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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... suffered under Catholic and Angli- can rule and the restrictions threatened by the Presbyterian majority ; as Independent John Milton famously penned it , on the matter of religious es- tablishment , the " new Presbyter is but old ...
... suffering of death and torments , and are more strongly confirmed in their belief and conscience , because such bloody and cruel courses of persecution are used toward them . " Persecution creates hypocrites and martyrs , perhaps , but ...
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