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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65948	Constantinus redivivus, or, A full account of the wonderful providences, and unparallell'd successes that have all along attended the glorious enterprises of the heroical prince, William the 3d, now King of Great Britain, &c. wherein are many curious passages relating to the intrigues of Lewis the 14th, &c. carried on here, and elsewhere, never printed before, &c. / by Mr. John Whittel ...	Whittel, John.	1693 (1693)	Wing W2040; ESTC R8794	75,261	226

Memory after having furmounted numbers of sundry Obstacles thought indeed to be insurmountable and with a prodigious and undaunted Resolution Conduct Prudence and Constancy laid the Foundations of a flourishing Republick that now sends forth Ambassadors daily upon equal terms to the most puissant Kings in the habitable part of the Earth and even to the King of Spain himself who accepts the alliance and assistance of those his quondam Subjects whom not content to rule as such his haughty and impolitick Progenitors sometime treated as Slaves and Abjects And how his Warlike Great and Famous Uncles and Grand-fathers by the continued course of their Victories fixt and established the dear-bought liberty and greatness of their Country by the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes and the vast expence of their Treasures is amply set forth by many florid and learned Pens Nor have even the Writers of their very Enemies side been able to be silent of their Praises and noble Acts so manifest to the whole World And therefore we judge it altogether superfluous to say any more here on this Subject Nam Genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco Our main and chief design in this small 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being only to show how our present illustrious Prince after that he had no less miraculously retrieved not only the very Being but even the prosperity and greatness of the same State when through the Treachery and sottish negligence of its then Governours it seem'd as t' were to the World's eye to be tumbled down to the very Foundations and laid all in Rubbish by the thundring and surpassing fury of a more powerful Monarch than the former Roboam of Spain has still providentially advanced by most glorious and successfull steps against that formidable and too much prevailing Nero of the West and alone given life to almost if not all the efforts that have been made against his uncontrollable power which else would like an irresistible Tyde or Sea where the Banks are broken down have deluged even all Europe And how at length in recompence of so many hard Toils and Perils of his precious Life for the Publick Good the almighty Lord of Battels particularly for the glory of his holy Name and the well-fare of his suffering Church hath by a series of Providences more wonderfull than all the rest exalted Him to a station that 's above many of his noble Ancestors and placed Him on the Sovereign Throne of the most Military and Formidable Kingdoms of the West and bestowed upon him yearly still new and fresh earnests or specimens of his having really elected Him to compleat like the great Constantine whose Sovereign power likewise had its first rise in the warlike British Isles the full deliverance of his oppressed Children and the Re-erection of his Church in a Triumphant State both of Purity and Prospirity by at least the crushing under if not the utter subversion of that Babilonish Power and Authority which has been so long the Bar which letteth the growth of the Truth of the Gospel and the right understanding of the great Mysteries of Godliness as well as the Plague and Terrour of all quiet and peaceable Christians This glorious Prince I say as if indeed God of his great Mercy and Goodness had removed all humane Tutelage and Protection on mere purpose that he might shew us and all the World that he himself took Him under his own immediate and peculiar care and Guardianship as a mighty Heroe by whom he graciously intended to work or bring to pass some Signal and Extraordinary Deliverances to his own Israel was most unhappily deprived of his Father a Prince of a truth of most hopeful and surpassing Courage Prudence Piety and all other very noble Endowments even before he was brought forth into the World Being taken off by that common Distemper the Small Pox in the very Spring of his Days or flower of his Age being but twenty four years Old when he died And our blessed Prince coming into the World not till some few days after his renowned Father's decease viz. on the fourth of November Anno 1650. He was verily observed in his tender Years or youthful Days to discover a Discretion Moderation sweetness of Temper and a Reservedness much beyond or above his Age. And his Prudence Valour and other Princely Virtues increasing daily with his Stature He gave his Relatives and Friends as well as those about him all the Appearances of an extraordinary share of Courage Conduct and all other Dispositions that could possibly be desired in a Prince in order to qualifie him As for an affectionate Father so also for a most powerful Defender of his Rights and Country And it is most peculiarly observable that though God hath permitted sundry mighty endeavours to have been made by Domestick Factions even from his very Cradle in order to have opprest his growing Greatness and several horrid and execrable Plots and Devices to have been carried on with great Secresie both by them and the Intrigues of Foreign Princes to defeat his grand Designs and to bereave him of his most Just Lawful and Hereditary Rights and Honours or of his precious Life it self Yet still thanks be to God for it and adored be his holy Name the many oppositions and hellish Machinations of his implacable and undeserv'd Enemies have been by good Providence made to serve even against their original intention only to his far greater Glory and Exaltation causing his noble Virtues to be more seen in the World as the Stars shine brightest in the darkest night For though the Faction of Barnevelt continued and upheld afterwards by the De-wits prevail'd upon the States General in those daies most ungratefully and ungenerously to deprive our accomplisht young Prince of all his Hereditary Dignities and Employments yet at the same time they thus took care to depress the Prince they were so infatuated and blinded with inveterate malice against him that they minded not at all to what Dangers they then exposed their State or Country To which end they committed the greatest Blunders imaginable in Politicks for after the Peace of Munster foolishly believing they had no more Enemies to fear but the Ancient and Warlike House of Nassau whose greatness they conjectured if not timely depress'd would be a perpetual Obstacle to their unjust and ambitious designs of grasping the Government entirely into their own hands they therefore rashly and without any consideration disbanded all their hardy Veteran Forces and well experienced Commanders by whose valour and hard toil their Country had been raised to that flourishing condition it was then in only for that very reason because they looked upon them as too much affected to his Highness the Prince of Orange and this was done too without the least care to procure or provide any other old experienc'd Troops in their Room Moreover they gave the chiefest Employments in their Armies and Garrisons at that

