On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 pages Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. He conducted a lifelong debate over religious freedom with distinguished figures of the seventeenth century, including Puritan minister John Cotton, Massachusetts governor John Endicott, and the English Parliament. |
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... Protestant leadership in the process . When Mary's reign ended in 1558 , English Protestants in exile on the continent returned home with the hope that the new " Virgin Queen " Elizabeth would restore Protes- tantism to England and ...
... Protestant factions threatened to divide the Parliamentary base and further complicate England's civil war . In response , and only weeks after the appearance of Mr. Cotton's Letter , Wil- liams published a short treatise entitled ...
... Protestant Chris- tianity was necessary to ensure that virtue . In addition to questioning the necessity of religious uniformity to social morality , Williams argued that civil authority lacked the ability to ensure this uniformity . He ...
... Protestants , [ and ] Pagans . " In fact , a " conscience of good and evil " was something that even " every savage Indian in the world has , " a fact that he confirmed in his substantial interactions with the Native Americans.23 While ...
... Protestant Reforma- tion . . . . It does , however , run crookedly , as it were , from those sources , a tributary that grows " in part from the informal evangelical alliance in the early Republic that motivated essential popular ...
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