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“This plan of ecclesiastical government, or, more properly, of no ecclesiastical government, was what the sect called Independents proposed to establish in England towards the end of the civil war.” Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth · observation
“The proper performance of every service seems to require, that its pay or recompence should be, as exactly as possible, proportioned to the nature of the service.” Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth · insight
“The two emperors proclaim to the world, that they have granted a free and absolute power to the Christians, and to all others, of following the religion which each individual thinks proper to prefer.” Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · insight
“Toleration is a herb of spontaneous growth in the Soil of Indifference; but the weed has none of the virtues of the medicinal plant, reared by Humility in the Garden of Zeal.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inqui · observation
“But that were not a natural union arising from the want of it; not a knitting together, but a freezing together, as cold congregates all bodies, how heterogeneous soever, sticks, stones, and water; but heat makes first a separation of different things, and then unites those that are of the same nature.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inqui · vivid
After conquering Italy, Constantine issues the Edict of Milan with Licinius, restoring church property and granting broad religious toleration, framed as both humane policy and hope to appease Heaven.
as well as on the justice of their sovereign, who had imbibed a secret and sincere reverence for the name of Christ, and for the God of the Christians. 14 13 (return) [ Constantin. Orat. ad Sanctos, c. 25. But it might easily be shown, that the Greek translator has improved the sense of the Latin original; and the aged emperor might recollect the persecution of Diocletian with a more lively abhorrence than he had ac…
He claims that if politics had never favored one sect, people could choose their own priests, producing many small sects whose teachers moderate zeal through mutual competition, while civil order stays safer.
keep to himself, was seldom very forward to grant it. Necessity, however, always forced him to submit at last, though frequently not till after many delays, evasions, and affected excuses. But if politics had never called in the aid of religion, had the conquering party never adopted the tenets of one sect more than those of another, when it had gained the victory, it would probably have dealt equally and impartiall…
Smith argues that in mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic countries both religions should be legally established, and that wages for services should match service demands to avoid negligence or dissipated character.
accordingly, where, from the accidental union of a protestant and Roman catholic country, the conversion has not been so complete, both religions are not only tolerated, but established by law. The proper performance of every service seems to require, that its pay or recompence should be, as exactly as possible, proportioned to the nature of the service. If any service is very much underpaid, it is very apt to suffe…
At Montrose and on Saturday 21 August, Boswell and Johnson tour the town hall and English chapel, discuss toleration and “Turkey” as metaphor, then consider routes to Lawrence Kirk and Monboddo via Lord Monboddo.
said, printing an abridgement of a work was allowed, which was only cutting the horns and tail off the cow. JOHNSON. 'No, sir; 'tis making the cow have a calf.' About eleven at night we arrived at Montrose. We found but a sorry inn, where I myself saw another waiter put a lump of sugar with his fingers into Dr Johnson's lemonade, for which he called him 'Rascal!' It put me in great glee that our landlord was an Engl…
The editor explains how Leibniz framed Christian belief through layers of defense—reason, Scripture’s general sense, and cautious treatment of Church-specific positions—contrasting this with Locke and arguing for religious toleration.
frontal attack on revealed truth. They took their stand on a fundamental Christian theism, the common religion of all good men; they repudiated the negative enormities of Hobbes and Spinoza. The Christian was to hold a position covered by three lines of defences. The base line was to be the substance of Christian theism and of Christian morals, and it was to be held by the forces of sheer reason, without aid from sc…
The author criticizes superficial faith-toleration rooted in indifference, arguing that real charity and knowledge should produce firm, non-quarrelsome tolerance in religious and political disputes.
LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE. The boasted peaceableness about questions of Faith too often proceeds from a superficial temper, and not seldom from a supercilious disdain of whatever has no marketable use or value, and from indifference to religion itself. Toleration is a herb of spontaneous growth in the Soil of Indifference; but the weed has none of the virtues of the medicinal plant, reared by Humility in the Garden of …
Franklin recalls his Presbyterian upbringing, his core religious beliefs in God’s providence and moral accountability, and his disengagement from doctrinal preaching that he felt failed to promote civic morality.
was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterward, in a course of years, as our wealth increas'd, augmented gradually to several hundred pounds in value. I had been religiously educated as a Presbyterian; and though some of the dogmas of that persuasion, such as the *eternal decrees of God*, *election*, *reprobation*, *etc.*, appeared to me unintelligible, others doubtful, and I early absente…
Aulus asks why the conflict is so great; Barbatus proposes dining and jokingly uses physician practices and scriptural logic to argue that favoring hereticks can be religious.
*Au.* How comes it about then, that there is so great a War between you and the orthodox? *Ba.* Do you enquire into that: But hark you, Doctor, if you are not displeased with this Introduction, take a small Dinner with me; and after Dinner, you may enquire of every Thing at Leisure: I'll give you both Arms to feel my Pulse, and you shall see both Stool and Urine; and after that, if you please, you shall anatomize th…