Roger Williams argued that true Christianity was lost under Constantine and that revelation was the means of authority (as opposed to a Baptist baptism or a Congressionalist covenant). This would open the 3rd dispensation (1. Primitive purity, 2. Transgression and apostasy, and "There is a Time of purity and Primitive Sincerity, there in a time of Transgression and Apostasy, there is a time of the coming of the Babylonian Apostasy and Wilderness." This would be an age of spirit; in this "restauration of Zion . . . it may please the Lord againe to . . . powre forth those fiery streames againe of Tongues and Prophecie."
[Source: Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. p.43]
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