The conduct of Cartwright and Parker had been much more inexcusable than that of Alsop and Lobb.

Yet those who held the dissenters answerable for the errors of Alsop and Lobb would doubtless think it most unreasonable to hold the Church answerable for the far deeper guilt of Cartwright and Parker.
The Low Church clergymen were a minority, and not a large minority, of their profession: but their weight was much more than proportioned to their numbers: for they mustered strong in the capital: they had great influence there; and the average of intellect and knowledge was higher among them than among their order generally.

We should probably overrate their numerical strength, if we were to estimate them at a tenth part of the priesthood.

Yet it will scarcely be denied that there were among them as many men of distinguished eloquence and learning as could be found in the other nine tenths.

Among the laity who conformed to the established religion the parties were not unevenly balanced.