May 26, 2014 at 08:21PM [via Facebook]
So, if you didn’t already know, I want you to know that during the conflicts between Roger Williams and the Puritan establishment in colonial Massachusetts, over religious liberty and separation of church and state, Williams wrote a pamphlet in 1644 called:
“The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience”
Then one of his main targets in the essay, the Puritan preacher John Cotton, responded with a defense of religious law, entitled:
THE BLOUDY TENENT, WASHED, AND MADE WHITE IN THE BLOUD OF THE LAMB
Then in 1652, Williams wrote a rejoinder to Cotton’s response, which he entitled:
THE BLOUDY TENENT YET MORE BLOUDY BY MR. COTTON’S ENDEAVOUR TO WASH IT WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
Or, more fully:
“The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton’s Endeavour to Wash it White in the Blood of the Lamb; of Whose Precious Blood, Spilt in the Bloud of his Servants; and of the Blood of Millions Spilt in Former and Later Wars for Conscience Sake, That Most Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, upon, a Second Tryal Is Found More Apparently and More Notoriously Guilty, etc.”
#Puritans #17thCenturyTitlesAreTheBest
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