On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008年1月31日 - 288 頁 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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... Persecution for Cause of Conscience 85 4. Christenings Make Not Christians 157 5. The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody 167 6. The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler 227 7. The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer 237 8. The ...
... Persecution of the Puritans was made official in the final years of James's reign , and after Charles I suc- ceeded his father to the throne in 1625 , hostility between royalists and Puri- tans reached an apex . Charles married a Roman ...
... Persecution Once settled in Providence , Williams apparently began an exchange of correspondence with Boston minister John Cotton over the subject of his banishment . Cotton ( 1584-1652 ) had been a leader of some prominence in 8 ...
... persecution they 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 ...
... Persecution for Cause of Conscience , discussed in a Conference be- tween 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 ...