What John Milton thinks about religion
English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674); author of Paradise Lost and Areopagitica.
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3 dated positions, c. 1644, in their own words. Our reading of what John Milton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAnd were I the chooser, a dream of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing. For God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person more than the restraint of ten vicious.
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Their wordsA man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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Their wordsYet if all cannot be of one mind—as who looks they should be?—this doubtless is more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that many be tolerated, rather than all compelled.