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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... felves meet and make Laws , and determine things of Importance by a common Vote or the Sentence of the major Part . But where the Society is fo numerous , that the People cannot all meet together for this end , they B 2 have parcell'd ...
... felves meet and make Laws , and determine things of Importance by a common Vote or the Sentence of the major Part . But where the Society is fo numerous , that the People cannot all meet together for this end , they B 2 have parcell'd ...
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... felves , or they may be fway'd by some evil Byafs , unless they have some Knowledge or Belief and Reverence of an higher Power who knows all Truth , and who will avenge Falfhood . ( 3. ) To fecure a State against fecret Plots and ...
... felves , or they may be fway'd by some evil Byafs , unless they have some Knowledge or Belief and Reverence of an higher Power who knows all Truth , and who will avenge Falfhood . ( 3. ) To fecure a State against fecret Plots and ...
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... felves and their Riches and Powers to fup- port this Government . Penalties may make Diffemblers and Hypocrites , but good Chri- ftians are not to be made this way . doms , who by his Prophets gave Jeroboam ten Tribes , who cut off his ...
... felves and their Riches and Powers to fup- port this Government . Penalties may make Diffemblers and Hypocrites , but good Chri- ftians are not to be made this way . doms , who by his Prophets gave Jeroboam ten Tribes , who cut off his ...
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... felves . Mr. Locke is fo much of this mind in two or three Articles of his Laws drawn up for Carolina , that he hardly thinks any Perfon fit for the Protection of the State and all the Civil Privileges thereof , if his Name be not ...
... felves . Mr. Locke is fo much of this mind in two or three Articles of his Laws drawn up for Carolina , that he hardly thinks any Perfon fit for the Protection of the State and all the Civil Privileges thereof , if his Name be not ...
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... felves for different Purposes . Let us now fuppofe for inftance in the City of Corinth there might be a College of Philofophers , a Society of Painters or Anti- quaries , a Synagogue of Jews , an Assembly of Deifts , and a Church of ...
... felves for different Purposes . Let us now fuppofe for inftance in the City of Corinth there might be a College of Philofophers , a Society of Painters or Anti- quaries , a Synagogue of Jews , an Assembly of Deifts , and a Church of ...
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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,...