Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America: A narrative of events connected with the rise and progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland

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Harper & Brothers, 1839
 

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الصفحة 512 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
الصفحة 290 - That as it is the duty of every man to worship God in such manner as he thinks most acceptable to Him, all persons are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty; wherefore, no person ought by any law to be molested in his person or estate on account of his religious persuasion or profession, or for his religious practice, unless, under...
الصفحة 488 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
الصفحة 38 - ... heretic, schismatic, idolater, Puritan, Independent, Presbyterian, popish priest, Jesuit, Jesuited papist, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anabaptist, Brownist, Antinomian, Barrowist, Roundhead, Separatist, or any other name or term in a reproachful manner...
الصفحة 512 - Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: "But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
الصفحة 45 - That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ (though differing in judgment from the doctrine, worship or discipline publicly held forth) shall not be restrained from, but shall be protected in, the profession of the faith and exercise of their religion...
الصفحة 290 - ... practice, unless under colour of religion any man shall disturb the good order, peace, or safety of the state, or shall infringe the laws of morality, or injure others in their natural, civil, or religious rights...
الصفحة 50 - The province of Maryland" (thus he wrote) " is in a deplorable condition for want of an established ministry. Here are ten or twelve counties, and in them at least twenty thousand souls ; and but three Protestant ministers of the Church of England. The priests are provided for, and the Quakers take care of those that are speakers ; but no care is taken to build up Churches in the Protestant religion.
الصفحة 37 - ... no persons professing to believe in Jesus Christ should be molested in respect to their religion, or in the free exercise thereof, or be compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion, against their consent...
الصفحة 276 - That you possessed talents eminently well adapted for the high post you lately held, friends and foes have concurred in testifying : be it my pleasing task thus publicly to declare that you carry back to your paternal fields, virtues equally calculated to bloom in the shade. To resemble Cincinnatus is but small praise : be it yours, sir, to enjoy the calm repose and holy serenity of a christian hero ; and may

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