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A59824 A letter to a friend concerning a French invasion to restore the late King James to his throne and what may be expected from him should he be successful in it. Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1692 (1692) Wing S3295; ESTC R37546 16,796 33

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once taught the men of Succ●th with Briars and Thorns And there never was such an opportunity since the Reformation for a plentiful Harvest of Converts as this would be like to prove And who can bear the thoughts of this who has any compassion for the Souls of Men any Zeal for the Church of England or any concern to p●eserve and propagate the true Faith and Worship of Chri●t to posterity All this is upon a supposition of the late King's return which I declare to you I am not afraid of though it is fit to mind those men who are so fond of it what they may reasonably expect if he should return which possibly may abate their zeal in this cause and th●t may prevent the mischiefs of an attempt for without a hopeful Conspiracy in England the French King is to● wary to make such an Attempt But if they have any love to their Countrey any pity left in them for the lives and fortunes of English Protestants I beseech th●m to consider what the Calamities and Desolations of Civil War will be for that it must end in if there be an Invasion from abroad strengthned with a powerful Conspiracy at home King William as I said before will not Desert or Abdicate for I never heard of a Prince who had ventured so much to rescue a Kingdom out of so great a danger that would so easily expose it again to the same or a greater danger And surely the late King does not expect he should for he knows him too well So that if they look for such another Revolution to turn King William out as brought him in they will in a●l probability be mistaken There are too many Persons of Honour and Fortune engaged in this Cause who know the late King too well to take his Word and were it possible to wheedle men of Fortune and Sense the genius and spirit of the Nation is against them And that which could ma●e the late Revolution will probably be able to prevent this It must then come to Blows if an attempt be made and the fortune of one Battel may not decide it and those who are too young to remember the desolations which the late Civil Wars in England made let them look into Ireland and see to what a heap of rubbish a flourishing and fruit●ul Countrey is reduced by being the scene of a Three Ye●rs War It is made a popu●ar pretence to raise discontents and to make people disaffected to the present Government that the Taxes for maintaining this War are grown so into●erable and there is no prospect of an end of them Now I must confess that the Taxes fall very heavy upon some and am sorry that the present posture of our Affairs does require it and that there can be no easier ways found to supply the plain and pressing necessities of the State ●ut ●e ought to consider that still a●l this is infinite●y easier than Popery and French Slavery if we regard only our Estates The Annual exactions of the Church of Rome besides all the cheating ways their Priests had to get Money while Popery was the Religion of England used to be complained of as a National Grievance and a heavier Tax upon the Subject than all the King's Revenues And if those who complain of our Taxes were but one month in France to s●e the Poverty and Misery which the French Government has brought upon them they would come home very well contented to pay Taxes and to fight against the French too We are Free Subjects not Slaves we are taxed by our own Representatives who tax themselves as well as us and this not by the Arbitrary Will of the Prince We pay for our own Defence and Pr●servation as all peop●e ought to do and while we do not pay near so much as our Religion and Lives and Liberties are worth and have left wherewithal to maintain our selves we have no such gre●t reason to complain But how heavy soever Taxes are are they like a Civil War Like the dread and terrors of an Enemies Army or of our own Are they like having our Houses filled with Soldiers or which is worse burnt or plundered Are they like losing our Friends our Fathers Husbands or Children by whose kindness or labours we subsisted In a word Are they like the Spoyls of Harvest or the Desolation of a whole Countrey And can we be contented to see England again the Seat of War It is certain in our present circumstances it cannot be made so unless we our selves please France has too many Enemies to think of Conquering England without factions at home and were it not for them we need not fear its united Force and I hope considering men of what Perswasion soever they be will not think it worth the while to ruin their Countrey by a Civil War to purchase a French Slavery and Popery two very dear things could we purchase them never so cheap What I have said hitherto only concerns England but it becomes us to look a little abroad and consider what a fatal Influence a French Conquest of England will have upon the Affairs of all Europe That it is not mere Justice and Honour that makes the French King espouse the Cause of the late King James his Encroachments and Usurpations on his Neighbours will witness He has no scruples of Conscience about the Rights of other Princes all he can get is his own But England was formerly a Friend and Confederate at least not an Enemy and now the Power of England which the French have never had reason to despise is