 | United States. Congress. House - Legislation - 282 pages
...Specified powers, or as inferted merely for greater caution. Fourth. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be direfted only by reafon and conviction, and not by force or violence, and therefore alt men have an... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore all men are equally... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - District of Columbia - 1816 - 230 pages
...holden at Williamsburgj in May 1766, it was solemnly declared : " 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 and violence ; and therefore all men are equally... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 1 ' Xx. 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, and therefore all men have an equal,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1826 - 844 pages
...specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. tburlh. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason anil conviction, and not by force or violence; and tlierefore all men have... | |
 | James Madison - Church and state - 1828 - 16 pages
...— Because we hold it for a " fundamental and undeniable truth," 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 bj force or violence. The religion, then, of every man,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1834 - 504 pages
...their religious liberty.' Virginia, in its constitution, says : — '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 ; and therefore all men are equally... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1833 - 604 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 10. 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; and, therefore, all men are equally... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...bill. " Because, We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, ' 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.' The religion, then, of every man,... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 568 pages
...— " Because, We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, ' 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.' The religion, then, of every man... | |
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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... 
