The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things.
Roger WilliamsCivil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
Roger WilliamsI do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.
Roger WilliamsIs it possible that since I hunt, I may be hunting for the life of my Savior and the blood of the Lamb of God? I have fought against many differing sorts of conscience. Is it beyond all possibility and hazard that I have not fought against God, and that I have not persecuted Jesus in some of them?
Roger Williams