ABSTRACT
The Arguments for Tolleration or Persecution, as they are occasionally wanted, are the same in the one, as they are in the other, in the Behaviour likewise between National Churches, and those who dissent from them, Countries differ but little. Every body knows how heartily the French Protestants cry'd out for Tolleration in their last Persecution; they would have been satisfy'd with a bare Connivance, a Sufferance under Penalties, or any Thing in the World to save their Lives and Estates, without renouncing their Religion. During the Persecution the Anabaptists labour’d under beyond Sea, above an Hundred and fifty Years ago, a moderate Calvinis enquiring into the Reason how these deluded People could gain so many Proselites, named three Things, which he assigned as the chief Cause of their perverting and seducing such great Numbers.
