The other thing that hath just claim to an
unlimited toleration is the place, time, and manner of worshipping my God. Because this is wholly between God and me,
and of an eternal concernment, above the reach and extent of polities and
government, which are for my well-being in this world. For the magistrate is but umpire between man
and man; he can right me against my neighbor, but cannot defend me against my
God; whatever evil I suffer by obeying him in other things, he can make me
amends in this world, but if he force me to a wrong religion, he can make me no
reparation in the other world.[1]
Locke, “An
Essay on Toleration” (1667)
[1] John Locke, Political Essays, ed. Mark Goldie (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2006), p. 137.
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