Upon The Same. (Upon Parties) Poem by Nicholas Amhurst

Tories and Whigs, with mutual selfish Pride,
In all their Quarrels for themselves decide,
Both Parties their own Principles prefer,
And in their own Opinion cannot err;
Yet both condemn, and for the same Pretence,
The Church of Rome, and talk of common Sense.
Does then to us, this Privilege belong?
And must the Pope alone be in the Wrong?
Or shall we rather say, that void of Light,
Heav'n leaves us all uncertain of the Right?