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THE following extract from Locke's letter on toleration, together with Mr. Wesley's reply, has been fent to the author, with a request to answer it, if in his power, fays the writer of the letter. Mr. Locke in a profound manner opens the gate of toleration to all mortals, who do not entertain any principles injurious to the rights of civil fociety but my correfpondent is furprised that fuch an impartial writer fhould make an oblique charge on the Roman Catholics, if it were were not grounded on truth.

“WE cannot find any sect that teaches ex"prefsly and openly, that men are not obliged "to keep their promise; that princes may be "dethroned by thofe that differ from them in "religion,

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religion, or that the dominion of all things belongs only to themselves. But never"theless we find those, that say the same thing "in other words. What elfe do they mean "who teach, that faith is not to be kept with "heretics? What can be the meaning of their "afferting that kings, excommunicated, forfeit "their crowns and kingdoms?That domi"nion is founded in grace, is an affertion by "which thofe that maintain it, do plainly lay a "claim to the poffeffion of all things.I fay, "these have no right to be tolerated by the "magiftrate."

Again: "That church can have no right to "be tolerated by the magiftrate, which is con"ftituted upon fuch a bottom, that all those "who enter into it, do thereby, ipfo facto, de"liver themselves up to the protection and "fervice of another prince: for by this means "the magiftrate would give way to the fetting 66 up of a foreign jurisdiction in his own country, and fuffer his own people to be enlisted,

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as it were, for foldiers against his own go"vernment. Nor does the frivolous and falla"cious distinction, between the court and the

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church, afford any remedy to this inconve"nience; especially, when both the one and "the other, are equally fubject to the absolute "authority of the fame perfon; who has not "only

"only power to perfuade the members of his "Church to whatever he lifts, either as purely

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religious, or as in order thereunto, but also "can enjoin it them, on pain of eternal fire.

"It is ridiculous for any one to profess himfelf to be a Mahometan only in his religion, "but in every thing else a faithful fubject to a "Chriftian magiftrate, whilst at the same time, "he acknowledges himself bound to yield "blind obedience to the Mufti of Conftanti

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nople; who himself is entirely obedient to "the Ottoman emperor, and frames the feign"ed oracles of that religion according to his it pleasure. But this Mahometan, living a"mongst Christians, would yet more appa"rently renounce their government, if he ac"knowledged the fame perfon, to be head of his church, who is the fupreme magistrate in * the ftate."

Locke on toleration, p. 59.

MR. O'LEARY's

MR. O'LEARY's ANSWER.

MR. Locke's fuppofed principles are fully anfwered in "Loyalty afferted." With every refpect due to fo great a man, he was as ignorant of the Catholics' creed, as any of the London rioters." That the dominion of all things "belongs to the faints," was the doctrine of Wickliff, Hufs, and the English regicides in the time of Charles the firft: a doctrine condemned by the council of Conftance, in thirtieth propofition extracted from Hufs's writings.

Mr. Locke, in fhutting the gates of toleration against the profeffors of fuch a doctrine, fully juftifies the emperor Sigifmund in putting Hufs to death as that unhappy man not only preached, but practifed it. In matters more within the verge of his knowledge, I widely differ from Mr. Locke. When he denies any innate ideas, or the least notion of a God implanted in our fouls, independent of the senses, I prefer the Cartefian philofophers, meffieurs de Portroyal, the bishop of Rochester, and several others who were of a different opinion. But, when he fuppofes that "the fame person who "is head of the church, is the fupreme magif"trate in the state; that the pope can frame

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