That the episcopal form of worship would not be tolerated in the colony.
In 1631 another step was taken which united church and state, for it was then ordered that "no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." This was intolerance of the grossest kind, and soon became the cause of troubles which led to the founding of Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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The Planting of Rhode Island.%--There came to Salem (from Plymouth), in 1633, a young minister named Roger Williams.

He dissented heartily from the intolerance of the people of Massachusetts, and, though a minister of the Salem church, insisted 1.

On the separation of church and state.
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On the toleration of all religious beliefs.
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