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undoubted orthodoxy , were also scrupulously attentive to sabbatical observances . In the just-mentioned code called the Blue Laws , are the following remarkable enactments , sanctioned by
rigorous penalties : — u No food or Ibdgitig shall be afforded to a Quaker , Adamite ^ or other heretic .
'' If any persdii - turns- Quaker , he shall be banished and sot suffered to return upon pain of death . u No one shall run on the sabbath day or walk in his garden or elsewhere , except reTerently to and from meeting . " No one shall traVel , cook victuals ^ make beds ^ sweep house ^ cut hair , or shave on the sabbath day . " No woman shall ' kis $ her child otf the sabjbati or fasting day * ( Fenwick ' s ( Jeil . Hist of Connecticut quoted in M . Rev * 66 . 256 . )
These judaizitig Christians seem never fo have considered il * e divine declatratidni 4 € I will have mercy and riot sacrifice / ' nor to have remembered that the sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath / ' Their persecuting spirit has long ago passed away froiln the land of ^ freedom , A very honourable exception to it appeared even in their own age . It is thus
tneationed in Gordon ' s \ History of the American Revolution /* u Roger Williams ( pastor of the church at Salem , bat expelfedt on account of theAntmomian disputes , ) justly claims the honour of having been the first legislator in the world in its latter atges , who -eft * factually provided for , and established a free , full ^ and absolute liberty of conscience * . This was the chief cause that united the inhabitants *
of Rhode Island and those of Providence , and made them one people , and one colony . The foundation principle on which this colony was first settled was , that * every man who submits peaceably to the civil authority , may peaceably worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience without molestation . ' When the colony was > applied to in 1656 by the four united colonies to join them in taking effectual methods to suppress the Quakers , and prevent their pernicious doctrines being propagated in the country ; ' the assembly returned for answer , ' we shall strictly adhere to the foundation principle on which this colony was first settled / " Gordon . ( I . 37 ) . Wishing you success in your laudable attempts to advance the interests of truth and freedom- I am Sir , yours ,,
Font ale , July 5 , 1807 . I . O . U . I * Neal attributes to Mr . Williams , amidst some theological eccentricities , the following " large and generous principle of toleration : " that , " the magistrate had nothing to do with matters of the first table , but only the second , that therefore there should be a g-eneral and unlimited toleration for all religions , and to puni h men for matteri of conscience was persecution . " Neal ' s New England , id Ed . i . i ; 8 .
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Orthodoxy and Charity , illustrated by Examples . 481
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/29/
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