st be made
to agree with the Church, and the government thereof with her
government; for, as the house is before the hangings,
therefore the hangings, which come after, must be framed to
the house, which was before; so the Church being before there
was a commonwealth, and the commonwealth coming after, must be
fashioned and made suitable to the Church; otherwise, God is
made to give place to men, heaven to earth."--CARTWRIGHT'S
_Defence of the Admonition_, p. 181.

Warburton's "Alliance between Church and State," which was in
his time considered as a hardy paradox, is mawkish in its
pretensions, compared with this sacerdotal republic. It is not
wonderful that the wisest of our Sovereigns, that great
politician Elizabeth, should have punished with death
these democrats: but it is wonderful to discover that these
inveterate enemies to the Church of Rome were only trying to
transfer its absolute power into their own hands! They wanted
to turn the Church into a democracy. They fascinated the
people by telling them that there would be no beggars were
there no bishops; that every man would be a governor by
setting up a Presbytery. From the Church, I repeat, it is
scarcely a single step to the Cabinet. Yet the early
Puritans come down to us as persecuted saints. Doubtless,
there were a few honest saints among them; but they were as
mad politicians as their race afterwards proved to be, to
whom they left so many fatal legacies. Cartwright uses the
very language a certain cast of political reformers have
recently done. He declares "An establishment may be made
without the magistrate;" and told the people that "if every
hair of their head was a life, it ought to be offered for
such a cause." Another of this faction is for "registering
the names of the fittest and hottest brethren without
lingering for Parliament;" and another exults that "there are
a hundred thousand hands ready." Another, that "we may
overthrow the bishops and all the government in one day." Such
was the style, and such the confidence in the plans which the
lowest orders of revolutionists promulgated during their
transient exhibition in this country. More in this strain