"God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are, in anything, contrary to his Word; or beside it, if matters of faith, or worship. So that, to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commands, out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience: and the requiring of an implicit faith, and an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, and reason also." —Westminster Confession of Faith 20.2 https://tabletalkmagazine.com/article/2024/03/liberty-of-conscience/ n.b., I'm more with Rothbard than Ferguson on some points in the article above.