They approved heartily, it appears, of his Established Church, and even of its breadth as including Presbyterians and Independents; but, like preceding Parliaments, they were for a more rigorous care for Church-orthodoxy, and more severe dealings with "heresies and blasphemies." Quakers, Anti-Trinitarians, and Jews were especially threatened.

Here, indeed, the House meant rather to indicate its good-will to the Protectorate than the reverse; for, though.

Richard and Henry Cromwell inherited their father's religious liberality, and others of the Cromwellians agreed with them, not a few were disposed, like Monk, to make a compact with the Presbyterians for heresy-hunting part of the very programme of Richard's Protectorate.

The Toleration tenet, indeed, was perhaps more peculiarly a tenet of the Republicans than of any other political party, and not without strong reasons of a personal kind, people said, on the part of some of them.

Had not Mr.Henry Neville, for example, been heard to say that he was more affected by some parts of Cicero than by anything in the Bible?
If heathenism like that infected the Republican opposition, what could any plain honest Christian do but support the Protectorate ?[1] [Footnote 1: Commons Journals of dates given, and of Feb.