How Did Roger Williams Influence The Baptist

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Roger Williams was a Puritan, an English reformed theologian, and later a reformed Baptist who was an early proponent of religious freedom and separation of church and state. Also, he was a supporter the Free Will Baptist movement. The effects of his teachings on modern Baptist ideas are prominent and will be discussed in greater detail here. Williams was born in London around 1603; notwithstanding, the correct date has not been built up by researchers since his introduction to the world records were annihilated in the Great Fire of London of 1666 when Saint Sepulcher's Church was burned. His father James Williams (1562–1620) was a vendor tailor in Smithfield (now a portion of London); his mother was Alice Pemberton (1564–1635). At an early