 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 594 pages
...now prattling with echo in philosophy's tions about holding offices, the words " <wbo acknowledge* the " being of A GOD, and a future state of rewards and punishments." [ See page 84 of Minutes of the Grand Committee.] Samuel Sitgreaves, Esq. (the reputed... | |
 | John Wood - United States - 1802 - 560 pages
...to strike out of the constitutional regulations about holding offices, the words " who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments. He staid away from the Senate without any cause for nineteen weeks and four days, so that... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode. of worship. IV. That no person, who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be ciisqualified to hold any office' or... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Horace Binney - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 678 pages
...societies are placed on the same broad equal ground, and the only test of office is the acknowledgment of the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments. But if the exemption of clergymen of the established church in England from the burden... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - Indians of North America - 1819 - 658 pages
...man has a natural right to worship God according to his conscience : That no person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place... | |
 | Charles Britten Johnson - Pennsylvania - 1819 - 190 pages
...law, to any religious establishments or modes of worship. SECT. IV. That no person, who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place... | |
 | John Talbot - Canada - 1820 - 476 pages
...man has a natural right to worship God according to his conscience: That no person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...into the service of the United States. Persons holding public offices are only required to acknowledge the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishment ч The judges are appointed by the governor, and may be impeached or removed by him, on... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Theology - 1825 - 384 pages
...Bible, and uses that liberty, can err in Fundamentals. I take it for granted, that such a one believes the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, (which I think are not fundamental articles of Christianity, properly so called, but general... | |
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No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth. 
