When in doubt, try nutrition first.

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues and tears the wolves, or a turtledove hunts the hawks and eagles, or a chaste and modest virgin fights and scratches like whores and harlots.

Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], England must once again bow down her fair neck to his proud usurping yoke and foot.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.