Albans, incorporated them with equal right into the commonwealth.
And if the royalists be "flesh of your flesh," and nearer of
blood than were the Albans to the Romans, you being also both
Christians, the argument is the stronger. Nevertheless there is
no reason that a commonwealth should any more favor a party
remaining in fixed opposition against it, than Brutus did his own
sons. But if it fixes them upon that opposition, it is its own
fault, not theirs; and this is done by excluding them. Men that
have equal possessions and the same security for their estates
and their liberties that you have, have the same cause with you
to defend both; but if you will liberty, though for monarchy; and
be trampling, they fight for you for tyranny, though under the
name of a commonwealth: the nature of orders in a government
rightly instituted being void of all jealousy, because, let the
parties which it embraces be what they will, its orders are such
as they neither would resist if they could, nor could if they
would, as has been partly already shown, and will appear more at
large by the following model.

The parties that are spiritual are of more kinds than I need
mention; some for a national religion, and others for liberty of
conscience, with such animosity on both sides, as if these two
could not consist together, and of which I have already
sufficiently spoken, to show that indeed the one cannot well
subsist without the other But they of all the rest are the most
dangerous, who, holding that the saints must govern, go about to
reduce the commonwealth to a party, as well for the reasons
already shown, as that their pretences are against Scripture,
where the saints are commanded to submit to the higher powers,
and to be subject to the ordinance of man. And that men,