Religious Liberty, an Invaluable Blessing: Illustrated in Two Discourses Preached at Roxbury Decr; 3, 1767, Being the Day of General Thanksgiving (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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IT IS needlefs to hint to y rafter of King Charles I, whofe arbitrary meafu head to the nzoe/r His prime minifter Was/lz'om Lond,firft bifhop of London, and afterwards A. B. Of Canterbury. He was the advifer of molt arbitrary meafureshand a furious and 'cruel perfecutor of the Puritans Soon after his advancement, he proceeded againft the non conform/1.1 with great feverity. One or Other of the puritmz,mi11il't'ers was, every week, fufpended or deprived, and'their families driven to dif'trefs there was no liberty of confcience,.nor any profpeét of relief the clouds gathered thicker over their heads, and threatned a dreadful fiorm. This put our fo tberr on projecting a fettlement in this Pro'vznoe, where they iniglit be delivered from the hand of op preliion, and enjoy the hberty of their confciences. They arrived firfi at oo/eno 111 1629, and afterwards, (viz. In 1630 in much greater numbers in this neighbourhood, and laid the foundation of thefe fiourifhing churches, in which Izoerfy of confciencc' hath, bleife'd be God, been enjoyed thefe 137 years.

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