Brightness of his Character, and to leffen that grateful Senfe Men ought to have for the Bleffings of his Reign; namely, The late Revolution, by which we were Deliver'd from Popery and Arbitrary Power; and the Succeffion Act to which we owe his prefent Majefty, whom GOD long Preferve.

But with what Regard to Truth and fuftice this bath been fo induftriously Infinuated, fee from Page the 5th of the First Part, publish'd above a Tear ago, where the Revolution is Styl'd, A Remarkable difpenfation of GOD's Providence ; and the Method by which he chofe to Work fo great a Deliverance for us; and therefore, That we must not only acquiefce in it, but return GOD the Glory of fo great. and general a Bleffing. I fay that, All Peo ple who own the late great Deliverance thefe Nations have had from Popery and Arbitrary Power, muft likewife acknow ledge our late Sovereign, of Glorious Me mory, to have been the happy Inftrument in the Hand of GOD, for bringing all that to pafs. Again, p. 38. are these Words Happy it is for them who were not wanting in this Duty (of Loyalty): towards K W. m when he was

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Living; who are True to the Succeffion as by Law Establish'd in the Houfe of Hannover, which they are Sworn to Maintain ; And whenever the Providence of GOD fhall call them to it, are ready to pay all that Honour, and Fidelity, and Loyalty to the next in that Line, which now by the Laws of GOD and Man is intirely owing to Her prefent Majefty.

And now the wrong which hath been done to me in particular, is thus glaring and open to the fight of all if this kind of groundless Mifreprefentation fhould happen to be more general, fo as to involve other Men's Perfons and Characters who are True Sons of the Church, and meft fincerely addicted to Kingly Government, and the Succeffion in the Houfe of Hanover Surely we could not then help thinking, that GOD, in the courfe of bis Providence, bad permitted a Lying Spirit to go forth into the World. An Enticing Spirit of Slander and Falfhood, which can prevail no longer than till that. uncorrupt difinterested Loyalty, founded upon the fettled Doctrines of an Eftablifb'd Church; in the very Being and Constitution of which Monarchy, as well as Epifcopacy is fo interwoven, that woeful Experience bath fbewn

fhewn they STAND and FALL together: Till this, I fay, fhall be compar'd with the feigned Obedience of fuch as bave the Perfon of their Prince in Admiration only because of Advantage. Such as are the Support of thofe who fet up the Authority of Illegal Provincial Affemblies above all Regal Power; zubo, from the Days of Forty One to the first of Auguft laft, never fail'd to throw off the Mafk upon every difguft; to cry aloud for Doctrines of Kefiftance; and induftriously Slander all the Foot-fteps of God's Anointed.

Now it appears that I was for doing Hanour to the Memory of K-W―m, all Ways that were not Profane or Factious, Sacrilegious or Idolatrous: To whom shall I make my Complaint of all thofe Calummies and Reproaches; direful Curfes and Imprecations; together with whole Draughts of Confu fion and Damnation, which have been in very diftant Places fo liberally difpenfed upon this Occafion? Or from whence may any Compenfation or Redress be expected for fuck a Claufe as this which follows, agreed to by no fmall Number of Perfons upon a very publick Occafion, when upon the mention of K

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W mn it follows, whofe Glorious Memory will be Celebrated - when the Names of thofe ungrateful Men, who derogate from the Glory of his great Actions, and under the Pretence of Religion, fhelter their Envy at his furviving Fame, fhall be Buried in Oblivion, or remembred only with Scorn. Whither fhall I carry my Appeal from fo groundless and unjust a Charge, together with fo fevere and Arbitrary a Sentence? My Innocence requires the carrying of it as far as they have done their Accufation nay farther, even to the King of Kings. But I chufe rather to appeal only to their own Confciences; and my hearty Defire to GOD for them is, That it may rest there, and never proceed farther. That by a fincere Repentance, all Their Sins may be Buried in Oblivion; That GOD may one Day Remember them for Mercy; and that they may never come to be the Scorn of Men and Angels.

That which should raife no fmall Degree of Wonder in others, and Jealousy of a dangerous Miftake in themselves is, That their Opinion is oppos'd not only to that of a Bi

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fbop, and much the greater Part of bis Clergy; but to the concurring Suffrage and Approbation of the Lower-House of Convocation. Who, in fo doing, Acted up to the Dignity of So great and Venerable a Body and agreeably to the main Design and greatest Impor tance of their Meeting; which was to declare themselves, without regard to any Perfon or Party, with greater Weight against all erroneous Opinions and evil Practices. It must now be a pleafing Reflection in the Minds of all who were the worthy Members of it, that they did not flip fo fair an Opportunity of manifefting their true Concern for the Honour of Chrift and his Holy Eucharift and that too in a Point which touch'd it fo nearly, that however Men may oppofe, what They have thus afferted and confirm'd, by fecret Whispers and private Infinuations yet no Bishop or other Clergy-man of the ChriStian Church bath yet been, or perhaps ever will be, bardy enough to appear openly for the contrary Doctrine.

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