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Rekindled Chapter 1 opens with HH’s story as if it is certain who he was. That certainty is fiction. What is known is that the introductions to Roger Williams’s book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution opens with HH’s writing, and Roger Williams asserted that it came out of Newgate prison.  The introduction is clearly meant as an inspiration for what follows in the book: a rational for the separation of church and state. Because the text of HH’s writing showed…..

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