TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Roger
AU  - Underhill,Edward Bean
TI  - The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered
AV  - BV 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Church and state -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Cotton, John, 1584-1652
KW  - Liberty of conscience -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Persecution -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Baptists -- New England -- Early works to 1800
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bloudy_Tenent_of_Persecution_for_Cause_of_Conscience; Release date is 2021-07-01; E-text prepared by Brian Wilson, MFR, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org); Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed and Mr.…" by Roger Williams is a philosophical treatise written in 1644. Structured as a dialogue between Truth and Peace, this controversial work challenges the Massachusetts Bay Colony's religious enforcement, advocating for a "wall of separation" between church and state. Williams argues for liberty of conscience as a God-given right and tolerance of diverse faiths. So inflammatory were his ideas that Parliament ordered copies burned, yet his arguments would later influence Locke, Jefferson, and the First Amendment itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65739
ER  -