Of Toleration

Intolerance is one of the charges leveled most consistently at the heart of the church which has the calling before Jesus Christ, as King of the Church, to remain pure in doctrine and in practice. When this purity of doctrine and uprightness in practical liv­ing is maintained in the church and in the lives of the saints respectively, then she is pronounced intolerant and she becomes an offense to those who are wicked and rebel­lious. Many philosophers and writers have taken the pen and have...