He demanded the see of Exeter as a reward due to his services.

He was refused.

The refusal convinced him that the Church had as much to apprehend from Latitudinarianism as from Popery; and he speedily became a Tory again, [485] Early in October the Commissioners assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber.
At their first meeting they determined to propose that, in the public services of the Church, lessons taken from the canonical books of Scripture should be substituted for the lessons taken from the Apocrypha, [486] At the second meeting a strange question was raised by the very last person who ought to have raised it.

Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, had, without any scruple, sate, during two years, in the unconstitutional tribunal which had, in the late reign, oppressed and pillaged the Church of which he was a ruler.

But he had now become scrupulous, and expressed a doubt whether the commission were legal.
To a plain understanding his objections seem to be mere quibbles.