"The only well ordered Vine-yard": when Latitudinarians and Laudians agree

From Simon Patrick's 1662 pamphlet A brief account of the new sect of latitude-men - a defence of those termed by opponents 'Latitudinarians' - another example of how the Church of England was viewed as a via media between Rome and those churches whose experience of Reformation lacked wise moderation and prudence.  As stated in an earlier post, and contrary to MacCulloch's assertion, this understanding of the reformed ecclesia Anglicana was no Laudian innovation but, rather, characteristic of standard Conformist apologetics.  And here Patrick, as a representative of the "Latitude-men", praises this understanding of the Church of England in terms indistinguishable from the Laudians and their successors:

The Church of Rome is a luxuriant vine, full of superfluous branches, and overrun with wild grapes, from whence many a poysonous and intoxicating potion is pressed forth; But the greatest part of Reformers have done like the rude Thracian in the Apologue, who instead of moderate pruning and dressing his vines, as his more Skillfull Athenian Neighbours did, cut them up by the Roots; but the Church of England is the only well ordered Vine-yard.

From Hooker to Donne, from Herbert to Taylor, from Laud to Patrick, this vision of the ecclesia Anglicana and its Reformation was commonplace and mainstream, standing against those agitating for a 'further Reformation' aimed at profoundly altering the character of the English Church.