 | James Pinkney Hambleton - Virginia - 1856 - 564 pages
...and conscience, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are entitled to a free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of nil to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other." The act for the establishment... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 700 pages
...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." are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding... | |
 | Charles Campbell - History - 1860 - 772 pages
...of the house, and Archibald Gary speaker of the senate. The new declaration of rights asserted that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience;" yet it appeared that the assembly intended to continue the old church... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 pages
...condescension; and as the earnestness of his convictions overcame his modesty, he went on to demonstrate that " all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." His CHAP. motion, which did but state with better dialectics the —... | |
 | Charles Campbell - Virginia - 1860 - 766 pages
...of the house, and Archibald Gary speaker of the senate. The new declaration of rights asserted that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience;" yet it appeared that the assembly intended to continue the old church... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...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...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. The constitution was framed to... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...only by reason and conviction, sot by AD 1776.] HISTORY OF AMERICA. [VIRGINIAN CONSTITUTION. force or violence; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled...dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual doty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, tod charity towards each other. The constitution... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...religion. He labored to remove the legal disabilities from the Baptists in Virginia, and demonstrated that all men are equally entitled to the -free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience. The following paragraphs from his messages exhibit his views on God... | |
 | Edward Buck - Ecclesiastical law - 1866 - 318 pages
...1776, at Mr. Madison's suggestion, had adopted, in lieu of " toleration," the following clause : " all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of Conscience." 25 Ch. Review, 33. John Murray, the father of Universalism in this... | |
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