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

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy.

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

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.