AS by the ſtrain and ſtile of your Letter, I may eaſily repute you one more precipitant than prudent, and more paſſionate than politick: So may I on rational Grounds, from the drift and deſign of your Letter, conclude you a great Jacobite, or vail'd Favorite of the late K. James: For in pretence of vindicating the preſent King's Intereſt, you firſt ſet up Marks of your own making, or Suppoſitions of your own Invention (which ought not to be ſuppoſed) and then fighting, with the Maggots of your own brain, to pleaſe your own fond fancy, you diſcharge the Artillery of your pretended Zeal and Loyalty, at your own fooliſh propoſals. And for all you pretend, by your Wit and Loyalty, to antidote the fate which beſel his Majeſty's Predeceſſors, viz. the robbing him of his peoples affections, and then of his own Authority; yet could you not have fallen on a readier and ſurer way, to raiſe animoſities in the Kingdom, and bred jealouſies in the hearts of the Kings beſt Subjects. For at firſt you ſuppoſe a controverſy where really there is none, viz. whether it was the Kings wiſdom, or to pleaſe himſelf with an Exerciſe of Regal power, and to look Great, that made him diſſolve this Parliament. Then Worthy Sir, (your own wiſdom acquieſcing with what his Majeſty did) you take up the Cudgels in his Vindication, whilſt there is few or none to ſtrike at. Tho his Majeſty, in his laſt Speech to the Parliament, when it was Prorogu'd, ſpoke more ſenſe, and gave greater Reaſons for what he did (tho in few words) than in all your long, learned, Legomachical Apology. Next, you caſt an Aſperſion on the Members of Parliament, that they were ignorant of what was fit to be done: and therefore you tell them, that the K. ſent them about their buſineſs, for not uniting the Proteſtants, and vindicating our Laws and Liberties, and puniſh thoſe who had ſubverted our Conſtitution, &c. Truly Sir, there is much in this; for it wlil be found a difficult thing to unite the Church of England with Diſſenters, tho' they ſeemtodiffer but in matters of Ceremony. But if they did not make it their Buſineſs to vindicate the Laws and Liberties of the Nation, and deſign (in the right place) to puniſh thoſe who had ſubverted the Kingdoms Conſtitution; they were neither good Chriſtians, juſt Judges, nor wiſe States-men; nor any ways fit to ſtand at the Helm of publick affairs. But, till you prove your aſſertion, your contumelious ſpeeches are but an aſperſion. The next thing you propoſe out of your wiſdom, is a ſpeedy means to clear the Kings Deſcent into England, from being an ambitious Uſurpation. Truly Sir, I believe there are few men of ſenſe that will repute the Kings Expedition to England an Unrighteous Invaſion, unleſs ſuch buſie men as you, by ſowing ſuch ſeeds of Diſſatisfaction, and ſetting up ſuch ſuppoſitions of Sedition and Faction, gain the Weather-gage on a right Underſtanding, and lead the people to open Rebellion; and tho' you be pleaſed confidently to ſay, that His preſent Majeſty holdeth his Crown precariouſly, and that King James's Abdication is eaſily reverſible, yet no man that is Maſter of his Reaſon, and knoweth the circumſtance of the late Revolution, and the preſent ſtate of Great Britain, will be ſo Fooliſh as to believe any ſuch thing, Unleſs he, likewiſe, believe that it is an eaſie matter to turn Britain to a Bedlam, and all the Inhabitants thereof to Mad-men; who would willingly forfeit their Religion, Lives, Laws and Liberties. Truly Sir (as I have ſaid) you could have fallen upon no ſurer way to do both King and Country a diskindneſs, than by ſuppoſing, under the pretence of a good meaning, thoſe Rebellious Controverſies, which may breed Jealouſies, make the beſt. Subjects queſtion the Foundation of their Loyalty, and deny their Allegiance to our preſent King. For how can thoſe Gentlemen (who becauſe in the twinkling of an Eye, they were ſurprized with a ſudden and unexpected Change and Revolution of Government, and could not be reſolved in a moment, nor be ſatisfied in Conſcience, at a word, whether they owed any Allegiance to King James or not) be now pleaſed to ſee their Names Liſted, Poſted, and expoſed as Diſſenters from the preſent Government, Stigmatiz'd with the Title of Jacobites, and not likely to be true and laſting friends to King WILLIAMS Soveraignty? and conſequently, unworthy to be Members of Parliament, or to have any hand in State Affairs, and undeſerving of the King's favour? Now how can any Parliament at this rate be reputed free, When they ly under the laſh of ſuch diſgraceful and murdering aſperſions? I ſhall not meddle with more of your Letter; but take this of me: Men of leaſt Conſcience ſooneſt ſatisfie greateſt ſcruples, and he's neither good Divine or good States-Man, that would divide a Kingdom againſt it ſelf: For as Saluſt de Bello Jugurth. ſaith, Concordia res parvae creſcunt, Diſcordia autem maximae delabunter. Callicratidas being affronted by King Cyrus in his Embaſſie, when he returned to Sparta, broke out in theſe words: I ſhall uſe the beſt of my endeavours, to reconcile the Greeks among themſelves, that they may be the more formidable to theſe Barbarians, and leaving off all Controverſies among theſmelves, they may no more ſtand in need of help from that prodigal King. And of this Man's reſolution Conrad Lycoſthenes ſpeaketh thus: Singularis profecto fuit prudentiae vir, quod perſpexit Graecos non alia magis ratione poſſe reddi Barbar • s formidabiles, quam ſi depoſitis inteſtinis ſimultatibus, mutam inter ſe concordiam ſancirent. Plut. in Lacon apoph. Scipio Africanus asked Tyreſius, how the Numantians, who were once reputed ſo Warlike a People, were ſo eaſily broke and overthrown. Tyreſius anſwered, concordia Victoriam, Diſcordia exitium praebuit. Thus Concord and Unity are the Sinews, Strength, and Victory of a Nation, which, (with Faith, Truth, and God's favour) I pray this Iſle of Britain, and all true. Chriſtians may long enjoy.