The Puritans

The Puritans

Author: Perry Miller

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 0486161056

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Critically acclaimed compilation includes writings by William Bradford, Increase Mather, William Hubbard, Anne Bradstreet, and other influential figures. "The best selection ever made of Puritan literature." — historian Samuel Eliot Morison.


The Challenges of Roger Williams

The Challenges of Roger Williams

Author: James P. Byrd

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780865547711

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Among those banished was Roger Williams, the advocate of religious liberty who also founded the colony of Rhode Island and established the first Baptist church in America. Williams opposed the Puritans' use of the Bible to persecute radicals who rejected the state's established religion. In retaliation against the use of scripture for violent purposes, Williams argued that religious liberty was a biblical concept that offered the only means of eliminating the religious wars and persecutions that plagued the seventeenth century.