Nevertheless the offers of the Church were, to a prudent Dissenter, far more attractive than those of the King.

The Declaration was, in the eye of the law, a nullity.

It suspended the penal statutes against nonconformity only for so long a time as the fundamental principles of the constitution and the rightful authority of the legislature should remain suspended.

What was the value of privileges which must be held by a tenure at once so ignominious and so insecure?
There might soon be a demise of the crown.

A sovereign attached to the established religion might sit on the throne.