 | John Locke - 1823 - 596 sider
...cannot belong to the civil magistrate, because his power consists only in outward force : but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion...mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. And such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of any thing... | |
 | John Brown - 1839 - 562 sider
...souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate, because his power consists only in outward force; but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion...mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. And such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of any thing... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1847 - 650 sider
...belong to the civil magistrate, because the whole of his power consists in outward force : but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion...mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. Such is the nature of the human understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1849 - 320 sider
...belong to the civil magistrate, because the whole of his power consists in outward force : but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion...mind, without which. nothing can be acceptable to God. Such is the nature of the human understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 sider
...belong to the civil magistrate, because the whole of his power consists in outward force ; but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion of the mind, without which nothing is acceptable to God. * * * Magistracy does not oblige him to put off either humanity or Christianity.... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1862 - 392 sider
...souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate, because his power consists only in outward force; but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion...mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. And such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to any thing by outward force.... | |
 | John Morley - 1874 - 236 sider
...souls. This chiefly because the power of the civil magistrate consists only in outward force, while true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion...mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God, and such is the nature of the understanding that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by... | |
 | David Spencer - 1877 - 220 sider
...ground we affirm that the magistrate's power extends not to the establishing any articles of faith or H forms of worship, by force of laws ; for laws are...established, that we can have no property in that whii.h another may take, when he pleases, to himself, neither can we have the proper enjoyment of our... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1889 - 48 sider
...penalties ;" furthermore, " the power of the civil magistrate consists only in outward force, while true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion...without which, nothing can be acceptable to God." Mill's main contention is that it is well or ill with men just in proportion as they respect truth.... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1889 - 158 sider
...transgressions against society. No man can, if he would, conform his faith to the dictates of another. True religion consists in the inward persuasion of the...mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. The anonymous preface calls for more than toleration and comprehension, the first of which will but... | |
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... true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion of the mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. And such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. 
