... There is talk of an universall Toleration. I would talke as loud as I could against it, did I know what more apt and reasonable Sacrifice _England_ could offer to God for his late performing all his heavenly Truths then an universall Toleration _of all hellish Errors_, or how they shall make an universall Reformation, but by making _Christs Academy_ the _Divills University_, where any man may commence [graduate] Heretique _per saltum_; where he that is _filius Diabolicus_, or _simpliciter pessimus_, may have his grace to goe to Hell _cum Publico Privilegio_; and carry as many after him, as he can.... It is said, Though a man have light enough himselfe to see the Truth, yet if he hath not enough to enlighten others, he is bound to tolerate them, I will engage my self, that all the Devills in _Britanie_ shall sell themselves to their shirts, to purchase a Lease of this Position for three of their Lives, under the Seale of the Parliament. It is said, That Men ought to have Liberty of their Conscience, and that it is persecution to debarre them of it: I can rather stand amazed then reply to this: it is an astonishment to think that the braines of men should be parboyl'd in such impious ignorance; Let all the wits under the Heavens lay their heads together and finde an Assertion worse then this (one excepted) I will petition to be chosen the universall Ideot of the world.... The true English of all this their false Latine is nothing but _a generall Toleration of all Opinions_.... _b. From the Wonder-working Providence, of Sions Saviour in New England (Book III, Chapter V)_ This quaint history was printed in London in 1654, anonymously. The original manuscript has never been discovered. Tradition ascribes the authorship to Captain Edward Johnson, one of the companions of Winthrop in the migration of 1630.