On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 pages 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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... Truth and Peace , Who , in all tender Affection , present to the High Court of Parliament ( as the Result of their Discourse ) these ( amongst other Passages ) of highest consideration . Mercifully known since as simply The Bloody ...
... truth as equally valid . Williams despised the Quakers ' theology , thought the Catholic Church served the Antichrist , and assumed with his Puritan colleagues that many of the Native Americans ' religious rituals were devil worship ...
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