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" Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. "
A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America: And Other Parts of ... - Page 475
by David Benedict - 1813
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Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought

Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom ngress assembled, unless such State be not to man, must an account of it be rendered. As the Bill violates equality by subjecting some to...
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Head and Heart: American Christianities

Garry Wills - United States - 2007 - 646 pages
...and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence...offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered. As the Bill violates equality by subjecting some to...
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That Godless Court?: Supreme Court Decisions on Church-state Relationships

Ronald Bruce Flowers - Religion - 2005 - 244 pages
...and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence...offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to men, must an account of it be rendered. As the Bill violates equality by subjecting some to...
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From Tyndale to Madison: How the Death of an English Martyr Led to the ...

Michael Farris - Political Science - 2007 - 528 pages
...to observe the Religion which we believe to be of a divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence...offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered. . . . The Bill implies either that the Civil Magistrate...
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Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism

Thomas Banchoff - Social Science - 2007 - 352 pages
...and to observe the religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us."27 In the two-year debate over religious freedom in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson argued that the...
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Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience

Paul R. Abramson - Education - 2011 - 185 pages
...and to observe the religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those, whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us."15 Clearly, then, the unconvinced are destined to enjoy the same freedoms as the religiously confirmed,...
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The Haunted Philosophe: James Madison, Republicanism, and Slavery

Scott J. Kester - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 146 pages
...and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence...offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered.80 Madison argued against the idea that a civil magistrate...
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Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in ...

Steven Waldman - Religion - 2008 - 306 pages
...and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us,' Faith coerced is not true faith, "If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against Cod, not against...
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Religion and the Constitution, Volume 2

Kent Greenawalt - Church and state - 2006 - 576 pages
...establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment."" The assessment bill denied "equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us" and unfairly granted exemptions to Quakers and Mennonites but not to others "who think a compulsive...
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Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

Martha Craven Nussbaum - Social Science - 2008 - 418 pages
...and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.42 . . . [The proposed bill] degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in...
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