Some vehement Whigs, among whom Julian Johnson was conspicuous, declared that Jacobitism itself was respectable when compared with the vile doctrine which had been discovered in the Convocation Book.

That passive obedience was due to Kings was doubtless an absurd and pernicious notion.

Yet it was impossible not to respect the consistency and fortitude of men who thought themselves bound to bear true allegiance, at all hazards, to an unfortunate, a deposed, an exiled oppressor.

But the theory which Sherlock had learned from Overall was unmixed baseness and wickedness.

A cause was to be abandoned, not because it was unjust, but because it was unprosperous.