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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... bodies and goods of its citizens . The increasingly worried Massachusetts General Court monitored Williams's activities in Salem through much of 1635 , summoning him periodically to give an account of his teachings . They even attempted ...
... bodies called synods , while Independents ( or Congregationalists , as they eventually would be known in America ) insisted that every Christian congregation should be an autonomous body modeled after the early Christian communities ...
... re- sided with the clergy , concluded Williams , and the magistrates ' jurisdiction was properly limited to the bodies and goods of their citizens . Complementing his appeals to theology and political theory , Williams 22 22 INTRODUCTION.
... bodies and goods " of its citizens , asserting the inalienable na- ture of religious belief , noting the incompatibility of coercion with the teachings of Jesus , and pointing out the absurdity ( from both a religious and political ...
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