Richard Baxter wrote regarding the failure of the goal of the Westminster Assembly in settling of a unified church in England:
O! What may not pride do? and what miscarriages will not false principles and faction hide? One would think that if their opinions had been certainly true (the Independents at the Westminster Assembly), and their church order good, yet the interest of Christ and the souls of men and of greater truths, should have been so regarded by the dividers in England as that the safety of all these should have been preferred, and not all ruined rather than their way should want {lack} its carnal arm and liberty; and that they should not tear the garment of Christ all to pieces, rather than it should want their lace.”
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ: or, Mr. Richard Baxter's narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times (1696), 103.