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B08843 A country dialogue between William and James, on the monthly fast-day with reflections on the earthquake which lately happened at Jamaica, and here Sept. 8. 1692. 1692 (1692) Wing C6528; ESTC R171554 12,007 8

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supposition No King James says otherwise in his Declaration The Most Christian King hath according to our desire declined to send over Troops so numerous as may raise jealousies in the minds of our good Subjects See K. James's Declaration of his intending to take the Work wholly out of their hands or depriving any true ●nglishman of the part he may hope to have in so Glorious an Action as is that of restoring his Lawful King that but so many Troops should come as are sufficient to untye the hands of our Subjects and make it safe for them to repair to Our Standard which Troops shall be sent back as soon as we shall be fully settled in Possession of our Kingdoms without the least injury to the Persons or Possessions of Our Subjects c. But we may prevent these surmises and fears by addressing to the Parliament to recall Him that His Restoration may be as Glorious as his Royal Brothers Let all unbyassed Englishmen revolve how flourishingly we enjoyed our Religion Laws Property and Trade after that miraculous Restoration and God would restore the same Blessings had we the same repenting Hearts 3. As to our Servility to Strangers c. Your K. W. hath forty Papists in this Army to one that K. James had in his and a much greater number of Strangers than our lawful King design'd to bring with him for his and our necessary Assistance Remember the Danes in the days of yore now they Lorded it over us and were from thence called Lordanes and if we go on or go through as you call it to have our best Men killed in the Dutch Quarrel and to support the Ambition of K. William we shall be so weakned that Dutch Strangers will be our Masters and English Freeholders their Slaves I beg religiously that all Free-born English-men would weigh this point truly like brave old English-men 4. Our Religion will be guarded by Acts of Parliament as I told you I heard our gracious K. James promise and you have seen in his Declaration which he will keep inviolably tho the P. of Orange broke his in every Particular Will. If this be true as I know a great part of it is sure we are not wise to be thus led by the nose I have read in a Book intituled A Discourse written by Sir George Downing the King of Great Britain 's Envoy Extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces shewing how cruelly barbarously and inhumanely the Dutch treated us at Amboyna Jam. Ay and when 't is in their power they will use Us just so in England The Lord open our eyes that we may foresee and prevent our ruine for we are on the brinck of a Precipice Yet notwithstanding our loss the other day about 14000 by Namur we have sent more Recruits 12000 Men the Soldiers who were to form a Descent into France this Summer to Crown K. William there as the Prophecy tells you the Son of Man meaning Him must be this notable fourth Year of his Reign O infatuated English-men to believe such Stuff Yet as the Doctrine now in vogue speaks If the P. of Orange is predestinated to be King of France it must be so and if the People of England are predestinated to Rebell and continue in it they must do so and be damn'd So that by this Dutch Doctrine we make God the Author of all our Villanies O horrible Blasphemy Will. Pray what may that pretended Descent cost the Nation Jam. About 3 or 400000 l. A Trisle Will. Trifle me no Trifles I see we must be undone at this rate Jam. If we do not repent it is very visible we shall perish And truly I see but little hopes of true Repentance and thorow Reformation for about three Weeks since I discours'd with one who is a zealous Williamite concerning the Premises hoping to convince him as God be thanked thou art but his Heart was unmalleable His chief Argument for their being in the right was Success He began with the Prince of Orange's Arrival in the Winter how the Winds and Seas favoured him how he missed our Fleet how the Hearts of the People were open to receive him his Conquest in Ireland the beating the French Fleet c. I urged David's Complaint how the Wicked flourished in his time Then said he I have cleansed my self in vain and washed my hands in innocency The Success of the Wicked amused holy David it was too hard for him to understand until he went into the House of the Lord then he knew the end of these Men namely That they stand in slippery places and shall be cast down and come to a fearful end That Success is not the Christian's Rule the Word of God the Scriptures are our guide If an Angel from Heaven should preach any other Doctrine to you than what you have received from us let him be anathema saith the Apostle Now the Scriptures say Honour thy Father and Mother Thou shalt not Steal Thou shalt not Covet Fear God and honour the King Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm Mine Anointed not the Peoples and much more Then to weaken his Argument founded on Success and Prosperity I conjur'd him to confider religiously the terrible Earthquake at Jamaica in July last in which so many Thousands were swallowed quick they went down into the Pit not having time to say Lord be merciful to us Sinners about four Milli●●s of Trcasure was buried and destroyed And this Island is the best Plantation the English have in the West-Iudies and is now as much subject to K. William as his other Dominions Surely then this Earthquake must be esteem'd a great Judgment and must put a Remora to the celebrated Success and Prosperity so much boasted of c. He returned That Earthquakes proceed from natural Causes that they were a wicked People Sodom and Gomorrha were not more sinful and their Destruction was but the effects of God's Justice That We in England were true Protestants and lived up to the Religion We profess and therefore he feared no Earthquakes here 't is Terra firma in Old England I told him That God could shake the Foundations of the whole Earth and would his Terra firma if We continued in our Sins That the Pharisee thanked God he was not so wicked as the penitent Publican but that Publican was justified rather than he That our Saviour said they were not greater Sinners on whom the Tower fell than those who escap'd but if they did not repent they should all likewise perish That this Judgment was sent on Them to warn Us That Jamaica could not be guilty of greater Sins than we have perpetrated We did Behead our lawful pious King and do yet continue in a Wicked Rebellion at which Word he pish'd and so we parted O Billy what hope is there of Repentance in them who are so far from owning their Sins that they applaud their own Righteousness and bring God himself to justifie