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t ^ s « of ma upm fbe ^ pn ^ fieftt'idonjectiice 06 affaira ' expressed in the ckrifc&oi&rn # wtinetm % h t » W ^ henr vbi that last ad mirable i ^ edatoiof > Kfe ^ 'D ^ 31 ^ j 701 . This Psirliument < iof whidt Sir Thomas was
ehfifccri Member by the xritizens of London ) happily . attained the ends Ibis excellent Rrioce halrt ia -view , for they quicfcly fpnned an act for the a&jfaffltMit of the Pretender * and the farifter estal > lislimefrt of the
Protesttorst succession on tire throne I This l&w t < eeeived the Royal / assent but ttfe day * before - -ihe King * died , and he teft U as his be&fc legacy fop the naiidttl vjBy this means the Grown was »^ 0 &j ? 6 d ? to tha House &f JBrun&wiek ; fo # ih ^ ugh it 'Vras detdared by the
pree&fling Parliament to belong to that Family ^ y < et » ifc the appteliensiom ; of wise dtfd'thttilgbtfiri mentkedescentofat in tH ^ fippoifiitcd Bne ^ was tao rprecariaits till-It \* &fc guarded and secured by a tfttbae ^ UBft tr law a gainst all oppwea-s . 8 # feucto was-iithc succession of the
KxMise of Hanover to the . se kingdoms ^ H getii t ^ the 5 Seai ^ aod feboiitrs of ; a ^ Mel&ua&Mmmt&r ! & - > ^ A ^ j ^ fl ^ le ^ mit in Ihe character W ~ 8 iW Tftwntes iAbneyyi though ii > ^ HH ^^ Mfttffediat ^ l ^ connected with my ^ i ) j § 6 ^ s lrall fitit / be suppressed ; Thia tt kept
fe ^ eitent ^ ^ , n ; up family prayer fttirtng ttMe 1 Whole of his . mayoralty ; VfakllovttilLQ ewenio ^ of the day he ent ^^ ed Hfion die bfliee ^ he , without any tftWfc ^ \ Htbdi-ew > from the public assfewibiy at < 5 uikl 4 ialL after supper , weat ti ^ Hfey tovm h on ^ e , there performed
family ' tv&rshipy and then returned to Ifcfe etfiftt > auy ; " 'Of the d ^ bt we owe to WiHia rn for tfie Revelation of 1688 , we , at this dmtance of time , cannot be fully sensible . Dr . Benjamin Grosvenor has
thus * aflfeetingly touched upon it ; he wate an eye-witness of its ion mediate blessings . His words are these : — # < Ood raised up saviours to his people Israel ; * King" William , our glorious deliverer , may be called a saviour in such a' sense , when he came over to
us , bringing salvation along with him , and propagating many , marty future salvations for us and our posterity , wrapt up in that most invaluable blessing , the Protestant succession , which has now so happily and wonderfully taken place . The whole nation was then under deep impressions . We felt
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z ? &mkilmu imt wwi&w ^ $ & \ mm coming i / fte ^ j ?; m& rttQmm * i-m *© ^ P Rfifcenftioa ^ ^ fqype ^^^^ &d > v Tpfrrm&SW WflI'StlWW ^ IBR-t iB fell vie ^ Fj rrobnflfw > to ^^ ry cap ^ fty , N ^ w it ia r ? emov $ d ^ t ^ J > oi * t tbjrty y ^ ftrs ? distance , it requires something of good « e » 3 e , ineuipry and g ^ atitufje to be affected by it , and these do n ^ t abound-in our worlds * , r The means by which- *; be Revolution was effected ^ re thus descrlbed ^ l > y a modern writer , Mr . WiUiaia Godwin : " The English nation had saw groaned under the Stuart yoJte for nearly a century . The last attempt-to fasten these chains upon us by a fink never to
be broken * put an end to -the whale , and fixed the courage of the English nation as one man to endure this destiny no longer ,, The Revolution ^ of - JCiu ^ r Wiiliajn ' w'as far frpai being , qhar . actierized by any thiug pre-eminer > tly ; friend-Iy-to freedom in a political , view > ior to heroism of character . But its story
is distinguished from that of all other Revolutions favourable to the interests of maakind , by the sinipUcity with which it ^ vas effected . M ^ ijii ^ ks it \ vq $ a beautiful spectacle to see th £ iRrince qfvOrange , Stadtholder of th ^ y , n it ^ Provinces , a stranger to England , and with no natural ties to our nation ,
setting sail from his own shores with his handful of an army , serenely confident that his means were such as fully to secure the end he proposed . This is beyond ail military victories ! Victory in the field is , tor the mast part , the result of the confused contention
of ordinary mortals , a struggle of joints and sinews , the sport of a thousand accidents . Add to this , victory in the field is misery and murder under a milder name—a means , Jic-vvever excellent the end may sometimes be , at which humanity shudders . But the war in which James the Second Ust
his crown was the war of the nuad only . King William saw , in calm and sagacious prospect , that the conquest was his own , and that , small as were his military means , he needed no more . And the people of England in like
manner fought the momentous field with the mind only . They chose to be free from the inauspicious tyranny of a bigpt , and they were free ! Not a sword was drawn , not a drop oi blood spilt , and the campaign eaded almost on the day it commenced . This
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/10/
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