No. The Reverse of all this is notoriously true, if there be any Truth in History. They dream't and rav'd of Oppression before, but they were then opprest in Earnest. They were before chastis'd with imaginary Whips, but then with real Scorpions. And surely it was a just Judgment of God upon 'em for their Inconstancy of Temper, and Eagerness for a Change, that when once they had shaken off their just Allegiance, and chose new Masters for themselves, they were afterwards forc'd to be perpetually changing, and cou'd find no Power that was able to protect 'em long, but saw more Turns and Revolutions in the Compass of a few Months, than had happen'd in a Thousand Years before. New Schemes and Models of Government were daily Fashion'd, some of which died in _Embryo_, others made a Blaze for a short Time, but no sooner had they turn'd themselves to the new-started Light, in hopes to be warm'd and directed by it, but the Airy Meteor disappear'd. 'Twas a common Thing then to see Servants on Horseback, whilst Princes walk'd on Foot, to see the meanest of the People in the highest Places; and one might have seen _Jotham_'s Parable exactly verified, when instead of the _Fatness of the Olive_, and the _Fruitfulness of the Vine_; the Supreme Dominion was invested in the despicable, the useless, the hurtful _Brambles_. Then as to _Spirituals_. Did the _Authors_ of those Troubles find their Account in 'em? Were they able at last quietly to Establish their own Way of Worship, and had they not many contending Rivals? Were not their own Complaints against the Hierarchy, of _taking too much upon 'em_, _imposing_ on the _Lord's People_, and depriving 'em of their _Christian Liberty_, return'd upon themselves? Was there a greater Advancement of Piety, whilst the _Sacrament_ was rarely Administer'd, the Catechizing of Youth exceedingly neglected, and almost all Religion resolv'd into _Hearing_? Was there a greater _Liberty of Conscience_, when the prevailing Sect for the Time Condemn'd the _Toleration_ of the rest as _Anti-christian_? ----_En quo Discordia Cives Perduxit miseros!_ _These_ were the _Blessed_ Fruits of _Discord_ and _Rebellion_. _This_ was the Price of over-turning a legally and peacably settled Constitution. As another bad Effect (but God be prais'd that's over too) of this Day's Cruelty, may be reckon'd the imminent Danger we were in, not many Years since, of the Return of _Popish Superstition_ into this Nation, to which, in all human Probability, the greatest Part of it had in a little time relaps'd, had not Providence defeated the Designs that were form'd against our Holy Religion, by the late _Happy Revolution_.