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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... never dis- cern that excess of scandalous sins amongst them which Europe abounds with . Drunkenness and gluttony , generally they know not what sins they be , and although they have not so much to restrain them ( both in respect of ...
... never offered his own systematically developed theol- ogy of conscience , his appeals for religious liberty depended upon a varia- tion of the Calvinist understanding of the moral faculty . In The Bloody Tenent , Williams described ...
... Never really compensated for either of his own forays , Williams ( now serving as a colony assistant ) sought to have John Clarke reimbursed for the extraordinary costs he absorbed in his time in London on Rhode Is- land's behalf . In ...
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