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Now, such language does not necessarily imply separa- tion of Church and State. The Frendi Republic to- day is officially Catholic, yet it tolerates, permits, allows, even subsidizes financially Protestantism. And of those who consider this unfair criticism, I call their atten- tion to a peculiar statement of Williams in that very works of his ("Bloody Tenent of Persecution"), which expresses his views most clearly. Speaking of the attitude to be observed by magistrates relative to re- ligion, ...he says that they should give "approbation and countenance'' to the true religion, i. e,, which they con- sidered true, but "permission and protection" to a re- ligion they considered false (ICnowles, 367). Note the difference in the wording. In other words, a civil magistrate, if a Baptist, should approve and counters ance the Baptist church, but merely permit and protect the Catholic. At the least, such words are vague. In his "Hireling Ministry," he likewise says that it is the "duty of all that are in authority .
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