 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 480 pages
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not...all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 344 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other. i4 DECLARATION... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1886 - 486 pages
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not...all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1408 pages
...inserted merely for greater caution. I;IV. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1226 pages
...memorable words of the bill of rights, as follows: "Religion, ortheduty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience." It is plain to the commonest understanding that, in order to the dissemination... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...following was the 20th section, namely : ' The religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and inalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1887 - 764 pages
...rights," and put on record, the last is, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men have an equal, natural, and inalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Church and state - 1888 - 184 pages
...July 4, 1776), and reads as follows : " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other." a New Hampshire proposed twelve... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 802 pages
...by the convention, and adopted in this form: "That religion, or the duty we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Discussion of the constitution and plan of government was continued... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...speeches in Elliot, iii. 593 sqq. • ' That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...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... | |
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