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Excerpt from A Warning Voice to the People of England, on the True Nature and Effect of the Two Bills for the Preservation of His Majesty's Person and Government, and for the Prevention of Seditious Meetings In this noble work they were long en gaged; but after the death of Charles I. And the beginning ofthe commonwealth, the crown being then not only controlled but al together extinguifhed, the people of England difcovered a' new and powerful enemy of their llberties, of which before they had no fufpicion, fpringing up in the very heart of the nation, and difcovering itfelf in the many greedy and atrocious tyrants which the fall of the crown and the preponderating power of the multitude had thrown up to the helm ofthefiate. The experience of a very few years was fufficient to convince the nation, that if an omnipotent crown was an evil fubverfive of their liberties, an omnipo tent populace was not only fubverfive of their liberties, but was at the fame time defiruc tive ofall their property, of all their means of acquiring wealth or competency, and of every poibility of enjoying peaceable and. 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.