 Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations,...  A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia - Page 122by Oren Frederic Morton - 1910 - 493 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments,...from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was... | |
 | Patrick Sauer - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 454 pages
...God hath created the free mind. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens ... are a departure from the plan of the holy author of...compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 306 pages
...or burtheas, or by civil iricapacitations, rend only to beget habits of hypo.¿ crify 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 Preamble of the to propagate it by coercions... | |
 | Charles W. Dunn - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 232 pages
...all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion." The Northwest Ordinance (1787) stated, "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion" is from the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The southeast wall proclaims Jefferson's belief... | |
 | Steven D. Smith - Law - 2001 - 250 pages
...Statute for Religious Freedom ("Almighty God hath created the mind free" so that infringements on freedom are "a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion") 9 and the Declaration of Independence ("endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"),... | |
 | James W. Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 390 pages
...of restraining; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civll incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy...from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was... | |
 | Preston D. Graham - History - 2002 - 332 pages
...— that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incorporations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness,...from the plan of the holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was... | |
 | Loren P. Beth - Church and state - 2002 - 192 pages
...Jefferson was more explicit in discussing the act. He wrote: 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 word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read, "a departure... | |
 | History - 2003 - 108 pages
...manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint: that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments,...from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was... | |
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