1645 RICHARD OVERTON. Baptist Friend of Roger Williams Argues for Religious Liberty. Satire! Puritan On the GENERAL THANKSGIVING

On the GENERAL THANKSGIVING

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1645 RICHARD OVERTON. Baptist Friend of Roger Williams Argues for Religious Liberty. Satire! Puritan On the GENERAL THANKSGIVINGA wonderfully witty, sarcastic work written by fellow Baptist and advocate of religious liberty, Richard Overton [d. 1664]. Rogers Williams, author of The Bloudy Tenent and perhaps the most influential early theologian of American religious liberty, was friends with Overton and Overton's writings actually influenced Williams' ideas of religious toleration. Both Williams and Overton produced works in 1644 and 1645 reproving the Westminster Assembly [of