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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... souls have been brought to have con- sented to the sentence had not Mr. Cotton in private given them advice and counsel , providing it just and warrantable to their consciences . " Disagree- ment over why Williams was banished dominates ...
... souls and consciences " to conform to convention or a government mandate , for conscientious conviction is by definition an inalienable experience over which no third party can assume control . To try to change matters of conscience by ...
... souls he has not yet pleased to shine in the face of Jesus Christ . " The net effect of these ac- counts to Williams was a correlation between the teachings of scripture , the dictates of reason and moral law , and the witness of human ...
... soul liberty " for which it stood . While he ulti- mately did not succeed in convincing his fellow citizens to own their re- sponsibility to Clarke ( who never received adequate reimbursement for his efforts as colony ambassador ) ...
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