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Title:  A collection of the writings of the author of The true-born English-man.:
Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
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If they won't, we must make them, and 'tis not the first time we have let them know that we are able. The Crowns of these Kingdoms have not so far dis|owned the Right of Succession, but they may retrieve it again, and if Scotland thinks to come off from a Suc|cessive to an Elective State of Government, England has not promised not to assist the Right Heir, and put them into Possession, without any regard to their ri|diculous Settlements.THESE are the Gentlemen, these their ways of treating the Church, both at home and abroad. Now let us examine the Reasons they pretend to give, why we shou'd be favourable to them, why we should con|tinue and tolerate them among us.First, THEY are very Numerous, they say, They are a great Part of the Nation, and we cannot Suppress them.To this may be answer'd, 1. THEY are not so Numerous as the Protestants in France, and yet the French King effectually clear'd the Nation of them at once, and we don't find he Misses them at Home.But I am not of the Opinion they are so Numerous as is pretended, their Party is more Numerous than their Persons, and those mistaken People of the Church who are misled and deluded by their wheedling Ar|tifices, to join with them, make their Party the great|ter; but those will open their Eyes, when the Govern|ment shall set heartily about the Work, and come off from them, as some Animals, which they say, always desert a House when 'tis likely to fall.2dly. The more Numerous, the more Dangerous and therefore the more Need to Suppress them; and God has suffer'd us to bear them as Goads in our Sides, for not utterly extinguishing them long ago.3dly. If we are to allow them, only because we 0