Rev John Myles And the Founding of the First Baptist Church in Massachusetts a
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He had failed to grasp the great principle of absolute liberty of conscience which the mass of Antipedobaptists from the reformation time onward had consistently advocated and prac- ticed. "* The Baptist interpretation of religion, that it is a matter between the individual soul and God, and that the soul in religious matters is amenable to no human authority, civil or ec- clesiastical, wherever it has been truly held, has always had for its corollary the sublime *S€e also Goodwin's "Pilgrim Re...public, " p. 524. — Hon. Georg-e F. Hoar delivered the oration at the 275th an- niversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Dec. 21, 1S95. In extenuation of their failure to make a practical ap- plication of the principles of civil and religious liberty, he cited other illustrations of intolerance at that time, saying among other things: "Some of our Baptist friends wanted the term 'damnable heretics' to include Unitarians and to have them banished. " This refer- ence, as he privately confessed, was to the church in Swansea and its action upon Captain Willett's pro- posals.
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