Troubles and Trials of Laud, p.164.But Abbot was little attached to the court, and was also a Puritan in doctrine, and bore a mortal hatred to the Papists.

Not to mention, that the mutinous spirit was rising higher in the time of Laud, and would less bear control.
The maxims, however, of his administration were the same that had ever prevailed in England, and that had place in every other European nation, except Holland, which studied chiefly the interests of commerce, and France, which was fettered by edicts and treaties.

To have changed them for the modern maxims of toleration, how reasonable soever, would have been deemed a very bold and dangerous enterprise.

It is a principle advanced by President Montesquieu, that where the magistrate, is satisfied with the established religion, he ought to repress the first attempts towards innovation, and only grant a toleration to sects that are diffused and established.

See L'Esprit des Loix, liv.