This is to Intimate the Force of Union, and the Danger of Division. What
has it been but Division that has Expos’d Christendom to the Enemies of
the Christian Faith? And it is as Ruinous in Private as ’tis in Publique.
A Divided Family can no more Stand, then a Divided Common-Wealth; for
every Individual Suffers in the Neglect of a Common Safety. ’Tis a
Strange Thing that Men should not do That under the Government of a
Rational Spirit and a Natural Prudence, which Wolves and Boares do by the
Impulse of an Animal Instinct. For they, we see, will make Head, _One
and All_ against a Common Enemy; whereas the Generality of Mankind lye
Pecking at One Another, till One by One, they are all Torn to Pieces,
Never considering (with the _Father_ here) the Necessity and Strength of
Union.