LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP BANCROFT. 79 



to worldly advancement and emoluments must 

 be closed. Still, standing firm on those high 

 principles which education and reflection had 

 deeply fixed in his mind, he determined to 

 spurn at all policy which was not grounded on 

 sound conscientious feeling ; and, by suffering 

 at last expulsion from his fellowship, he seemed 

 to deprive himself, for conscience sake, of all 

 on which the comforts of his future life de- 

 pended. 



In the later periods of his life, his firm cou- 

 rage in pursuing the path of conscientious duty 

 was put to the test in a different manner, and 

 came out approved from the trial. Although 

 he was a steady and unshaken friend to the 

 monarchical form of government, as he had 

 fully shown by the sacrifices he had made in 

 support of it, he was by no means prepared to 

 support the encroachments of arbitrary power 

 on the liberties of the people; and, least of all, 

 when those encroachments were intended to 

 pave the way for the introduction of religious 

 doctrines which he censcientiously disapproved. 

 From the feeling of respect which he bore to 

 James as his sovereign, he was manifestly un- 

 willing to appear as the open opposer of his 

 measures ; and, therefore, abstained from such 

 opposition as long as he felt that his duty per- 

 mitted him so to do. But, when he once de- 



