Excerpt from The Principles of the Westminster Standards PersecutingAccording to others, persecution is doing the very thing which Elizabeth did, and boasted of as showing the lenity and gentleness of her policy. It is forcing people to profess and practise a religion of which their consciences disapprove. This was Professor Dunlop's idea Of persecution; and agree ably with it he says, in his Preface to Collection of Confessions: It is a truth as Clear as the sun that there is no such thing as persecution in our Church, - that persons enjoy as undis turbed a freedom of thought in our country as anywhere else, and upon a change Of their sentiments, never need such an alteration in the Climate as should force them to live else where. Nor can any one instance be given where ever any man was fined, or imprisoned, or exposed to any hardship, because of his departing from our Confession. At the time when this blessed state of things obtained in Scotland, the public worship of the Episcopalians was interdicted by law.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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