seldom lasting amongst Neighbouring Princes rarely continue during their own Lives and are never transmitted to to their Posterities so many Reasons and Jealousies of State are falling in which occasion frequent and unavoidable Breaches And a King of England who is Absolute and Master of his Subjects would be a great deal more troublesome and dangerous to France than otherways and so it is not very probable that that Monarch will ever contribute to make us a Conquest to K. James and introduce Popery and Slavery amongst us There is one sure way to prevent this danger of Conquest and that is by the vigorous endeavours of every Enlish Man to repair the Injury done to our Abdicated Monarch King William's unwillingness to Abdicate which these Authors threaten us with can't put a stop to it His breaches upon our Laws and Constitution and his violation of the Original Contract made with himself deserves it and it is not all his Partisans and Troops can cover him from Abdication whenever the People of England thinks fit to declare it We are told next by these Authors That K. James is become so in love with the French Government that we shall never so much as have his Promise for securing our Religion and Liberties even though we have no reason to depend upon that or any other Security he can give us since he hath undertaken to the Pope and K. of France to make void all when he is upon his Throne and that it is visible from his Carriage in Ireland to the Protestants there that neither the sad Example of K. Charles the First who suffered for the like Attempts towards Arbitrary Power nor the fresh Remembrances of his own Misfortunes will ever oblige him to lay aside his Arbitrary Designs And however instrumental Protestants may be in his return that Pardon for their former Failings is all can be expected from him without obtaining the least kind regard to their Religion or Liberties on that Score I would gladly know upon what Grounds they assert that K. James will grant no Security at all for Religion and Liberty Have they made the Experiment and been refused It is not a bare Assertion can convince us of the Truth of it since we are assured to the contrary I have heard of a Scotch Plot for Restoring King James the particulars of it I am not acquainted with Only I have been told That upon the Application of some few Gentlemen of that Nation unto him he frankly granted them under the Broad Seal of Scotland all that was proposed for the security of Religion and Liberty and agreed to several Immunities which the P. of O. refused that Nation though he was solemnly engaged to grant them when the Crown of that Kingdom was tendered unto him Here is more than a bare Promise the Concessions are passed under the Broad Seal and granted by him when his Affairs were in Promising Circumstances at the desire of a few Gentlemen who had been active against him and who could make no such considerable Addition unto his Party as might induce him to it unless his own Inclinations when free from the pressure of designing Ministers and readiness to rectifie whatever was grievous to the People had put him upon it Can it be doubted after this that he will deny any thing that is necessary for the good and happiness of his Subjects whenever they apply seriously unto him for it But he must make good his Engagements to the Pope and King of France and make void all when he remounts the Throne which his hard Circumstances obliged him to grant If this were made plain unto us there would be a great deal of weight in it all the Evidence we have for it is the Veracity of the Author which goeth no great length being founded only upon supposition that he could not be countenanced by those Princes without such an Engagement This is an Argument that concludes more forcibly against themselves since it is reasonable to imagine that more solemn and sacred Engagements in favour of the Holy Chair and a Conviction of more punctual and ready Performances were necessary to induce the Pope and so many Popish Princes to countenance a Protestants mounting the Throne to the prejudice of a Papist I am yet to learn what were the great Merits of the Irish Protestants since the Revolution the fresh Obligations laid upon him and what were the new Discoveries he gave us there of his hatred to Protestants and irregular Arbitrary Courses I have seen a Book written by Dr. King which these Authors refers us to as sufficient Evidence to make good their Charge but it is so scandalously and notoriously False and stuffed with so many gross Errors and willful Mistakes in point of History and matter of Fact even in many things which fall under my own Knowlege that the Doctor seems to have Calculated his Book for a Virulent false Libel thereby to merit some Benifice from this Government rather than for our Information by a true and impartial History And the World shall be obliged with a particular Account of his Falshoods and Calumnies by a full and impartial Account of those Transactions But to come close home to the Charge Did not the Irish Protestants generally declare for the Prince of Orange Did they not actually