Religion in America, Or, An Account of the Origin, Progress, Relation to the State, and Present Condition of the Evangelical Churches in the United States: With Notices of the Unevangelical DenominationsHarper, 1844 - 343 Seiten |
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... truth . He trusts that in doing so he has not violated that Christian charity which ought to regulate our opinions as well as our actions in relation to others . It has given him great pleasure to speak of the zeal and the prosperity of ...
... truth . He trusts that in doing so he has not violated that Christian charity which ought to regulate our opinions as well as our actions in relation to others . It has given him great pleasure to speak of the zeal and the prosperity of ...
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... truth , in no unkindness of spirit . He felt compelled , however , to follow what he believed to be the clear demands of truth . It is probable that many readers will not agree with the author in all his statements and computations ...
... truth , in no unkindness of spirit . He felt compelled , however , to follow what he believed to be the clear demands of truth . It is probable that many readers will not agree with the author in all his statements and computations ...
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... truth . Neither , if national character depends infancy , and where located , as generally happens , in the neighbourhood of settlers- who speak English as their mother tongue , learn to speak it well . Indeed , over nearly the whole ...
... truth . Neither , if national character depends infancy , and where located , as generally happens , in the neighbourhood of settlers- who speak English as their mother tongue , learn to speak it well . Indeed , over nearly the whole ...
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... truth when , giving way to the same speculative tendency , he asserts that " the human mind in Democratic countries must tend to pantheism . " * But enough : all that I have wished to show in referring to M. de Tocqueville's work , in ...
... truth when , giving way to the same speculative tendency , he asserts that " the human mind in Democratic countries must tend to pantheism . " * But enough : all that I have wished to show in referring to M. de Tocqueville's work , in ...
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... truth than this . cles which the " American plan " of sup- porting religion had to overcome arose from the erroneous views of the colonists on the subject of religious liberty . The voluntary system rests on the grand basis of perfect ...
... truth than this . cles which the " American plan " of sup- porting religion had to overcome arose from the erroneous views of the colonists on the subject of religious liberty . The voluntary system rests on the grand basis of perfect ...
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Seite 50 - Having undertaken for the Glory of God. and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern Parts of Virginia...
Seite 115 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Seite 115 - 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...
Seite 85 - 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.
Seite 108 - ... 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 109 - 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...
Seite 115 - ... the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes...
Seite 202 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Seite 109 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles, on the supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Seite 115 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...