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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... persons or events mentioned in the text , clarify Williams's argument or those to which he is responding , define obscure words , provide biblical references , and insert interpretive commentary on arguments raised in the text . On ...
... persons " whom they carefully examine and cause to make a public confession of sin and profession of their knowledge and grace in Christ . " Their objections to separatism amounted to hypocrisy , argued Williams , but they also betrayed ...
... persons only break the cities ' or kingdoms ' peace who cry out for prison and swords against such who cross their ... person willfully dis- 22. Calvin , Institutes of the Christian Religion , III.19.15 , 848 . regarding both the ...
... persons , regenerate or not , and which " take God's part against man's self , in smiting [ and ] accusing [ him ] . " In the sequel to his greatest treatise , Williams offered an even more straightforward definition : " a persuasion ...
... persons could " will or entrust such a power to the civil magistrate to compel their souls and consciences " to ... person : The straining of men's consciences by civil power is so far from making men faithful to God or man that it is ...
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