The opposite party, adopting moderation jointly with union as their password, and glorifying it as 'the cement of the world, 'the ornament of human kind, 'the chiefest Christian grace, 'the peculiar characteristic of this Church, would pass on almost in the same breath to pile upon their opponents indiscriminate charges of persecution, priestcraft, superstition, and to inveigh against them as 'a narrow Laudean faction, 'a jealous-headed, unneighbourly, selfish sect of Ishmaelites. Evidently, so long as the spirit of party was thus rampant, any measure of Church comprehension was entirely out of question.