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friend_n	grant_v	impossible_a	oversight_n	16	3	15.8772	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28440	King William and Queen Mary, conquerors, or, A discourse endeavouring to prove that Their Majesties have on their side, against the late king, the principal reasons that make conquest a good title shewing also how this is consistent with that declaration of Parliament, King James abdicated the government, &c. : written with an especial regard to such as have hitherto refused the oath, and yet incline to allow of the title of conquest, when consequent to a just war.	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3309; ESTC R23388	40,332	68

than I ask All I ask is what no reasonable Man can deny me viz. That under these Grounds of Suspicion it had been both a point of Wisdom and Justice to have given both the Prince and Princess of Orange and the Nation all the Satisfaction that the matter was capable of at the time of the Queen's Labour Supposing the Queen to have brought forth it might then easily have been proved beyond all Contradiction and if it was not proved it is very suspicious that it could not be proved I never heard any Man doubt but that it had been a Point of Wisdom to have proved it if they could and nothing need be said to satisfie an unbiassed Mind that it had been a Point of Justice too Is it not a Common thing in the case of an Heir to a Crown being born to give the Presumptive Heirs all the satisfaction imaginable And under these very suspicious Circumstances Previous to this supposed Birth ought it not if ever to have been done What great Matter had it been if an Ocular Demonstration had been given or at the least offered to the Princess of D. or to some other grave Ladies related to her by the Mothers side Where had been the Harm or Indecency of this Nay was it not highly necessary that it should have been done Would it not have quite confuted all the Pretences of malicious Hereticks and have rendred the Birth of the Prince indisputable And if they did not do it was it not very Suspicious that the Reason was because they could not For what other Reason can be given Shall we say it was an Oversight What the subtle Jesuits overseen in a Matter of this Consequence Suppose Father Petre wanted what many Polititians have was there never a Wise Man amongst them Were not those about Their Majesties Men chosen out for the carrying on of that great Work And had they not time enough before the Queen's Lying-in to consider the Suspicions that were raised the Reports that went about and to Fence against them Did it not stand them in hand to put the King in mind of laying hold of an Opportunity which if lost could never be retrieved Of giving that satisfaction that might for ever confute these Stories and secure his Son's Title and this mighty Advantage to the Catholick Cause Truly considering the Necessity of doing the thing and that those about their Majesties were no Fools it seems to me next to impossible that it should have been an Oversight But suppose we should grant that it might or might not be an Oversight For that is all that the Friends of the pretended Prince of W. can desire They can never evince that it was an Oversight nor ought they to expect we should grant it All they can reasonably ask is That we grant it might be an Oversight And if we should grant them that what will they gain by it e'en nothing at all For had their present Majesties any Reason to acquiesce in an It may be or a Perhaps To give up their Claim to three Kingdoms to a meer Peradventure Will it ever be possible at this rate to secure a Presumptive Heir against an Impostor Ought the Prince and Princess of O. to sit stall to have let this Birth justly suspected by five parts in six of the whole Nation go unquestioned and consequently to have lain under the Torment of believing while they should live and to have left it suspected to Posterity when they were dead that they had weakly given up their Right to these Kingdoms and the Protestant Interest to boot I say was this Reason Or rather was it not Reason that they who were thus far as is now supposed Overseen should reap the fruits of their own folly and suffer for their Oversight If it was not an Oversight the Prince and Princess of O. were wronged and he being a Soveraign Prince and no Subject of England had Reason to demand Satisfaction If it was onely an Oversight yet since it was never sufficiently proved to have been so by giving up the Prince of Wales they might have sustered loss but were not wronged because the Fault was their own For certainly in a doubtful Case we should conclude against those that are in all the Fault and in Favour of them that are in no Fault at all Since it cannot be proved either way their 's ought to be the loss who were guilty of perplexing Matters at this rate Or however Their present Majesties had Reason to demand that the Matter should be reviewed and lest to the determination of a Parliament the most competent Judge that could be pitched upon This cannot be denied And this is all that I ask at present because it is all that our present Soveraign asked in his Declaration at his first coming into England Some may think what is not indeed altogether improbable supposing it to be a genuine Prince that Matters were thus darkly carried on purpose to have provoked the Nation or rather some of the forwardest to a Rebellion that so they might have had an Occasion against us to fall upon us and take us for Bondmen The Principles of the Church of England were known to be so Loyal to all Kings in the General and she had done so much for King James in Particular in bringing him to the Throne and in keeping the Crown on his Head She had so lately given an undeniable Token of her Fidelity to him by what she had done in opposition to the Duke of Monmouth that the Popish party could not for shame fall foul upon her without some Pretence or other but if they could but provoke her or some part of her Members to a Rising then she would have cancelled all the Obligations that her former Loyalty had laid upon the Crown And then the Cry would have been Her Members are not more Loyal than those of other Sects or Religious when she is discontented or doth but fear that her Interest lies at stake And then there would have been just cause for the King to have adher●d to the Loyal Roman Catholicks who had never fai●ed him and to have set them uppermost Or supposing they had a Mind to bring in Arbitrary Power and make it an Handmaid to Popery then would any Stirs that they were resolved to call a Rebellion render it ●asy and hasten it And certainly as to Invade our Laws our Liberties and our Religion so openly was highly provoking So to impose upon us a Prince of Wales or which is all one to make us believe they had done it and so to rob us of our hopes of Ease when those blessed Princes our present Soveraigns should of right have succeeded the Crown was the readiest way to make us desperate And did I believe that the Child was really born of the Queen I should think this so fair an Account of their carrying it as if it was not that I should never pitch upon any other And methinks there