...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...

...conscience, which should never be forgotten by human governments. " Whereas, (says it,) the enforcing of the conscience, in matters of religion, hath frequently...dangerous consequence, in those commonwealths where it hath been practised ; and for the more quiet and peaceable government of the province, and the better...

...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...

...which it proclaims the inviolability of the rights of conscience. " And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of " 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...

...the legislation of any country, at any time. It is in these words : " Whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of 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...

...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...

...»oble and eloquent assertion and vindication of the rights of conscience. After reciting thjt " tie enforcing of conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dingerous consequence to those common"íaühs where it hath been practised, and the kitcr to preserve...

...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 1 Bacon's Preface. Chalmers, 2 Bacon, 1650, c. xxiv. 217, 218. Burk, ii. 112. McMa- 3 Ibid. 1649, c....

...1643 a noble and eloquent assertion and vindication of the rights of conscience. After reciting that " the enforcing of conscience in matters of religion...frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence to those commonwealths where it hath been practised, and the better to preserve mutual love and unity...

...third offence, and every time after, to be publicly whipped. " 5. And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion hath frequently...dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it hath been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and better to...