Van Dyck, Charles I of England

To Puritans, liberty and religion were inseparable, and they came to America to pursue both. To them, the Roman church, or the kind of Anglicanism Charles I and his Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, were creating in England, were the antithesis of liberty, the essence of thraldom. They associated liberty with godliness because without liberty of conscience godliness was unattainable.

Man had liberty not to do what he liked - that was for the beasts - but to distinguish between good and evil by studying God's commands, and then to do 'that only which is good.'

Man has a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest.