...The following is an extract from the act itself. "Whereas the enforcing of the conscience, in matteri of religion, hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealth* where it hath been practised, and for the more quicf and peaceable government of this...

...the rights of conscience, which should never be forgotten by human governments. " Whereas, (says it,) the enforcing of the conscience, in matters of religion,...dangerous consequence, in those commonwealths where it hath been practised ; and for the more quiet and peaceable government of the province, and the better...

...strangely enough after such a provision, in the same act, after a preamble, reciting that the confining of conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence, it is enacted, that no person " professing to believe in Jesus Christ," shall be molested for or in...

...and explicit declaration by which it proclaims the inviolability of the rights of conscience. " And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters...religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous con" sequence in those commonwealths where it has been prac" tised, and for the more quiet and peaceable...

...the third offence and for every time after shall also be publickly whipt. And whereas the inforcing of the conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to bee of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it hath beene practised, and for the more...

...Maryland law would not disparage the legislation of any country, at any time. It is in these words : " Whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters...religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequences in those commonwealths where it hath been practised; and for the more quiet and peaceable...

...of the conscience in matters of religion"—such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute—" hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it CHAP. has been practised, and for the more quiet and peace~ able government of this province, and the...

...eloquent assertion and vindication of the rights of conscience. After reciting thjt " tie enforcing of conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dingerous consequence to those common"íaühs where it hath been practised, and the kitcr to preserve...

...the conscience in matters of religion" — such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute — " hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it 1 Bacon's Preface. Chalmers, 2 Bacon, 1650, c. xxiv. 217, 218. Burk, ii. 112. McMa- 3 Ibid. 1649, c....

...eloquent assertion and vindication of the rights of conscience. After reciting that " the enforcing of conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence to those commonwealths where it hath been practised, and the better to preserve mutual love and unity...