either appear in Arms for the Prince or quit the Kingdom And those who stay'd were not they rather lookers on than actors or any ways useful towards the asserting the King's Rights I do not design this as a Satyr against the Protestants of Ireland the Measures taken there gave them much better grounds for their Fears than any we can pretend but only to shew that the Protestants of Ireland contributed no Endeavours towards his Restauration but run generally along with the Stream against it and so cannot be said to have made any new Experiment of his Kindness to and grateful sense of Obligations performed by Protestants They never desired or obtained any new Securities for their Religion and Liberties upon the Account of Services performed for him and so have no fresh Branches of Promise to charge upon him as our Authors do insinuate whereby to deter the Protestants of Britain from contributing towards his Restauration On the contrary we have a very convincing Argument from his Care of his Protestant Subjects there tho' either actually Enemies or at best but idle Spectators and his constant Endeavours to protect them from the Insults and Fury of the Irish of whom he was not fully Master to persuade us of the Gratitude and kind Returns we may expâ—ct from him when at liberty and obliged by our Services to express it How carefully did he preserve their Estates and Goods With how much tenderness did he give free Passage to the Women and Children from Londonderry when by denying it he must infallibly have carried the Town With what exact Discipline did he Govern an Army serving without Pay until King William's Protestant reforming
our Prince against the Laws and Liberties of our Countrey I Answer in the Negative and we do assure the World That it is from a tender regard to our Laws and Liberties as well as from a sense of Duty to repair the injury done our Exiled Prince that we resolve to contribute to his return The antient Constitution was broke in upon by the Abdication and our Laws Rights and Liberties have been more eminently and signally over-run during the P. of Orange's Kingship than by any of our most Violent and Arbitrary Princes even when he was under the greatest Obligation clearest and distinct Barriers placed against it and we are possessed with reasonable â—â—ars nay a certainty of having 'em â—â—iâ—e ruined and extinguished by his future Conduct which layeth an Obligation upon all true English Men to repair these Breaches made upon the Constitution and to vindiâ—â—â—â— and restore their oppressed and â—â—ined Laws and Liberties by returning K. James and the P. of O. into their proper and respective Stations But we are desired and pressed to have some Care of the Protestant Religion and Church of Christ which will be visibly endangâ—red by the King's Restauration all Europe over and a due regard for the Rights and Liberties of all the Princes in Europe which will be sacrificed by it that this ought to be more tenderly minded by us since we are Citizens of the World and so the good of Mankind or the greatest part of it layeth a more sacred Obligation upon us and is to be preferred to the particular Interest of our own Prince and Countrey The security of Religion is a Duty never to be forgotten by good Protestants and is never to be endangered and desperately hazarded by honest Men. But alas this hath been little regarded by our late Reformers Have they not quite unhinged our Constitution of which the Protestant Religion was become apart Have they not already and are they not in a fair way to ruine our Laws and Liberties which are the best Fences about our Religion After we are become Slaves we may quickly be made any thing else the multitude of new Converts in France is an undeniable Instance of this Have they not unnecessarily exposed the Protestant Religion to the hazard of a rude and uncertain War from the commencement of which we can form no great hopes of a Successful Issue and that in Conjunction with Allies who are the greatest Enemies of our Religion who when their particular Interests have been served by our Blood and Treasure will certainly give us the slip and nick some Opportunity which our present Circumstances can never furnish them with of Establishing themselves at the Expence of our Religious and Civil Rights and Liberties And finally have we not dethroned our King upon the account of his Religion by which we have commenced a religious War which may come to be fatally retorted upon us and may endanger the whole Protestant Religion in Europe A religious War is carefully to be avoided by Protestants since they are the weakest and no Pretence ought to be furnished to the Catholicks for the like Measure For thô particular Animosities and Interest seem to divide them at present how quickly may these be adjusted by the Necessities of one of the contending Parties and how easie will it be then for the Pope to unite them together under the Banners of Religion to give us and the Protestants of Europe a Rowland for our Oliver This is no Chimera or Dream but we may probably expect to see and feel it A far weaker Pretence viz. the