the bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it was our Sunday.  In the mean time the wretch died before Monday.  We have myriads of examples in this kind amongst those rigid Sabbatarians, and therefore not without good cause, [6603]_Intolerabilem pertubationem_ Seneca calls it, as well he might, an intolerable perturbation, that causeth such dire events, folly, madness, sickness, despair, death of body and soul, and hell itself.

SUBSECT.  V.—­Cure of Religious Melancholy.

To purge the world of idolatry and superstition, will require some monster-taming Hercules, a divine Aesculapius, or Christ himself to come in his own person, to reign a thousand years on earth before the end, as the Millenaries will have him.  They are generally so refractory, self-conceited, obstinate, so firmly addicted to that religion in which they have been bred and brought up, that no persuasion, no terror, no persecution, can divert them.  The consideration of which, hath induced many commonwealths to suffer them to enjoy their consciences as they will themselves:  a toleration of Jews is in most provinces of Europe.  In Asia they have their synagogues:  Spaniards permit Moors to live amongst them:  the Mogullians, Gentiles:  the Turks all religions.  In Europe, Poland and Amsterdam are the common sanctuaries.  Some are of opinion, that no man ought to be compelled for conscience’ sake, but let him be of what religion he will, he may be saved, as Cornelius was formerly accepted, Jew, Turks, Anabaptists, &c.  If he be an honest man, live soberly, and civilly in his profession, (Volkelius, Crellius, and the rest of the Socinians, that now nestle themselves about Krakow and Rakow in Poland, have renewed this opinion) serve his own God, with that fear and reverence as he ought. Sua cuique civitati (Laeli) religio sit, nostra nobis, Tully thought fit every city should be free in this behalf, adore their own Custodes et Topicos Deos, tutelar and local gods, as Symmachus calls them.  Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, “when he came to a strange city, to [6604]worship by all means the gods of the place,” et unumquemque, Topicum deum sic coli oportere, quomodo ipse praeceperit:  which Cecilius in [6605]Minutius labours, and would have every nation sacrorum ritus gentiles habere et deos colere municipes, keep their own ceremonies, worship their peculiar gods, which Pomponius Mela reports of the Africans, Deos suos patrio more venerantur, they worship their own gods according to their own ordination.  For why should any one nation, as he there pleads, challenge that universality of God, Deum suum quem nec ostendunt, nec vident, discurrantem silicet et ubique praesentem, in omnium mores, actus, et occultas, cogitationes inquirentem, &c., as Christians do:  let every province enjoy their liberty in this behalf, worship one God, or all as they will, and are informed.  The Romans built