Under other circumstances a King might bring the Bishops and the Heads of the Romish party together to plot against the law of the land.

No! we would have no other secret Committees but of Parliamentary appointment.

We are but so many individuals.

It is in the Legislature that the congregations, the party most interested in this cause, meet collectively by their representatives."-- Lastly, let it not be overlooked, that the root of the bitterness was common to both parties,--namely, the conviction of the vital importance of uniformity;--and this admitted, surely an undoubted majority in favor of what is already law must decide whose uniformity it is to be.
Ib.p.

368.
We must needs believe that when your Majesty took our consent to a Liturgy to be a foundation that would infer our concord, you meant not that we should have no concord but by consenting to this Liturgy without any considerable alteration.
This is forcible reasoning, but which the Bishops could fairly leave for the King to answer;--the contract tacit or expressed, being between him and the anti-Prelatic Presbytero-Episcopalian party, to which neither the Bishops nor the Legislature had acceded or assented.