A Parliament composed of Churchmen might be assembled.

How deplorable would then be the situation of Dissenters who had been in league with Jesuits against the constitution.

The Church offered an indulgence very different from that granted by James, an indulgence as valid and as sacred as the Great Charter.

Both the contending parties promised religious liberty to the separatist: but one party required him to purchase it by sacrificing civil liberty; the other party invited him to enjoy civil and religious liberty together.
For these reasons, even if it could be believed that the Court was sincere, a Dissenter might reasonably have determined to cast in his lot with the Church.

But what guarantee was there for the sincerity of the Court?
All men knew what the conduct of James had been tip to that very time.