| James Pinkney Hambleton - Virginia - 1856 - 564 pages
...loth section of the declaration. And lastly, it avowedly opposes the 16th section, which declares. " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other." But this organization not only... | |
| James Pinkney Hambleton - History - 1856 - 550 pages
...15th section of the declaration. And lastly, it avowedly opposes the 16th section, which declares. " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other." But this organization not only... | |
| William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 700 pages
...article of Colonel Mason's draught related to the vital subject of religious freedom. Setting forth, that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, it proceeded to declare that "all men should, therefore, enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise... | |
| William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...remonstrate against the said bill ; — Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...be directed only by reason and conviction, not by MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE. 635 force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man must be left to... | |
| John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 282 pages
...ought to be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 20. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence, and, therefore, all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to Ike free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
| John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 278 pages
...ought to be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 20. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...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... | |
| Episcopal Church. General Convention - United States - 1861 - 698 pages
...by the 16th Article of the Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all, to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each othe," — which said Article is now... | |
| Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...love, and charity towards each other. The constitution was framed to conform to the principles declared in the preceding. Bills of Rights have been prefixed... | |
| Virginia - Law - 1862 - 238 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a- frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to • practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. ••• CONSTITUTION OF... | |
| Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. The llth section of the 3d article... | |
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