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... Christian charity and lib- erality , so long may they learn lessons of the highest practical value from the life of him , who has been justly styled " the apostle of religious liberty . " ROGER WILLIAMS . pla la o - 12 CHAPTER I. 4 ...
... Christian charity and lib- erality , so long may they learn lessons of the highest practical value from the life of him , who has been justly styled " the apostle of religious liberty . " ROGER WILLIAMS . pla la o - 12 CHAPTER I. 4 ...
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... Christian worship , and their own doctrines of civil liberty , not to open a temple for the disciples of every faith and the adherents of every creed ; that they had braved the ocean and the wilderness , and begun to plant their civil ...
... Christian worship , and their own doctrines of civil liberty , not to open a temple for the disciples of every faith and the adherents of every creed ; that they had braved the ocean and the wilderness , and begun to plant their civil ...
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... Christian republic , after the model of the Jewish theocracy , in which the laws of Moses should constitute the rules of civil life . Their system , thus educed from the highest sources of author- ity , tolerated no contradiction and ...
... Christian republic , after the model of the Jewish theocracy , in which the laws of Moses should constitute the rules of civil life . Their system , thus educed from the highest sources of author- ity , tolerated no contradiction and ...
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... Christian faith and morals , he entirely agreed . In the applica- tions of his great principle of the freedom of conscience , however , there were constantly pre- sented occasions of infinite disagreement . Scarcely had he stepped ...
... Christian faith and morals , he entirely agreed . In the applica- tions of his great principle of the freedom of conscience , however , there were constantly pre- sented occasions of infinite disagreement . Scarcely had he stepped ...
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... Christians had denied to him . It is probable , also , that this acquaintance with the Indians served to call his ... Christianity . " My soul's desire , " says he , " was to do the natives good ; and his whole life , passed amidst the ...
... Christians had denied to him . It is probable , also , that this acquaintance with the Indians served to call his ... Christianity . " My soul's desire , " says he , " was to do the natives good ; and his whole life , passed amidst the ...
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