The Baptists and the American revolution . tended to stop Puritan perse-cutions in Massachusetts, and he was successfulfor full fifty years.* On many occasions thekings of Britain stopped Colonial persecutionsand sheltered Baptists and Quakers from thewrath of their American neighbors. It was aserious thing for our Baptist fathers to throwaway this refuge, this last hope in many agloomy day, and trust their religious rights tomen who were executing laws full of tyrannyup to the commencement of the it was a little difficult to join the samemilitary company with the tax-gatherer w
The Baptists and the American revolution . tended to stop Puritan perse-cutions in Massachusetts, and he was successfulfor full fifty years.* On many occasions thekings of Britain stopped Colonial persecutionsand sheltered Baptists and Quakers from thewrath of their American neighbors. It was aserious thing for our Baptist fathers to throwaway this refuge, this last hope in many agloomy day, and trust their religious rights tomen who were executing laws full of tyrannyup to the commencement of the it was a little difficult to join the samemilitary company with the tax-gatherer whohad robbed you by due process of law, the con-stable who had lodged you or your widowedsister or mother in prison because conscience for-bade the payment of a tax to support religion,or the jailer who had put you in the stocks orscourged you for preaching Jesus, or with thejustice who had condemned you. But RogerWilliams, a short time after his banishmentamong the savages, discovered that the Pequot * Backus Clinrch History^ p, 125. 1 f. KOGEK WILLIAMS. 77 78 THE BAPTISTS AND THE Indians were trying to get the Mohegacs andNarragansetts to unite with them in extermi-nating the Massachusetts Colonists, and know-ing the immense power of these tribes in thatday, he at once notified his former persecutorsof their danger, and then having successfullyused his efforts to throw the whole burden offighting the English on the Pequots alone, hesaved the men and their wives and their chil-dren who had no mercy on him.* And likethe great founder of Rhode Island, our Baptistfathers, in Revolutionary days, forgave their per-secutors, and in view of great dangers threaten-ing the liberties and lives of their countrymen,stood knee to knee and shoulder to shoulderwith patriots of loving and persecuting ante-cedents, and never gave up the conflict until theflag of freedom floated in undisturbed majestyover the entire territory claimed by the thirteenColonies. * Collections of the Ehode Island Hi
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