| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...address, they have freely declared, that it is much on their hearts (if they he permitted) to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand, and best be maintained, und that among our English subjects, with a full liberty in religious concernments ; and that true... | |
| Baptists - 1817 - 486 pages
...little puritanical band. In hi« riuh; hand is the Gospel, as an embli-m of the religious liberty he established, and the peace that followed. In his left,...charter of the colony, with as much of it unfolded as »hows this paragraph : " To exhibit a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil State may stand... | |
| Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...they have freely declared, that it is much in their hearts (if they may be permitted) to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil...state, may stand, and best be maintained, and that among our English subjects, with a full liberty in religious concernments," and then declares, " That... | |
| Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...their migration to this country, and settlement of this State, was, as they expressed it, to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand, and best be maintained, with a full liberty in religious concernments : Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, and... | |
| Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - America - 1823 - 532 pages
...settlers of this state. After reciting that the colonists have declared their desire " to hold, forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand, and best be maintained, with a full liberty in religious concernments," it provided, with a liberality far from universal even... | |
| Baptists - 1829 - 894 pages
...established. Their petition to Charles I. for a charter, " that they might be permitted to bold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil State may stand and be best maintained, with a full liberty in religious coacernments," was granted. It is the glory of... | |
| Baptists - 1830 - 396 pages
...established. Their petition to Charles I. for a charter, " that they might be permitted to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil State may stand and be best maintained, with a full liberty in religious concernments," was granted. It is the glory of... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1832 - 384 pages
...colony, by his charter of 1663, — in which he makes use of these words : " That they might hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand, and best be maintained, and that amongst our En* glish subjects, with a full liberty in religious concern ments. And that true piety,... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...petition of the inhabitants, " that it is much in their hearts, (if they be permitted,) to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand, and be best maintained, and that among our English subjects, with a full liberty in religious concernments,... | |
| James Davis Knowles - Rhode Island - 1834 - 452 pages
...address, they have freely declared, that it is much on their hearts (if they be permitted) to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand, and best be maintained, and that among our English subjects, with a full liberty in religious concernments ; and that true piety, rightly... | |
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