On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31. jan. 2008 - 288 sider 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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... God , commissioned to punish impiety and immorality . More to the point , ancient Israel provided a biblical template for how ... God's continued blessing . 16. Richard Baxter , A Holy Commonwealth , ed . William Lamont ( 1659 ; reprint ...
... God . The Puritans believed that God had made two covenants with human beings . The covenant of works was God's promise of life to Adam upon the condition that he live in perfect obedience ; when Adam broke that covenant , God ...
... God to live faithfully together as " visible saints " in the pattern bequeathed to them by Christ . Similarly , a ... God's good pleasure . Although he was a Puritan in his theological convictions , Williams re- jected most of the ...
... God's judgment and direction . Con- science was the " mean between God and man , " as Calvin put it ; 22 and as such the Puritans recognized the moral authority of appeals to conscience and respected a limited freedom of conscience ...
... God's judg- ment " searching " within a person , and Williams cautioned that persecution of those following the dictates of conscience could be tantamount to fight- ing against God himself . Williams's assumption that conscience was a ...
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