The Foundation of Maryland and the Origin of the Act Concerning Religion of April 21, 1649 |
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Act concerning Religion adopted aforesaid appointed Arundel Assem Assembly Proceedings assented authority Baron of Baltimore Bill Bozman Canon Law Cecil Calvert Charter Christian Church civil clergy Code Colony commission Conditions of Plantation consent Court Leet declared ecclesiastical persons enacted enjoy estates exemptions faith Father freemen Governor grant heirs Henry House Indians institutions Isle of Kent Jesuits jurisdiction King land Leonard Calvert liberty of conscience license Lord Baltimore Lord Proprietary Lords and Proprietaries Lordship manor Mary Moreover oath offence ordinance Papists Parliament party passed peace person or persons persons whatsoever Petition Petition of Right priests prietary Prince privileges prohibited Protestant Province of Maryland Prynce punishment Puritans records religious toleration Richard Blount Roman Catholic Secretary Lewger secured sent settlement Sixteen Laws Society of Jesus Statutes of Mortmain Stonyhurst MSS Streeter Papers summoned temporal thereof theyr tion Virginia William Woodstock Letters
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Page 147 - That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ (though differing in judgment from the doctrine, worship or discipline publicly held forth) shall not be restrained from, but shall be protected in, the profession of the faith and exercise of their religion...
Page 117 - Creekes, or havens thereunto belonging professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent...
Page 97 - Honest men served you faithfully in this action. Sir, they are trusty. I beseech you in the name of God not to discourage them. I wish this action may beget thankfulness and humility in all that are concerned in it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.
Page 182 - Him, or deny our Saviour Jesus Christ to be the Son of God, or shall deny the Holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost, or the Godhead of any of the said three Persons of the Trinity or the unity of the Godhead, or shall use or utter any reproachful speeches, words or language concerning the said Holy Trinity, or any of the said three persons thereof...
Page 189 - That all and every person and persons (not distempered with sickness, or distracted in brain) who shall presume avowedly in words to profess, or shall by writing proceed to affirm and maintain him or her self, or any other meer Creature, to be very God, or to be Infinite or Almighty, or in Honor, Excellency, Majesty and Power to be equal, and the same with the true God, or that the true God, or the Eternal Majesty dwells in the Creature and no where...
Page 184 - ... no person or persons whatsoever within this province or the islands, ports, harbours, creeks, or havens thereunto belonging, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any waies troubled, molested, or discountenanced, for or in respect of his or her religion, nor in the free exercise thereof within this province or the islands thereunto belonging, nor any way compelled to the beleefe or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent, so as they be not unfaithful!
Page 192 - ... not go to such haven, and within such time as is before appointed, and from thence depart out of this realm, according to this present act, or, after such his departure, shall return or come again into any her majesty's realms or dominions, without her majesty's special...
Page 97 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
Page 136 - ... and follow what religion he would, and that he might do the best he could to bring other to his opinion ; so that he did it peaceably, gently, quietly, and soberly, without hasty and contentious rebuking and inveighing against other.
Page 110 - I will not by myself, nor any person directly or indirectly, trouble, molest, or discountenance any person whatsoever in the said province professing to believe in Jesus Christ, and in particular no Roman Catholick, for or in respect of his or her religion...