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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... sword against blas- phemers and idolaters in order to protect the integrity of religious practice . Applying the precedent of Israel to the Massachusetts experiment , Cotton insisted that " the external equity of that judicial law of ...
... swords against such who cross their judg- ment or practice in religion . " Furthermore , persecution cannot work to cre- ate the converts it desires because faith is a matter of intellect , subject to the power of persuasion but usually ...
... sword , but with " spiritual weapons " —the Word , prayer , and powers of persuasion . Accord- ing to Williams , in the life and death of Jesus Christ , God had radically changed the way he related to human beings . No people retained ...
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