Stratagems laid against the Rights of those Dear and Heaven-beloved Princes the hope of the Protestant Church throughout Christendom as well as against their own present Civil and Religious Liberties and especially receiving perfect intelligence of the whole process of that Imposture of putting upon them now a Supposititious Heir and had not King James himself and his too precipitate Councellors taken very much pains to convince them that the Spanish Intelligence was very true to a Tittle in all particulars and had not the League with France to destroy Holland and the manifest steps made then by our Court towards its Execution beyond all Contradiction demonstrated to them that such Chains were of a truth prepared for them as would not be of a few years continance but would be very lasting and impossible to be shaken off if once wholy put on And that they were just going to be thrown about their necks if not prevented without further dallying in that very Nick of time For at the same time a pretended Prince of Wales was started up they found their Pillars of the Church namely the Reverend Bishops and the main Body of their Clergy fiercely attack'd Ireland and the Protestants there put wholly under Despotick Power Arbitrary Dispositions and the merciless Mercy of cruel implacable Irish Papists Scotland wholly subjected allready under an open faced Despotick Authority the brave English Protestant Nobility those Ornaments of our Kingdom for the most part slighted and their Sage advices not at all heeded in Council but all ruled by a Popish French Cabal headed by P. Petres and Mr. Barillon and all Church of England-men already displaced or going to be removed not only from Civil Employments but as we have shew'd from Military ones too both in the Fleet and Army and when the Army it self which was to have back'd all these proceedings saw that for only opposing the foisting in of Irish and French Papists among them their most Eminent Captains and Officers though highly deserving in the late time of need against the Duke of Monmouth were treated no better than the Bishops That the illustrious Princess Ann of Denmark her self was so imperiously and disdainfully handled and neither she nor any Person from their Serene Highness's the Prince and Princess of Orange though so very highly concern'd suffered to be present at the Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales But that on the contrary War was plainly preparing against the Hollander in pretence forsooth but in reality and indeed against the precious Persons of the Prince and Princess of Orange whom they lookt upon at least as their Sovereigns in Reversion and that they were to be sent over Seas they knew not where to fight French and Popish Quarrels never more to return whilst their places were to be supplyed here by French and Irish and other Popish Forces I say when the Army saw themselves thus treated and were convinced there were further designs laid as deeply and maliciously against them as against any other body of men in the three Kingdoms and saw an Image of their future fate by what they beheld already done to the late standing Army in Ireland and to some of the best of their own Officers and when they saw they began already to be distrusted and yet that the Court had gone so far in the affairs of the Bishops and the body of the Church of England both Clergy and Gentry that in all appearance the Lawyers having refused to do them the Justice pretended in the Tryal of the Right Reverend Prelates they would now have recourse to a French Army assoon as ever they had seen but a good part of the present one gone away and the Post new Modell'd They viz. the English Army readily concurr'd with the rest of the Nation that is to say Those of the Clergy Nobility and Gentry in sending intentionally if not actually to the Heroick Prince of Orange to come and immediately under the Lord of Hosts to undertake their Relief and Deliverance and thus a good part even of the whole Nation and of the Army and Fleet too even by the very proceedings of their Enemies though much contrary to their Intentions disposed to wish success to the most generous undertaking of our modern CONSTANTINE who in Compliance with their hearty desires and the powerful Call of Self-preservation as well as the Defence of his own Rights with the zealous Assistance of the States of Holland and of the most Serene Prince the Elector of Brandenburg and some other generous Allies provided a brave Fleet consisting of Sixty five Men of War five hundred Fly-boates ten fire Ships sixty Pinks and as many Scheling Boats c. A good Army to be before hand with the French and their Creatures in England too set sail in the midst of Winter from the Brill and whilst he was coming and after his first Landing was still further favour'd by the following Actions and Behaviour of his Enemies I. For upon the News of his Highness's intended coming King James to augment his Army sending for considerable Numbers of the Irish Papists and some Scotch Highlanders and visibly shewing more confidence in them than in his own Native English made an end perfectly of alienating the hearts of his English Army from him and gave them most just grounds to fix their affections on the expected and blessed Prince the hope of England's best People nay caused thém now to believe entirely all that had been told them of the late King James and his Jesuits Designs and Frenchified Priests Intrigues against them II. When our mighty Prince had set sail the first time and was repuls'd by a grievous Tempest the good Providence of the Lord turn'd even that to his Advantage for having had the Prudence to publish in the Harlaem and Amsterdams Convent that his losses and detriment by that grievous Tempest were greater much than they in reallity were And making a face of things as if his grand Design was thereby quite balked it was very eagerly and readily believed especially by the Court Cabal of Jesuits and Priests nay they imagined them still greater than was reported and thereupon became so very secure in their own thoughts that they concluded all danger past and thereby still more and more alarm'd the whole Nation and kept their inclinations the more firm and close unto their Great and Heaven inspired Deliverer For that hot headed party now as openly bragg'd in every Coffee-house that God had defeated the Hereticks and that the Noise of that Expedition had only given the King a fair opportunity to increase his Army wherewith he would now make himself Absolute and by the help of them and the French together chastice the proud Bishops as they foolishly call'd them and the whole Church of England and their Abettors the Lawyers too rout out the daring Prince out of the Netherlands and exterminate the States of Holland as an unsufferable President of prosperous Rebellion and of pernicious