201-214, 281-284, 288-289, and 361).
By a law of political life, every community, at every time, must have _some_ polarizing controversy; and this was Scotland's through the whole period of her absorption in the English Commonwealth and Protectorate.

The Protesters were the Whigs, and the Resolutioners the Tories, of Scotland through that time; and the strife between the parties was all the fiercer because, Scottish autonomy being lost, it was the only native strife left for Scotsmen, and they were battened down to it, as an indulgence among themselves, by a larger and unconcerned rule overhead.

General Assemblies of the Kirk being no longer allowed, it had to be conducted in Provincial Synods and Presbyteries only, or in sermons and pamphlets of mutual reproach.
The exasperation was great; Church-censures and threats of such passed and repassed; all attempts at agreement failed; the best friends were parted.

Leaders among the majority, or Resolutioner clergy, were Mr.Robert Douglas of Edinburgh, who had preached the coronation sermon of Charles II.

at Scone, Mr.James Sharp of Crail (these two back for some time from the imprisonment in London to which Monk had sent them in 1651: Vol.IV.