_Atheists_, Sceptics_, _Mortalists_ or _Materialists_, _Anti-Scripturists_, _Anti-Trinitarians_ or _Socinians_, _Arians_, _Anti-Sabbatarians_, _Seekers_, and _Divorcers_ or _Miltonists_: all these terms were still in the vocabulary of the orthodox, describing persons or bodies of persons of whose opinions the Civil Magistrate was bound to take account.

Sects, on the other hand, that had been on the black list ten years ago had now been admitted to respectability.
_Baptists_ or _Anabaptists_, _Antinomians, _Brownists_, nay even INDEPENDENTS generally, had been regarded in 1644 as dark and dangerous schismatics; but now, save in the private colloquies or controversial tracts of Presbyterians, no feeling of horror attached to those names.

INDEPENDENTS, indeed, were now the Lords of the Commonwealth, and _Anabaptists_ and _Antinomians_ were in high places, so that the most orthodox Presbyterians found themselves side by side with them in private gatherings and committees.

In the Established Church of the Protectorate there was to be a comprehension of Presbyterians, Independents, and such Baptists and other really Evangelical Sectaries as might be willing; and, accordingly, the question of mere Toleration outside the Established Church no longer concerned the Evangelical sects lying immediately beyond ordinary Independency.

If, from objection to the principle of an Establishment, they chose to remain outside, they would have toleration there as a matter of course.