in the hands of a King who owes the French King a good turn and will not I hope dye in his debt This checks his ambitious designs gives life and spirit to the Confederacy threatens to make him restore what he has taken and what he keeps by meer force and violence and to reduce him within his Ancient Bounds and to the Ancient Consti●ution of the French Government and he knows while King William possesses the English Throne and keeps up the Confederacy he must not expect to get much more and may be in constant danger of losing what he has gotten This makes the French King so concerned to restore the late King James to the Throne of England to get rid of a Formidable Enemy and to strengthen himself with the Alliance of a Powerful Friend for England will probably turn the scales on which side soever it happens to be And there is no doubt but the Arms of England must be devoted to the service of France if a French Power should place the late King in his Throne again and let any English Protestant who can think coolly of things consider what a malignant aspect this would h●ve upon the Liberties of Europe and on the whole Protestant Interest The Arms or the Money of France has hitherto been an equal Match at least for all the Confederates while he has found other employment for the Imp●rial and
English Forces but thanks be to God the King of England and the English Force● are now at leisure to attend his Motions those Forces which beat him at the Boyn at Athlone at Agrins at Lymerick in a word which beat him out of Ireland and have now got a habit of beating the French And it is no wonder that he is not fond of such company in Fland●rs but endeavours to find some new work for them at home And if he can but send them home again and embroil us in a Civil War that is one great point gained but if he proves successful in his Attempt he makes England his own and will turn their Arms upon the Confederates and what can then stand in his way What should hinder him from being the sole and absolute Monarch of the West And then it is easie to read the Fate of Protestants Thus Sir I have freely told you what I apprehend will be the necessary and unavoidable effects of a French Conquest I pretend not to prophesie nor to demonstration in such cases but what I have said has all the appearances of probabi●ity all the degrees of moral certainty th●t any thing of this nature can have and that is the only Rule in these matters by which wise men are to judge and act And this has prepared a plain and easie Answer to your Second Question What English Subjects are bound in Conscience to do in case the late King should land in England with French Forces to demand his Crown Now there are two sorts of persons concerned in this question 1. Those who have not sworn Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary but account the late King James as much their King as he was when he sat upon the Throne and that their obligations to him are the same now that ever they were 2. Those who have sworn Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary And there are two parts of this Question 1. Whether they are bound in conscience to assist the late King if he return 2. Whether it be lawful for them to oppose him and fight against him As for the first part of this Question and as far as it concerns the Non-swearers I shall ask them two or three Questions and leave them to answer them themselves 1. The first question is Whether they can think themselves bound in conscience upon any pretence whatever to fight for Popery against the Protestant Faith and Worship that is as they must confess if they are Protestants to fight for Heresie and Idolatry against the true Faith and Worship of Christ or to fight for Antichrist and against Christ Can any consideration make this lawful If nothing can as I will venture to take it for granted that nothing can then whatever duty they may fancy they still owe to their Abdicated Prince it cannot be their Duty to fight for him when they cannot fight for him without fighting against Christ and his Religion though they must not fight against their Prince for Christ because Christ in such cases requires his Disciples to suffer not to fight for him yet it does not follow that they must fight for their Prince against Christ to bring a Persecution upon his faithful Disciples and to contribute what they can to extirpate the Name and the Religion of Protestan●s out of Europe Do they think themselves bound in Conscience to fight for their Prince against the Laws and Libe●ties of their Countrey as well as against the Faith and Worship of Christ Let the Rights of Princes be nev●r so Sacred have the rest of mankind no Rights but only Princes Is there no such thing as Justice due to our selves nor to our Fellow-Subjects Have the Free born Subjects of England no Natural no Legal Rights And is there any Law of God or man to fight for our Prince against the Laws and Liberties of our Countrey which are the measu●es and boundaries of that Duty which we owe to Princes that is to fight for our Prince against the rule of our duty and obedience to Princes when our Prince and the Laws and Liberties of our Countrey are on contrary sides tho we should grant them according to their own Principles that we must not fight against our Prince for our Laws and Liberties yet no more must we fight for our Prince against o●r ●aws and Liberties It is abundantly e●ough to be Passive in such cases but a Nation which fights against its own Laws and Liberties is Fe●o de se gui●ty of the worst kind of Self-Murder