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... result when the peo- ple are thus aiming to take civil power into their own hands , and claim to be governed under forms and rulers of their own choice . As may be inferred from the words of the prophet just quoted , the ques- tion is ...
... result when the peo- ple are thus aiming to take civil power into their own hands , and claim to be governed under forms and rulers of their own choice . As may be inferred from the words of the prophet just quoted , the ques- tion is ...
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... result of such training is not to be questioned or overlooked . The observing stranger has passed through our country , and de- scribes it as " a land of wonders , in which every thing is in constant motion , and every movement seems an ...
... result of such training is not to be questioned or overlooked . The observing stranger has passed through our country , and de- scribes it as " a land of wonders , in which every thing is in constant motion , and every movement seems an ...
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... result of public senti- ment pervading the land . We have severed the Church from the State . We have withdrawn and secured religion , the holiest boon of heaven , from cor- rupting alliance with civil authority . We have dis- covered ...
... result of public senti- ment pervading the land . We have severed the Church from the State . We have withdrawn and secured religion , the holiest boon of heaven , from cor- rupting alliance with civil authority . We have dis- covered ...
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... result to be most propitious . We find it in the liberality with which the ministry and ordinances of the Gospel are sustained . In no land throughout Protestant Christendom are the clergy , as a class , placed in circumstances of a ...
... result to be most propitious . We find it in the liberality with which the ministry and ordinances of the Gospel are sustained . In no land throughout Protestant Christendom are the clergy , as a class , placed in circumstances of a ...
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... resulting from the want of this federative bond ; and we have examples of its happy influence in the United Netherlands , and more especially among ourselves in America . The ori- ginal model for it , you find among the Hebrews . Among ...
... resulting from the want of this federative bond ; and we have examples of its happy influence in the United Netherlands , and more especially among ourselves in America . The ori- ginal model for it , you find among the Hebrews . Among ...
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