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Excerpt from The Interest of the English Nation Under the Happy Government of King William III, Once More Asserted: In Answer to the Challenge of a Jacobite, Wherein Is Proved That That Law Which Forbids Taking Up Arms Against the King Upon Any Pretence Whatsoever, Is Consistent With the Late Revolution
The Fir/2 you have quite omitted. To the Second, you have on ly brought'a Comparifon between an'eng lzlh Monarch and a Bayltfi', {howing that the King is by great odds the worfe Man of the two. The Third you havefnrly yielded, and therein given up your Ca To the Foarth, you take Exception that I lhould fay The King a ag 6] Law and yet you own the Maxim, That the King can do noileong. And now after all (ful'peeting perhaps your weakneg and Inconlil'tenc'e hitherto) you come to other fometning that looks at firfi fight like a Dilemma, but unfortunately it wants one of its Memhers, which it feems you have dropt in great precipitation.
The fubl'tance of the matter is this: Either the Parliament ton/ider the Confeqaente of making [itch a Law, or they did not Ifnot, (fay you) the; were a Gluh of blackheads and meet Loggerheads'. Very, good Here's the Confequence of that. But what if the Parliament did Confider, what then? Why then (you fay)poti hat}: in a forwards run through all I have/kid tn this Canfe An admira blfi Conlequence, and'a rare Dilemma! The one is lame of a (ids, and the other is fal/is, unlefs you have run through my Papers with fome fmall Needle, which I cannot perceive.
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