Join us for Episode 5, where we carry on the story of Roger Williams. This episode contains Chapters 9 to 11, where we cover Williams' book "A Key into the Language of America"; Williams returning to London during the Civil War and the story of Mr Cotton's Letter. Roger Williams, who fled England and joined the Puritans and pilgrims at Boston, at Massachusetts Bay Colony, and then he founded his own colony, Rhode Island. Roger was a profound thinker who latched upon ideas that transported him to a point unique in America's history. Often when reading his life one wonders. How did he think that?

He was trained as an Anglican C conclusion at Pembroke College at Cambridge University in England. Fell in with the Puritans at his first job, sailed to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife Mary in 1630, and there he claimed he was now a separatist. Yet his thinking moved him to a point well beyond separatist thoughts every day.

He lived life as a pioneer on the American frontier. But he thought and wrote as a theologian, a political scientist and intellectual. In episode one of Roger Williams, I will read from my book The Noble Lives of the American Religious Thinkers and Believers, Roger Williams versus Cotton Mather. I will read parts of chapter One, early days and parts of Chapter Two, religious controversy in England.

(02:49) Chapter 9: A key into the language of America (12:58) Chapter 10: Political and Religious Upheaval in England (21:10) Chapter 11: Mr Cotton's Letter