Can any ●nglish-man whatever opini●n he has of the late King●s Right think himself bound in consci●nce to maintain his Right by giving up his Countrey to France To make him King and all his Subjects French Slaves For can any Prince have more Right to be King of England than the Kingdom of England has to be England Is it not an unaccountable tenderness and scrupulosity of Conscience to be so concerned for any one Prince's Right as to sacrifice the Rights and Liberties of all the Princes in Europe to his To set him upon the Throne to drive all other Princes from theirs We are Citizens of the World as well as Subjects of England and have our Obligations to Mankind and to other Princes as well as to our own and though our obligation to no one other Prince is so great as to our own yet the publ●ck good of mankind or of a great part of the world is a more sacred obligation than the particular Interest of our own Prince or Countrey much less then can the Right of any particular Prince be it what it will stand in competition with the Rights and Liberties of our own Countrey and of all Europe besides It is to no more purpose to dispute with men who do not feel the Force of this Argument at the first hearing than to reason with blind men about Colours they have no sense left nothing but a stupid and slavish Loyalty all things tho never so sacred must give place to this the care of Religion the love of their Countrey their Justice and Charity to all mankind must vail to their senseless mistake of the true meaning of this word Loyalty by which they will needs understand an ●bsolute Obedience without Limitation or Rese●ve when most certainly it signifies no more than Obedience according to Law 2. I would ask them What they would think themselves bound to do in such cases were the late King upon the Throne again Unless they have chang'd their minds and then they are not so steady to Principles as they pretend to be we may very reasonably guess what they would do by what they did while he was upon the Throne It is certain they so much dislik'd his open designs of Popery and Arbitrary Power that they opposed him as far as they dur●t and would not Fight for him to keep him on the Throne nay by their Examples and Counsels they had so influenced the Army that
good Behaviour when he wanted their Assistance to secure his Possession of that Kingdom and to Recover his other Dominions And when in Reason it might have been expected that whatever Resentments he had he would have thought it his Interest to have treated Protestants with greater Tenderness and Respects But if the Necessity of his own Affairs could not obtain this from him what must Protestants expect if he return with Power And though some Protestants here in England seem not to be at all affected with this Experiment yet it hath made such an impression upon the Protestants in Ireland that they are for ever cured of their Fondness and have not the least Curiosity left to make any further Tryals It is pretended indeed in Excuse of this that he was then under the Government of French Ministers and Counsels and under the Power of Irish Priests and Papists and so was not at Liberty to follow his own Inclinations I should be very glad of a good Argument to prove that he had better Inclinations But however what Comfort is this to Protestants that he has better Inclinations but is not his own Master For if he must never shew any Kindness to Protestants it is no matter what his Inclinations are And can any Man imagine That if the French King by Force and Power place him on the Throne he will be less under his Government than he was in Ireland The French King among many other wise Maxims has this I am sure for one Never to make a King without making him his own Vassal and the Power that can make a King can make him his Slave So that it is to no purpose to enquire what King James will do but what King Lewis will do if King James returns Secondly As for the great Merits of the Nonswearing Clergy and Laity I greatly suspect that neither the Late King James nor King Lewis will think them so great as they themselves do Their Merit must consist either in their Principles or in their Practices And we will briefly consider both Their meritorious Principle is this That the Rights of Princes especially of Hereditary Princes to their Thrones are so Sacred and Inviolable that as they cannot forfeit them to their own Subjects by any Male-administration so neither can they by any Provocations or by any success of War forfeit them to any other Princes That while such a Prince or any Legal Heir is living no other Prince can have any Right to his Throne nor must his Subjects own and submit to any other Prince as their Soveraign Lord. Now as much as this Principle seems to Flatter Princes and to make their Thrones Eternal I am apt to suspect that no Prince who considers the just Consequence of Things can think it so very meritorious for it is a very dangerous Principle to Weak and Unfortunate ●rinces and an intolerable Restraint upon the Aspiring and Ambitious It is Dangerous to the Unfortunate because it lays a Necessity upon the Conquerour to take away his Life if he can as well as his Throne since he cannot lose his Throne without losing his Life though most Princes would rather chuse to have them parted than lose both together And how do they think King Lewis will like this Principle which stands in the way of his Glory and preaches Restitution to him of all those Dominions whose legal Heirs are living which teaches the Subjects of other Princes to deny him