...it is declared and approved and held forever as fundamental in ih* government of the province : '• That all persons living in this province who confess...any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." I consider moreover all religious tests to be destructive of a sound principle that lies at the foundation...

...first constitution : "All persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almghity and Eternal God to be the Creator, Upholder, and Ruler...maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever." And now we may be allowed to ask, in a moment of honest exultation, What nobler heritage...

...Pennsylvania, and is in these words: — "That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge one Almighty and Eternal God to be the Creator, Upholder,...religious worship, place, or ministry, whatever." This recognition of religious liberty had great influence upon those who had recently experienced the...

...molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practice, in matters of faith and worship, or be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." This principle was as politic as it was liberal. On its publication, many respectable families, from...

...molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practice, in matters of faith and worship, or be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." This principle was as politic as it was liberal. On its publication, many respectable families, from...

...hold themselves in conscience obliged to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no wise be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion...maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry, whatsoever, contrary to his or their mind, or to do or suffer any other act or thing contrary to their...

...themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no ways be molested for their religious persuasion or practice in matters...any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." To which was added another equally conducive to the welfare of society : " That, according to the good...

...molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practice, in matters of faith and worship, or be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." This principle was as politic as it was liberal. On its publication, many respectable families, from...

...no wise be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practice in matters of faith or worship ; nor shall they be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship-place or ministry whatever."* The Abbe Raynal in his History of the Indies says : " Penn's...

...themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society." None such were to be " molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion,...any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." Yet the very next provision, with on inconsistency ef which examples are sufficiently numerous, proceeded...