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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... 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 Tenent of Persecution , Williams's treatise was a point ...
... present arguments from " Religion , Reason , [ and ] Experi- ence , " and by the end of The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody he was still " humbly confident of Grace and Conscience , Reason , and Experience " being on his side . Williams's ...
... present specific evidence to justify that claim . Others who have asserted Locke's direct indebtedness to Williams include David Little , " Roger Williams and the Separation of Church and State , " in Religion and the State : Essays in ...
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