Few were Tories of that moderate school which acknowledged, reluctantly and with reserve, that extreme abuses might sometimes justify a nation in resorting to extreme remedies.

The great majority of the profession still held the doctrine of passive obedience: but that majority was now divided into two sections.

A question, which, before the Revolution, had been mere matter of speculation, and had therefore, though sometimes incidentally raised, been, by most persons, very superficially considered, had now become practically most important.

The doctrine of passive obedience being taken for granted, to whom was that obedience due?
While the hereditary right and the possession were conjoined, there was no room for doubt: but the hereditary right and the possession were now separated.

One prince, raised by the Revolution, was reigning at Westminster, passing laws, appointing magistrates and prelates, sending forth armies and fleets.