 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion,... | |
 | 1876 - 326 pages
...Clause 18 of the Bill of Rights, a portion of the organic law, declares "That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...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... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly - 1876 - 88 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...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 O. Bateman - 1876 - 416 pages
...certain specifiedpowers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. 'IV. 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, and not by force and violence; and, therefore, all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 664 pages
...arms in his stead. " 20. '1'hat religion, or the duty which we owe to onr Creator, and the manlier 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 mnlirnahle right to the free exercise... | |
 | Virginia - 1877 - 476 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or tLe duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...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... | |
 | 1878 - 530 pages
...and, of course, the decree * The article ia in these words: — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the tree exercise of religion according... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 14. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, that it is the mutual duty of all men to practice Christian forbearance,... | |
 | ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE - 1879 - 718 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 14. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, that it is the mutual duty of all men to practice Christian forbearance,... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 822 pages
...unanimously, June 12, 1776, in convention at Williamsburgh, Virginia : " XVI. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...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... | |
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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... 