Fealty and Obedience and to Conspire with their Legal Princes against him I doubt not but he likes the Principle as little as he would like the Practice and that our Nonswearers would quickly understand were they the Subjects of his New Conquests which God grant England may never be Indeed how great a Complement soever this Principle may be thought to Princes it can have no Merit because though it may in some junctures do them hurt it never did and never can do them any service It never yet hindred a Revolution and never can make one and the Reason is plain because no Princes and very few Subjects do believe it and practice upon it If a Prince have a just Cause of War against another Prince he makes no Scruple if he Conquers to take his Crown and the Subjects of such a conquered Prince make no Scruple of Conscience to submit to the Conquerour though sometimes a personal Kindness for a Just and Indulgent Prince and a Concernment for their own Liberties and Fortunes may make them uneasie under it and glad of the first Opportunity to do themselves and their Prince Right The Truth is Princes have no Reason to like this Principle for were it true they could have no Remedies against the Injuries of Neighbour Princes they might indeed Fight and Conquer but they had better let it alone if they must not take the Throne which their Sword has won for it is only the Fear of Conquest and losing their Crowns when they are Conquered that can keep Princes in Awe and bring them to Just and Equal Terms and if no Prince must lose his Crown because no Prince must take it it will be impossible to beat an Injurious and Obstinate Prince into good Terms and I believe Princes will as soon be perswaded That it is Unlawful to make War as that it is Unlawful to seize a conquered Crown and will think one as meritorious a Principle as the other And it is certain Subjects have less Reason to like this Principle because it makes them Slaves and Sacrifices even to the Misfortunes of their Prince A Prince when he is Conquer'd or sees that he must be Conquer'd may escape by Flight but a whole Nation cannot run away and if they could have no Reason to leave their Country and their Fortunes behind them And yet according to this Principle they must not submit nor swear Allegiance to the Conquerour while the Prince who has forsaken them lives though they cannot Secure their Lives and Fortunes without it But Nature and Common Sense is too powerful for the Sophistry of such Principles and those who cannot Reason can feel what they are to do in such Cases The Loyalest Subjects when no personal Obligations or secret Interests determine them otherwise will save themselves by Submission when they cannot defend their Prince by their Arms and do not think they do ill in it And I suppose Princes do not think so neither because they expect the same from the Subjects of other Princes in the like Circumstances and such an Universal Consent both of Princes and Subjects when there is no Law of God or Nature against it makes it a standing Law in all Revolutions which both Princes and Subjects must submit to So that this Principle were it never so true can do no Service and therefore can have no Merit in this World because there are so few that believe it that they are not hands enough either to keep a Prince on his Throne or to restore him
to it All our Nonswearers could not hinder the late Revolution nor can they make another They are enow to make a noise especially if the Loud and Zealous Ladies of that Side be reckoned in but other Hands and other Pretences must do their Work if ever they hope to see it done and then no thanks to their Principles for it Whatever Reward their future Services may deserve Princes themselves will not think that their Principles deserve any Let us then now consider the Merit of their Actions and what Opinion the Late King is like to have of that if he should return I suppose they will be contented he should forget their Merits towards him while he was on the Throne especially about reading his Declaration as likewise their Tower and their Westminster-Hall Merits which were indeed very great and did deserve and would have had a better Reward from a better Hand had they not rendered themselves incapable of it But sure they don't expect the Late King should Reward them for such Services He knew that this raised that general discontent which occasioned that General Revolt which cost him Three Crowns And if all their Merits can Expiate this Guilt they come off well and those had need be very Extraordinary Merits which have first so great a Guilt to Expiate before they can pretend to Merit Could their Nonswearing restore him to his Throne again it would but just undo● what they had done which is no more than their Duty and therefore cannot merit no not so much as a Pardon though it may make them capable of it if they fall into merciful Hands But still there are Four Years Exile and the loss of Three Crowns and the Expence of so much Blood and Treasure the Dishonour of so many Defeats and the Ruine of Ireland to be accounted for and how can they make Restitution for all this Which yet they must do before they can lay Claim to Merit Let all this then be forgot for it is their Interest it should but they are very sanguine Men if they hope it will Whence then will they date their Merits When it was certainly known that the Prince of Orange now our Gracious Soveraign was ready to Land they seemed as well pleased with it as other Men and refused when they were pressed to it by the Late King to declare their