 | Robert Baylor Semple - Baptists - 1810 - 514 pages
...force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man, muft be left to the conviction and confciences of every man ; and it is the right of every man to exercife it, as thefe may dictate. This right is, in its nature, an unalienable right. It is unalienable... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 588 pages
...provisioa for teachers of the Christian Religion ;" and conceiving, that die same, if finally armed with the sanction of a law, will be a dangerous abuse of...these may dictate. This right is, in its nature, an unalienable right. It is unaltenable, because the opinions of men depending only on the evidence contemplated... | |
 | James Madison - Church and state - 1828 - 16 pages
...our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not bj force or violence. The religion, then, of every man,...these may dictate. This right is, in its nature, an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, ' that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - Maryland - 1836 - 632 pages
...legislature of 1785, as has been stated, and offered substantially the following views : — that religion must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man, and that his right to determine the question of his religion is inalienable ; that it is the duty of every... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE. 635 force or violence."* The religion, then, of every...these may dictate. This right is, in its nature, an inalienable right. It is inalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 700 pages
...determined. We remonstrate against the said bill; — force or violence." • The religion, then, of even- man must be left to the conviction and conscience...these may dictate. This right is, in its nature, an inalienable right . It is inalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence... | |
 | Baptist union - 1867 - 140 pages
...ought to occupy, in the eye of the law, an equal position. " We hold," said they, " that the religion of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience...of every man to exercise it as these may dictate." For their consistent advocacy and defence of these immortal principles, our fathers sustained the loss... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - Church history - 1891 - 1046 pages
...we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth ' that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is iu its nature an unalienable right. It is unalieuable, because the opinions of men, depending only... | |
 | Freedom of religion - 1892 - 544 pages
...Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated... | |
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The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man, and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. 
