If we are to judge by that portion of their oratory which has come down to us, they had preached about the duty of passive obedience at least as often and as zealously as about the Trinity or the Atonement.

[4] Their attachment to their political creed had indeed been severely tried, and had, during a short time, wavered.

But with the tyranny of James the bitter feeling which that tyranny had excited among them had passed away.

The parson of a parish was naturally unwilling to join in what was really a triumph over those principles which, during twenty-eight years, his flock had heard him proclaim on every anniversary of the Martyrdom and on every anniversary of the Restoration.
The soldiers, too, were discontented.

They hated Popery indeed; and they had not loved the banished King.