But what especially displeased him was that the Acts which established a new ecclesiastical polity had not been accompanied by an Act granting liberty of conscience to those who were attached to the old ecclesiastical polity.

He had directed his Commissioner Melville to obtain for the Episcopalians of Scotland an indulgence similar to that which Dissenters enjoyed in England.

[203] But the Presbyterian preachers were loud and vehement against lenity to Amalekites.

Melville, with useful talents, and perhaps with fair intentions, had neither large views nor an intrepid spirit.

He shrank from uttering a word so hateful to the theological demagogues of his country as Toleration.