What Burnet had foreseen and foretold had come to pass.

There was throughout the clerical profession a strong disposition to retaliate on the Presbyterians of England the wrongs of the Episcopalians of Scotland.

It could not be denied that even the highest churchmen had, in the summer of 1688, generally declared themselves willing to give up many things for the sake of union.

But it was said, and not without plausibility, that what was passing on the other side of the Border proved union on any reasonable terms to be impossible.

With what face, it was asked, can those who will make no concession to us where we are weak, blame us for refusing to make any concession to them where we are strong?
We cannot judge correctly of the principles and feelings of a sect from the professions which it makes in a time of feebleness and suffering.