As to the connection with the State, the time for it had clearly gone by.

The Church, as a Church, would own increased power when it could appoint its own bishops, and be wholly dissevered from State patronage.

It seemed to be almost a matter of surprise that really good Churchmen should have endured so long to be shackled by subservience to the State.

Some of these gentlemen pleaded their cause so well that they almost made it appear that episcopal ascendancy would be restored in England by the disseverance of the Church and State.
Mr.Turnbull, who was himself a dissenter, was at last upon his legs, and then the Ratlers knew that the game was lost.

It would be lost as far as it could be lost by a majority in that House on that motion; and it was by that majority or minority that Mr.Daubeny would be maintained in his high office or ejected from it.