Religion and Education in America: With Notices of the State and Prospects of American Unitarianism, Popery, and African Colonization |
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... civil magistrate , and that it is the fixed determination of Parliament to keep us in this degrading condition while it has the power ! As members of the Church of Scotland , we all profess to venerate those Christian and apostolic men ...
... civil magistrate , and that it is the fixed determination of Parliament to keep us in this degrading condition while it has the power ! As members of the Church of Scotland , we all profess to venerate those Christian and apostolic men ...
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... civil magistrate , to put forth his hand , under any pretext , to that Ark of God , in its pas- sage from the land of the Philistines to its place on Mount Zion ; being assured that the sacred symbol will only move the more steadily ...
... civil magistrate , to put forth his hand , under any pretext , to that Ark of God , in its pas- sage from the land of the Philistines to its place on Mount Zion ; being assured that the sacred symbol will only move the more steadily ...
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... Civil Magistrate , * as a regularly ordained minister of the Church of Scot- land , and have , therefore , no scruples of conscience about the lawfulness of receiving support from the State ; nay , as I have actually received , for the ...
... Civil Magistrate , * as a regularly ordained minister of the Church of Scot- land , and have , therefore , no scruples of conscience about the lawfulness of receiving support from the State ; nay , as I have actually received , for the ...
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... civil magistrate to establish and to support reli- gion , they took it for granted that it was the true reli- gion , as described in that Confession , and no other , that he was bound to support . And , accordingly , when the Scottish ...
... civil magistrate to establish and to support reli- gion , they took it for granted that it was the true reli- gion , as described in that Confession , and no other , that he was bound to support . And , accordingly , when the Scottish ...
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... civil magistrate may rightfully establish any form of religion , whether truth or error . Entertaining these sentiments , I confess I went forth into the field of observation in America altogether un- trammeled ; and , consequently ...
... civil magistrate may rightfully establish any form of religion , whether truth or error . Entertaining these sentiments , I confess I went forth into the field of observation in America altogether un- trammeled ; and , consequently ...
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Page 74 - For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Page 62 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 47 - I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go, at present, no farther than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 71 - If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Page 244 - In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united...
Page 331 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain : that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Page 320 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 6 - God the Supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him over the people, for his own glory, and the public good; and to this end hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defence and encouragement of them that are good, and for the punishment of evildoers.
Page 233 - The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other...
Page 96 - ... injury of every other denomination. And, for the reasons recited, we are induced earnestly to entreat that all laws now in force in this commonwealth, which countenance religious domination, may be speedily repealed ; that all, of...