A Discourse Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society January 13
A Discourse Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society January 13
Job Durfee
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These proceedings, far from inducing the people of Rhode-Island to renounce their idea of Liberty and Law, did but strengthen their attachment to it. But the government of the entire Colony was soon called upon to defend its peculiar principles by direct action. During the year 1656, a number of the people called Quakers (more properly Friends, ) arrived in Boston, and began to preach and practice their doctrines. No experience had yet been sufficient to teach Massachusetts or her confederates ...the folly of interfering between God and conscience ; and she began to fine, imprison, banish, whip, and hang the Quakers. But these people could find, and did find, a place of refuge in Rhode-Island ; whence they occa- sionally issued forth, as the Spirit prompted, into the neighboring 4 26 Colonies, and startled them with revelations from above. Whereupon the Commissioners ox the United Colonies of New-England addressed a letter to . The President of this place of refuge — the Plantations ] iere — anc l urged him to send away such Quakers as were then in the Colony, and to prohibit them from entering it.
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