The Coronation Oath Considered with Reference to the Principles of the Revolution Of 1688

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828. Excerpt: ... replied, " I am bound to maintain them in it, as one of the fundamental constitutions of this kingdom." f SECTION XIV. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. It now remains to us to retrace the principal features of the foregoing induction, comprising as it does particulars so various and so important, each bearing in some way upon the others, and the whole exhibiting a striking consonance and harmony of design. It has been shown by reference to records, the authority of which cannot be disputed, nor the sense perverted, that the leading principle upon which the Legislature of 1688 acted, was to establish the Protestant religion, and the civil liberties of the country, on so firm a basis, that they might never be in danger of being again subverted. That these objects were deemed inseparable, that it was considered they would afford each other reciprocal support, would, in the same proportion, flourish and decay, be threatened by the same dangers, Speech to Parliament, January 25, 1640. Vide Rapin's "History of Charles the First." f Vide Note H. and be preserved by the same securities. On the other hand, it has been shown that the Roman Catholic religion was an object of apprehension, because it had ever been found, from its essential qualities, politically dangerous to those interests which were most dear to the nation. We have briefly considered that series of public compacts which we designate the Constitution of 1688, as originating from a deep attachment to the principles of genuine freedom, and a determination to restrain the influence of principles, always opposed, and always more or less dangerous to them. These compacts, it has been seen, comprise (consistently with the motives which gave them birth) two objects, each equally necessary to give efficacy t...