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 to dipatch him—For a nation thus abued to arie unanimouly, and to reit their prince, even to the dethroning him, is not criminal; but a reaonable way of indicating their liberties and jut rights; it is making ue of the means, and the only means, which God has put into their power, for mutual and elf-defene. And it would be highly criminal in them, not to make ue of this means. It would be tupid tamenes, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to uffer one unreaonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their miery. And in uch a cae it would, of the two, be more rational to uppoe, that they that did NOT reit, than that they who did, would receive to themelves damnation.

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HIS naturally brings us to make ome reflections upon the reitance which was made about a century ince, to that unhappy prince, KING CHARLES I; and upon the ANNIVERSARY of his death. This is a point which I hould not have concerned myelf about, were it not that ome men continue to peak of it, even to this day, with a great deal of warmth and zeal; and in uch a manner as to undermine all the principles of LIBERTY, whether civil or religious, and to introduce the mot abject lavery both in church and tate: o that it is become a matter of univeral concern.—What I have to offer upon this ubject, will be compried in a hort anwer to the following queries; viz.