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 mighty Soul was above uch abject thoughts as thee; his Declaration was his own, thee paltry Deigns are our Undertakers, who would helter their own Oppreions under his Sacred Name.

I would willingly know whether the late King James could have enlaved us but by an Army, and whether there is any way of ecuring us from falling again into Slavery but by dibanding them. It was in that ene I undertood his Majety's Declaration, and therefore did early take up Arms for him, as I hall be always ready to do. It was this alone which made his aitance neceary to us, otherwie we had wanted none but the Hangman's.

I will venture to ay, that if this Army does not make us Slaves, we are the only People upon Earth in uch Circumtances that ever ecaped it, with the 4th part of their number. It is a greater force than Alexander conquered the Eat with, than Cæar had in his Conquet of Gaul, or indeed the whole Roman Empire; double the number that any of our Ancetors ever invaded France with, Ageilaus the Perians, or Huniades and Scanderbeg the Turkih Empire; as many again as was in any battle between the Dutch and Spaniards in forty Years War, or betwixt the King and Parliament in England; four times as many as the Prince of Orange landed with in England; and in hort, as many as have been on both ides in nine Battles of ten that were ever fought in the World. If this Army does not enlave us, it is barely becaue we have a virtuous Prince that will not attempt it; and it is a mot mierable thing to have no other Security for our Liberty, than the Will of a Man, though the mot jut Man living: For that is not a free Government where there is a good Prince (for even the mot arbitrary Governments have had ometimes a Relaxation of their Mieries) but where it is o contituted, that no one can be a Tyrant if he would. Cicero ays, though a Mater does not tyrannize, yet it is a lamentable conideration that it is in his Power to do o; and therefore uch a Power is to be truted to none, which if it does not find a Tyrant, commonly makes one; and if not him, to be ure a Succeor.