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with a sovereign power in all the schemes which that power cannot fail to meditate, as well for its own advancement as for the subversion of the object of its most intense antipathy. That power well understands its own pretensions: it knows that, of Britons, as far as Papal, the souls are its own; and it can afford the carcass, or a part of it, to the temporal sovereign. This necessarily divided allegiance, and so unequally divided, was for a long time denied and ridiculed by the hired and deceived. Nicholas French, in his leeding Iphigenia, before referred to, has expressed this doctrine of his Church in a very happy way, with a mixture, somewhat Hibernian, of simplicity and cunning, "It is true the Luminare Majus, (the Pope,) Catholicks venerate more, then Luminare Minus, (the King), because Luminare Majus hath the greater light and influence; yet they doe not therfore omitt to pay due veneration to the King." Observe the word due. You may pay a person due respect by treating him with indignity. In fact, the word due will shelter any thing, and is sometimes made to insinuate and introduce more than the truth. French was a resolute promoter and apologist of rebellion. And here we may observe, that the whole secret
