...persuasion, and all those convincing methods of gentleness and meekness suitable to the rules and design of the Gospel, be won over to embrace and unfeignedly...shall give some name to distinguish it from others. (88) [98] The terms of admittance and communion with any church or profession shall be written in a...

...except papists, shall have a free exercise of religion. Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669-70) Any seven or more persons, agreeing in any religion, shall constitute a church or profession. . . . No person of any other church or profession shall disturb or molest any religious assembly. ......

...dial received public maintenance. Nonetheless, the constitutions were generous in their allowance diat "any seven or more persons agreeing in any religion,...they shall give some name, to distinguish it from odiers." Despite its restrictions, therefore, Nordi Carolina (like Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania)...

...persuasion, and all those convincing 228 methods of gentleness and meekness, suitable to the rules and design of the gospel, be won over to embrace and unfeignedly...shall give some name, to distinguish it from others. §98. The terms of admittance and communion with any Church or profession shall be written in a book,...

...dissenters from the purity of the Christian religion may not be scared and kept at a distance from it. . .therefore any seven or more persons agreeing in any...which they shall give some name to distinguish it from others.5 For Locke in the Letter, 'No man whatsoever ought' to be 'deprived of his terrestrial enjoyments,...

...Although the Church of England was the only religion maintained at public expense, it was agreed that "any seven or more persons agreeing in any religion,...shall give some name, to distinguish it from others." By 1681, settlers had formed a Dissenters' meetinghouse that included Puritans, Baptists, Congregationalists,...