There were few clergymen who could have submitted to the new government with a better grace.

For, in the times when nonresistance and passive obedience were the favourite themes of his brethren, he had scarcely ever alluded to politics in the pulpit.

He owned that the arguments in favour of swearing were very strong.

He went indeed so far as to say that his scruples would be completely removed if he could be convinced that James had entered into engagements for ceding Ireland to the French King.

It is evident therefore that the difference between Ken and the Whigs was not a difference of principle.