The House of Stuart leagued with republican and regicide sects against the old Cavaliers of England; Popery leagued with Puritanism against an ecclesiastical system with which the Puritans had no quarrel, except that it had retained too much that was Popish, these were portents which confounded all the calculations of statesmen.

The Church was then to be attacked at once on every side and the attack was to be under the direction of him who, by her constitution, was her head.
She might well be struck with surprise and dismay.

And mingled with surprise and dismay came other bitter feelings; resentment against the perjured Prince whom she had served too well, and remorse for the cruelties in which he had been her accomplice, and for which he was now, as it seemed, about to be her punisher.

Her chastisement was just.

She reaped that which she had sown.