| Samuel Perkins - 1842 - 500 páginas
...the king and parliament; the concluding one contains these propositions, which were then novel : " That religion, or the duty which we' owe to our Creator,...practice christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." In Ib30, a new constitution was formed upon the basis of the former one, and preserving... | |
| Rhode Island - 1844 - 612 páginas
...as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. ••• IV. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
| Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 páginas
...vicious and encourage the virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual ; but that the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, and is nowhere cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal... | |
| Robert Baird - 1844 - 390 páginas
...vicious and encourage the virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual ; but that the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, and is nowhere cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal... | |
| Robert Baird - 1844 - 360 páginas
...believe their accountability to Him requires. It has been truly said, that ' religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be dictated only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.'* Mr. Locke himself, who did not... | |
| Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 páginas
...religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." But the constitution itself, passed June 29th, is silent on the subject... | |
| Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 páginas
...religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of retigion, according to the dictates of con. science." But the constitution itself, passed June 29th,... | |
| Henry Howe - 1845 - 616 páginas
...1776, the principle of religious freedom is distinctly asserted in the last article, which declares, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally... | |
| Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 páginas
...recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That rnligion, or the duty which we owe *o our Creator. ;md the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. AN AMENDED CONSTITUTION, OR FORM... | |
| John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 páginas
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. CONSTITUTION. AKTICLE I. posterity,... | |
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