Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Volume 1William S. Martien, 1850 |
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... respect to age and enterprise . Act 10th , 1623 , 4 , says " That all the old plan- ters that were here before or came in at the last coming of Sir Thomas Gates they and their posterity shall be exempted from their personal service to ...
... respect to age and enterprise . Act 10th , 1623 , 4 , says " That all the old plan- ters that were here before or came in at the last coming of Sir Thomas Gates they and their posterity shall be exempted from their personal service to ...
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... respecting either the year or the month on which the Presbytery was formed , farther , than it must have been formed previously to the close of the year 1706 , and after the commencement of the year 1705 . The ministers that formed this ...
... respecting either the year or the month on which the Presbytery was formed , farther , than it must have been formed previously to the close of the year 1706 , and after the commencement of the year 1705 . The ministers that formed this ...
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... respecting ministers coming from abroad was passed , declaring that they must come well recommended for learning , piety , and prudence . Another re- solution declared , -that young men from Scotland , received on trials for the ...
... respecting ministers coming from abroad was passed , declaring that they must come well recommended for learning , piety , and prudence . Another re- solution declared , -that young men from Scotland , received on trials for the ...
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... respects to the Governor , which we did ; but being afterwards called and invited to preach , as I was a minister of the gospel I durst not deny preaching , and I hope I never shall when it is wanting and desired . " A. " Did you ...
... respects to the Governor , which we did ; but being afterwards called and invited to preach , as I was a minister of the gospel I durst not deny preaching , and I hope I never shall when it is wanting and desired . " A. " Did you ...
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... respect to age or condition , sickness or health , to the walls of Derry , and there left them exposed , having first plundered them of food and clothing . On the next day he drove about a thousand more to join the naked starving ...
... respect to age or condition , sickness or health , to the walls of Derry , and there left them exposed , having first plundered them of food and clothing . On the next day he drove about a thousand more to join the naked starving ...
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Page 216 - Thou believest that there is one God ; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Page 347 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 346 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Page 50 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 11 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them 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 347 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Page 346 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Page 381 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Page 322 - 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 directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Page 110 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?