On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31 בינו׳ 2008 - 288 עמודים 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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... forces in the English Church . In 1633 Charles would elevate one of these en- thusiastic enemies of the Calvinists , William Laud , to the post of Arch- bishop of Canterbury , entrusting him with the responsibility to stamp out Puritan ...
... force and binds all Princes to express that seal and indignation , both against blasphemy . . . and against seduction to idolatry . " 18 As in ancient Israel , church and state were institutions with largely separate functions in ...
... force to further the ends of the church was contrary to the character of Christianity , he also believed it was counterproductive . Rather than helping its cause as the Mas- sachusetts establishment assumed it would , state force ...
... force usu- ally manages only to harden the convictions of its victims : " Now all these consciences walk on confidently and constantly even to the suffering of death and torments , and are more strongly confirmed in their belief and ...
... forces him to judge ( as Paul said of himself , a persecutor ) and to do so and so , with re- spect to God [ and ] his worship . " Metaphorically , conscience was " the candle of the Lord , searching ... within the bosom of all mankind ...
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