The Good Fight of Faith – If one studies the history of liberty in the USA they can find the persecution of the “liberty of conscience” in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s resulting in the shedding of blood of Obadiah Holmes and as well as the confiscation of property and other persecutions.

B Dwayne Hinson Admin May 16, 2020

The Good Fight of Faith – If one studies the history of liberty in the USA they can find the persecution of the “liberty of conscience” in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s resulting in the shedding of blood of Obadiah Holmes and as well as the confiscation of property and other persecutions.

If one studies the history of liberty in the USA they can find the persecution of the “liberty of conscience” in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s resulting in the shedding of blood of Obadiah Holmes and as well as the confiscation of property and other persecutions. The beating of Obadiah Holmes on Sept. 5, 1651 gave a partial fulfillment of a statement by Tertullian in the early days of church history, “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”.

Following history from the beating of Obadiah Holmes, we see the Rhode Island Charter obtained by John Clarke, pastor of the First Baptist Church in what became the USA. More persecutions as God used his churches reaching down into NC and even the War of the Regulators in 1771. We find direct historical ties through Baptist churches linking the meeting of John Leland and James Madison through all this to the beating of Obadiah Holmes and even further back in world history to cruel persecutions in the dark ages of the midnight of this world. It was at this meeting of John Leland and James Madison that the Bill of Rights was promised. Hence this present day Pastor in Massachusetts, as do the rest of us, owes an unspeakable debt to those who have gone before us, most as unsung heros in obscurity, giving all they had to secure the world’s recognition of the God given right of Liberty of Conscience to all humanity, today known in the USA as the First Amendment. Press on unsung heros living in obscurity; fight the good fight of faith!

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