{"product_id":"2940012757302","title":"An Answer To A Question","description":"That we are to have a peace, or that the peace is made, what sort of\u003cbr\u003epeace, or how it has been brought about; these are questions the world\u003cbr\u003ebegins to have done with, they have been so much, so often, and to so\u003cbr\u003elittle purpose banded about, and tossed like a shuttlecock, from one\u003cbr\u003eparty to another; the parties themselves begin to want breath to rail\u003cbr\u003eand throw scandal. Roper and Ridpath, like two Tom T--men, have thrown\u003cbr\u003enight-dirt at one another so long, and groped into so many Jakes's up\u003cbr\u003eto their elbows to find it, that they stink now in the nostrils of\u003cbr\u003etheir own party. They are become perfectly nauseous to read; the\u003cbr\u003enation is surfeited of them, and the people begin to be tired with\u003cbr\u003eill-using one another. Would any tolerable face appear upon things, we\u003cbr\u003emight expect the people would be inclined to be easy; and were the\u003cbr\u003eeyes of some great men open, they may see this was the opportunity\u003cbr\u003ethey never had before, to make the nation easy, and themselves safe.\u003cbr\u003eThe main thing which agitates the minds of men now, is the protestant\u003cbr\u003esuccession and the pretender. Much pains have been taken on both sides\u003cbr\u003eto amuse the world about this remaining dispute; one side to make us\u003cbr\u003ebelieve it is safe, and the other to convince us it is in danger.\u003cbr\u003eNeither side hath been able to expatiate upon the part they affirm.\u003cbr\u003eThose who say the protestant succession is secure, have not yet shown\u003cbr\u003eus any step taken, since these new transactions, for its particular\u003cbr\u003esecurity. Those who say it is in danger, have not so clearly\u003cbr\u003edetermined, even among themselves, from what particular head of public\u003cbr\u003emanagement that danger chiefly proceeds. Both these uncertainties\u003cbr\u003eserve to perplex us, and to leave the thing more undetermined than\u003cbr\u003econsists with the public ease of the people's minds. To contribute\u003cbr\u003esomething to that ease, and bring those whose place it is to consider\u003cbr\u003eof ways to make the people easy in this case, this work is made\u003cbr\u003epublic. Possibly, the question propounded may not meet with a\u003cbr\u003ecategorical answer. But this is certain, it shall show you more\u003cbr\u003edirectly what is the chief question which the substance of things\u003cbr\u003ebefore us is like to turn upon; and to which all our questions seem to\u003cbr\u003etend. Were the great difficulty of the succession brought to a narrow\u003cbr\u003ecompass, though we might spend fewer words about it, we should sooner\u003cbr\u003ecome to a direct answer. Before I come to the great and chief question\u003cbr\u003eupon which this affair so much seems to turn, it seems needful to put\u003cbr\u003ethe previous question upon which so much debate has been among us, and\u003cbr\u003elet that be examined. This previous question is this: Is there any\u003cbr\u003ereal danger of the protestant succession? Is there any danger that the\u003cbr\u003epretender shall be brought in upon us? Is there any danger of popery\u003cbr\u003eand tyranny, by restoring the son, as they call him, of abdicated King\u003cbr\u003eJames? This is the previous question, as we may now call it. It is\u003cbr\u003ewell known that there are some people among us, who are so far from\u003cbr\u003eallowing that there is any such danger as the said question mentions,\u003cbr\u003ethat they will have it to be a token of disaffection to the government\u003cbr\u003eto put the question, and are for loading whoever shall offer to start\u003cbr\u003esuch a question, with characters and party-marks odious to good men,\u003cbr\u003esuch as incendiary, promoter of discontents, raiser of faction,\u003cbr\u003edivider of the people, and the like: names which the writer of these\u003cbr\u003esheets, at the same time, both contemns and abhors. He cannot see that\u003cbr\u003ehe is any enemy to the queen, in inquiring as diligently as possible,\u003cbr\u003ewhether there are any attempts to depose her, or dangerous prospects\u003cbr\u003eof bringing in the hated rival of her glory and dominion. It is so far\u003cbr\u003efrom that, that it is apparently the duty of every true subject of her\u003cbr\u003emajesty, to inquire seriously, whether the public peace, the queen's\u003cbr\u003esafety, her throne, or her person, is in any danger from the wicked\u003cbr\u003edesign of her, and her people's enemies. Wherefore, and for the joint\u003cbr\u003econcern every protestant Briton has in this thing, I shall make no\u003cbr\u003edifficulty, plainly and seriously to state, and to answer this\u003cbr\u003eprevious question, viz., Whether there is any danger of the protestant\u003cbr\u003esuccession from the present measures, and from the present people\u003cbr\u003econcerned? I am not ignorant of what has been said by some, to prove\u003cbr\u003ethat the present ministry cannot be suspected of having any view to\u003cbr\u003ethe pretender in any of their measures. The best reason which I have\u003cbr\u003eseen given upon that subject, is, that it is not their interest; and\u003cbr\u003ethat as we have not found them fools that are blind to their own\u003cbr\u003einterest; that either do not understand, or pursue it. This we find\u003cbr\u003ehandled sundry ways, by sundry authors, and very much insisted upon as\u003cbr\u003ea foundation for us to build upon.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081663725808,"sku":"2940012757302","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012757302_p0.jpg?v=1763571833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012757302","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}