Enemies, and the very Engines and Plots laid to injure them, serv'd
to bring their Enemies on the Stage, and expose both them and their
Cause.

But this was not all, by these incessant Attacks on them as a Party,
they began to come to their Senses out of a 50 Year slumber, they
found the Law on their side, and the Government Moderate and Just;
they found they might oppose Violence with Law, and that when they
did fly to the Refuge of Justice, they always had the better of their
Enemy; flusht with this Success, it put them upon considering what
Fools they had been all along to bear the Insolence of a few
hot-headed Men, who contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the
Queen, or of the Government, had resolv'd their Destruction.

It put them upon revolving the State of their own Case, and comparing
it with their Enemies; upon Examining on what foot they stood, and
tho' Establish'd upon a firm Law, yet a violent Party pushing at the
overthrow of that Establishment, and dissolving the legal Right they
had to their Liberty and Religion; it put them upon duly weighing the
nearness of their approaching Ruin and Destruction, and finding
things run so hard against them, reflecting upon the Extremity of
their Affairs, and how if they had not drawn in the High
Church-Champions to damn the Projects of their own Party, by running
at such desperate Extremes as all Men of any Temper must of course
abhor, they had been undone; truly now they began to consider, and to
consult with one another what was to be done.

Abundance of Projects were laid before them, some too Dangerous, some
too Foolish to be put in practice; at last they resolv'd to consult
with my Philosopher.