Abhorrence of it but instead of that took upon them to give him Advice and to publish it when they had done In which Advice they recommended almost every Particular of the Prince's Declaration complained of the same Abuses and advised the Calling of a Parliament to redress them as if the Prince's Declaration and their Advise had been drawn by the same Pen and the Advice had been published on purpose to second the Declaration This I suppose they will not reckon among their Merits neither And if they can excuse what was so hastily done at Guildhall before the Late King was gone out of the Land they may very well be contented no more should be said of that The only Merit then they have to pretend is their Refusing the Oath of Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary and forfeiting their Ecclesiastical Civil or Military Preferments for it But what is this to the Late King Is this done out of Kindness to him or his Government Would they not have been contented to have lived Peaceably and Quietly as they themselves professed could they have kept their Preferments and have been excused from the New Oaths And how do they merit of him by refusing the Oaths with the Loss of their Preferments if they did it not for his sake but for another and better Reason for fear of being Damned God may Reward this but King James is not beholden to them Will they be better Subjects hereafter Will they read his Declaration when he Returns Will they make his Will their Law Will they submit to his next Ecclesiastical Commission and give up their Colledges and Churches to Priests and Jesuits Will they be content to take him the very same Man that he went away and to serve him in his own way Will they no more fill the Nation with the noise and fears of Popery and Arbitrary Power Will they turn Papists themselves or stand by patiently and give leave to his Priests to pervert Protestants as fast as they can Will they promise to demean themselves with more respect towards the King's Religion and to leave off their old fawciness of Printing and Preaching against Popery This indeed would bid fair for Merit but if they oppose his Methods of Government and his Glorious Designs as much as they do King William's Right if it be only a Title they boggle at if this be all that makes them uneasie at the Change their not Swearing does him no Service He could have kept his Kingdoms upon these terms before but he scorned it and so he will those who to salve their Consciences or their Honours and to recover their Preferments would have him upon these terms again As much as some Men glory in their steddiness to Principles which is certainly a very Honourable thing and an excellent degree of Virtue when the Principles are plain and certain yet few Princes to be sure not the late King like such a steddiness to Principles as opposes their Designs a stubborn inflexible Conscience is a very unruly thing and Kings do not like such Subjects as dare oppose a King upon the Throne whatever the Cause be So that I suspect their very Boldness and Resolution in opposing their present Majesties upon a meer point of Law will be thought no Virtue fit to be rewarded by a Prince who would make his Will Superiour to all Laws And if the Merit of the Non-Swearers is likely to vanish into nothing especially when there is no occasion any longer to court and flatter them and Priests and Jesuits have free liberty to comment on their Merits what Merit will those Men have to plead who were forward and zealous in the Revolution have Sworn Allegiance to their present Majesties have served them in their Armies and Navies at home and abroad There is no doubt but they shall have fair Promises and good words at present and shall be remembred hereafter when there is occasion But suppose the Merits of the Non Swearing or For-Swearing Clergy and Laiety who will help forwards another Revolution should be acknowledged to be very great what probability is there that the Church of England should fare ever the better for it when Popery and Arbitrary Power stand in the way past Experience gives no great Encouragement to hope this King Lewis was as much obliged to his Protestant Subjects of France as it is possible for any King to be for they set the Crown upon his Head and how he has rewarded them all the world rings of it The late King was not much less beholden to the Church of England when they so vigorously opposed
the Bill of Exclusion and how he also rewarded them we all lately saw and felt And shall Protestants after this think of obliging such Princes by their Merits They understand better that Merit is no Protestant Doctrine and that there can be none out of the Church of Rome And why should any body expect that which cannot be Nay should the late King return again and be as much at the Devotion of his Nonswearing Friends as they promise themselves he will be I very much doubt what the Church of England will gain by this If we may guess at the Spirit of the Party by the bitter Zeal which inspires all their Writings I can expect nothing from them but as fierce a Persecution of the Church of England as ever it suffered from Papists or Fanaticks excepting Smithfield Fires which possibly may be exchanged for Tyburn All who live in the Communion of the Church of England as now Established are in their account and constant Language no better than Hereticks and Schismaticks and Perjured Apostates much greater Crimes than the Traditores were guilty of which was the only pretence for the Donatist Schism and Persecution They seem to comfort themselves