...that God would preserve and deliver him from the foreign invasion wilh which he was threatened, " and give him the hearts of his subjects, and the necks of his enemies." On the 3rd December, Dr. Rose, bishop of Edinburgh, was sent up by the other bishops with a loyal address...

...same God who had already so often preserved and delivered his majesty would do so again now, by giving him the hearts of his subjects and the necks of his enemies. But in these sentiments the poor bishops stood almost alone in the midst of the people over whom they...

...and serene parents; and that God in Ins mercy might slill preserve and deliver his majesty, by giving him the hearts of his subjects, and the necks of his enemies." A little of the energy and promptitude that hud distinguished the early days of James, duke of York,...

...and serene parents; and that God in his mercy might still preserve and deliver his majesty, by giving him the hearts of his subjects, and the necks of his enemies." A little of the energy and promptitude that had distinguished the early days of James duke of York,...

...government, avowing their stedfast allegiance to him, " as an essential part of their religion," and wishing him " the hearts of his subjects and the necks of his enemies." Anything more servile, and at the same time despotic and persecuting in its spirit, it is impossible...

...the King, their opinion that he might take away the penal laws without the consent of Parliament. t No manifestation of sympathy appears to have been...him the hearts of his subjects and the necks of his enemies.:'t In the awful struggle in which the English nation and Church were about to engage, they...

...the J£ing, their opinion that he might take away the penal laws without the consent of Parliament. t No manifestation of sympathy appears to have been...presented an address to him, in which they prayed that t( God might give him the hearts of his subjects and the necks of his enemies. "J In the awful struggle...

...and the bishops, with two exceptions, professed unshaken loyalty, putting up prayers that God would give him " the hearts of his subjects and the necks of his enemies !" As in England James had vainly attempted to delude the Nonconformists by his offers of a general...

...the king, their opinion that he might take away the penal laws without the consent of Parliament || No manifestation of sympathy appears to have been made towards the English bishops, at the moment * Fountainhall, 2nd June. t Balearnos, Affairs of Scotland (London, 1714), p. 8. J Skinner, F.cclesiaзtical...

...sent him an address, in which they not only professed their own allegiance, but prayed that Heaven might give him the hearts of his subjects, and the necks of his enemies ! The country was internally divided. The presbyterian and the episcopalian stood apart. The covenanter...