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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... Peace , Who , in all tender Affection , present to the High Court of Parliament ( as the Result of their Discourse ) these ( amongst other Passages ) of highest consideration . Mercifully known since as simply The Bloody Tenent of ...
... Peace . " In addition , intolerance is " destructive to the civil peace and welfare of all kingdoms , countries , and commonwealths " in the strife that it causes ; thus , civil compulsion of religion also fails to ensure the social ...
... peace , yea the very Americans and wildest pagans keep the peace of their towns and cities , though neither in one nor the other can any man prove a true Church of God in those places . " Williams agreed that a peaceful and productive ...
... peace and social benefit ( his favorite example was Holland ) . Furthermore , he was sure that the historical record demonstrated that Christian loyalties were not necessary to make a person an effective civil 29. Ibid . , 129 . leader ...
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