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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... compared with the so - called Christian English . For in- 4. William Bradford , Of Plymouth Plantation , 1620-1647 ( New York : Random House , 1981 ) , 286 . stance , Williams testified of the Native Americans that he 10 INTRODUCTION.
... called " Providence . " His family and some loyalists soon joined him , to be followed by other so- cial delinquents asked to leave Massachusetts ( including Anne Hutchinson ) , who then established the neighboring towns of Portsmouth ...
... called into being the Westmin- ster Assembly , a group of divines commissioned to recommend a thorough reform of the Church of England . As thanks for their pledge of military sup- port , the Scots fully expected Parliament to establish ...
... called errone- ous conscience were subject to correction according to the " objective " stan- dards of the Bible . In fact many Puritans argued that because conscience was attuned to the divine law , it could not disagree with ...
... called typology : figures , communities , events , and images in the Old Testament were read as foreshadows ( types ) of things to come in the age of Christ and his church ( the " antitypes " ) . For instance , the story of Jonah's ...