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The Reformation · 1644
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution
Roger Williams · c. 1603–1683
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What it is
An argument for a wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, and for liberty of conscience for pagans, Jews, and Turks alike.
Why it lasted
The most thorough seventeenth-century case for religious liberty, by a man banished from Massachusetts who then founded Rhode Island on the principle.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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