Moral and political dialogues Author:Richard Hurd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DIALOGUE VI. On the Conftitution of the Englifh Government. SIR JOHN MAYNARD, MR. SOMERS, BISHOP BURNET, TO DR. TILLOTSON. OUR next meeting at Sir J.... more » May- Nard's was on the evening of that day, when the war was proclaimed againft France [c]. What the event of it will be, is a fecret in the counfels of providence. But if the goodnefs of our caufe, his majefty's known wifdom and ability, and above all the apparent zeal and firmnefs of all orders amongft us in fupport of this great undertaking, may [r] 7 May, 1689. give a profpeft of fuccefs, we cannot, I perfuade myfelf, but indulge in the moft reafonable hopes and expeftations. Perhaps, the time is approaching, my dear friend, which the divine good- nefs hath decreed for putting a ftop to. that outrageous power, which hath been permitted for fo long a courfe of years to afflift the neighbouring nations. It may be, the feafon is now at hand when God will vouchfafe to plead the caufe of his fervants, and let this mighty perfei tutor of the faithful know that he may not be fuffered any longer to trample on the facred rights of confcience. He may be taught to feel, that the ravages he hath committed in the faireft provinces, and the cruelties he hath exer- cifed on the beft fubjefts, of his own kingdom, have at length awakened the divine difpleafure againft him. And he may live to find in our great prince' (raifed up, as I verily believe, to this eminence eminence of place and power to be the fcourge of tyrants, and the vindicator of oppreffed nations) an infurmountable bulwark againft that encroaching dominion, which threatens to deform and lay wafte the reft of Europe. I Have already lived to fee thofe providences, which may encourage a ferious and good mind to believe that fome great work is preparing i...« less