On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31/01/2008 - 288 من الصفحات 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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... Cotton's Letter Lately Printed , Examined , and Answered 46 2. Queries of Highest Consideration 73 3. The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience 85 4. Christenings Make Not Christians 157 5. The Bloody Tenent Yet More ...
... Cotton . The early salvos in that exchange , too , have been lost , but during his first return to London in 1644 , Williams published a response to Cotton entitled Mr. Cotton's Letter , Lately Printed , Examined , and Answered . In ...
... Cotton over the subject of his banishment . Cotton ( 1584-1652 ) had been a leader of some prominence in 8. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff , ed . , Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ( 1628-1686 ) , 5 ...
... 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 London to secure a charter ...
... Cotton in private given them advice and counsel , providing it just and warrantable to their consciences . " Disagree- ment over why Williams was banished dominates the treatise , with Williams assuming ( contrary to Cotton ) that it ...