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 Legilature, were laid aide:And none of the Things complained of can be alledged to have been done, or the leat Attempt made to do them, any otherways than by Law.Law, Enacted by and with the Advice and Conent of the Repreentatives of the People, choen by the Freeholders and Men of Property in the Nation. What a Degree of Impudence mut it require, for any Man to compare Things of this Nature, with the many known Acts of mere Power and Violence (not only without Law, but in the Face of the plainet tanding Laws) done in former Reigns before the glorious Revolution? about which it was then dangerous to debate, and of which it was held criminal to complain! And how jutly might we expect the Repetition of uch Acts of Violence, under the Reign of one, who claims the Crown by the pretended indefeaible Right of Succeion to thee Princes; extols the Equity and Clemency of their Adminitration; and ets it before him as the glorious Pattern of his intended Government.

The Minds of thee Men mut be montrouly perverted, who can favour a Deign, the natural and neceary Conequence of which mut be, the Subverion of what Great Britain glories in above all Nations, Religious and Civil Liberty! Can we expect Liberty from arbitrary Power;a free Parliament from an armed Force?Jut Laws from lawles Men?The Security of our Property from the Invaders of Property?The Protection of our Commerce from France and Spain?The Safety of the Protetant Religion from a Popih Pretender?and Toleration of tender Conciences from a perecuting Spirit!

Our own Hitory acquaints us, that there are ome yet alive who remember to have een the bet Blood of the Nation hed on Scaffolds, in the Caue of Religion and Liberty; and great Numbers of peaceable Men fined, imprioned and put to Death, for erving GOD according to their Conciences; ometimes under Form of Law, and ometimes without any Form of Law, by Soldiers who were authoried to do o; who were at once Judges, Witnees, Jury and Executioners.

As we detet the Principles of Slavery; as we abhor this flagitious Rebellion, and the bae Methods by which it has been carried on; o we do, in the warmet Manner, exhort all Perons of our Communion to