Praises and Benedictions of his Friends so it would both have prevented a great deal of Distress Calamity and Bloodshed in Europe and have left these Kingdoms more safe and opulent than they now are and without that heap of Guilt and Infamy upon them under which they are brought But instead of treading in those paths of Truth to Mankind Reputation to himself and Justice as well as Kindness to these Nations it is known with what Neglect and Scorn he received the Proposals carried from his Majesty to him by the Marquess of Hallifax the Earl of Nottingham and my Lord Godolphin● and how he put the Earl of Feversham under restraint and made him a Prisoner when he came to him at Windsor with a Message from the King Nor needs there more to discover how remote he was from Sincerity in all the Pretences upon which he came hither than that he would never hearken to any Overtures which might lie in a Tendency to the making one Word of them good Thus Sir I have with all the Brevity the Subject would allow endeavoured to answer your first Question and if the Stile in some Places be a little Piquant the Scriblers for the Usurper and Usurpation have set me the President and who have been Commended and Rewarded for treating both his Majesty and the King of France with Ribbauldry as well as below their Sovereign Qualities whereas there is nothing here Undecent though some Things may appear Sharp Nor would it have answered the Majesty and Justness of the Theme to have handled it Flatly and without a Warmth correspondent to the Injury done our holy Religion in making it a Cloak to so much Villany as hath been committed And it would have been an indecorous Thing to have looked grave upon Baboons or have hunted wild Boars without a Spear or Weapon Yea it were to frustrate the great End of Languages and Speech and to quarrel with the Rules of good Sence to ascribe Mildness to Tyrants Honesty to Robbers or Truth to Lyars Adieu I am SIR Yours April 18. 1695. FINIS