. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. tts. This banishment was not a light matter. He wasobliged to leave the settlements in the winter. Buthe was hospitably received by Canonicus, and found apermanent shelter in Rhode Island. In 1638, Mr. William Coddington, one of theoriginal planters of Massachusetts, a respectable mer-chant in Boston, and one of the first assistants (incouncil,) disgusted with the proceedings of the govern-ment against the Antinomians, and not impro
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. tts. This banishment was not a light matter. He wasobliged to leave the settlements in the winter. Buthe was hospitably received by Canonicus, and found apermanent shelter in Rhode Island. In 1638, Mr. William Coddington, one of theoriginal planters of Massachusetts, a respectable mer-chant in Boston, and one of the first assistants (incouncil,) disgusted with the proceedings of the govern-ment against the Antinomians, and not improbablyattached to their doctrines, having sold his estate,quitted the jurisdiction, and, with a number of hisassociates, settled on the island of Aquidnick (orAquetnec), in Narrhagansett Bay, and named it RhodeIsland. Such was the commencement of that colony, ofwhich, though Coddington was the first governor,Roger Williams is to be considered as the founderand legislator, as the settlement was made under hisadvice; and to him is attributed the merit of havingfirst set an example of the equal toleration of all reli-gious sects in the same political
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