AS I do fully acquiesce in the Wisdom and Authorny of the King in his dissolving of the late Parlia­ment: So I'm perfectly perswa­ded, that he did it upon motives relating to his own Honour, and to the safety and happiness of his People, and not in subser­viency to any Prerogative Design, nor to please himself with an Exercise of Regal Power. And I will venture to say, that no­thing could have induced him, so abruptly, as well as unexpectedly, to have dismissed a Parliament, that first advanced him unto, and then by so many free and vast Contri­butions, endeavour'd to support him in the Throne, but the finding them unservice­able to the Uniting of Protestants, the vin­dicating of our Laws and Liberties, and the punishing of those who had subverted our Constitution, which as they are the only Justifiable Grounds, both of his coming hi­ther, and of his accepting the Royal Autho­rity; so nothing less than the pursuing hose Ends, can vindicate his descent into England from being an Unrighteous Invasion; and his ascending the British Ihrones, from the Re­proach of an Ambitious Usurpation. How could a Prince of his Integrity and Wisdom think that the obtaining and wearing of a Crown was honourable and just, while the Reasons upon which he received and pos­sesseth it, were not only controuled, and reproached, but exposed and ridiculed? Nor is it possible for His Majesty to believe, that the Late King was so hainously guilty, as to forfeit all Right to Sovereignty, while those who advised him unto, and were the Ministers of all his misgovernment, whom the Law makes chiefly, if not only accoun­table, were esteemed Guiltless and Inno­cent. He could not but foresee, that the Abdication of King James is easily Reversi­ble, and that he himself holds his Crown very precariously, if there were nothing to justify the Enthroning the one, and the De­throning t'other, but the hasty and Arbi­tratious Vote of the Majority of the Two Houses. And he must needs look upon all that was alledged, concerning the Late King's violating the Original Contract, and his subverting the Laws of the Constitution, as Fiction and Dream, while there were none to be found, that counselled him un­to, or assisted him in it.

And as this justifieth the Wisdom of His Majesty in the dissolving of the late Parlia­ment, so we may from hence easily con­clude, both upon what prospect and hope he hath been pleased to call a New One, and by what measures those to whom the right of Electing Members doth belong, are to guide themselves in the Ensuing Choice. Nor do we only want a Parlia­ment that may confirm establish, and sup­port His Majesty in the Throne, but which may proceed on those Principles, as does render his Accession to it necessary, as well as honourable and just. And as the Na­tion is once more furnished with an oppor­tunity of chusing such a Representative Bo­dy, as may vindicate and assert its Ancient Laws, Rights and Liberties; so there is a fresh advantage offered us, of testifying our Loyalty to his present Majesty, and of pro­moting his Greatness, as well as of provi­ding for our own future safety. I need not tell you, that the Ends to be proposed in the Service of those who are to be Elected, are, that Your Throne may be setled upon firm and righteous Foundations; and that all His Majesty's Subjects may live at ease and unity under His Government. 'Tis therefore first incumbent upon all wise and honest Men, that they elect such to repre­sent them, as may both allow and confirm unto the King all the Ancient and Legal Rights of the Crown, and yet at the same time recover and secure all those Privileges unto the People, which the invading and wresting from them, gave occasion unto, and can alone justify the late Revolution. Whosoever seeks to enrich the King with the Spoils of his Subjects, and so adorn them with what our Late Monarch ravished from them, can design no less, than that the same Fate should befall him, which overtook his Predecessor; which is the robbing him first of his Peoples Affections, and then of his own Authority. 2dly, 'Tis no less the Du­ty, than it is the Interest of all that would have the Nation formidable to its Enemies, and the King successful in his Undertakings, that they depute and authorise those to act for them in Parliament, who without sub­verting or undermining the Church, may not only preserve unto Dissenters, that Li­berty vouchsafed unto them for worship­ping God; but who may restore them un­to, and vest them in, all the Common Rights and Privileges of Englishmen. Nor will it be easie to persuade so great a Com­pany of People, that they find their account in the late Revolution, unless they be ad­mitted by Law to injoy the same Advan­tages under the present King, which by di­spencing with, and an usurpation over the Law, they were possessed of under the last. 3dly, We are to esteem them the fittest of all others, to be returned to serve in the Ensuing Parliament, who are likeliest to maintain in our Allies a confidence of us, and to encourage them both to continue the Confederacy, and to pursue the Ends of it. And therefore as we would not give jea­lousy [Page] unto them, and weaken the Union a­mongst themselves, and with us, we ought to avoid the chusing of those that have here­tofore promoted the Grandeur of France, or that have either sought the Destruction of the Dutch, or expressed a malice and rancour to­wards them. 4thly, As we would not be­tray both the King and our selves, we are to chuse none but such who are intirely in his Majesty's, and in the Kingdom's inte­rest; Which as it is impossible to believe of them, who acknowledge him only a King in Fact, but not by Right; so it is not easie to conceive how they should be forward and zealous to support him in the Throne, who opposed his coming to it. The Enemies to King James's Abdication are not like to be true and lasting Friends to King William's Sovereignty. In short, it is the duty of all that love the present Establishment, to be against those, whom you find them to be for, that refuse to swear Allegiance to their pre­sent Majesties. Nor are they worthy of the Vote of an honest Man, who are not satis­fied with the Protection of the Royal Power, unless they have both the mastery of it, and the exerting and applying of it to the oppression of their Fellow-Subjects. 'Tis not a King, but a Tool under that name, which they desire. And instead of allowing him to be the Universal, and Equal Ruler of all His People, they seek to re­duct and degrade him to be the Head of a little and Peevish Faction. Which that His Majesty may be preserved from all Tempta­tions unto, through the wise Choice of those that are to sit in the following Parliament, is the unfeigned desire of,