 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...retaining an "equal title to the free exercise of Religion according to the dictates of Conscience."48 Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace,...yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to... | |
 | Leonard Williams Levy - Religion - 1995 - 708 pages
...forgotten or emulated. James Madison stated: Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine...yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offense against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to... | |
 | Ronald F. Thiemann - Political Science - 1996 - 208 pages
...retaining an "equal title to the free exercise of Religion according to the dictates of conscience." Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace,...yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom is abused, it is an offense against God, not against man.7 The bill before the Virginia... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...those who are strangers to the light of Truth, from coming into the regions of it. |J James Madison Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace,...yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against God. not against man: To God. therefore, not to... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - Political Science - 1996 - 456 pages
...retaining an "equal title to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience." Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace,...deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against... | |
 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 566 pages
...that there could be no logical exceptions to the rule. Even atheists must be accorded full protection: Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace,...yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to... | |
 | Mary C. Segers, Ted G. Jelen - Political Science - 1998 - 216 pages
...retaining an "equal right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess,...yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against God. not againxt man: to God. therefore not to... | |
 | Joseph Viteritti - Education - 2012 - 310 pages
...that public support for religion "violates equality by subjecting some to peculiar burdens," and that "we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yielded to the evidence that has convinced us." Thus we find Madison not only anxious about the treatment... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...retaining an "equal title to the free exercise of Religion according to the dictates of conscience." Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace,...yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against God, not against man. To God, therefore, not to... | |
 | Garrett Ward Sheldon - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 324 pages
...believed that the individual, not governments, would have to answer to God for neglecting the true faith. "Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion [Christianity] which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose... | |
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Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. 
