"These enemies of our religious and civil establishment have represented you as instillers of _slavish doctrines and principles_ ... if to give to God and Caesar his due be such tow'ring, and _High Church_ principles, I am sure St. Peter and St. Paul will scarce escape being censured for _Tories_ and _Highflyers_."--_The Entertainer_, Lond. 1717. "If those who have kept their first love, and whose robes have not been defiled, endeavour to stop these innovations and corruptions that their enemies would introduce, they are blackened for _High Church Papists_, favourers of I know not who, and fall under the public resentment."--_Ib._ p. 301. I shall now give a few extracts from _Low Church_ writers (quoted in _The Scourge_), who thus designate their opponents: "A pack or party of scandalous, wicked, and profane men, who appropriate 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. {119} "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--