text:  Can we not abstract? If we are in discord upon political points are we not agreed upon the great interests of our common Protestantism? Why must we be in harmony further than as to the one vast cause which we jointly defend? Upon this logic Whigs and Tories meeting upon the same deck must not unite to "sink burn and destroy" the enemies of their common country; or two households Radical and Conservative in the same village must not work the same engine for the extinction of a fire which threatens every hearth