[ 279 ] with making force Changes, when; as it appears by their whole Conduct, Peti- tions, Admonitions, &c. theycould only be pleafed with changing the whole. Befides, the Nonconformáfls feem to have had fo ftrong a Propenfity to Di- vifzon, that they fplit into Parties among themfekes ; tho' it was fo much their Intereft, and fo natural for them, as a Minority, to have kept united. The Brownifs or Independents were fierce Adverfaries to thePresbyterians ; they treated each other with almofl as fevere Language as either of them had ufed to the Church. Such a Ißív5ifion made it Rill more impracticable to give them real Satisfaction, by any Changes in the Eflablithment. But, even before this grand .`Divifion, they were far from be- ingagreed among themfelves; andafter- wards, when they were thus divided, eachParty had its Subdivifion. TheLord Treafurer Burleigh is above the Imputa- tion of mifreprefenting their Conduct, and is by Mr. M. number'd among theirN'sniaory. Friends: Let us then hear his Lordthip. P. " It cannot (fays this great Man) Burteighs pe `` be unknown to all that have any sSrryepe °chS . Parker Tafte of Rule, no, not to any that .4 S. hath but a Family to rule, or a Ship S73. CC to govern, but that if the Party that hath Charge to command, and they T 4 `6 whore
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