The later revolt of the Puritans against the king-worship which Cromwell established proved the justice of the prevision which forced More in the spring of 1532 to resign the post of Chancellor.
[Sidenote: England and Rome] But the revolution from which he shrank was an inevitable one.

Till now every Englishman had practically owned a double life and a double allegiance.

As citizen of a temporal state his life was bounded by English shores and his loyalty due exclusively to his English king.

But as citizen of the state spiritual he belonged not to England but to Christendom.

The law which governed him was not a national law but a law that embraced every European nation, and the ordinary course of judicial appeals in ecclesiastical cases proved to him that the sovereignty in all matters of conscience or religion lay not at Westminster but at Rome.