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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... Cause of Conscience 85 4. Christenings Make Not Christians 157 5. The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody 167 6. The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler 227 7. The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer 237 8. The Hireling Ministry ...
... cause than Elizabeth's careful politics had allowed . While Elizabeth had failed to satisfy the Puritans ' long- ings , however , they quickly discovered that the Stuart kings were much worse . Tolerant of the Puritans early in his ...
... cause . While at Essex , Williams made important connections with prominent Puritan leaders in England . When Charles ascended the throne in 1625 , the political climate quickly became more dangerous for Puritans , and some who had ...
... cause . Compared to the separatists ' rejection of the official church , the nonseparatist Puritans ' demands seemed downright mild , but they correctly feared that royalists would fail to notice the subtle distinction . For this reason ...
... 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 the values of Puritanism itself , for ...