 Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our...  Christianity and American Democracy - Page 27by Hugh Heclo - 2009 - 312 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | English literature - 1786 - 716 pages
...burthens, or by civil incapaci'.ations, ten J only to beget habits of hypocrify and meannrfs, and are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of bnily and mind, yet cbofe not to prop4gate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power... | |
 | Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, Étienne Clavière - France - 1783 - 388 pages
...burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits 01 hypocrity and meannefs, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who, f^'being Lord both of body and mind, yet chofe not \ to propagate it by coercions on either, as was... | |
 | John Jebb, John Disney - Theology - 1787 - 612 pages
...punifliments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrify, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord of body and mind, yet chofe not to propagate it by coercions on either; that the impious prefumption... | |
 | William Gordon - United States - 1788 - 618 pages
...punifhments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrify, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord of body and mind, yet chofe not to propagate it by coercions on either; — That the impious preiumption... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1794 - 288 pages
...burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrify and meannefs, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our...religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet qhofe not to propagate it by coercions on eidier, as was in his Almighty power to do ; diat the impious... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...incapacitations tend only to beget habits of hy44 pocrify and meannefs, and are a departure from 4* the plan of the holy author of our religion, who, ** being lord both of body and mind, yet chofe ** not to propagate it by coercions on either, as 44 was in his almighty power to do. 44 That... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrify and meannefs, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our...religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chofe not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do ; that the impious... | |
 | William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...burtheiJS, orl>y civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits •of hypocrisy, and are a departuie from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord of body and mind, vet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either; — That the impious presumption... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...its protection of opinion was J 36 meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the words ' Jesus Christ,' so that it should read, 'a departure... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 840 pages
...burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our...being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption... | |
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