 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law ; and in its defense he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and...philanthropy of Williams compassed the earth ; Taylor favored partial reform, commended lenity, argued for forbearance, and entered a special plea in behalf... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1834 - 530 pages
...doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law; and in its defense he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and...philanthropy of Williams compassed the earth; Taylor favored partial reform, commended lenity, argued for forbearance, and entered a special plea in behalf... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - Bible - 1838 - 1182 pages
...person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude, the doctrine of the liberty of contcience, and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy Taylor." Such is the eloquent language of one whose testimony is founded upon documentary evidence, and who... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of the liberty of CHAP. conscience, the equality of opinions before the law, —^ and in its...philanthropy of Williams compassed the earth : Taylor favored partial reform, commended lenity, argued for forbearance, and entered a special plea in behalf... | |
 | William Hague - 1839 - 242 pages
...first in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law, and in its defence...he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor." From first to last this principle has been fondly cherished throughout... | |
 | 1866 - 580 pages
...in modern Christendom to assert in its plentitude the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, — the equality of opinions before the law; and in its defence...limited, his toleration to a few Christian sects)." Milton and Locke unite in testifying to the influence of the Baptists in England during the revolutions... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1844 - 514 pages
...liberty of 1 John Cotton's Reply, 2. CHAP. conscience, the equality of opinions before the law , — v~- and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton,...philanthropy of Williams compassed the earth : Taylor favored partial reform, commended lenity, argued for forbearance, and entered a special plea in behalf... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 492 pages
...person in modern Christendom to assert, in its plenitude, the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor." Dr. Robertson, in his History of America, says, " Roger Williams' spirit... | |
 | Adiel SHERWOOD - Church - 1850 - 150 pages
...first in modern Christendom, to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law, and in its defence,...he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor." (See his Hist. TJ. S. vol. i. page 375.) When Williams was in England to... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - Poland - 1851 - 638 pages
...person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law ; and in its defence...Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy Taylor. And this may be considered as a fair specimen of the patriotism, integrity, and devotion, by which... | |
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He was the first person in modern Christendom, to assert, in its plenitude, the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law ; and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy... 
