The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…

And the Bishops as fitting on adverse thrones, and feeding adverse opposite flocks, drawn by them into factions, like the clefts that Earthquakes make, and the pestilent diseases that infect all about, and distracting and dividing all the world, separating the East from the West, by the noise, of meus et tuus, antiquus et novus; nobilior aut ignobilior; multitudine opulentior aut tenuior; raging like furious horses in battle, and like madmen casting dust into the air, and under their heads fulfilling their own contentions and becoming the determiners of wicked ambition and magnificence, and unrighteousness and absurd Judges of matters: The same men (saith he) are to day of the same throne (or side) and judgement, as we are, if so our leaders and chief men carry them: To morrow if the wind do but turn, they are for the contrary seat, and judgement. Names (or votes) follow hatred or friendship: And which is most grievous, we blush not to say contrary things to the very same hearers; nor are we constant to our selves, being changed up and down by contention; you would say we are tossed like the waving Euripus: Therefore he professeth it unseemly for him to join with them, as he would not leave his studies and peace, ⟨p. 269⟩to go play with the Lads in the streets, pag. 524. The like he hath in his Poems de vita sua, pag. 24, 25, 26, 27. [Greek or Hebrew], &c.

And the Bishops as fitting on adverse thrones, and feeding adverse opposite flocks, drawn by them into factions, like the clefts that Earthquakes make, and the pestilent diseases that infect all about, and distracting and dividing all the world, separating the East from the West, by the noise, of meus et tuus, antiquus et novus; nobilior aut ignobilior; multitudine opulentior aut tenuior; raging like furious horses in battel, and like madmen casting dust into the air, and under their heads fulfilling their own contentions and becoming the determiners of wicked ambition and magnificence, and unrighteousness and absurd Judges of matters: The same men (saith he) are to day of the same throne (or side) and judgement, as we are, if so our leaders and chief men carry them: To morrow if the wind do but turn, they are for the contrary seat, and judgement. Names (or votes) follow hatred or friendship: And which is most grievous, we blush not to say contrary things to the very same hearers; nor are we constant to our selves, being changed up and down by contention; you would say we are tossed like the waving Euripus: Therefore he professeth it unseemly for him to joyn with them, as he would not leave his studies and peace,