 | United States. Congress. House - Legislation - 282 pages
...Specified powers, or as inferted merely for greater caution. Fourth. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be direfted only by reafon and conviction, and not by force or violence, and therefore alt men have an... | |
 | Robert Baylor Semple - Baptists - 1810 - 514 pages
...we hold it for a fundamental and unalienable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reafon and eonvidion, not by force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man, muft be left to... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 588 pages
...we hold it for a fundamental and unalienable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man, must be left to the conviction and conscience of every... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - District of Columbia - 1816 - 230 pages
...holden at Williamsburgj in May 1766, it was solemnly declared : " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of their religion, according... | |
 | 1817 - 442 pages
...we hold it for a fundamental and unalienable truth, "that religion, or the duty which we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man, must be left to the conviction and conscience of every... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. iv. That religion, OP the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion. 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... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1821 - 674 pages
...frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1826 - 844 pages
...specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. tburlh. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason anil conviction, and not by force or violence; and tlierefore all men have an equal, natural, and uualienable... | |
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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... 
