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landy he made an unnatural War upon us to 

 bring us to a Conformity with England in 

 Church-Matters. We fhall not here offer to 

 debate which of the Churches was beft confti- 

 tuted, or moft agreable to the Scripture- Pat- 

 tern : It fuffices for our Argument, that we 

 were injured in having a foreign Model offered 

 to be obtruded upon us, which was the Con- 

 sequence of the Union of the Crowns, and of 

 having our King educated in another Nation ; 

 but that was not all, another mifchievous effeflh 

 of the Union was this, that whatever King 

 Charles bad deferv'd at our hands, yet out of 

 natural Affeftion, Confcience and Honour, we 

 were obhg'd to do what we could to prevent 

 his illegal Trial and Death, and to defend his 

 Son's Title, which threw us into Convulfions 

 at home, occafion'd us the lofs of feveral 

 Armies, and expos'd our Nation afterwards 

 to ruin and devaftation by our implacable 

 Enemy the Ufurper, which together with 

 the ungrateful Retributions made us by the 

 Government after the Reftoration , were 

 enough to have w-earied any Nation under 

 Heav'n, but our felves, of the Union of the 

 Crowns. 



Yet fuch was our Zeal for the Proteftant In- 

 reft, the Welfare of .the Ifland, and the Liber- 

 ty of Europe^ that tho we had a fair oppor- 

 tunity of providing otherwife for our fecurity 

 and the Advancement of our Trade, and of 

 forming our felves into aComraonwealcb, or 



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