Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody E-book
Author: Roger Williams
Genre: History / Biography, Religion / Mythology / Sacred
Williams, Roger (c. 1600-1683) English-born, early American religious
leader and advocate of toleration who founded the colony of Rhode
Island. His radical religious views and his defense of the Indians
resulted in his expulsion from Massachusetts. A courageous thinker,
historian Carl Van Doren called Williams "the sincerest Christian
among many who desired to be Christians."
The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody (1652) Williams' masterpiece, "The
Bloody Tenent of Persecution" (first published in 1644) was written
during a controversy with John Cotton. In 1647, Cotton published a
reply and Williams rejoined with, "The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody
by Mr. Cotton's Endeavour to Wash it White in the Blood of the Lamb."
In this excerpt, the author reaffirms his belief that each man must
believe what his conscience tells him.
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