New England's Struggles for Religious LibertyAmerican Baptist Publication Society, 1896 - 275 |
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New England's Struggles for Religious Liberty (Classic Reprint) Rev. David B. Ford Podgląd niedostępny - 2015 |
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Acts and Resolves aforesaid anabaptism Anabaptists Assembly assessors attend authority banishment Baptist church baptized Boston brethren called Anabaptists certificates charter Christ Christian civil Committee Commonwealth congregation Cotton Cotton Mather Court denomination Elder Backus England exemption fathers favor give gospel Gould Governor H. M. Dexter hath haue History Honorable hundred imprisoned Increase Mather infant baptism inhabitants Isaac Backus John John Cotton King land letter liberty of conscience Lord Lord's Day magistrates Majesty's Massachusetts Bay matter meeting meeting-house Memorial and Remonstrance ministerial rates ministers oppressed ordinance parish pastor peace Pedobaptist persecution persons petition Pilgrims Plymouth Colony pounds preach prison Province public worship Puritan Quakers refuse religion religious liberty religious ministers Rhode Island Roger Williams Samuel sent spirit Stillman suffer taxed teachers therein thereof Thomas tion tists town unto vote whipped Winthrop
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Strona 245 - ... the legislature shall from time to time authorize and require the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic or religious societies, to make suitable provision at their own expense for the institution of the public worship of God and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily...
Strona 227 - Provided, notwithstanding, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic or religious societies, shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting with them for their support and maintenance.
Strona 237 - The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy, a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
Strona 225 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Strona 16 - We will not say, as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! farewell, Rome! but we will say, Farewell, dear England, farewell, the church of God in England and all the Christian friends there.
Strona 248 - As the public worship of GOD and instructions in piety, religion, and morality, promote the happiness and prosperity of a people, and the security of a republican government ; therefore, the several religious societies of this commonwealth, whether corporate or unincorporate, at any meeting legally warned and holden for that purpose, shall ever have the right to elect their pastors or...
Strona 245 - And each and every society or denomination of Christians in this State, shall have and enjoy the same and equal powers, rights and privileges...
Strona 39 - There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship ; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges — that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers or...
Strona 59 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Strona 122 - So they left that goodly and pleasant city which had been their resting place near twelve years; but they knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.