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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... words is rarely noted , but three ellipsis dots mark the deletion of a phrase , sentence , or passage . When I have needed to add a word for clarity , the addition is enclosed in brackets , and when that addition is a substitution for a ...
... words , Williams be- lieved that because the Puritan worldview was " true , " many ( if not all ) alter- native religious perspectives were " false . " He and his fellow Puritans ab- horred the Quakers ' theology and practices , they ...
... Word , disciplined themselves according to a close reading of scripture , and governed themselves locally without the hierarchy and trappings of higher offices ( like bishops ) . To the minds of separatist Pu- ritans , the Church of ...
... word that he was again teaching from his home in Salem , they dispatched men to put him on a boat to England ( where Archbishop Laud would certainly send him straight to the Tower of London ) . Some of his friends , however , alerted ...
... conscience than he observed in his own society , certainly more than he himself experi- enced in the Massachusetts Bay Colony . See , for instance , Key , 129 . in other words , a conscience could be wrong . 24 INTRODUCTION.
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