under their present Sufferings more with the sweet hopes of Revenge than any great expectations of future Rewards that they shall live to see the Swearing Bishops and Priests the contempt of Princes and People for if the A. B. of York who is particularly named cannot escape them I doubt they will make but very few exceptions And is not this a great encouragement to any who have complyed with the present Government to help these Men to Power again Must not the Nobility and Gentry expect their share of Vengeance as well as the Clergie And is not the Church of England then in a hopeful state which must be purged and reformed into Jacobite Principles and by a Jacobite Spirit These are all very sensible Proofs as far as we can reason about such matters how little good is to be expected from the return of the late King with a French Power He must return the same Man he went and then Popery and Arbitrary Power must return with him nay he must return much worse than he went because he must return more a Vassal to France which I suppose will not mend the Condition of English Subjects during his Reign These things ought to be well considered for if his Government was so uneasie before and gave us such a frightful prospect as made the Nation very willing to part with him when he thought fit to leave them it would seem very strange to by-standers should they now grow fond of his return when it is certain if he does return and returns by the Methods now intended Popery and Arbitrary Power must be more Triumphant then ever He wanted nothing but Power to make himself Absolute and to make us all Papists or Martyrs or Refugees and that he will ●ow have For if a French Power can Conquer us it will make him as Absolute as the Fr●nch King will ●et him be or to speak properly it will make him though not an Absolute Prince yet an Absolute Viceroy and Minister of Fr●nc● He will Administer an Absolute Power and ●overn●ent under the influence and direction of French Councels and then we know what will become of the Liberties and Religion of England And have we so long disdained the thoughts of ●ubjection to France Has a French League been thought such a N●tional ●rievance Has the pretence of a War with France been found such an excellent expedient to get Money of English Parliaments Has the ex●e●tation o● it fired English spirits and upon occasion filled our Armies and Navies without need of Pressing or beat of Drum Have we so detested the French Cruelties to Protestants And shall we now so willingly stoop to the yoke ●nd think it a great favour that they will vouchsafe to Conquer us Let us never complain hereafter that our Chains pinch and gall us when we our selves are ready with so much joy and thankfulness to put them on And whatever some fancy they will find it a very easy and natural thing for the late King if he return by Force and Power to make himself Absolute by ●aw Princes always gain new Powers by the ineffectual opposition of Subjects If they lose their Crowns and recover them again they receive them with an addition of some brighter Jew●ls and turn dispu●ed Prerogatives into Legal and undoubted Rights ●hus we know it was when King Ch. 2 d. Returned from a long Exile all the New Acts and D●clarations were made in favour of the Crown and Subjects bound to their good Behaviour as fast as Laws could bind them for in all such Revolutions those who suffered with or for their Prince return with zeal and resentment and take care in the first place to establish all such Prerogatives of the Crown as were disputed before and to grant such new Powers as they think are wanting And others there are always forward to make their fortunes by Complementing the returning Prince and to expiate t●eir ●ormer crimes by a forward and flaming Loyalty and the rest are over-awed and frighted into a compliance th●s it is commonly seen that between zeal and and fl●ttery and fear the King increases in Power and the People forfeit their Liberties and we must not expect that it should be otherwise now should the late King return The first Complement that must be made to him is a Jacobite Parliament and God knows what such a Parliament will do Will they deny him a Toleration for Papists the repeal of the Test the forfeitures or surrenders of Charters and a new Regulation of Corporations Will they dispute nay will they not declare his Dispensing Power and approve his Eccl●siastical Commissions Will they make any scruple to declare the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales or to leave the manner of his Education to those who will certainly Breed him up in Popery Will they not take care for new Jacobite Tests to renounce and abhor all the several Hypotheses and Principles of Government which have been urged to justify our Submission and Allegiance to their present Majesties And when they have done this How easy will it be for a downright Popish Parliament which will be the next step that will be made to do all the rest It is very evident what advantages the Priests and Jesuits will have in such a juncture to make Proselytes while the People are in a fright and grown giddy with such frequent Revolutions and those who in the late Reign were the great Advocate● of the Protestant Cause are disgra●'d at Court threatned into silence their Authority weakned and their Persons reproach'd both by Papists and Jacobites Numbers of Conv●rts was their great want before and the Press and the Pulpit their great hindrance but Jacobites will by natural instin●t learn more Loyalty and others will be taught it as Gid●on