Quote#God & Faith
A civil sword (as woeful experience in all ages has proved) is so far…
Quote byRoger Williams · 1603–1683
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience (1644).
English (original)
A civil sword (as woeful experience in all ages has proved) is so far from bringing or helping forward an opposite in religion to repentance that magistrates sin grievously against the work of God and blood of souls by such proceedings... Religion cannot be true which needs such instruments of violence to uphold it so.
— Roger Williams
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