We still assert our old doctrines without qualification.

We still hold that it is in all cases sinful to resist the magistrate: but we say that there is no longer any magistrate to resist.

He who was the magistrate, after long abusing his powers, has at last abdicated them.

The abuse did not give us a right to depose him: but the abdication gives us a right to consider how we may best supply his place.
It was on these grounds that the Prince's party was now swollen by many adherents who had previously stood aloof from it.

Never, within the memory of man, had there been so near an approach to entire concord among all intelligent Englishmen as at this conjuncture: and never had concord been more needed.