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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... town of Salem , where he served briefly as teacher for the more separatist - leaning congregation there . Eventually , however , Williams became dissatisfied with the degree of his Salem friends ' commitment to separatism ( or at least ...
... town's request for additional land until the town disassociated itself from Williams . Chastised by the General Court and increasingly abandoned by the people of Salem , Williams refused to recant any of the public positions he had ...
... towns of Portsmouth , Newport , and Warwick . Together these settlements would become Rhode Island and Prov- idence Plantations , a safe haven for freedom of conscience . The Bloody Tenent of Persecution Once settled in Providence ...
... towns of Rhode Island . Both Massachusetts and Connecticut , uneasy with the pres- ence of unorthodox misfits right outside their borders , had on different occa- sions conspired with residents of Rhode Island to annex property and reas ...
... towns and cities , though neither in one nor the other can any man prove a true Church of God in those places . " Williams agreed that a peaceful and productive commonwealth required the cultivation of public virtue , but he denied that ...
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