Union established amongst the Protestants of Germany at Leipsick and Smalcald gave Birth to the Catholick League there which over-run all the Protestants forced several Princes and Cities from their Communion and endangered Denmark It is upon such weighty Considerations and to prevent the danger which threatens the Protestant Religion both at home and abroad from our late Measures that all true Englishmen and good Protestants ought to endeavour the Restauration of our King As to the Caution given us to beware how we sacrifice the Rights and Liberties of all the Princes in Europe the greatest part of the Princes and States of Europe are not engaged in this War against France and consequently in no danger by it The two Northern Crowns Moscovy and Poland Portugal all the Princes and States of Italy except Savoy together with the Switzers are in perfect Peace with France and so the Supposition of this Author is absolutely false the Original and Ground of this War is purely private Contests betwixt the Crown of France and House of Austria and such other Princes as that House can draw into their Interest Do we not see that the Princes of Germany themselves who seem to have the most immediate Concern in it and should understand and be more alarmed at the Consequences of it than we do but make Merchandise of their Assistance and engage in and withdraw from this War as it contributes most to their particular Interests and according as they are best paid by the several Principals Do not the Northern Crowns whose Territories and Provinces lie more exposed to the Consequences of this War than our Islands maintain an exact Neutrality which will give their Subjects Possession of the best part of the Trade of Europe We are the only Fools who have been prevailed upon to engage inconsiderately in this War to be at the greatest Charge of it to drein our Blood and Treasure and to hazard our Religion and Liberties by it without so much as proposing any Return to ballance this Expence and Danger Our Conduct is such an Instance of Folly and Madness as amazeth the present and will not find Credit in future Ages As to the Maxim established by the Author upon which he buildeth all his fine Reasoning it is false and Phanatical to perfection Can any Man in his right Wits assert That the Interest of our Prince and Country must give place to the Interests of other States suppose them to be the greatest part of Mankind Much less then to those of the House of Austria which is the present Case Must the Interest of the British Monarchy be postponed to the Interest of the Mahometan and Pagan Countries which make the greatest part of Mankind Or must the Interest of Britain and so of the Protestant Religion which makes a part of it give way to the Interest of the Pope and Catholick Princes which make the greatest part of Europe We may quickly guess what our Fate would be by following such a Rule and may easily be persuaded that the Cause must be very bad which requires such wretched Maxims and Reasonings to â—â—pport it The last Question is Whether we would think our selves bound to sight 〈◊〉 him did we believe he would promote the same Designs he did before and what we would think our selves obliged to do in the like case and under the same Circumstances after he had remounted
the Prince of Orange and that in the Cases of Hen. IV. and Hen. VII In this the Author discovers himself to be ignorant of the History and Affairs of his own Country in mistaking the Case of Hen IV. in giving us an Instance in Hen. VII of a Breach of the Lineal Succession to the Prejudice of the surviving King and next Heir since it is very well known that Richard the Usurper was killed in Battel and lest no Heir behind him and King Henry being undoubt d Heir of the House of Lancaster by his Marriage with the Heiress of the House of York united the two Roses and had an unquestionable Title to the Crown without any Breach in the Lineal Succession And also in omitting to give us the Instance of Edw. III. which are all the Examples our History affordeth and are very far from making a Precedent in our Case Edw. III. was the eldest Son and undoubted and nearest Heir of the Crown and thô he mounted the Throne during his Father's Life yet it was upon his Father's Resignation And though he had all the Heat and Ambition of a young Man and discovered during his Reign a largeness and greatness of Soul more than ordinary yet he constantly refused the Crown until his Father's Resignation was obtained This can be none of those greater Breaches of the Succession hinted at by our Author and doth not at all sute the Case of King William And Hen. IV. makes as bad a Precedent for our Practise King Ri. II. resigned in the favour of Hen. had no Children to be prejudiced by his Resignation King Henry was the next Heir the Pretences of the House of York being not then set on foot but that Family acquiesced in his Right as well as the rest of the Kingdom So that our own Histories can as little furnish us with Examples to justifie our present Practise as those of other Nations If in the Instances assigned the horrid Violences