our Lower World, for want of the Harmony of Parties, and the
Unanimity of those concern'd in the Design?

How had the knot of Rebellion been dissolv'd in England, if it had
not been untied by the very Hands of those that knit it? All the
contrary Force had been entirely broken and subdu'd, and the
Restoration of Monarchy had never happen'd in England, if Union and
Agreement had been found among the managers of that Age.

The Enemies of the present Establishment have shown sufficiently that
they perfectly understand the shortest way to our infallible
Destruction, when they bend their principle Force at dividing us into
Parties, and keeping those parties at the utmost variance.

But this is not all, the Author of this cannot but observe here that
as England is unhappily divided among Parties, so it has this one
Felicity even to be found in the very matter of her Misfortunes, that
those Parties are all again subdivided among themselves.

How easily might the Church have crusht and subdu'd the Dissenters if
they had been all as mad as one Party, if they had not been some High
and some Low Church-men. And what Mischief might not that one Party
ha' done in this Nation, had not they been divided again into Jurant
Jacobites and Non-Jurant, into Consolidators and Non-Consolidators?
From whence 'tis plain to me, that just as it is in the Moon these
Consolidating Church-men are meer Confederates with the Whigs; and it
must be so, unless we should suppose them meer mad Men that don't
know what they are a doing, and who are the Drudges of their Enemies,
and kno' nothing of the Matter.