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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