Nor did men like Burnet and Hoadly, for all their learning, make easy the path for brethren of more tender consciences.

The Church, moreover, must have felt its powers the more valuable from the very strength of the assault to which she was subjected.

And the direct interference with her governance implied by the Oaths of Allegiance and of Abjuration raised questions we have not yet solved.

It suggested the subordination of Church to State; and men like Hickes and Leslie were quick to point out the Erastianism of the age.

It is a fact inevitable in the situation of the English Church that the charge of subjection to the State should rouse a deep and quick resentment.