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... lawgiver ; or whether the honour of serving the people be not too high to allow of any measure of service or homage towards the majesty of heaven . The evil is spreading . The same misconcep- tion of INTRODUCTORY . 13.
... lawgiver ; or whether the honour of serving the people be not too high to allow of any measure of service or homage towards the majesty of heaven . The evil is spreading . The same misconcep- tion of INTRODUCTORY . 13.
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... honour our asylum of liberty by seeking a lot in its blessings , would enter at once into the same family circle of undistinguished and indistinguishable unity ; free alike to live among us , and to rise above our heads ; for the ...
... honour our asylum of liberty by seeking a lot in its blessings , would enter at once into the same family circle of undistinguished and indistinguishable unity ; free alike to live among us , and to rise above our heads ; for the ...
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... honours ; who can answer for the effects which under God may be allowed to ensue , in filling up the meas- ure of our national offences , and visiting them at last with their deserts ? For one , I am not ashamed to own myself afraid of ...
... honours ; who can answer for the effects which under God may be allowed to ensue , in filling up the meas- ure of our national offences , and visiting them at last with their deserts ? For one , I am not ashamed to own myself afraid of ...
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... honoured than dishonoured , if either , by being furnished in advance with protec- tion against them . And as for any argument that can be drawn from the absence of terms of posi tive favour to religion , it will lie with equal -THE ...
... honoured than dishonoured , if either , by being furnished in advance with protec- tion against them . And as for any argument that can be drawn from the absence of terms of posi tive favour to religion , it will lie with equal -THE ...
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... honours and emoluments becomes too strong for their principles , and leads them into a self - indul- gent venality which they would otherwise avoid ; the very fact is conclusive against them , that they are worldly men , and have had no ...
... honours and emoluments becomes too strong for their principles , and leads them into a self - indul- gent venality which they would otherwise avoid ; the very fact is conclusive against them , that they are worldly men , and have had no ...
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Page 77 - III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Page 97 - The people of this State, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice; and to scandalize the author of these doctrines is not only, in a religious point of view, extremely impious, but, even in respect to the obligations due to society, is a gross violation of decency and good order...
Page 82 - ARE you persuaded that the holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity for eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ? and are you determined, out of the said Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge, and to teach nothing, as required of necessity to eternal salvation, but that which you shall be persuaded may be concluded and proved by the Scripture ? Answer.
Page 116 - recommend a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace...
Page 75 - And whereas the ministers of the gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God and the cure of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions; therefore, no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall, at any time hereafter, under any pretence or description whatever, be eligible to, or capable of holding, any civil or military office or place within this state.
Page 127 - ... humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to maintain their place in existence and to prepare them in time for that state of society which to bodily comforts adds the improvement of...
Page 78 - ... justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government. The people ought, consequently, to have a particular attention to all those principles, in the choice of their officers and representatives: and they have a right to require of their lawgivers and magistrates an exact and constant observance of them, in the formation and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of the commonwealth.
Page 79 - I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the universe, the rewarder of the good and punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the scriptures of the old and new testament to be given by divine inspiration, and own and profess the protestant religion.
Page 77 - God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality ; therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expence, for the institution...
Page 80 - Or by Article 22 of the constitution of Delaware, 1776, which required all officers, besides an oath of allegiance, to make and subscribe the following declaration : "I, AB, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.