“Men are naturally subject to sloth, and may not this principle [of coercion in conscience] suggest such a temptation as this? Why need we take care or pains to search into truths, to be able to convince gainsayers, to carry things with strength of Scripture and reason, seeing we have power to compel men to yield to us? And men who can do least by reason and Scripture are many times strongest in their violence in this way; this strength must come in to make up their weakness” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 90).
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