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Myles Arguments In Blood

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In "Arguments In Milk, Arguments In Blood: Roger Williams, Persecution, And The Discourse Of The Witness" Myles claims, “In this article I will examine how theses linked issues of persecution and interiority relate to Williams’s separatist sense of the absolute division between holiness and pollution, as manifest in two important texts published during his first return trip to England, Mr. Cotton’s Letter Examined and Answered and The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution. Further, I will show how Williams’s emphasis on this division enabled him to express his dissent in a powerful argument of symbols that opens the way toward a language of affect significantly at odds with the orthodox vocabulary of New England” (134). Myles breaks down the texts,

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