Note 231 — Chapter X
Reading edition
Bayle's Article on Anabaptists is worth reading.
Bossuet remarks that Socinians and Anabaptists were the only persons who disputed the right of the magistrate to punish men for religious error.—Variations Protestantes, liv. x., c. 56.
Socinus and Zuinglius, besides the Anabaptists, were the principal, if not the only apostles of religious liberty, at the time of the Reformation.