tional. If I were to move you to what was not in your power, I should easily be answered, by being told, you could not do it; that you were not able, and the like but is it not evident that the unanimous appearance of the people of Great Britain against the pretender would at once render all the party desperate, and make them look upon the design as utterly impracticable. As their only hope is in the breaches they are making in your resolutions, so if they should see they gain no ground there, they would despair, and give it over.

It would not be worth notice, to inquire who are, or who are not for the pretender: the invidious search into the conduct of great men, ministers of state and government, would be labour lost: no ministry will ever be for the pretender, if they once may but be convinced that the people are steady; that he gets no ground in the country; that the aversions of the common people to his person and his government are not to be overcome: but if you, the good people of England, slacken your hands; if you give up the cause; if you abate your zeal for your own liberties, and for the protestant religion; if fall in with popery and a French pretender; if you forget the revolution, and king William, what can you expect? who can stand by you then? Who can save them that will destroy themselves?

you

The work is before you; your deliverance, your safety is in your own hands, and therefore these things are now written: none can give you up; none can betray you but yourselves; none can bring in popery upon you but yourselves; and if you could see your own happiness, it is entirely in your power, by unanimous, steady adhering to your old principles, to secure your peace for ever. Jerusalem! Jerusalem!

AGAINST THE

SUCCESSION

OF THE

HOUSE of HANOVER,

WITH AN

ENQUIRY

How far the Abdication of King James, supposing it to be Legal, ought to affect the Person of the

PRETENDER.

Si Populus vult Decipi, Decipiatur.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in PaterNoster-Row, 1713. [Price 6d.]

REASONS

AGAINST

THE SUCCESSION, &c.

WHAT strife is here among you all? And what a noise about who shall or shall not be king, the Lord knows when? Is it not a strange thing we cannot be quiet with the queen we have, but we must all fall into confusion and combustions about who shall come after? Why, pray folks, how old is the queen, and when is she to die? that here is this pother made about it. I have heard wise people say the queen is not fifty years old, that she has no distemper but the gout, that that is a long-life disease, which generally holds people out twenty, or thirty, or forty years; and and let it go how it will, the queen may well enough linger out twenty or thirty years, and not be a huge old wife neither. Now, what say the people, must we think of living twenty or thirty years in this wrangling condition we are now in? This would be a torment worse than some of the Egyptian plagues, and would be intolerable to bear, though for fewer years than that. The animosities