of Richard the Third the Male Administrations of Richard the Second and Edward the Second could not in the Opinion of this Author warrant their Dethronnig from the Character of Injuries done them he must certainly be jesting all along with us in his Pamphlet in justifying an Abdication for less and shorter Errors and the Tory Nottingham is forced at last to peep out from under his Republican Disguise As to the Pretence That by saving the Succession to the Princess of Denmark and her Heirs the Convention hath sufficiently shewn how far they were from designing any Alteration in the Succession or the ancient Constitution of our Monarchy it is equally weak and frivolous with any of the rest and lays a Foundation for another Election as it is expressed in the Vote For the Provision is not to the Princess of Denmark's Heirs simply as the Author falsly and disingenuously represents but runs thus To the Princess Ann of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body which failing to the Heirs of the Body of the said K. William which excludes all collateral Pretenders of the Orleans and Palatine Families who would have been comprehended under the general Notion of Heirs It was not possible for the Wit of Man to contrive a Vote which in so few Words could more visibly alter the Nature of our Hereditary Monarchy make more and stronger Precedents for an Elective occasion more Interruption in the Succession and lay a better Foundation for the like for the time to come For in this Sentence we have a Breach in the Person of the reigning King by the Abdication we have another Breach in the Person of the Prince of Wales we have the People conferring the Crown by Election upon the Princess of Orange to the Prejudice of that Prince his Title we have a Survivancy of the Government settled in the Prince of Orange by a second Act of this Elective Power of the People to the prejudice of the Princess of Denmark and her Heirs which makes a third Breach in the Succession and lastly we have all the Collateral Heirs of this Crown quitâ— cut off by the Entale by which the Monarchy is to b extingu shed or a Series of Elective Monarchs buckled upon this Nation us â—trongly as those good Patriots could do it by their Sentence Let any wise and thinking Man judge if this be not such a palpable and visible â—â—â—inging of all the antient Frame and Constitution of our glorious Monarchy as deserves the warmest Endeavours and most diligent Application of every honest Man for the settling of this our antient English Government upon its old Basis by the Restauration of K. James The Author of A Letter to a Friend concerning the French Invasion did certainly foresee these Difficulties the former Author had run himself into and being unwilling to shipwrack his Reason upon such gross Absurdities he broadly hints at Conquest And in this he but seconds the Author of the Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton at his Execution Licenced by a Secretary of State who boldly and without Disguise pleadeth upon that Title This Plea though it be not liable to the same Absurdities with the other yet labours under greater since by one blow and with one dash of his Pen he levels at the Birth-rights of the Subjects as well as of the Monarch and undeavours to extinguish the Freedoms of Englishmen as well as the antient Government and certainly to entail upon and place us actually under that Slavery the fear of which is the best Reason they assign for restraining us from assisting our King in his Return as if such remote fears of Slavery were more dreadful than present Servitude which is the necessary consequence of Conquest These Champions make very bold with their Prince and wound his Honour and Interest deeper than the keenest Enemies could do Such Blunders must fall in when Men reason rather from Passion than from steady and generally received Maxime and labour to defend a deeply tinctured Republican Revolution by Tantivy Monarchical Principles It is strange to see a Man who is indued with a rational Soul whose greatest Prerogative and Excellency consists in a clear unbyassed and distinct Exercise of Reason so blinded with foolish Prejudice as rather than submit to plain and convincing Truth chuse to betake himself to this unaccountable notion of Conquest which is absolutely inconsistent with the Prince's Declaration destroys the Maxims and Grounds upon which the Convention of Estates from whom the Prince derives his Title did proceed overturns the Subjects Claim to Rights and Privileges the pretended care of which is the best Support of this Government brings home to our Fancies and Imaginations the most frightful Ideas which a free-born People can form to themselves of Tyranny and Slavery with all the terrible and desolating Consequences which attends them and consequently lays us under Obligations from a due regard to our selves and Posterity and Duty to our Country to shake off the Yoak with all Speed though with
