A Quaker Experiment in Government: History of Quaker Government in Pennsylvania, 1682-1783, Količine 1–2Ferris & Leach, 1902 |
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Stran 53 - I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God blessed forevermore; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.
Stran 223 - to plot or contrive the ruin or overthrow of any of them, but to pray for the king and for the safety of our nation, and the good of all men; that we may live a peaceable and quiet life, in all godliness and honesty, under the government which God is pleased to set over us."—Ancient Testimony, 1696, in
Stran 48 - liberty by the civil Magistrate.* The first clause of the charter of 1701, under which was operated the government of Pennsylvania till 1776, was: Because no people can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyment of civil liberties, if abridged of the freedom of their consciences as to their religious profession and worship, and Almighty God being the one Lord
Stran 86 - Penn writes shortly after, in a letter to the Free Society of Traders: I have had occasion to be in Council with them upon terms for land, and to adjust the terms of trade. . . . When the purchase was agreed, great promises passed between us of kindness and good neighborhood, and that the Indians and English must live
Stran 198 - the possibility of ultimate armed resistance, he yet counsels his brethren to carry on their opposition by legal and moderate, if firm measures. " The cause of liberty is a cause of too much dignity to be sullied by turbulence and tumult. It ought to
Stran 98 - or kings; first to tell them what was done, next to charge and command them to love the Christians, and particularly live in peace with me and the people under my government; that many governors had been in the river, but that no
Stran 91 - and all people owe their being and well-being; to whom you and I must one day give an account for all that we do in the world. " This great God hath written his law in our hearts, by
Stran 71 - to have wholly to itself the Indian trade from south to north between the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers. But as the Lord gave it to me over all and great opposition ... I would not abuse His love nor act unworthy of His providence, and so defile what came to me clean.
Stran 79 - to have wholly to itself the Indian trade from south to north between the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers. . . . But as the Lord gave it to me over all and great opposition ... I would not abuse His love nor act unworthy of His providence, and so defile what came to me clean.
Stran 109 - For all these reasons we charge you to remove instantly. We don't give you liberty to think about it. You are women; take the advice of a wise man and remove immediately. We assign you two places to go