 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 698 pages
...Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old...New Testament to be given by divine inspiration." Why is this declaration omitted when an affirmation is administered to a Quaker ? Can any one, on making... | |
 | Thomas Evans - Society of Friends - 1867 - 276 pages
...in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit. And we do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be the words of God : this we testify ; and we are not ashamed to confess and profess Faith in God the... | |
 | 1869 - 414 pages
...and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son, and in the Holy Spirit, co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God, blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the revealed Will and Word of God, and shall, in other thing*, differ in doctrine, worship, or discipline,... | |
 | Jacob Isidor Mombert - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1869 - 834 pages
...Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and punisher of the wicked : And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the old and new Testament to be given by divine Inspiration. And no further or other religious Test shall ever hereafter be required of any civil Officer or Magistrate... | |
 | J. P. Kenyon - History - 1986 - 504 pages
...Christ his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, One God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be revealed Will and Word of God, and shall in other things differ in doctrine, worship or discipline... | |
 | Sidney Z. Ehler, John B. Morrall - Church - 1967 - 646 pages
...of the universe, the rewarder of the good and the punisher of the wicked, and I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration." And no further or other religious test shall ever hereafter be required of any civil officer or magistrate... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - History - 1988 - 392 pages
...Son, and in the Holy Ghosts, One God blessed he for evermore, and I do acknowledge the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration." As late as 1931, the Supreme Court could assert that "we are a Christian people . . . acknowledging... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Constitutional history - 2000 - 498 pages
...Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration." Quoted, id. at 46970. * 8 Johns. 290 IN.V. 1811l, quoted, 143 US at 470-71. 2. Pierce v. Society of... | |
 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich - Law - 1990 - 200 pages
...of the universe, the rewarder of the good and the punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration."76 Delaware went further by requiring all officeholders to profess belief in the Trinity... | |
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And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy... 
