Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Volum 1William S. Martien, 1850 |
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Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Volum 1 William Henry Foote Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1850 |
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Academy Act of Toleration agreeable appeared appointed Assembly attend Bishop of London Blair blessed called Christ Christian Church of England clergy College colony congregation conversation Court Davies dissenters divine doctrines established church father favour Francis Makemie friends gave gentleman gospel Governor Graham Hampden Sidney Hanover Hanover county hear heard heart Hoge honour hope Indians James James River John labours Lacy land Legislature Legrand letter Liberty Hall license live Log College Lord Lord Cornbury lordship Makemie meeting meeting-house ment Messrs miles minister ministry Northern Neck parish pastor persons petition Philadelphia pious prayer preacher preaching Presbyterian Church Presbytery present President Prince Edward received religion religious revival Sabbath Samuel Samuel Davies Samuel Stanhope Smith says sent sermon Smith solemn spirit sundry Synod Synod of Virginia Tennent things thought tion tobacco Trustees Virginia Waddell William worship young
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Side 216 - Thou believest that there is one God ; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Side 346 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Side 50 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Side 11 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Side 347 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Side 346 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Side 284 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Side 381 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Side 322 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Side 110 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?