A Letter to William E. Channing D.D. on the Subject of Religious LibertyPerkins & Marvin, 1830 - 52 σελίδες Response to Dr. Channing's two works: Discourses, reveiws, and miscellanies; and Sermon, preached at the annual election, May 26, 1830. |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
accusations allegations Andover appeal assailed assert avow Bashaw bigotry bigots brethren Calvinism Calvinists Catechism character charges Christ Christian church clergy Commonwealth complain Congregationalism Congregationalists conscience Consociations conviction creed crime dark dark ages dear Sir deem defend and propagate denunciation deny doctrine drown the free Edinburgh Review endeavor erect ecclesiastical eternal evidence evils exclusion extract fact faith feel Fellah fellow free inquiry freedom of thought friends fully heaven heresy injury inquiry Inquisition joint and perpetual judgment justice Liberalists maintain Massachusetts matters ments mind MOSES STUART multitude nature openly opponents Orthodox party penalties perilous persecution principles profess reason regard religion religious liberty religious opinion religious sentiments respect Review scorn search the Scriptures sect seminaries senti sincerely believe speak spirit subjects superstition suppose terror things tion tribunal Trinitarianism true truth Unitarian party Unitarians utter views voice of strength Voltaire whole worship zeal
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Σελίδα 34 - Such is Calvinism, as gathered from the most authentic records of the doctrine. Whoever will consult the famous Assembly's Catechisms and Confession will see the peculiarities of the system in all their length and breadth of deformity. A man of plain sense, whose spirit has not been broken to this creed by education or terror, will think that it is not necessary for us to travel to heathen countries to learn how mournfully the human mind may misrepresent the Deity.
Σελίδα 2 - CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the eleventh day of November, AD 1830, in the fiftyfifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof...
Σελίδα 36 - Suppose, then, that a teacher should come among you, and should tell you that the Creator, in order to pardon his own children, had erected a gallows in the centre of the universe, and had publicly executed upon it, in room of the offenders, an Infinite Being, the partaker of his own Supreme Divinity; suppose him to declare that this execution was appointed as a most conspicuous and terrible manifestation of God's justice, and...
Σελίδα 31 - There are countless ways by which men in a free country may encroach on their neighbours' rights. In religion, the instrument is ready made and always at hand. I refer to opinion, combined and organized in sects, and swayed by the clergy. We say we have no Inquisition. But a sect skilfully organized, trained to utter one cry, combined to cover with reproach whoever may differ from themselves, to drown the free expression of opinion by denunciations of heresy, and to strike terror into the multitude...
Σελίδα 2 - ... and also to an act, entitled, " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for 'be encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts- and hooks- to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Σελίδα 36 - ... enforcement of obedience and virtue. Would you not tell him, that he calumniated his Maker ? Would you not say to him, that this central gallows threw gloom over the universe ; that the spirit of a government, whose very acts of pardon were written in such blood, was terror, not paternal love ; and that the obedience which needed to be upheld by this horrid spectacle, was nothing worth ? Would you not say to him, that even you, in this infancy and imperfection of your being, were capable of being...
Σελίδα 4 - ... with every solemnity by institutions and laws, religion can never degenerate into tyranny; that here its whole influence must conspire to the liberation and dignity of the mind ? I answer, we discover little knowledge of human nature, if we ascribe to constitutions the power of charming to sleep the spirit of intolerance and exclusion. Almost every other bad passion may sooner be put to rest; and for this plain reason, that intolerance always shelters itself under the name and garb of religious...
Σελίδα 14 - Mahometan even, and the Jew, and the Deist, as well as the Christian, should have the liberty of worshipping in his own way among us, so long as they demean themselves peaceably, and do not invade the rights of others. We know of no exception to participation in civil and social rights, and the right of worshipping in our own way, or of even not worshipping in any way, under a government that is free in the sense that we would have it ; and all this without any abridgement of the rights of citizens,...
Σελίδα 40 - Congregationalists, neither yourself, nor any man on earth, has a right to deny that we are sincere in this profession. How, then, can we have it in view to erect ecclesiastical judicatories and courts which are to try and punish heretics as criminals ? Why, Sir, the suggestion of such a thing among Congregationalists, is just as if one were to ask, under the present form of our government in this State, " What day is appointed for the coronation of the Governor...