A Discourse Delivered At Providence Aug 5 1836 In Commemoration Of The First Settlement Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations

Author : John Pitman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331596417
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Discourse Delivered at Providence, August 5, 1836 written by John Pitman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Discourse Delivered at Providence, August 5, 1836: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations; Being the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Providence March 27, 1634. Here, indeed, was an asylum for the Catholic and the Protestant, such as then existed no where else in the Christ ian world; and, what might excite our special wonder, under the government of Roman Catholics. It is to be remembered, however, that this colony belonged to a Protestant nation, and could not have existed if there had been no liberty for Protestants. It has been suggested by an able writer* of our country, that a toleration of the Church of England would have satisfied the English government; yet it could not have es caped the sagacity of that Observing statesman, Sir George Calvert, that such a toleration would have been the most dangerous for his Catholic colonists. He had experienced, in Virginia, what his col ony would have to fear from their Episcopalian neighbors; and if he was compelled to tolerate one sect of Protestants, true. Policy re quired that he should give freedom to all, that the Puritans might aid the Catholics in preventing the preponderance and intolerance of those who belonged to the national church. It was, no doubt, in pursuance of this policy, that afterwards, Lord Baltimore invited the Puritans of Massachusetts to emigrate to Maryland, offering them lands, and privileges, and free liberty of religion. The founder of rhode-island, not guided by policy, but pursuing his principle to its legitimate conclusion, confined not his views to the boundaries of Christianity, but denied the right of the magistrate to interfere with the religious conscience of any man. Here the Papist, the Protestant, the Jew, the Turk, might have remained uh molested, so long as they disturbed not the public peace.1' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.