Divines, he said, had nothing to do with military arrangements.
"The Fathers of the Church," answered a member very keenly, "have been lately favoured with a new light.

I have myself seen military orders signed by the Most Reverend person who has suddenly become so scrupulous.

There was indeed one difference: those orders were for dragooning Protestants, and the resolution before us is meant to protect us from Papists." [302] The arrival of Mackay's troops, and the determination of Gordon to remain inactive, quelled the spirit of the Jacobites.

They had indeed one chance left.

They might possibly, by joining with those Whigs who were bent on an union with England, have postponed during a considerable time the settlement of the government.