"When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will ever please to restore His garden and Paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world, and all that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World."

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Roger Williams

Theologian, Minister

Roger Williams was a 17th-century theologian and founder of Rhode Island, known for his pioneering ideas on religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

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