When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.
Roger WilliamsKings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
Roger WilliamsEven if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties he is forbidden to call down fire from heaven, that is, to procure or inflict any corporal punishment upon offenders in religious doctrine or practice, remembering Christ's admonition that He came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Roger Williams