 | 1825 - 444 pages
...The following is an extract from the act itself. "Whereas the enforcing of the conscience, in matteri of religion, hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealth* where it hath been practised, and for the more quicf and peaceable government of this... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...strangely enough after such a provision, in the same act, after a preamble, reciting that the confining of conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence, it is enacted, that no person " professing to believe in Jesus Christ," shall be molested for or in... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion," such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute, " hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1834 - 530 pages
...enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion," such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute, " hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 664 pages
...simple and explicit declaration by which it proclaims the inviolability of the rights of conscience. " And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters...religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous con" sequence in those commonwealths where it has been prac" tised, and for the more quiet and peaceable... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - Maryland - 1837 - 742 pages
...the third offence and for every time after shall also be publickly whipt. And whereas the inforcing of the conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to bee of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it hath beene practised, and for the more... | |
 | Christianity - 1838 - 448 pages
...to have acted with remarkable consistency, to this day. A part of the statute is as follows : — ' And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters...dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better... | |
 | Irving Spence - Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (General) - 1838 - 204 pages
...Maryland law would not disparage the legislation of any country, at any time. It is in these words : " Whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters...religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequences in those commonwealths where it hath been practised; and for the more quiet and peaceable... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...of the conscience in matters of religion"—such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute—" hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it CHAP. has been practised, and for the more quiet and peace~ able government of this province, and the... | |
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