e to themselves the name of _High Church_ (but may more
properly be said to be Jesuits or Papists in masquerade), do take
liberty to teach, preach, and print, publickly and privately, sedition,
contentions, and divisions among the Protestants of this
kingdom."--_Motives to Union_, p. 1.

"These men glory in their being members of the _High Church_ (Popish
appellation, and therefore they are the more fond of that); but these
pretended sons are become her persecutors, and they exercise their
spite and lies both on the living and the dead."--_The Snake in the
Grass brought to Light_, p. 8.

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"Our common people of the _High Church_ are as ignorant in matters of
religion as the bigotted Papists, which gives great advantage to our
Jacobite and Tory priests to lead them where they please, or to mould
them into what shapes they please."--_Reasons for an Union_, p. 39.

"The minds of the populace are too much debauched already from their
loyalty by seditious arts of the _High Church faction_."--_Convocation
Craft_, p. 34.

"We may see how closely our present _Highflyers_ pursue the steps of
their Popish predecessors, in reckoning those who dispute the usurped
power of the Church to be hereticks, schismaticks, or what else they
please."--_Ib._ p. 30.

"All the blood that has been spilt in the late unnatural rebellion, may
be very justly laid at the doors of the _High Church
clergy_."--_Christianity no Creature of the State_, p. 16.

"We see what the _Tory Priesthood_ were made of in Queen Elizabeth's
time, that they were ignorant, lewd, and seditious: and it must be said
of 'em that they are true to the stuff still."--_Toryism the Worst of
the Two_, p. 21.

"_The Tories_ and _High Church_, notwithstanding their pretences to
loyalty, will be found by their actions to be the greatest rebels in
nature."--_Reasons for an Union_, p. 20.

Sir W. Scott, in his _Life of Dryden_, Lond. 1808, observes that--

"Towards the end of Charles the Second's reign, the _High-Church-men_
and the Catholics regarded themselves as on the same side in political
questions, and not greatly divided in their temporal interests. Both
were sufferers in the plot, both were enemies of the sectaries, both
were adherents of the Stuarts. Alternate conversion had been common
between them, so early as si