ought to comply with it. So that this is no justification of the government, but only of your own compliance. And you are as free to part with it tomorrow, if it keep not its ground, and comply again with whatever may rise up in its place. Therefore, the government is not beholding to any convert who shall come in otherwise than upon revolution principles."[1] In allusion to Momnouth he says, "if he had succeeded, he would have been as good a King for Mr. Higden, as any hereditary monarch in Europe."[2] At the close of the volume is a singular advertisement concerning the Jacobite converts. "In all revolutions there have ever been dissatisfied persons." Then, after stating, that changes afterwards take place, he adds: "of this sort we have had but two since the Revolution, Dr. Sherlock and now Mr. Higden. The first perplexed the cause, and shook the principles of the Revolution, nor has the latter come up to them. And both have given greater occasion against the establishment, than we heard from the Jacobites before. Mr. Hoadley has long pursued the Lord Bishop of Exeter, for assuring the world, (as he says) that her Majesty's title is only that of a successful usurpation. Which he would draw as a consequence from his Lordship's principle of non-resistance. But Mr. Higden, without the trouble of consequences, openly maintains the title of a successful usurpation, and gives her Majesty no other right or title whatever. This is all she gets by the Jacobite converts. They expose her to excuse themselves. The Jews compassed sea and land to make proselytes, but they had a maxim,
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