...once wrote to a zealous major-general who had suspended and arrested a colonel for his opinions : " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. — Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others against those to whom you can object...

...yourselves ? Everything, where there is so great a gulf in opinion as between Protestant and Catholic. The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. In England the lines of toleration are constantly widening, and Jew and Catholic are as safe there,...

...to Crawford, when the latter objected to a capable and trustworthy man on account of his religion, ' the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions,' expresses the general view of the modern English mird, and at the same time proves that the Protector's...

...Cromweirs Anabaptist. "Admit he be, shall that render him letter to him. . .. . t •• ^ r*> , ^ incapable to serve the public ? . . . Sir, the State...willing faithfully to serve it— that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself. If you had done it when I...

...lieutenantcolonel on the ground that he was an Anabaptist, Cromwell remonstrated: "Admit that he be an Anabaptist, shall that render him incapable to serve the public...takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing to serve it faithfully, that suffices." It was with an army thus mainly composed of godly men Cromwell...

...Cromwell, vol. i. pp. 201, 202, 8vo, 1846. In it Cromwell writes, " Sir, the state, in choosing raen to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if...willing faithfully to serve it — that satisfies." See additional proof in Carwithen's Hist, of the Church of England, vol. ii. pp. 245, 249. 48 No one...

...public ? ' He is indiscreet.' It may be so, in some things : we have all human infirmities. . . . tl Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their ;\ opi5$BWf7"lf"fliey be willing "Faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies!' I advised you formerly...

...Major-General Crawford (loth March 1644), who had imprisoned one of his subordinates as an Anabaptist, " the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with men of different minds from yourself." Again, after Naseby, to...

...Crawford, who, as Cromwell thought, had treated an Anabaptist colonel unjustly. " Sir," wrote Cromwell, " the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice...willing faithfully to serve it — that satisfies. I advised you formerly to bear with different minds from yourself : if you had done it when I advised...

...London on the 27th, and at Bristol 17th January 1657. colonel on account of erroneous doctrine : " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object...