In a word, the settlement was finished with some precipitation, before the plan had been properly digested and matured; and this will be the case in every establishment formed upon a sudden emergency in the face of opposition.
It was observed, that the king, who was made by the people, had it in his power to rule without them; to govern _jure divino_ though he was created _jure humano_: and that, though the change proceeded from a republican spirit, the settlement was built upon tory maxims; for the execution of his government continued still independent of his commission, while his own person remained sacred and inviolable.

The prince of Orange had been invited to England by a coalition of parties, united by a common sense of danger; but this tie was no sooner broken than they flew asunder and each resumed its original bias.

Their mutual jealousy and rancour revived, and was heated by dispute into intemperate zeal and enthusiasm.

Those who at first acted from principles of patriotism were insensibly warmed into partizans; and king William soon found himself at the head of a faction.

As he had been bred, a Calvinist, and always expressed an abhorrence of spiritual persecution, the presbyter-ians, and other protestant dissenters, considered him as their peculiar protector, and entered into his interests with the most zealous fervour and assiduity.