 | Virginia - 1828 - 120 pages
...virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual; but that the duty they owe their Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, and is no where cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal judge, and that therefore they ask no ecclesiastical... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Africa - 1840 - 504 pages
...virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual. But that the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only...any special public services, to the common reproach and injury of every other denomination. And, for the reasons recited, we are induced earnestly to entreat... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Africa - 1840 - 494 pages
...virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual ; and that the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only...cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal Judge. " To illustrate and confirm these assertions, we beg leave to observe, that to judge for ourselves,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual ; but the duty which we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only...universal Judge. Therefore we ask no ecclesiastical establishments for ourselves, neither can we approve of them when granted to others." They concluded... | |
 | Robert Baird - Religion - 1844 - 550 pages
...virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual ; but that the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only...universal Judge. " Therefore, we ask no ecclesiastical establishments for ourselves ; neither can we approve of them when granted to others. This, indeed,... | |
 | Robert Baird - Latter Day Saints - 1844 - 372 pages
...by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual ; and that the duty which men owe to their Cre.ator, and the manner of discharging it, can only...cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal Judge, the presbytery express themselves as follows : " To illustrate and confirm these assertions, we beg... | |
 | Robert Baird - Mormons - 1844 - 390 pages
...by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual ; and that the duty which men owe to their Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only...cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal Judge, the presbytery express themselves as follows : •' To illustrate and confirm these assertions, we... | |
 | Robert Baird - Religion - 1844 - 552 pages
...cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal Judge. " Therefore, we ask no ecclesiastical establishments for ourselves ; neither can we approve of them when...exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges to one set of men, without any special public services, to the common reproach and injury of every other denomination.... | |
 | Henry Howe - Literary Criticism - 1845 - 616 pages
...distinctly asserted in the last article, which declares, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion,... | |
 | William Henry Foote - Virginia - 1850 - 582 pages
...virtuous by wholesome laws equally extending to every individual : and that the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, and is no where cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal Judge. To illustrate and confirm these assertions,... | |
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... government are the happiness and protection of men in the present state of existence ; the security of the life, liberty, and property of the citizens ; and to 'restrain the vicious and encourage the virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to... 
