High Churchmen took the opportunity of presenting to the Throne the most obsequious and abject addresses. Our princes, said they, derive not their title from the people, but from God; to Him alone they are accountable: and it belongs not to subjects either to create or to censure, but only to honour and obey their Sovereign. They besought His Majesty to accept the tender of their hearts and hands, their lives and fortunes. These dearest sacrifices they abjectly laid down at Royal feet.[54] It was about the same time that Morley, Bishop of Winchester, declared:--“If ever it might be said of any--it may now most emphatically be said of us: Happy are the people that are in such a case.” We have “a Government pretending to no power at all above the King, nor to no power under the King neither, but from him, and by him, and for him--a Government enjoining active obedience to all lawful commands of lawful authority; and passive obedience when we cannot obey actively, forbidding and condemning all taking up of arms, offensive or defensive, by subjects of any quality.”[55] The King’s Declaration was compared by a writer of later date, reflecting upon it, to the olive branch brought by the dove into the ark,--an indication of peace, of the abatement of popular excitement, and of the stability of laws and religion, like the dove which had found _ubi pedem figeret_. Warming with his subject, he calls the Declaration “that great vision of the _Lex terræ_” long wrapped in mists, but now revealed; and likens the addresses called forth to the seamen’s shout on approaching land, after a stormy voyage.[56] Some of the Tory party went mad with joy at the triumph of despotism. [Sidenote: LOYAL ADDRESSES.]