_BY_ JOHN COTTON Batchelor in Divinity, and Teacher of the Church of Christ at _Boston_ in _New-England_. _LONDON_, Printed by _Matthew Symmons_ for _Hannah Allen_, at the _Crowne_ in _Popes-Head_-Alley. 1647. [Illustration] THE BLOODY TENENT YET More Bloody: BY Mr _Cottons_ endevour to wash it white in the BLOOD of the _LAMBE_; Of whose precious Blood, spilt in the Blood of his Servants; and Of the blood of Millions spilt in former and later Wars for Conscience sake, THAT Most Bloody Tenent of Persecution for cause of Conscience, upon a second Tryal, is found now more apparently and more notoriously guilty. In this Rejoynder to Mr _Cotton_, are principally I. _The Nature of Persecution_, } } Examined; II. _The Power of the Civill Sword } in Spirituals_ } III. _The Parliaments permission of_ } Justified. _Dissenting Consciences_ } Also (as a Testimony to Mʳ _Clarks_ Narrative) is added a Letter to Mr _Endicot_ Governor of the _Massachusets_ in _N. E._ By R. WILLIAMS of _Providence_ in _New-England_. _London_, Printed for _Giles Calvert_, and are to be sold at the black-spread-Eagle at the West-end of _Pauls_, 1652. Roger Williams published his fifth work in 1652. It was a pamphlet of forty-four small quarto pages, entitled: The Hireling Ministry None of Christs, or A Discourse touching the Propagating the Gospel of Christ Jesus. Humbly Presented to such Pious and Honourable Hands, whom the present Debate thereof concerns. By Roger Williams, of Providence, in New England. London Printed in the second Moneth, 1652. The purpose of this work was to oppose a legal establishment of religion, and the compulsory support of the clergy. An original copy is in the Library of Brown University, two copies are in the American Antiquarian Society Library at Worcester, and one in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I. The same year he issued a pamphlet entitled: Experiments of Spiritual Life & Health, And their Preservatives, In which the weakest Child of God may get Assurance of his Spirituall Life and Blessednesse, and the Strongest may finde proportionable Discoveries of his Christian Growth, and the means of it. By Roger Williams of Providence in New-England. London, Printed, in the Second Month, 1652.