...wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian: that many may be tolerated rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpated, provided first that all charitable...

...John Milton catches himself up short and says, of course I didn't mean Catholics, them we exterminate: I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition,...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate . . . that also which is impious or evil absolutely against faith or manners no law can possibly...

...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian: that many be tolerated rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...

...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian that many be tolerated, rather then all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery, and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...

...toleration.56 Even Milton, in advocating that 'many be tolerated, rather than all compelled', added that 'I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition,...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate'.57 52 John Milton, Arenpngilira [1644] (ed. KM Lea, London, 1973), p. 33. 53 Ibitl., pp....

...for freedom of the press, excludes Catholics from Milton's appeal for relaxation of prior censorship: "I mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate."16 Affording a turbulent context for...

...And Milton's Puritanism forced him to restrict liberty to (at most) only Protestants. He continued: "I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition,...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable and THE AMERICAN THEORY OF CHURCH AND STATE did attack...

...deserves to be quoted in full, since it will otherwise be difficult to believe he actually said it: I mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpated, provided first that all charitable...

...more wholesome, more prudent and more Christian, that many be tolerated rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery, and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...

...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian: that man be tolerated rather than all compelled. 1 mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...