It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

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

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

This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be interpreted to mean that the power of the civil magistrate may be exercised in spiritual or soul matters.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

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.