In the close of this Paragraph, he falls upon the King for appealing to the People against their own Representatives.  But I would ask him in the first place, if an Appeal be to be made, to whom can the King Appeal, but to his People?  And if he must justifie his own proceedings to their whole Body, how can he do it but by blaming their Representatives?  I believe every honest man is sorry, that any such Divisions have been betwixt the King and his House of Commons.  But since there have been, how could the King complain more modestly, or in terms more expressing Grief, than Indignation? or what way is left him to obviate the causes of such complaints for the future, but this gentle admonishment for what is past?

’Tis easily agreed, he says, (and here I joyn issue with him) That there were never more occasions for a Parliament, than were at the opening of the last, which was held at Westminster.  But where he maliciously adds, never were our Liberties and Properties more in danger, nor the Protestant Religion more expos’d to an utter extirpation both at home and abroad, he shuffles together Truth and Falshood:  for from the greatness of France, the danger of the Protestant Religion is evident; But that our Liberty, Religion, and Property were in danger from the Government, let him produce the instances of it, that they may be answer’d; what dangers there were and are from the Antimonarchical Party, is not my present business to enquire.  As for the growing terrour of the French Monarchy, the greater it is, the more need of supply to provide against it.

The Ministers tell us in the Declaration, That they asked of that Parliament the supporting the Alliances they had made for the Preservation of the general peace in Christendom, and had desir’d their advice and assistance for the preservation of Tangier:  had recommended to them, the farther examination of the Plot; and that his Majesty had offer’d to concurr in any Remedies for the security of the Protestant Religion, which might consist with the preserving the Succession of the Crown, in its due and legal course of descent, but to all this they met with most unsuitable returns.

Now mark what the Gentleman infers, That the Ministers well knew, that their demands of Money for the ends abovesaid, were not to be complyed with, till his Majesty were pleas’d to change the hands and Councils by which his Affairs were managed.—­that is, nothing must be given but to such men in whom they could confide, as if neither the King, nor those whom he employed were fit any longer to be Trusted.  But the supream power, and the management of all things, must be wholly in their Party, as it was in Watt Tyler, and Jack Cade of famous memory, when they had got a King into their possession:  for this Party, will never think his Majesty their own, till they have him as safe, as they had his Father.  But if they could compass their Designs, of bringing