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Excerpt from The Case of the Allegiance Due to Soveraign Powers: Stated and Resolved According to Scripture and Reason and the Principles of the Church of England; With a More Particular Respect to the Oath, Lately Enjoyned, of Allegiance to Their Present Majesties, K. William and Q. Mary I Need not acquaint the World with the Occasion of publishing this Book; which indeed is extorted from me by the rude Clamours and unchristian Censures of some, and the earnest Importunities of others. My taking the Oath of Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary, after so long a Refusal, has occasioned a great deal of talk, and a great many uncharitable guesses about it; Faction and blind Zeal always wanting either the Wit, or the good Will, to guess right. One would have thought it the most probable Conjecture, That a Man, who had forfeited all his Preferments by refusing the Oath, and bad for ever lost them, had not the Government been more mild and gentle in delaying the Execution of the Law, acted very honestly and sincerely in it; and if so, That there is also good Reason to believe, that if the same Person afterwards takes the Oath, he acts honestly in that too: for what Reason is there to suspect, that he, who would not swear against the present perswasion of his Conscience to keep his Preferments, should swear against his Conscience to get them again? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.