If they would but be true at this crisis to the cause of the English constitution and of the reformed religion, their generosity should be speedily and largely rewarded.

They should have, instead of an indulgence which was of no legal validity, a real indulgence, secured by Act of Parliament.

Nay, many Churchmen, who had hitherto been distinguished by their inflexible attachment to every gesture and every word prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, now declared themselves favourable, not only to toleration, but even to comprehension.

The dispute, they said, about surplices and attitudes, had too long divided those who were agreed as to the essentials of religion.

When the struggle for life and death against the common enemy was over, it would be found that the Anglican clergy would be ready to make every fair concession.