The omission, Collier owned, spoiled the dramatic effect of the piece: but the holy function was much too solemn to be played with.

Nay, incredible as it may seem, he thought it improper in the laity to sneer at Presbyterian preachers.

Indeed his Jacobitism was little more than one of the forms in which his zeal for the dignity of his profession manifested itself.

He abhorred the Revolution less as a rising up of subjects against their King than as a rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste.

The doctrines which had been proclaimed from the pulpit during thirty years had been treated with contempt by the Convention.