Religion in America, Or, An Account of the Origin, Progress, Relation to the State, and Present Condition of the Evangelical Churches in the United States: With Notices of the Unevangelical Denominations |
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... things in this book with which he is already familiar , yet it is presumed he will find some things , especially taken in the connexion in which they are presented , that may both interest and profit him . There is no work among us that ...
... things in this book with which he is already familiar , yet it is presumed he will find some things , especially taken in the connexion in which they are presented , that may both interest and profit him . There is no work among us that ...
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... things than others may be able to do . He is aware that on some subjects he has incurred the danger of those who would walk over hidden fires ; but he trusts to that " charity " which will believe that he has tried to discuss these ...
... things than others may be able to do . He is aware that on some subjects he has incurred the danger of those who would walk over hidden fires ; but he trusts to that " charity " which will believe that he has tried to discuss these ...
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... things as matters of indifference ; for he firmly believes the main- tenance and promotion of true religion to be much affected by them ; but it is not in them that we are to look for that panacea for all evils which many hope to find ...
... things as matters of indifference ; for he firmly believes the main- tenance and promotion of true religion to be much affected by them ; but it is not in them that we are to look for that panacea for all evils which many hope to find ...
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... things . Spain , however , far from at once relin- quishing her pretensions to a country thus discovered by England , insisted on claim- ing a large part of it , and for a long time extended the name of the comparatively insignificant ...
... things . Spain , however , far from at once relin- quishing her pretensions to a country thus discovered by England , insisted on claim- ing a large part of it , and for a long time extended the name of the comparatively insignificant ...
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... things emanating from authors who undertake to speak about countries which they have had only very partial , and hence very imperfect , opportu- nities of knowing . But as the allegation has been made with an air of considerable ...
... things emanating from authors who undertake to speak about countries which they have had only very partial , and hence very imperfect , opportu- nities of knowing . But as the allegation has been made with an air of considerable ...
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Page 50 - Having undertaken for the Glory of God. and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern Parts of Virginia...
Page 115 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 115 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...
Page 85 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Page 108 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern...
Page 109 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but...
Page 115 - ... the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes...
Page 202 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 109 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles, on the supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Page 115 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...