But candid judges Sherlock was not likely to find among the Jacobites.

His old allies affirmed that he had incurred all the fearful penalties denounced in the Athanasian Creed against those who divide the substance.

Bulky quartos were written to prove that he held the existence of three distinct Deities; and some facetious malecontents, who troubled themselves very little about the Catholic verity, amused the town by lampoons in English and Latin on his heterodoxy.

"We," said one of these jesters, "plight our faith to one King, and call one God to attest our promise.

We cannot think it strange that there should be more than one King to whom the Doctor has sworn allegiance, when we consider that the Doctor has more Gods than one to swear by." [61] Sherlock would, perhaps, have doubted whether the government to which he had submitted was entitled to be called a settled government, if he had known all the dangers by which it was threatened.