impose.

But if it is not of vital necessity that a Church Legislature
should sit at the present time--if it is not of vital necessity
that all causes termed ecclesiastical should be treated under
special safeguards--if it is not of vital necessity that the
function of judgment should be taken out of the hands of the
existing court--let the Church frankly and at once subscribe to
every one of these great concessions, and reduce her demands to a
_minimum_ at the outset.

Laws ecclesiastical by ecclesiastical judges, let this be her
principle; it plants her on the ground of ancient times, of the
Reformation, of our continuous history, of reason and of right.
The utmost moderation, in the application of the principle, let
this he her temper, and then her case will be strong in the face
of God and man, and, come what may, she will conquer.... If, my
Lord, it be felt by the rulers of the Church, that a scheme like
this will meet sufficiently the necessities of her case, it must
be no small additional comfort to them to feel that their demand
is every way within the spirit of the Constitution, and short of
the terms which the great compact of the Reformation would
authorise you to seek. You, and not those who are against you,
will take your stand with Coke and Blackstone; you, and not they,
will wield the weapons of constitutional principle and law; you,
and not they, will be entitled to claim the honour of securing the
peace of the State no less than the faith of the Church; you, and
not they, will justly point the admonitory finger to those
remarkable words of the Institutes:--