| Charles Wilkins Webber - History - 1855 - 600 pages
...principles. 16. 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, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercises of religion, according... | |
| Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...principles. 16. 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 to the dictates... | |
| James Pinkney Hambleton - Virginia - 1856 - 564 pages
...declares. " 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 to the dictates... | |
| James Pinkney Hambleton - History - 1856 - 550 pages
...declares. " 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 to the dictates... | |
| William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...principles. 14. 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, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according... | |
| William Cabell Rives - United States - 1859 - 700 pages
...Setting forth, 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, it proceeded to declare that "all men should, therefore, enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise... | |
| George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, nll men are equally entitled to the free exercise of it, according to the dictates of conscience... | |
| John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 282 pages
...stead. 20. 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 have an equal, natural and unalienable right to Ike free exercise of religion, according... | |
| John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 278 pages
...stead. 20. 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 have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
| Episcopal Church. General Convention - United States - 1861 - 698 pages
...viz. — " 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 to the dictates... | |
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