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The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution

by Roger Williams

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Banished from Massachusetts for saying so, Williams argued in 1644 that the magistrate has no authority over conscience and that forcing worship produces hypocrites, not Christians. Parliament ordered it burned.

The great early argument for freedom of conscience. Download the free EPUB.

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