 | James Pinkney Hambleton - 1856 - 550 Seiten
...privilege was not so extensive. But our glorious old Bill of Eights provided " that religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conscience, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are entitled to a free exercise of religion,... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1859 - 700 Seiten
...article of Colonel Mason's draught related to the vital subject of religious freedom. Setting forth, that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, it proceeded to declare that "all men should, therefore, enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1859 - 702 Seiten
...remonstrate against the said bill ; — Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...be directed only by reason and conviction, not by MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE. 635 force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man must be left to... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 282 Seiten
...ought to be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 20. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to Ike free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 Seiten
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, nll men are equally entitled to the free exercise of it, according to the dictates of conscience ;... | |
 | Episcopal Church. General Convention - 1861 - 698 Seiten
...by the 16th Article of the Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...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... | |
 | Virginia - 1862 - 238 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a- frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...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... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...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... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1863 - 312 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...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... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 Seiten
...moderation, temperance. &»• . gality, and virtue, and by frequent recumnc* to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of ducharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, sot by AD 1776.] HISTORY OF AMERICA.... | |
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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... 
