A New Essay on Civil Power in Things Sacred: Or an Enquiry After an Establish'd Religion, Consistent with the Just Liberties of Mankind, ...M. Steen, 1739 - 110 pages |
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... Penalties among Men by the Violation thereof . This will relieve the People that are called Quakers , who will not take any Oath : and indeed without fome fuch fecurity no Perfon is fit to enjoy the Privileges of Civil Government , nor ...
... Penalties among Men by the Violation thereof . This will relieve the People that are called Quakers , who will not take any Oath : and indeed without fome fuch fecurity no Perfon is fit to enjoy the Privileges of Civil Government , nor ...
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... proper Rewards appointed for the innocent Informers and Affistants of the Magistrates , but but always Penalties to be inflicted on the Criminal . 20 Sect . 3 . Of Publick Teachers Of publick Teachers of the Laws Morality.
... proper Rewards appointed for the innocent Informers and Affistants of the Magistrates , but but always Penalties to be inflicted on the Criminal . 20 Sect . 3 . Of Publick Teachers Of publick Teachers of the Laws Morality.
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... Penalties to be inflicted on the Criminal . II . There are also fome perfonal Duties of the Law of Nature , fuch as Sobriety and Temperance , Frugality and Industry ; and there are Sins against this Law which relate primarily and ...
... Penalties to be inflicted on the Criminal . II . There are also fome perfonal Duties of the Law of Nature , fuch as Sobriety and Temperance , Frugality and Industry ; and there are Sins against this Law which relate primarily and ...
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... all the Nation under any Penalty , I leave others to determine . I rather think it fhould not ; and that for thefe three Reasons . ( 1. ) ( 1. ) There may be many Heathens who worship Sect . 3. of the Laws and Morality . 23.
... all the Nation under any Penalty , I leave others to determine . I rather think it fhould not ; and that for thefe three Reasons . ( 1. ) ( 1. ) There may be many Heathens who worship Sect . 3. of the Laws and Morality . 23.
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... Penalties laid upon their mistaken Belief ; and they might by the fame Gentleness continue their fa- vourable Opinion of us , and grow up by degrees into Believers of the one true God . I might repeat the same thing concerning the ...
... Penalties laid upon their mistaken Belief ; and they might by the fame Gentleness continue their fa- vourable Opinion of us , and grow up by degrees into Believers of the one true God . I might repeat the same thing concerning the ...
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Page 83 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 43 - And whatfoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jefus ; giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Page 9 - ... opinions and worship, with the interior principle and the external expressions of it, under the limitation just announced, he has nothing to do.* The principle that a civil government should interfere with religion, is surely a general one if it be true ; and it seems to lead to this conclusion, that, " if civil government did properly extend its authority to religion, and the things of future happiness, no government or governors could be said to be appointed of God who are of a false religion,...