It becomes merely a voluntary society, which can exert no power save over its members.

It may use its own ceremonies, but it cannot impose them on the unwilling; and since persecution is alien from the spirit of Christ, exclusion from membership must be the limit of ecclesiastical disciplinary power.

Nor must we forget the advantages of toleration.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

Later controversy did not make him modify these principles; and they lived, in Macaulay's hands, to be a vital weapon in the political method of the nineteenth century.
IV Any survey of earlier political theory would show how little of novelty there is in the specific elements of Locke's general doctrine.