Some imagined that they recognised the sentiments and diction of Temple.

[245] But in truth that amplitude and acuteness of intellect, that vivacity of fancy, that terse and energetic style, that placid dignity, half courtly half philosophical, which the utmost excitement of conflict could not for a moment derange, belonged to Halifax, and to Halifax alone.
The Dissenters wavered; nor is it any reproach to them that they did so.
They were suffering, and the King had given them relief.

Some eminent pastors had emerged from confinement; others had ventured to return from exile.

Congregations, which had hitherto met only by stealth and in darkness, now assembled at noonday, and sang psalms aloud in the hearing of magistrates, churchwardens, and constables.

Modest buildings for the worship of God after the Puritan fashion began to rise all over England.
An observant traveller will still remark the date of 1687 on some of the oldest meeting houses.