The History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations volume 3

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The History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations volume 3
Thomas Williams Bicknell
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The Puritan Church-State was ecclesiastical authority. The Puritan State-Church was civil domination of soul estates. Macau- lay says that "The Puritans espoused the cause of civil liberty mainly be- cause it was the cause of religion. " The passionate worshippers of free- dom of that day, Cromwell called heathen. John Locke (1632-1704), was the first of moderns to define civil government, soul liberty, conscience liberty, and to show how both might harmonize in a civil state. Still there were ...men in Western Europe who had a clear vision of human rights, — who understood the true value of soul liberty, — who, through severe persecution, had made measure of their faith in the freedom of body and soul. The Pilgrim Separatists were of this class. So were the 138 HISTORY OF RHODE ISLAND Baptists. Even the liberal Puritan stood for freedom in personal rights, in civil concerns and in faith. The Bible was his guide and interpreter in things temporal and in things spiritual. Samuel Gorton, one of the founders of Warwick, writing of himself says, "/ yearned for a country zvhere I could be free to worship God according to ivhat the Bible taught me, as God enabled me to understand it.

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