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 4o 2'ere-Ftlms. N �vr. an , excellent writer upon a like occafion, that it i ira ot7ie /r any ma to be fincerel dc/irous of . Y {or thankful for)a:y Rzsa'o,o, in vhicb hit own interell (hich i included in the interell o/the publick)/ not in jam_, more corcern'd. Now I cannot, after the matureff deliberation f;.ncl out one in{lance in which the aceffon of the 1;retender to the croton of theti realms would pro- mote my own private intereft, but quite the con- trary. My fpiritual intereft it cannot, becaufe I have confeientioufly abjur'd him, and I am �onfcientioufly periha&d, that he has no manner of right to theft ingdoms; and it cannot promote my temporalintereft, bccaufe, in all Iikelihood, th,e halter, which is now preparing for my adverjry s neck, might then unhappily 6e flipt about my own. ' lut fuppoiing the belt, that a gracious ac of in- &mn"tr (which rome of his friends would s v;th) ould mmed;ately pals upon th:s glori- ou turn of aftfirs, and fare me, amongl ten thou- find of my fetlow-fubje&s, from the gallovs yet I fhould be terribly afraid of other con/quences, which, tho' not equally fatal, would involve in f'everal difficulties. i am, in the firft place, very apprehenfive hat if this imaginary monarch ould return in triumph to St...,.zs , he would begin his rcin with takin J. g. g away the liberty o� tht Puts$, which. is one of the mot valuable liberties of an I::ngliflmani we know that in all I)o?ifh countrie there i no fuch liberty allow'd5 that in l,gland it has been �ufipen- dect in poifl, and oti.[hly-a_ed reisns; and that of hte, wheneve the friends of thisattat�d igot hve been u?petmolt, they lve confiantl/deavour'd, See Biop ,Wa'O's fermon before th houfe of lords, pon the

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