by the natural Boldness Spirit and Courage of the English far surpassing that of the French but more especially from the Inclination of the French themselves to live under a Government which was so much easier and more agreeable than their own it being natural for People to covet the same Plenty and Freedom which they see is injoyed and possessed by their Neighbour Hence it was that though we lost all our Footing in France yet still our Forces and Enmity was more dreadful to those Monarchs than that of any other State in Europe though more considerable for its native Strength and consining by dry Marches upon 'em and they always Courted our Friendship and Allyance with the greatest Submissions and Applications imaginable And until the Reign of Q. Elizabeth the French did always chuse rather to divert our Invasions with their Money and Treaties than to encounter them by Force being afraid to graple with that Power which they had so often felt to their Cost Since that time neither our Friendship hath been so much Courted nor our Enmity so carefully Avoided as formerly This doth not proceed from the increase of the French Power and decrease of ours though the Revenues and Military Force of France be strangely augmented since ours in proportion hath received the same increase Our Treasure is augmented and that being the Sinews of War quickly furnisheth and maintains every thing else And the other States of Europe are from the Circumstances of Affairs better disposed for Allyances with us than ever they were in the time of our Ancestors So that France is but still France and England in the same Proportion with it as to Force and Revenue and in a more promising Condition of making Allyances and of being more usefully served by them Our Pretences are still the same and every whit as Strong and Just and we as willing and desirous to make Advantage of them and yet we are in no respect so formidable to that Crown as formerly nor in a Condition to shake that State and make such impressions into the Heart of France as our Ancestors have done The true Reason is our difference in Religon for we being Protestants and France Popish this sets the Two Nations at a greater distance from mutual Correspondence and Contrivances which must necessarily preceed and occasion important Revolutions than all their former Animosities Emulation and Duty to their natural Prince could ever do Loyalty to Princes National Considerations and Point of Honor and Reputation do many times give way to present and future Advantages But when Religion and Point of Conscience comes in to gather and cement all those divided Interests together and unite them as it were into one bundle they become the more hard and difficult to overcome This plain and evident Reason cannot escape the Knowledge and Reflection of so wise a Prince as the French King is acknowledged to be The difference in Religion is a much greater Security to him against our Attempts than his Armies Fleets or Strength of his Towns The Sense of Religion doth many times rouze and influence the Courage and Resolutions of Men when other humane Considerations prove to weak to quicken their drooping Spirits Catholicks will fight to the last to escape the Dominion of such as they believe Hereticks when perhaps French Men would be willing enough to come under the English Government which is so much easier and better than their own I do not question but this very Consideration alone will prove strong enough to keep the French King from endeavouring our Reunion to the Roman Church which would make the Pretences of an English Monarch more dangerous than ever by our Union with Scotland which formerly gave such notable Diversions to our Forces both at Home and in France That Prince's Disputes with the Pope for Point of Prerogative shews plainly that he never will indanger his Crown in his own Person or Posterity to serve the Interests and Desires of the Papal Chair from all which we may safely conclude that the Protestant Religion in Britain was in no great danger of being ruined by King James though really as bad as he was represented If our Religion and Liberties were placed so much out of danger of being overturned by the Laws and Franchises we were then in Possession of how much better might we have established them for the future and placed them above the shadow of any Danger by embracing and improving the Offers which our lawful Prince made us of carving out our own Satisfaction and Securities He was surprized with an astonishing Defection of his Subjects with a Conspiracy of a great many Princes and States against him He knew no place but France to retire unto where he might have a Cover for his Head but could have no great Expectations of being quickly restored to his Throne by a Power which had so much other Diversion He was unwilling in his old Age to go into Exile was very desirous to leave a perfect Calm to his Son before his own Death which by the Co rs of Nature and the ordinary Destiny of his Family he could not believe was very remote and had a Love and Kindness to us still as a Father for his disobedient Children All which would have procured us from our lawful King a lasting legal full and happy Settlement would have established our Religion bettered and secured our