One of the great Presbyterian Rabbies, therefore, might well doubt whether, in a worldly view, he should be benefited by a comprehension.

He might indeed hold a rectory or a vicarage, when he could get one.

But in the meantime he would be destitute: his meeting house would be closed: his congregation would be dispersed among the parish churches: if a benefice were bestowed on him, it would probably be a very slender compensation for the income which he had lost.

Nor could he hope to have, as a minister of the Anglican Church, the authority and dignity which he had hitherto enjoyed.

He would always, by a large portion of the members of that Church, be regarded as a deserter.