as on Gods grace and laws. The Puritan followers were obligated to adhere and embrace the doctrine or be outcast. Puritans believed that Gods will alone dictated all that would happen to people. God was the ultimate sovereign and although he died for the sins of man, he was not a god of love, but a punishing, vengeful God. God was seen less often as savior than executioner. As depicted in the Tenants of Calvinism, under John Winthrop, after the loss of their child, a Puritan couple saw the death of their child as a punishment from God for spoiling the child rather than realizing the responsibility was theirs for not supervising the child as they should have. They didnt see the accident as being preventable, but as a judgement passed down to them by a cruel God (American Literature Part I, The Seventeenth Century). In the eyes of the Puritan, everything that happened in the world was because God wanted it that way. If God was pleased, good times came. If he wasnt hardship and disaster followed.There was no place for toleration in Puritan America. Those not in agreement with the colonys purposes and government would be forced to move elsewhere. Many people learned this very quickly as they were banished from Massachusetts for various reasons. Roger Williams was one of these people. He was unorthodox and was considered a radical. Williams was an author who argued over religious issues with John Cotton, an associate of John Winthrop. Williams responded to Cottons writings in The Bloudy Tenant of Persecution for cause of Conscience. He became an outcast as a result of his part in writing controversial literature. He challenged the charter of the colony and preached that the church and state should be separate so the government could not force religion on individuals. Williams proved himself a radical when he questioned the existing order that Christian rulers had divine right to the lands of the heathen, therefore questioning the King...
