Excerpt from The Spirit of Roger Williams: With a Portrait of One of His Descendants This unpretending little volume, it is hoped, will not prove altogether uninteresting to those who may favor the author with its perusal. Should it fall into the hands of the rigerous sectary, he will doubtless be induced to pass the sentence of condemnation on the writer's views of Christian liberty, and what he considers the only true test of Christian fellowship. But such are respectfully invited to lay aside prejudice, at least for a time, and carefully to compare those views with the precepts and practice of Christ and his Apostles, and then, honestly, and with the true Christian spirit, determine, whether those views be not more consistent with the true spirit of religion, with the welfare and prosperity of the church, and the present and future happiness of mankind, than that system which is narrowed to a single point, and excludes from fellowship and communion, for one supposed error in judgment, the person whose heart may be right. To those whose views agree with those of the writer, he has only to say, that no effort has been made at embellishment; the only object being, to promote the cause of truth and righteousness, and to stimulate others to co-operate in the great and glorious work. 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.