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" The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal; it may also be termed moral, in reference to the covenant between God and man, in the moral law, and the politic covenants and constitutions, among men themselves. "
The History of New England from 1630 to 1649 - Page 229
by John Winthrop - 1826
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Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal ...

Daniel Judah Elazar - Political Science - 1998 - 312 pages
...sumus licentia deteriores. This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild best, which all of the ordinances of God are bent against, to restrain...moral law, and the politic covenants and constitutions between men themselves. This liberty is the proper end and object of authority and cannot subsist without...
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The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature

Marianne Noble - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...criticizes the anarchic idea that freedom is the absence of social regulation, and then continues: "The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal....liberty is the proper end and object of authority. . . . This liberty is maintained and exercised in a way of subjection to authority. It is the same...
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A Nation Under God?: Essays on the Future of Religion in American Public Life

R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - Reference - 2000 - 274 pages
...is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all of the ordinances of God are best against, to restrain and subdue it. The other kind...moral law, and the politic covenants and constitutions between men themselves. This liberty is the proper end and object of authority and cannot subsist without...
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African Americans in the Reconstruction Era

Chunchang Gao - History - 2000 - 340 pages
...and maintaining of this liberty makes men grow more evil. and in time to be worse than brute beasts. The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal. it may also be termed moral. in reference to the co\enant between God and man. in the moral law. and the politic covenants and constitutions. amongst...
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Puritanismus und Pioniergeist: die Faszination der Wildnis im frühen Neu-England

Ulrike Brunotte - History - 2000 - 324 pages
...authority, and cannot endure the least restraint of the most just authority. [...] This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all the ordinances of God are bent 223 Ebenda, S. 422. 224 John Winthrop zitiert nach Perry Miller, aa O., S. 422. 225 John Winthrop:...
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 27

Genealogy - 1905 - 986 pages
...this liberty makes men grow more evil, and, in time, to be worse than brute beasts. This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all...covenant between God and man in the moral law, and the political covenants and constitutions amongst men themselves. This liberty is the proper end and object...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature

Emory Elliott - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 210 pages
...well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority . . . This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast which all the ordinances of God are bent against. . . . The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal, it may also be termed moral. . . . This liberty...
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Tyranny Through Public Education - Revised Edition

William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...to evil as well as good... The exercise of this liberty makes men grow more evil. This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all...call civil or federal; it may also be termed moral... This liberty is the proper end and object of authority .... and it is a liberty to that only which...
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Faith & Freedom

Tom Terry - 2005 - 153 pages
...evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts: omnes sumus licentia deteriores. This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all...the covenant between God and man, in the moral law {emphasis mine), and the politic covenants and constitutions, amongst men themselves. This liberty...
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Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Justice ...

Thomas Loebel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 314 pages
...part of our natures as creatures of the earth expelled from the Garden, moral liberty is created in the "covenant between God and man, in the moral law,...covenants and constitutions, amongst men themselves" ("Authority" 39). It is the "proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it" (39),...
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