...The following is an extract from the act itself. "Whereas the enforcing of the conscience, in matteri of religion, hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealth* where it hath been practised, and for the more quicf and peaceable government of this...

...the rights of conscience, which should never be forgotten by human governments. " Whereas, (says it,) the enforcing of the conscience, in matters of religion,...consequence, in those commonwealths where it hath been practised ; and for the more quiet and peaceable government of the province, and the better to preserve...

...strangely enough after such a provision, in the same act, after a preamble, reciting that the confining of conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence, it is enacted, that no person " professing to believe in Jesus Christ," shall be molested for or in...

...1632 ; and in 1649, it was more fully and formally set forth in the statutes of the government : — " Whereas, the enforcing of the conscience in matters...dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised ; and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better...

...enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion," such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute, " hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better...

...enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion," such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute, " hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better...

...and explicit declaration by which it proclaims the inviolability of the rights of conscience. " And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters...religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous con" sequence in those commonwealths where it has been prac" tised, and for the more quiet and peaceable...

...frequently fallen out to bee of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it hath beene practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better to preserve mutualI love and unity amongst the inhabitants here, Bee it therefore also by the lord proprietary...

...the third offence and for every time after shall also be publickly whipt. And whereas the inforcing of the conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to bee of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it hath beene practised, and for the more...

...have acted with remarkable consistency, to this day. A part of the statute is as follows : — ' And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters...dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better...