It had never crossed his imagination that a time might come when a King, a Stuart, would persecute the most loyal of the clergy and gentry with more than the animosity of the Rump or the Protector.
That time had however arrived.

It was now to be seen how the patience which Churchmen professed to have learned from the writings of Paul would stand the test of a persecution by no means so severe as that of Nero.

The event was such as everybody who knew anything of human nature would have predicted.

Oppression speedily did what philosophy and eloquence would have failed to do.

The system of Filmer might have survived the attacks of Locke: but it never recovered from the death blow given by James.