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;394 FAITH NOT TO BE KEPT WITH HERETICS.state, itcan only be by one man getting the start of theothers, and making his will a law to the rest ;for men musthave some standard of faith,—some ground of mutual actionand if they do not find it in the eternal equity of things, theymay find it in the necessity of a universal and infallibledespotism. This Rome attempted to establish, and in noother way could the ultimate disorganization of the worldhave been averted.But this does not hinder our perceivingthe heinous sin and the ruinous tendency of her maxim ;and it by no means surprises us, that some of the great mastersof ethical and moral science should have held that acommunity that contravenes the first and most essential conditionsof society should be denied the first and most essentialof social rights. " If there were in that age," saysMacaulay, " two persons inclined by their judgment and bytheir temper to toleration, these persons were Tillotson andLocke. Yet Tillotson, whose indulgence for various kindsof schismaticsand heretics brought on him the reproach ofheterodoxy, told the House of Commons from the pulpit,that it was their duty to make effectual provision againstthe propagation of a religionmore mischievous than irreligionitself,—of a religion which demanded from its followersservicesdirectly opposed to the first principles of morality.In his judgment, pagans who had never heard the name ofChrist, and who were guided only by the light of nature,were more trustworthy members of civil society than menwho had been formed in the schools of the popish casuists.Locke, in his celebrated treatise, in which he had labouredto show that even the grossest form of idolatry ought not tobe prohibited under penal sanctions, contended that theChurch which taught men not to keep faith with hereticshad no claim to toleration.** Macaulay's History of England, vol. ii. pj). 8, 9 ; Loud. 1850.