Maryland, Two Hundred Years Ago, a Discourse 3, No.5
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This spectacle of Ihe wi?t, the powerful, and even tlie pious, rejecting the principle of toleration as tending to the subversion of religion and authority, ^vas not to be seen alone in the colony of Plymouth. The noblest minds of that day, so far as inldleclual reach and piofound scholarship were concerned, chrunk fronri the word, as one, the mere ut- terance of which was sulficient to shake down the walls of Zion and undermine the foundations of civil government ; and it was left for diose, i...n one sense humble and illiterate, but in a higher, traly noble and enlightened, to see by the flame of the stake, and amid trials and persecution, the true nature of that liberty wherewith Christ designed to make man free.
Yet, what the Plymouth colony failed to do, through the weakness of her executive, was actually accomplished in the " Providence Plantations," the asylum of Roger Williams.
Two years before the session of the Maryland Assembly, of ^/■? which I have spoken, the people of that settlement formally adopted a code, having the democratic principle for its basis, and containing this noble enactment : " All men may walk as their consciences persuade them, every one in the name of his God ;— and let the saints of the Most High walk in this colony without molestation, in the name of Jehovah, their God forever and ever."' In the same spirit, Roger Williams, perhaps the author of that code, wrote in after years to the peo- ple of his beloved Providence, in the following terms : " Sup- pose a ship goes to sea with many hundred souls on board, whose weal is common.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This spectacle of Ihe wi?t, the powerful, and even tlie pious, rejecting the principle of toleration as tending to the subversion of religion and authority, ^vas not to be seen alone in the colony of Plymouth. The noblest minds of that day, so far as inldleclual reach and piofound scholarship were concerned, chrunk fronri the word, as one, the mere ut- terance of which was sulficient to shake down the walls of Zion and undermine the foundations of civil government ; and it was left for diose, i...n one sense humble and illiterate, but in a higher, traly noble and enlightened, to see by the flame of the stake, and amid trials and persecution, the true nature of that liberty wherewith Christ designed to make man free.
Yet, what the Plymouth colony failed to do, through the weakness of her executive, was actually accomplished in the " Providence Plantations," the asylum of Roger Williams.
Two years before the session of the Maryland Assembly, of ^/■? which I have spoken, the people of that settlement formally adopted a code, having the democratic principle for its basis, and containing this noble enactment : " All men may walk as their consciences persuade them, every one in the name of his God ;— and let the saints of the Most High walk in this colony without molestation, in the name of Jehovah, their God forever and ever."' In the same spirit, Roger Williams, perhaps the author of that code, wrote in after years to the peo- ple of his beloved Providence, in the following terms : " Sup- pose a ship goes to sea with many hundred souls on board, whose weal is common.
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