...construed according to their hopes and fears : " We do also resolve to protect and 1 See ante, p. 187. preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law, without violation1." The events of the next twelve months were fully to elucidate the import of these words'....

...united the Presbyterians. The words of the king's letter to which they had blindly trusted, " We do resolve to protect and " preserve the government of the Church of Scotland as "established by law," had now a very different meaning. From the Presbyteries and Synods which met...