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Roger Williams - Research Paper

Roger Williams

c.1603-1683, clergyman, advocate of religious freedom, founder of Rhode Island b. London. A protégé of Sir Edward Coke, he graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1627 and took Anglican orders. He early espoused Puritanism and emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1631. Williams became teacher and, after a stay at Plymouth, minister of the Salem church. However, his radical religious beliefs and political theories-he denied the validity of the Massachusetts charter, challenged the Puritans to acknowledge they had separated from the Church of England, and declared that civil magistrates had no power over matters of conscience-alarmed the Puritan oligarchy, and the General ...

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Providence. In 1651, William Coddington secured a commission annulling the patent, but Williams, with John Clarke hastened again to England and had the patent of 1644 restored. On his return in 1654, Williams was elected president of the colony and served three terms. Always a trusted friend of the Native Americans, he often used his good offices in maintaining peaceful relations with them. But he was unable to prevent the outbreak of King Philip's War, in which he served as a captain of militia. Williams, though he remained a Christian, disassociated himself from existing churches. His writings, reprinted in the Narragansett Club Publications, reveal the vigor with which he propounded his democratic and humanitarian ideals. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience was condemned by John Cotton who was answered with The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy. Other works include Queries of Highest Consideration, an argument for complete separation of church and state; The ...

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Added: 5/26/2004 08:35:07 AM
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