The best preservative against the plague. With a short account of the state of this nation from the conclusion of the grand rebellion of Oliver Cromwell to the Revolution / By an Englilh-Man [sic].

Date:
1721
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The best preservative against the plague. With a short account of the state of this nation from the conclusion of the grand rebellion of Oliver Cromwell to the Revolution / By an Englilh-Man [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 confefs it is a very calamitous Thing for a Prince fa far to forget bimfelf as to deviate in his Adminiflration from the Laws of God, and the political Rale of his own Co untry; but 1 juppofe, iCs much better for a fmful Peo¬ ple to jubmit to the Mifrule of their own Prince (the? a wicked one) than to call in a foreign Affiftance; God in his due Time, afterfufficient Punifhment ^^Amend¬ ment of a People, will remove a Tyrant. Hijiories are full of Inflames of Deflr action that have attended jack Kingdoms and States who have invited Foreigners within their Bowels; our own N at ion can give but too fare and fad Inflancesof Foreign Aid; thofethat have Toad our Englifh Hiftory, will find what Friends they entertained, when the Saxon?, ^ People o/Gqrma- Xiy, were invited hither, how mifer ably they llaughtered the Natives of this Ifland, and drove the refl of the In¬ habitants to pojfejs the Mountains of Wales. Our JncejJ ors were wifer in the Reign of King John, for he having gained the Hatred of his People, jo that they rebslledagainft him, they invited Lewis the Dau¬ phin of France to he their Sovereign; who came over to ufurt) the Throne, but the People confldering the Calami¬ ties of a Foreign Government, bethought them]elves of the Allegiance they had from toKJng j ohn? and defired the Dauphin peaceably to depart the Kingdom, and leave them arid their lawful King to their better Agreement; fo the Nation with much Eafegot quit of their Foreign King* and their Foreign Troops* A N