 | Virginia - 1803 - 1026 pages
...owe to oar Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be direfted only by reafoh and conviftion, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercife of religion, according to the dictates of confcienca ; and that it is the mutual duty of aU... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - 1813 - 322 pages
...Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled...Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. The Constitution, or form of Government, agreed to and resolved upon... | |
 | David Benedict - 1813 - 588 pages
...truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man, must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man ; and... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - 1816 - 230 pages
...Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of their religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and thatitisthe mutual duty of all to practise... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1817 - 528 pages
...and to withhold from it any support by public taxation. But, although it may be true that « religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence," and that "all tfen arc equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to TERRETT the dictates-of... | |
 | 1817 - 442 pages
...unalienable truth, "that religion, or the duty which we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man, must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...stead. 1 ' Xx. 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, and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 pages
...principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, ш be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore that all men «/«¿J enjoy thefuUeit toleration in the exerciie of rthjin, according lo the dictate»... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 462 pages
...That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion. Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other. The Constitution or Form of... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1821 - 674 pages
...That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion CREATOR, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dic» " An" in Chan. Rev p. *3. 112 tales of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of Toleration.... | |
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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; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
