 | United States. Congress. House - Legislation
...Specified powers, or as inferted merely for greater caution. Fourth. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be direfted only by reafon and conviction, and not by force or violence, and therefore alt men have an... | |
 | Robert Baylor Semple - Baptists - 1810 - 446 pages
...we hold it for a fundamental and unalienable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reafon and eonvidion, not by force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man, muft be left to... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813
...we hold it for a fundamental and 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... | |
 | 1817
...we hold it for a fundamental and 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... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819
...certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. iv. That religion, OP the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to... | |
 | Virginia, Virginia. General Assembly - Law - 1821
...frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. 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 by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Law - 1823
...recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. 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 by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1826
...specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. tburlh. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason anil conviction, and not by force or violence; and tlierefore all men have an equal, natural, and uualienable... | |
 | James Madison - Church and state - 1828 - 12 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...can be directed only by reason and conviction, not bj force or violence. The religion, then, of every man, must be left to the conviction and conscience... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1834
...their religious liberty.' Virginia, in its constitution, says : — '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... | |
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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... 
