On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 páginas 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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... Parliament , and while he was there one of the letters Cotton wrote to him on the subject of his banishment " myste- riously " found itself in print . In this letter , Cotton denied Williams's charge that he had masterminded the Puritan ...
... Parliament was preoccupied with questions of religion . In league with Scotland against King Charles I , the Calvinist - dominated Parliament in 1643 called into being the Westmin- ster Assembly , a group of divines commissioned to ...
... Parliamentary base and further complicate England's civil war . In response , and only weeks after the appearance of Mr ... Parliament " ( 1647 ) , in John Milton : Complete Poems and Major Prose , ed . Merritt Y. Hughes ( Indianapolis ...
... Parliament ( as the Result of their Discourse ) these ( amongst other Passages ) of highest consideration . Mercifully known since as simply The Bloody Tenent of Persecution , Williams's treatise was a point - by - point response to ...
... parliamentary debates over toleration to which Williams contributed significantly , and many arguments that Williams made on behalf of reli- gious freedom appear almost verbatim in Locke's works . Limiting civil juris- diction to the ...
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