The Test of Experience: Or, The Voluntary Principle in the United StatesA. Cockshaw, 1851 - 124 Seiten |
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... authority ; and for matters of history , as having access to all the best sources of information , he is scarcely less so . In this latter particular a writer in this country is necessarily at a disadvantage . Such original works as I ...
... authority ; and for matters of history , as having access to all the best sources of information , he is scarcely less so . In this latter particular a writer in this country is necessarily at a disadvantage . Such original works as I ...
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... authority of Archbishop Laud . In Maryland , the quakers and Roman Catholics were treated with great injustice ; and in the state of New York , matters were carried with a still higher hand . Lord Cornbury used strenuous efforts to ...
... authority of Archbishop Laud . In Maryland , the quakers and Roman Catholics were treated with great injustice ; and in the state of New York , matters were carried with a still higher hand . Lord Cornbury used strenuous efforts to ...
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... authority of this court , the laws of the country , and the law of God , may rather persuade us to expect encouragement and commendation from all prudent and pious men , than convince us of any necessity to apolo- gise for the same ...
... authority of this court , the laws of the country , and the law of God , may rather persuade us to expect encouragement and commendation from all prudent and pious men , than convince us of any necessity to apolo- gise for the same ...
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... authority , the court of final appeal . All the interests of society converge to this point ; -religion is its life , its power , its beauty . It is like the substrata of the world , on * Reed and Matheson's Narrative , p . 493 . which ...
... authority , the court of final appeal . All the interests of society converge to this point ; -religion is its life , its power , its beauty . It is like the substrata of the world , on * Reed and Matheson's Narrative , p . 493 . which ...
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... authority than that of Dr. Baird , who speaks in the strongest terms of the subsequent opinions of these distinguished men . " It ought to be known , " says he , " that not a single survivor at this day , of all who once wrote against ...
... authority than that of Dr. Baird , who speaks in the strongest terms of the subsequent opinions of these distinguished men . " It ought to be known , " says he , " that not a single survivor at this day , of all who once wrote against ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American Bible Society American clergy amount Assembly atheism Baird Baptists Bible Bishop of London body Captain Marryatt CHAPTER character Christian church accommodation church establishments Church of England civil colony compulsory principle Congregationalists congregations conscience course denominations dissenters dollars ecclesiastical establishment effected England episcopal church Episcopalians established church evangelical existence favour give gospel greater number increased influence irreligious judgment labours less liberty Mary Dyer Massachusetts Matheson's Narrative matter ment Methodists ministry missionaries nation nature number of churches number of communicants observed opinion ourselves parish pastor persons piety places of worship political population preach preachers Presbyterians profess protestant quakers question Reed and Matheson's Reformed Reformed Baptists religion religious establishments respect says Dr schools sects sentiments settlements society spirit statistical paper Sunday-school Swedenborgians testimony theological things tion union United Virginia Virginian group voluntary principle voluntary system Voluntaryism
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 32 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern...
Seite 33 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Seite 33 - ... truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons — free argument and debate — errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
Seite 33 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess , and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Seite 36 - ... all religious sects and denominations, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good citizens of the Commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law ; and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another, shall ever be established by law.
Seite 33 - NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Seite 29 - 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 entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.
Seite 100 - On my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention ; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things.
Seite 30 - Therefore, we ask no ecclesiastical establishments for ourselves ; neither can we approve of them when granted to others.
Seite 10 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.