The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony, Usually Called Blue Laws of Connecticut, Quaker Laws of Plymouth and Massachusetts, Blue Laws of New York, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, First Record of Connecticut: Interesting Extracts from Connecticut Records, Cases of Salem Witchcraft, Charges and Banishment of Rev. Roger Williams, &c., and Other Interesting and Instructive Antiquities |
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... liberty , and property from injury , and were added from session to session of the General Court . As no printing establishment had yet been in operation in the colony , the laws were promulgated to the people by written copies of them ...
... liberty , and property from injury , and were added from session to session of the General Court . As no printing establishment had yet been in operation in the colony , the laws were promulgated to the people by written copies of them ...
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... liberty for forty - eight hours after this day , to depart out of this jurisdiction , after which time , being found therein , she is forthwith to be executed ; and in the mean time that she be kept close prisoner till her son or some ...
... liberty for forty - eight hours after this day , to depart out of this jurisdiction , after which time , being found therein , she is forthwith to be executed ; and in the mean time that she be kept close prisoner till her son or some ...
Page 26
... liberty to depart within two days ; which she hath accept- ed of . The consideration of our gradual proceedings , will vindicate us from the clamerous accusation of severi- ty . Our own just and necessary defence , calling upon us ...
... liberty to depart within two days ; which she hath accept- ed of . The consideration of our gradual proceedings , will vindicate us from the clamerous accusation of severi- ty . Our own just and necessary defence , calling upon us ...
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... liberty to one , the other gives liberty to all places save that it re- strains from one , and therefore if death may be justly inflic- ted for breach of confinement , much more for return upon banishment , which is these Quakers case ...
... liberty to one , the other gives liberty to all places save that it re- strains from one , and therefore if death may be justly inflic- ted for breach of confinement , much more for return upon banishment , which is these Quakers case ...
Page 32
... liberty to it they should not refuse so to do , because otherwise they will be guilty of tempting God and of incurring their own hurt , as having a fair way open for the avoiding thereof , but they needlessly expose themselves thereto ...
... liberty to it they should not refuse so to do , because otherwise they will be guilty of tempting God and of incurring their own hurt , as having a fair way open for the avoiding thereof , but they needlessly expose themselves thereto ...
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Page 265 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Page 270 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's, the same shall save it.
Page 98 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 103 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 98 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 67 - Whereas, Mr. Roger Williams, one of the elders of the church of Salem, hath broached and divulged divers new and dangerous opinions against the authority of magistrates ; as also writ letters of defamation, both of the magistrates and churches...
Page 98 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 99 - Second and since his decease pretended to be and took upon himself the style and title of King of England by the name of James the Third or of Scotland by the name of James the Eighth or the style and title of King of Great Britain hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm or any other the dominions thereunto belonging.
Page 98 - I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm: So help me God.
Page 99 - Do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Sovereign Lord King George is lawful and rightful King of this realm and all other His Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging.