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 been; may be, and ought to be when there is real Cauſe for it: then this is in ſo far a giving up with hereditary indefeaſible Right, and making the Will and Pleaſure of the Eſtates of Parliament a fine qua non Condition of the Exerciſe of the Regal Power; which however our Pretenders to hereditary indefeaſible Right have complied with for their own Eaſe and Conveniency when they could not do better, they have yet paid no Regard to the Liberty and Property of the Subject, nor even to the Liberty of Parliament, when anywiſe compatible with the Prerogative; as in K. Charles I. and K. James VII. was exemplified. Nor (conſidering the Dependence that this Pretender muſt neceſſarily have upon the French and other foreign Powers, which may afterwards be made ſomewhat more plain) is it preſumable that he durſt act according to the Pleaſure of his Parliament, ſuppoſe he inclined it.

3tio, The Inſtruments imployed in this Attempt, viz. the French, Spaniards and Highlanders, ſeem eminently the People of God's Wrath. Are not the French and Spaniards, the conjunct Contrivers and Promoters of this Attempt, the two main Pillars of Antichriſt's Kingdom, with whom God will therefore have War till his anger ceaſe in their Deſtruction. And are not the Actors for the moſt part Highlanders, the Poſterity of theſe who, under the excommunicated and forfeited Montroſe waged War againſt the Presbyterians, and in four or five ſeveral Battles, or rather Maſſacres, about a hundred Years ago, cruelly murdered near Fifteen thouſand of our renowned Anceſtors, and plundered the whole Country? the ſame alſo who towards the End of the Reign of K. Charles II. offered their Service for ſuppreſſing the Presbyterian Aſſemblies and Nonconformiſts to Popery and Epiſcopacy, and whoſe Service having been accepted, were, to the Number of near Ten thouſand, quartered in the Weſt and South of Scotland, where under the Conduct of that Monſter of Barbarity. John Graham of Claverhouſe, afterwards for his