A Speech Delivered Before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston in Defence of Abner Kneeland on an Indictment for Blasphemy: January Term, 18341834 - 132 strani |
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Abner Kneeland adopted Anglo Saxons argument atheism authority believe Bill of Rights blaspheming the holy blasphemous libel cause charge Christian Religion Church Church of England civil common law Commonwealth condemned conscience consider Constitution contumeliously reproaching conviction Counsel creed crime criminal declared defendant defendant's denying disbelief divine doctrine duty England English established evidence evil existence faith Fanny Wright gallows Gentlemen Government guilty Hale holy name Holy Scriptures human Indictment infidelity Jefferson Jesus Christ judicial Jurors justice language learned Legislature liberty Lord Lord Mansfield Massachusetts meaning ment mind morality oath obscene offence opinion Orthodox penal laws persecution person pillory principles prisoner profession or sentiments proved published punish question religion religious profession repeal reproaching the Holy restrained ridicule Saxons says sect Statute against Blasphemy subject of religion Supreme thing tiel tion toleration trial Trinitarian truth Unitarian Universalists verdict violation Voltaire whipping post witness words worship
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Stran 92 - And every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.] IV.
Stran 101 - And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession of sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.
Stran 132 - Wax faint o'er the gardens of gul in her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute , Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in die , Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine , And all, save the spirit of man , is divine ? Tis the clime of the East, 'tis the land of the Sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done ?...
Stran 95 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the Universe.
Stran 62 - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Stran 132 - A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.
Stran 129 - ... wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. But against such a majority we cannot effect this by force. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.
Stran 60 - Be it enacted, that if any person or persons having been educated in, or at any time having made profession of the Christian religion within this realm, shall by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking [deny any one of the persons of the Holy Trinity to be God...
Stran 121 - ... there shall be a liberty of conscience allowed in the worship of God, to all persons inhabiting or which shall inhabit or be resident within our said province, and that all such persons, except papists, shall have a free exercise of religion...
Stran 84 - Bible, Testament, and all into the common law, without citing any authority. And thus we find this chain of authorities hanging link by link, one upon another, and all ultimately on one and the same hook, and that a mistranslation of the words ' ancien scripture,