Liberties upon lasting Foundations without any trouble and with a great deal of innocency How many crimes would have been avoided by following this Method and how many more prevented which will be necessary if we be obstinate to support and maintain the Injustice we have done How many Millions of Money and how many Lives might have been saved or at least more profitably employed by the Conduct and good Husbandry of our Lawful King for the Honour of England restraining the unbounded Pretences of ambitious Neighbours and in giving Peace and Quiet to Europe There is no question but a King who was so unwilling to leave us and had so much of an English Spirit would have gone into any Measures with relation to foreign Affairs that his Paliament should have thought fitting in which case what returns of Glory and Profit would this Nation and Monarchy have reaped from this Blood and Treasure which is now absolutely lost and thrown away and our future Expences and Dangers daily growing upon us with as little hope of Success My heart is so rent and torn with the thoughts of it that my Pen is ready to drop out of my hand as I write But we wantonly longed for an Abdication without examining the true Value of what we refused and the Consequences were to follow upon the other Measures We have made a religious War of it which may be fatally returned upon us and we never considered that Defections upon Pretences for the Protestant Religion seldom or never terminate othervvise than by the Destruction of Religion and Pretenders both
Reasonings which more perfectly resembled the Pretences Motives and Grounds of this Revolution by their Weakness Falshood and Prevarications How well our present Payments secure our native Countrey and Religion from Destruction may appâ—ar from the ruine of Ireland the Plunderings and free Quarters practised in Britain the Breaches made upon our ancient Monarchy and Constitution whereby a War is entailed upon Us and our Posterity from the Violences done to our Laws Rights and Liberties and Original Contract made with K. William and from the present visible and eminent Dangers which our Religion and Liberties are threatned with by any probable Issue of this War under a Prince who hath quite overturned the Liberties of his own native Countrey made fair advances towards the ruine of ours and was never yet Successful in any Enterprise he undertook except when he invaded his Father in Law contrary to all Divine and Humane Rules which perhaps God designed as a Scourge to these Nations for our Sins and when he fought Luxemburgh's Out-guards at St. Denis with the Peace in his Pocket contrary to the publick Faith and Law of Nations as if he were Predestinated to be Successful only in Crimes but unfortunate in heroick brave and generous Actions such as restraining the ambitious Encroachments of Princes and vindicating the Rights and Liberties of oppressed Nations having always practised in his own Case what he pretended to reform in another's How little the Deliverance of Europe is carried on by our present Payments is but too evident from the growing Successes of France in Flanders and the taking their most considerable Towns and Fortresses in the sight and under the nose of our present Monarch and those mighty Consederate Armies It is equally false to insinuate That our Payments during King Charles the Second's Reign bore any proportion with the Taxes under this and that they were employed only for assisting France to ruine Europe For the Subsidies we have already paid to this K. which Sir Edward Sâ—ymer who might very well know it assured the House of Commons did amount to 18 Millions before the last Impositions which were granted do far exceed all the Taxes paid to K. Charles joyn'd with the several Payments made to our Edwards our Henries and our Elizabeth who raised the Honour and Reputation of this Nation so high and spread our Conquests so far And it was to King Charles his Authority and Mediation the Peaces of Aix-la-Chapelle and Nimiguen were due which put then a Stop to the French Carreer And I am afraid our present Payments will very hardly bring about a Peace again upon the Foot of those Treaties and we are to take it as a very great Favour for which we are to be thankful to God and our present King if the Taxes we pay during this Government fall any thing short of the French Oppressions and Four Millions a Year over and above an Allowance for the Abatement of Chimney-Money and the ordinary Revenues of the Crown are but inconsiderable Payments in the opinion of these Authors It seems their Court Preferments are great and rich that they are so little sensible of those Taxes which are already become so heavy to this Nation and of which we see no end But the growing Debt to the French King for those Sums already spent upon K. â—ames 's Subsistance and the defence of Ireland and to be farther Expâ—nded for his Restauration will quite sink and undo this Nation It appears that these Authors take it for granted That the mercenary Temper of the Dutch in demanding and obtaining Satiâ—faction for their Expences which 〈◊〉 of a tender regard