Abstract
THE RADICAL SECTS were united on at least two principles of very great importance in the development of religious toleration: an almost fanatical opposition to any species of doctrinal rigidity and a fervent devotion to the persuasion that religious experience and worship can be defined in terms no larger than the individual Christian conscience. There were during this period of ecclesiastical disintegration many men whose theology defies categorical analysis and who vehemently repudiated association with any of the innumerable sects of the age. These individualists singled out as the especial object of their common attack the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination, which they properly regarded as constituting the stiff spine of Presbyterian and Puritan rigidity. As advanced individualists they found themselves united upon no other persuasion of religion or philosophy than a complete devotion to the principle of absolute religious liberty.
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