 THAT all Persons living in this Province, who confess and acknowledge the One Almighty and Eternal GOD, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World, and that hold themselves obliged in Conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil Society, shall...  Gowan's bibliotheca americana... - Page 3761845Full view - About this book
 | John Gilmary Shea - 1886 - 734 pages
...civil society, shall in no way be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practise in matters of faith and worship, nor shall they be...any religious worship, place or ministry whatever." 1 Penn exerted himself to obtain emigrants from Germany, and among the settlers who came out there... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...seq. ''Ibid., 558, etseq. u Ibid., 568, et teq. peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in noways be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion...any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." Thus, Jew or Gentile was to be protected both in his faith and in the observance of it, and could live... | |
 | Scotch-Irish Society of America - Scots-Irish - 1893 - 374 pages
...hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no wise be molested or. prejudiced for their religious persuasion...any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." Secondly, because of the central position of the province. Thirdly, because of the many alliances even... | |
 | Scots-Irish - 1893 - 376 pages
...hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no wise be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion...any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." Secondly, because of the central position of the province. Thirdly, because of the many alliances even... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - Church history - 1894 - 466 pages
...hold themselves obliged in conscience 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. " The strong aversion of the Quakers to ecclesiasticism, carried to the point of repudiating... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - Great Britain - 1894 - 436 pages
...was its further development more liberal. A clause was added indeed, to the effect that none ' should be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.' But on the other hand all the officials of the state, and even the electors (under the... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Henry Codman Potter, Samuel Macauley Jackson - United States - 1895 - 552 pages
...hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no way be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion,...any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever." Knowing for certain that Jesuits passed to and fro between 'New York and Maryland, we may conjecture... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry - United States - 1896 - 518 pages
...justly in civil society, shall, In no ways, be molested, or prejudiced, for their religious pcrswasion, or practice, in matters of faith and worship; nor shall they be compelled, at any lime, to frequent, or maintain, any religions worship, place or ministry whatever." CHRONOLOGY. 1589.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 682 pages
...than this ; with the sad example of New England experience in his thought, he added that nobody shall be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever. Only murder and treason were to be punishable by death. That, at least, was insisted upon... | |
 | Pennsylvania Dutch - 1898 - 190 pages
...world."1 Among the laws agreed upon in England in 1682, and in force in 1682-1700, is the following: "That all persons living in this province, who confess...maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever."1 In 1697, this law was reenacted, with the additional clause : " and if any person shall... | |
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