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The State prodigal his return coming a true state of the nation, in a letter to a friend.
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1689
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Wing S5326; ESTC R184608
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The State-Prodigal his Return Containing a true State of the Nation In a Letter to a Friend SIR I Am not asham'd to own I am a Convert when the Arguments are so plain and convincing to which I have submitted my Judgement For I must tell you freely I see little or nothing performed of what was promis'd us but worse things done than those that offended us and I know not how to perswade my self that a Gentleman of your Sincerity and good Sense can resist the Authorities I shall bring for my Conversion I need not tell you what my hopes were of the good Effects of the coming of the Prince of Orange what an Idea I had fram'd to my self of England's happiness upon it and what pains I took to quiet some and engage others into the same Sentiments and Expectation with my self I say I need not tell you this since it is what you every Day reproach me with when you seem to wonder I am now of another Opinion That which is the business of this Letter is to satisfie you in the reason of my Change and that I am in the Right as they must always be whose Judgments are governed more by Things than Men. First Sir It is plain the Prince of Orange has now made himself King and it is as plain he never pretended to the Crown Under this the Nation has laboured still does and is like to do you see for it brings heavy burthens upon our Backs besides the stroakes of our own Consciences It is a pernitious and fatal hardship he puts upon us and which had no necessary relation to the Security of the Protestant Religion on the contrary it has raised Objections upon us that we are not able to Answer You know how sullenly he refused to be Regent or that his Wife should have Succeeded to the Crown which was yet farther than any True Son of our Church ever intended by his coming hither or he was promised or had the Confidence to propose For all we aimed at Was to secure our Religion settle good Alliances and follow him to France that we might be safe from Popery and Europe from War Not to thrust out our King set by his Children and be King in his room So that to be free with you Sir I take the very Foundation of this New Fabric to be Rotten therefore look you well to your hits for such a Building cannot stand long 2. But Sir. As Monstrous and Unnatural as the thing it self looks to a just Eye the Methods taken to accomplish it have something Blacker in them I will begin if you please with that which was the Beginning of the Business that is the Corrupting the King's Servants and Officers from their Truth and Duty to him as their Master and King. I need not prove to you that Treachery has in all Times and Places been reputed the most infamous of Crimes but of that also there is degrees and this if I fail not is of the foulest sort whether we consider the Instruments or those that set them to work The first were such as he had created for so Divines speak When a thing is made out of nothing They owed the very Being of their Fortune to King Jamâ—s yet carried away their Homage to a Stranger They Revealed his Secrets advised his Errors and betrayed his Arms. Thus much and much too little too for those Instruments of this happy Change. Now Sir for the Employers I could wish they came from a far Country and a Barbarous People such as have never read the Ten Commandment nor been taught the Gospel or at least that they had been some injured Strangers who had owed no Duty to our Blood But alas Sir It was a Nephew against his Vncle Daughters against their Father Sisters against their Brother and at last a Husband against his Wife Are there nearer Relations Are there stronger Ties And have not these been publickly violated and that with Solemnity what trust Sir can there be in those to whom such Obligations are no longer Sacred It lessens though it can never excuse the Guilt of the Accessaries that they had such Principals according to the Poet travest'd If Tom such Curses have What shall they that make the Knave In the mean time the pretended Preservation of the Protestant Religion has already lost us Two of the Commandments whilst we have not only Coveted what was our Neighbours But what was our Fathers too and that in a manner the most Dishonourable Surely this cannot be the way to live long in the Land that they have taken away from him unless it be because It is not the Land the Lord their God has given them So far for Corruption and Treachery 3. The next Artifice which was made use of to bring this Business about was you may remember several vile Things charged upon the King such as the Murther of his Brother and my Lord of Essex A League with France and a false Child these were industriously spread to dissolve the Affections and Duty of the People and prepare them for a New Master But the Accusers have not only waved the Proof but think it unreasonable in us to expect it at their hands when themselves never believed it and laugh at us that we did not understand them soever As for the Murthers they are neglected by the worst of his Enemies not to say opposed They think the pretended Evidence too gross for them to hope they can ever dress it into any sort of probability The League so much hated and spoken of and which we were told the Prince of Orange had in his keeping and had shown to Colonel Strangewayes of Dorsetshire at Sherbourn-Castle was doubtless left by the way for we have heard nothing of it since But this puts me in mind of what a Gentleman told us since this Revolution upon this Subject viz. That the King was not only not in a League with France but refused to be so when invited by that King and rejected the Aids he offered him by Sea and Land in August last was a Year against this very Design not giving Credit to C. d' Avaux's advises to Mr. Barillon about the Preparations of the Prince of Orange as thinking it too Barbarous a Thing for the Prince to be guilty of and but a Trick of d' Avaux to draw him into his Masters Interest and Quarrel against the Empire And this some challenge the present Objectors upon and will prove it unto the Woâ—â—â—â— if they may be allowed to do it without injury to themselves Which shews us he had a little more Charity for his Son-in-Law than he has found from him for it 's evident he lost his Crown for want of that very League which some Men pretend 〈◊〉 for a Reason to deprive him Nor can he evâ—â—â— now be said to be in the Interest of France but France generously in his and what understanding there is between them we are to thank our selves for