Ch he so bravely advocated. As the persecutions which drove the
disciples of Christ from Jerusalem were the means of extending the cause
of Christianity, so the principles of toleration and of soul-liberty
were strengthened by opposition, in the mind of this apostle of freedom
of conscience in the New World. His Welsh birth and Puritan education
made him a bold and earnest advocate of whatever truth his conscience
approved, and he went everywhere "preaching the word" of individual
freedom. The sentence of exile could not silence his tongue, nor destroy
his influence. "The divers new and dangerous opinions" which he had
"broached and divulged," though hostile to the notions of the clergy and
the authorities of Massachusetts Bay, were at the same time quite
acceptable to a few brave souls, who, like himself, dared the censures,
and even the persecutions, of their brethren, for the sake of liberty of
conscience. The dwellers in old Rehoboth were the nearest white
neighbors of Roger Williams and his band at Providence. The Reverend
Samuel Newman was the pastor of the church in this ancient town, having
removed with the first settlers from Weymouth in 1643. Learned, godly,
and hospitable, as he was, he had not reached the "height of that great
argument" concerning human freedom; and while he cherished kindly
feelings toward the dwellers at Providence, he evidently feared the
introduction of their sentiments among his people. The jealous care of
Newman to preserve what he conscientiously regarded as the purity of
religious fai
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