Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Volume 1William S. Martien, 1850 |
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... worship of God , and may in time bring the infidels and savages living in those parts , to human civility , and to a settled quiet government . " In the third charter dated March 12th , 1611-12- " and for the propagation of Christian ...
... worship of God , and may in time bring the infidels and savages living in those parts , to human civility , and to a settled quiet government . " In the third charter dated March 12th , 1611-12- " and for the propagation of Christian ...
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... worship of God , a house or room sequestered for that purpose , and not to be for any temporal use whatever , and a place empaled in , sequestered only for the buryal of the dead . " " Act 2d . That whosoever shall absent himselfe from ...
... worship of God , a house or room sequestered for that purpose , and not to be for any temporal use whatever , and a place empaled in , sequestered only for the buryal of the dead . " " Act 2d . That whosoever shall absent himselfe from ...
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... worship was guarded with much circumspection . By act 2d , " twelve of the most able men were to be chosen as vestry men in each parish . None shall be admitted to be of the vestry that doe not take the oath of allegeance to his Majesty ...
... worship was guarded with much circumspection . By act 2d , " twelve of the most able men were to be chosen as vestry men in each parish . None shall be admitted to be of the vestry that doe not take the oath of allegeance to his Majesty ...
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... worship , doe often assemble themselves in great numbers , -separating and dividing themselves from the rest of his Majesties good and loyall subjects - Be it enacted , -that if any VIRGINIA IN 1688. - SEPARATISTS AND QUAKERS . 35.
... worship , doe often assemble themselves in great numbers , -separating and dividing themselves from the rest of his Majesties good and loyall subjects - Be it enacted , -that if any VIRGINIA IN 1688. - SEPARATISTS AND QUAKERS . 35.
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... worship not authorized by the laws of England nor this country , -shall for the first offence fforfeit and pay two hundred pounds of tobacco , for the second offence forfeit and pay five hundred pounds of tobacco . " Quakers or ...
... worship not authorized by the laws of England nor this country , -shall for the first offence fforfeit and pay two hundred pounds of tobacco , for the second offence forfeit and pay five hundred pounds of tobacco . " Quakers or ...
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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?