Mary Dyer and Dissenters

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Mary Dyer was a British born religious figure whose martyrdom to her Quaker faith helped relieve the persecution of that group in the Mass Bay Colony. She came to Boston, converted under Anne Hutchinson, was banished to Rhode Island, then returned to New England in 1657 and took up missionary work on behalf of the Quakers despite severe anti-quaker laws which made it perilous. She was imprisoned in Boston in 1657 and 1659 before being formally banished with the threat of execution should she return. She did return in October. Arrested and condemned, she was reprieved while at the gallows (two others were hanged that day) by the intercession of her son and the governors of Connecticut and Nova Scotia. She was again expelled. In May 1660 she returned again in obedience to her conscience and in defiance of the law. She was hanged publicly on June 1, 1660. Her death gradually came to be considered a martyrdom even in Massachusetts, where it hastened the easing of anti-Quaker statues.

(Video includes other religious dissenters including Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and Robert Kane)

What fruitage did these spiritual leaders produce? Mt 7:15-20. Consider John 17:16 vs Acts 20:29, 30. What would Jesus have said seeing this?

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Barrett-Dyer