On Religious Liberty : : Selections from the Works of Roger Williams / / Joan C. Williams; ed. by James Calvin Davis.

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. Davis gathers together important selections from Williams's public...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:The John Harvard Library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editorial Method
  • Introduction: Roger Williams and the Birth of an American Ideal
  • Chapter one. Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined, and Answered
  • Chapter two. Queries of Highest Consideration
  • Chapter three. The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
  • Chapter four. Christenings Make Not Christians
  • Chapter five. The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody
  • Chapter six. The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler
  • Chapter seven. The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer
  • Chapter eight. The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's
  • Chapter nine. George Fox Digg'd out of His Burrowes
  • Chapter ten. Selected Letters
  • Index