emoluments, thofe who will externally profefs and conform to it; that though indeed thefe are criminal who do not withftand fuch temptation, yet neither are thofe innocent who lay the bait in their way; that to fuffer the civil magif- trate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to reftrain the profeffion or propagation of principles, on the fuppofition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once deftroys all religious liberty, becaufe he being of courfc judge of that tendency, will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the fentiments of others only as they fhall fquare with or differ from his own;
that it is time enough for the rightful pur- pofes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt ads againfl: peace and good order;
and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herfelf, that the is the pro- per and fufficient antagonift to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflifl:, unlefs by human interpofition difarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceafing to be dangerous when it