 | Robert Henry Murray - 1921 - 104 pages
...to restrain and subdue it. The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal ; it may also be called moral in reference to the covenant between God and man in the moral law, and the political covenants and constitutions among men themselves. This liberty is the proper end and object... | |
 | Lydia Sargent - Political Science - 1981 - 422 pages
...Winthrop, when it was conbined with obedience and subjection to authority. The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal, it may also be termed moral...reference to the covenant between God and man, in the general moral laws, and in the political covenants and constitutions, amongst men ourselves. This liberty... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...contrast, is that "civil or federal" liberty which, being derived from "the covenant between God and man" is "the proper end and object of authority and cannot subsist without it." The distinction is a subtle but crucial one. It also has some important practical implications. In... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...contrast, is that "civil or federal" liberty which, being derived from "the covenant between God and man" is "the proper end and object of authority and cannot subsist without it." The distinction is a subtle but crucial one. It also has some important practical implications. In... | |
 | Mitchell Robert Breitwieser - Indian captivities - 1990 - 244 pages
...paraphrase of the Christian's intrinsic and spontaneous being. Winthrop: [Civil or federal liberty] may also be termed moral, in reference to the covenant...cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest . . . This liberty is maintained and exercised in a way of subjection... | |
 | Charles S. McCoy, J. Wayne Baker - Philosophy - 1991 - 196 pages
...good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority. . . . The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal; it may also be termed moral,...covenant between God and man in the moral law, and the political covenants and constitutions amongst men themselves.5 The charter from the king, originally... | |
 | James G. Moseley - Massachusetts - 1992 - 206 pages
...it is the great enemy of every social order. In contrast, Winthrop says, "the other kind of liberty I call civil or federal, it may also be termed moral,...cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest. This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard (not only of... | |
 | Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1879 - 356 pages
...liberty which is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, he said : "The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal : it may also be termed moral,...cannot subsist without it ; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest. This liberty you are to stand for with the hazard (not only of... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...the General Court in 1645 that in addition to natural liberty there is a civil or federal one that: may also be termed moral, in reference to the covenant...cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest. . . . This liberty is maintained and exercised in a way of subjection... | |
 | The Editors of Rea - 1995 - 734 pages
...liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good.... The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal, it may also be termed moral,...cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest." — John Winthrop, 1630. In this passage, liberty is understood... | |
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This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest. 
