text: " Dr Arnold--rightly we hope--assumes that in lectures addressed to Englishmen and Protestants it is unnecessary to vindicate the principles of the Revolution; it would indeed be an affront to any class of educated Protestant freemen to argue that our present constitution was better than a feudal monarchy or the religion of Tillotson superior to that of Laud--in his own words "whether the doctrine and discipline of our Protestant Church of England be not better and truer than that of Rome