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 ?6 Terre-Filiu. o Ttfis �up?ofition cannot te thought unreafonab'.e Iv any party, becaufe it only fuppofes all parties.h0- fi and ficere in their different interells and pro. reidohs. All governors therefore, whether de jure, or leac7o, believing themfclves engaged in a juft caut., ought to encourage, or at leaft to ptote& tho] per- ions e�pecially who have tliftinguifl'd themfelves in the time caulk. This cxpe&ation alone could ani. mate them under adverfity to risk their lives and fortunes in defence of it  and if they'find thcm- felves dduded in this expeCtation, whenever there need-of thdr afiilhnce again, they will fit down tamely under their prefent .misfortunes, rather than run any hazard in. behalf-of a let of men, who, they know, will not eafe them of one burthen, but m:art lay heavier upon them thould they attempt. I will {late the c wider ttill, and fuppolk even jr?reign irroader$, or wio!ent ufurler$ in ?offeffon the government, who cannot poflbly [:elieve them- �dves to be iufi or la�ul governors; yet as there men, by lalable fpeeches, and artful difguifes, may lztfe many well-meaning people, that they are promoting the publick good. and .thereby &aw them into their interefisi I maintain, that it i, the duty even of' thofi: ufu pets or invaders to �upp0 thofe well-meaning, mirtaken men, who fupported them in their tmjut poffettion,. and to prote& them from the infults o1' their enenes, tho' .they hapFer. to be the friends of their.country. I need not have put the calk fo .fir, but that t was willing to l'hew how much &en. villaira a, 'oblig'd to defend thatk who are their friend, no, knowing them to be rillfins. We have no w upon the throne a King, whom believe to be as jultly and lawfully our King, as th, eaufe o' publick good, anti the conlent of the wh0I mti0z

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