...The ministers got together and declared any one worthy of banishment, who should obstinately assert, that " the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostacy and heresy;" the mag- CHAP. istrates delayed action, only that a committee of •—~ divines...

...The ministers got together and declared any unc worthy of banishment who should obstinately assert that ' the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy ;' the magistrates delayed action only that a committee of divines might have time to repair to Salem...

...length,— " The ministers got together and declared anyone worthy of banishment who should assert that the ' civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy;' the magistrates delayed action only that a committee of divines might have time to repair to Salem...

...The ministers got together and declared any one worthy of banishment, who should obstinately assert, that " the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy;" the magistrates delayed action, only that a committee of divines might have time to repair to Salem...

...The ministers got together, and declared any one worthy of banishment, who should obstinately assert, that " the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy." Williams was left alone, absolutely alone. Anticipating the censures of the colonial churches, he declared...

...The ministers got together and declared any one worthy of banishment, who should obstinately assert, that " the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy ; " the magistrates delayed action, only that a committee of divines might have time to repair to Salem...

...him exceedingly. His great crime consisted in "obstinately" asserting, that "the civil magistrates might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy." Conscience he deemed sacred. The State should not violate its sanctity. The proper sphere of this is...

...the enslaved nations, so it is of binding force to engage the whole and every interest and conscience to preserve the common liberty and peace." The controversy...maintaining the doctrine " that the civil magistrate might net intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy," and that the churches ought to request...

...has no right to intermeddle between God and men's consciences. He was in the right, when he declared, that " the civil magistrate might not intermeddle...to stop a church from apostasy and heresy " ; and when the authorities banished him for the utterance of this sentiment, they were in the wrong. Men...

...present. They had already decided " that any one was worthy of banishment who should obstinately assert, that the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostacy and heresy."5 His letters were read, which he justified ; he maintained all his opinions....