forsooth to our Liberties they bestowed upon our Deliverance will be exactly copied by other Princes But this is the first Instance of such Merchandise and it is not to be believed that great Princes who study Fame and tenderly regard their Honor and Glory will imitate so base an Example But suppose they should our Author is as wide in his Estimate of this Expence as in his other Reasonings We are frightned with a Charge Ten times bigger for many Years than our present Payments and yet will very much fall short of the half of one Years Tax we pay now The Sums spent upon the King's Subsistence and Ireland doth not amount to Three hundred thousand Luâ—dores and as for the Charge of his return I wish and heartily pray that all true English Men would unanimously concur together to prevent the pretence of demanding any such Charges the necessity of Foreign Troops and even the remotest Fears of French Popery and Slavery by returning our King with as general a Consent as he was forced from us which will vindicate the Protestant Religion from the reproach of Deposing Principles and establish it for the nature will reseâ—â—e the ancient Monarchy and Constitution of this Nation upon its old Basiâ— will repair the Injury done to our lawful King whereby we may legaly obtain those Securities for our Religion and Liberties which we are Courting unsucces fully amidst so many desperaâ—e Dâ—â—gâ—rs and Diffâ—â—â—lâ—â—s will infallibly relieve us from the weighty Oppressions and manifest Infractions of our choicest and most valuable Rights which we at present feel and have so much reason to be apprehensive of for the future will deliver us from the heavy Burthen of so many Taxes which we have already paid and which yet must be continued if we design to support a crazy and unjust Settlement any longer which after all our Blood and Expence must certainly fall to the ground and give place to the natural Force and Weight of our ancient Government and Monarchy to the just Title and undoubted Rights of our lawful Sovereign and his Posterity to the Love Affections and native Inclinations of English Men when the present fit is over and to the Interests of our Neighbouring Princes and States which lie visibly cross unto it so soon as their present Differences are at an end And lastly by this Method we shall be secured against those fatal Influences upon our Liberties which never fail to accompany all forced irresistable and unexpected returns of Exiled Monarchs I do humbly beseech Almighty God That of his Infinite Mercy for the good of these Nations and of all Europe he would open the Prince of Orange's Eyes give him a sight and discovery of the Vanity as well as Injustice of possessing his Father's Throne and incline his Heart to establish Religion and Liberty among us and give Peace to all Europe by doing an Act which would bury in Oblivion the famed Instances of Dioclesian and Charles V. and immortalize his Name even by restoring his old Father to his Right and Inheritance Was it really the Danger our Religion and Liberties were in which put him upon coming to Britain this would be an infallible way fully to secure them by new Laws and Concessions against which there lay no Objection Or was it to put himself at the head of the British Forces thereby to give a Check to the towring Ambition of the French Monarch this would more effectually do it for either that King would think himself obliged out of Gratitude to a Prince who is truly a Martyr for a supposed French League to give a reasonable Peace to Europe in order to King James's Restauration or by a Refusal our King was at Liberty to consult his own Interest and to unite with the Consederates by the Advice of Parliament which would make such a general and vigorous Application of the English Forces that way without any fear of Domestick Distraction as would quickly oblige that great Monarch to give ear to Reason and a Peace to his Neighbours And the Glory of having given Peace to Europe and subdued himself would place the Prince of Orange's Name upon the highest Pinnacles of Fame furnish the greatest Character imaginable for History give a great and noble Example to future Ages declare him the Benefactor of the Christian World and oblige all British Subjects to acknowlege that he had most generously contributed his best Endeavours for the securing of the Protestant Religion and the free Enjoyment of all our Laws Rights and Liberties under a just and legal Government according to his Declaration FINIS ERRATA PAge 5. Col. 1. Line 23. r. upon a Review of that bl ssed Occasion p. 8. c. 1. l. 37. deâ—e in p. 10. c. 2. l. 9. after Troops add to support 〈◊〉 p. 13. c. 2. l. 16. 〈◊〉 it r. th y. p. 14. c. 2. l. 39 r. easie p. 21. c. 1. l. 38. r. was not with p. 22. c. 1. l. â—â— lâ—â—e anoth r. p. 26. c. 1. l. 13. dele our p. 27. c. 2. l. 21. r. Princes p. 32. c. 1. l. 13. r. the. p. â—2 c. 1. l. 30 dele upon whole Counties p. 37. c. 1. l. 6. after in add the. dele are l. 23. r. Towns p. 41. c. 2. l. 3. r. scrâ—ening p. 43. c. 2 l. 4. dele and his Designs p. 4â— c. 2. l. 9. r. instanc p. 54 c. 2. l. 32. 〈…〉 fail to furnish