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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... magistrates [ and has ] also written letters of defamation both of the magistrates & churches here , & that before and [ after ] conviction yet main- tains the same without retraction , it is therefore ordered that the said Mr. Wil ...
... magistrates . It was in Cotton's role as advisor to the Court that Williams implicated Cotton in his banishment from Massachusetts . Most of the two men's early correspondence unfortunately is lost , but in 1643 Williams returned to ...
Selections from the Works of Roger Williams Roger Williams James Calvin Davis. the magistrates was instrumental in their verdict . In fact , Williams insisted that some who had voted for his banishment later " with tears to [ me ] con ...
... Made White in the Blood of the Lamb ( 1647 ) , in Polishook , Roger Williams , John Cotton , and Religious Freedom , 85 . Entrusting civil magistrates with the responsibility for maintaining right religion 18 INTRODUCTION.
... magistrate had no authority to meddle in the internal duties of the clergy , he was responsible for promoting the ... magistrate's responsibility to promote religion ul- timately derived from the covenant the Puritans believed God had ...
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