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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65414	An answer to the late K. James's last declaration, dated at St. Germains, April 17. s.n. 1693	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1302; ESTC R204539	18,776	44

to another within the Belly of it the other follows thus JAMES R. WHEN We reflect upon the Calamities of our Kingdoms We are not willing to leave any thing unattempted whereby We may reconcile our Subjects to their Duty And tho' we cannot enter into all the particulars of Grace and Goodness which We shall be willing to grant yet we do hereby assure all our Loving Subjects that they may depend upon every thing that their own Representatives shall offer to make our Kingdoms happy For We have set it before our Eyes as our Noblest Aim to do yet more for their Constitution than the most Renowned of our Ancestors And as our chiefest Interest to leave no umbrage for Iealousy in relation to Religion Liberty and Property King Iames has all the reason in the world to reflect upon the Calamities of these Kingdoms since He was so very careful to bring them upon us The Calamities we groan'd under in his Reign have been hinted at before Where to lay the causes of the Calamities of this Reign which we believe is principally if not only here meant is worthy of our Enquiry and we need not go far to find them out It must be acknowledged that War in it self deserves well the name of a Calamity and a great one too But this we are at present engaged in is a War of Necessity and to save us from Calamities vastly greater than it self It 's a War for Defence of our Countrey our Religion our Liberties and all that can be dear to us in the world all which must stand or fall by the Success of it If the exorbitant Greatness and Power of France should happen to prove fatal to us in the upshot which Heaven forbid We know whom to thank for it And all Europe even those of the late King's Religion lay both it and all the direful effects of it with heaviest Execrations at his door It 's a truth as conspicuous as a Ray of the Sun That the two great Designs which took up the thoughts of a certain Prince both before and after his Accession to the Throne were How to make France formidable abroad and these Three Nations Slaves at home It 's only in these two Noble Designs he can yet be call'd a Successful Prince and for the first instead of a Sanctuary in France he deserves well the best Province of that Kingdom He tells us He is not willing to leave anything unattempted whereby he may reconcile his Subjects to their Duty So we find neither foul nor fair means have been neglected that 's certain Sometimes we have been tryed with Threats and now there 's another tryal how far Promises may work upon us Sometimes the Late King has a mind to reconcile us to our Duty by an Army of French and Irish even those generous Gentlemen that have Signaliz'd themselves in their own Country for their singular kindness to those of our Religion And sometimes when the other fails he designs to be beholding only to his peoples Love for his Restoration and to come over it seems with only a few that shall be thought necessary to attend his Person But we are fairly told We have been and are still out of our Duty otherwise there were no need of Reconciling us to it That is in plain English We are in his sense a pack of Villains and Traytors That would not timely submit our Religion Laws and Liberties to be overturn'd at his caprice nor yield up our selves Slaves at discretion But quite contrary either concurr'd with or accepted of our Deliverance when Heaven was pleased to bring it home to our door By this we may clearly judge of the Late King's Opinion of us and be better able to make a shrewd conjecture of the sincerity of his intentions towards us In this word of Reconciling us to our Duty is still the old Passive-Obedience Principle trump'd up upon us which was once within an ace of ruining us all And King Iames being still of Opinion that we fail'd in our Duty when we left that Principle It was not only altogether needless for him to make all those Promises but we are Knaves if we receive him not again without them since according to that Doctrine we are oblig'd to submit to him to day though we were sure he would sell us all for Slaves to morrow We are told We may depend upon every thing that our Representatives shall offer to make us happy How willing the Late King was to Grant what our Representatives did offer to him for our necessary security only I have mention'd before He kick'd them out of doors merely because they presum'd humbly to Advise him to Govern according to Law that is To Employ only those the Law capacitated for Employments With what sort of Representatives he aim'd afterwards during the whole course of his Reign to fill St. Stephen's Chappel The Regulations of Corporations the Closettings of Members the Questions put to almost every man in England that had a Voice in Elections and all the rest of the means us'd to get a pack'd House of Commons were too publick witnesses So that indeed King Iames may safely enough promise to grant what our Representatives shall offer if he means such Representatives as those he was once minded to palm upon the Nation But he tells us He has set before his eyes as his noblest aim to do yet more for our Constitution than the most Renown'd of his Ancestors This is not the first time we have been told so And indeed these words appear to come of course For in a Speech he made to the Parliament in May 1685. he thought fit to tell them That he pleas'd himself with the hopes that by God's Blessing and their Assiistance he might carry the Reputation of this Nation higher in the world than ever it had been in the time of any of his Ancestors The truth is it was a severe proof enough of our Faith even then to believe the days of King Iames the 2d should come to eclipse those of Edward the 3d. or Henry the 5th and it will be yet much more so now Every body was at that time upon the enquiry How his Late Majesty's hopes were then grounded and what were the wonderful steps by which he expected to arrive at so high a pitch of Glory We have been sufficiently enabled since to unriddle the Mystery For instead of Conquests abroad which has render'd the Reigns of some of his Ancestors so illustrious to Posterity he had hopes to perpetuate the Memory of his by much more remarkable and in his opinion much more glorious Conquests at home even those he had a mind to obtain over our Laws Religion and Liberties Neither in this design was he altogether inexcusable since upon his Principles to subdue the Northern Heresy carry'd more of true Glory along with it than the Conquest of any one side of the Globe If then he unluckily fail'd at that time to