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37Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. 1810, i, 181. Cp. i, 292; ii, 44. ↑

38 Cp. Overton’s pamphlet, An Arrow against all Tyrants and Tyranny (1646), cited in the History of Passive Obedience since the Reformation, 1689, i, 59; pt. ii of Thomas Edwards’s Gangræna: or a Catalogue and Discovery of many of the Errours, Heresies, Blasphemies, and pernicious Practices of the Sectaries of this time, etc., 2nd ed. 1646, pp. 33–34 (Nos. 151–53). ↑

39Lords Journals, January 16, 1645–1646; Gangræna, as cited, p. 150; cp. Gardiner, Hist. of the Civil War, ed. 1893, iii, 11. ↑

40 Green, Short Hist. ch. viii, § 8, pp. 551–52; Gardiner, Hist. of the Civil War, iv, 22. ↑

41Gangræna, p. 18. ↑

42 In 1644 he had been imprisoned at Bury St. Edmunds for “dipping” adults, and after six months’ durance had been released on a recantation and promise of amendment. Gangræna, as cited, pp. 104–105. ↑

43 Rev. James Cranford, Hæreseo-Machia, a Sermon, 1646, p. 10. ↑

44 No. 100 in Gangræna. ↑

45 Cranford, as cited, p. 11 sq. ↑

46 See G. P. Gooch’s Hist. of Democ. Ideas in England in the 17th Century, 1898, ch. vi. ↑

47 Above, pp. 4 and 8. ↑

48 In the British Museum copy the name Richardson is penned, not in a contemporary hand, at the end of the preface; and in the preface to vol. ii of the Phenix, 1708, in which the treatise is reprinted, the same name is given, but with uncertainty. The Richardson pointed at was the author of The Necessity of Toleration in Matters of Religion (1647). E. B. Underhill, in his collection of that and other Tracts on Liberty of Conscience for the Hanserd Knollys Society, 1846, remains doubtful (p. 247) as to the authorship of the tract on hell. ↑

49 The fourth English edition appeared in 1754. ↑

50Gangræna, ep. ded. (p. 5). Cp. pp. 47, 151, 178–79; and Bailie’s Letters, ed. 1841, ii, 234–37; iii, 393. The most sweeping plea for toleration seems to have been the book entitled Toleration Justified, 1646. (Gangræna, p. 151.) The Hanserd Knollys collection, above mentioned, does not contain one of that title. ↑

51Gangræna, pp. 152–53. ↑

52 Pp. 18–36. ↑

53Id. p. 15. As to other sects mentioned by him cp. Tayler, p. 194. ↑

54 On the intense aversion of most of the Presbyterians to toleration see Tayler, Retrospect of Relig. Life of Eng. p. 136. They insisted, rightly enough, that the principle was never recognized in the Bible. ↑

55 See the citations in Buckle, 3-vol. ed. i, 347; 1-vol. ed. p. 196. ↑

56 Alex. Ross, Pansebeia, 4th ed. 1672, p. 379. ↑

57 Cp. the present writer’s Buckle and his Critics, 1895, ch. viii, § 2. ↑

58 See above, vol. i, p. 5. ↑

59Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, 3rd ed. i, 200. ↑

60Heresiography: The Heretics and Sectaries of these Times, 1614. Epist. Ded. ↑

61Discourse, ed. 1857, p. 226. ↑

62 Dr. J. Brown’s pref. to ed. of 1857, p. xxii. ↑

63 More, Collection of Philosophical Writings, 4th ed. 1692, p. 95. ↑

64 Fabricius, Delectus Argumentorum et Syllabus Scriptorum, 1725, p. 341. ↑

65 No copy in British Museum. ↑

66 Urwick, Life of John Howe, with 1846 ed. of Howe’s Select Works, pp. xiii, xix. Urwick, a learned evangelical, fully admits the presence of “infidels” on both sides in the politics of the time. ↑

67Discourse Concerning Union Among Protestants, ed. cited, pp. 146, 156, 158. In the preface to his treatise, The Redeemer’s Tears Wept over Lost Souls, Howe complains of “the atheism of some, the avowed mere theism of others,” and of a fashionable habit of ridiculing religion. This sermon, however, appears to have been first published in 1684; and the date of its application is uncertain. ↑

68 Wallace, Antitrinitarian Biography, Art. 285. ↑

69 The preface begins: “It is neither to satisfie the importunity of friends, nor to prevent false copies (which and such like excuses I know are expected in usual prefaces), that I have adventured abroad this following treatise: but it is out of a just resentment of the affronts and indignities which have been cast on religion, by such who account it a matter of judgment to disbelieve the Scriptures, and a piece of wit to dispute themselves out of the possibility of being happy in another world.” ↑

70 See bk. ii, ch. x. Page 338, 3rd ed. 1666. ↑

71 Cp. Glanvill, pref. Address to his Scepsis Scientifica, Owen’s ed. 1885, pp. lv–lvii; and Henry More’s Divine Dialogues, Dial. i, ch. xxxii. ↑

72 Cp. Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, i. 109. ↑

73The Reformed Pastor, abr. ed. 1826, pp. 236, 239. ↑

74 Work cited, ed. 1667, p. 136. The proposition is reiterated. ↑

75Id. p. 388. ↑

76Reasons of the Christian Religion, pp. 388–89. ↑