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A55926	Proast, Jonas.	A third letter concerning toleration in defense of The argument of the letter concerning toleration, briefly consider'd and answer'd.	1691		.xml	application/xml	39384	1170	62	And that you may do it the more successfully , you represent it ( as you commonly do ) in such a manner , as if I allow'd any Magistrate , of what Religion soever , to lay Penalties upon all that dissent from him : Whereas in my own words it stands thus : When men fly from the means of a right Information , and will not so much as consider how reasonable it is , throughly and impartially to examine a Religion which they embraced upon such Inducements as ought to have no sway at all in the matter , and therefore with little or no examination of the proper Grounds of it : What humane Method can be used , to bring them to act like Men , in an affair of such consequence , and to make a wiser and more rational choice , but that of laying such Penalties upon them , as may balance the weight of those Prejudices which enclined them to preferr a False Way before the True , & c ? But to this you say , If it be a true Consequence , that men must be tolerated , if Magistrates have no Commission or Authority to punish them for Matters of Religion ; then the onely Strength of that Letter lies not in the unfitness of Force to convince Men's Understanding .	cache/A55926.xml	txt/A55926.txt
