 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict...General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. Be it therefore enacted ly the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercion on either, as was in his almighty power to do : Be it, therefore, enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry, whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 452 pages
...religious freedom in Virginia, which contains these words : " That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry...whatsoever, nor shall be forced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief;... | |
 | Citizen of Massachusetts, Alfred Ellingwood Giles - Bigamy - 1882 - 80 pages
...and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...1785, and is still the fundamental law of Virginia. ' An Act to establish Religious Freedom : ' ' Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - Baltimore (Md.) - 1888 - 762 pages
...with the religion of the people is condemned, the State of Virginia in the year 1786 enacted : "Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that...whatsoever ; nor shall be forced, restrained, molested, or bnrthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Church and state - 1888 - 176 pages
...after fully setting forth strong arguments against state-churchism and intolerance, declares: " Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...encounter?" And these he expanded in a magnificent preamble which introduced the following act : " Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
...Act of Religious Freedom, adopted by the Legislature of Virginia, in words following, to-wit : "Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
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Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise... 
