But are they excluded from the kingdom of heaven, that is, the Christian Church?
No;--but they must be regarded as weak and injudicious members of it.
Chap.

V.p.

140.
Accordingly it may be observed, how the unbelievers caress and compliment those complying gentlemen who meet them half way, while they are perpetually inveighing against the stiff divines, as they call them, whom they can make no advantage of.
Lessing, an honest and frank-hearted Infidel, expresses the same sentiment.

As long as a German Protestant divine keeps himself stiff and stedfast to the Augsburg Confession, to the full Creed of Melancthon, he is impregnable, and may bid defiance to sceptic and philosopher.

But let him quit the citadel, and the Cossacs are upon him.
Ib.p.