 | Jasper Adams - Anglican Communion - 1833 - 90 pages
...have a copy of the American Constitutions at hand. Constitution of Massachusetts, Part i. Art. 3. — "As the happiness of a people, and the good order...and as these cannot be generally diffused through the community, but by the institution of a public worship of God, and of public institutions (instructions)... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Jenks - Liberalism (Religion) - 1833 - 422 pages
...establishment of public worship." This, as Christians, they might have said ; but as legislators they say : " As the happiness of a people and the good order and...preservation of civil government essentially depend vpon piety, religion, and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community,... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 1038 pages
...sentiments, provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship. As the happiness of a people, and the good order and...generally diffused through a community but by the institutions of the public worship of God, and of public institutions in piety, religion, and morality... | |
 | Andrew Reed, James Matheson - Religion - 1835 - 552 pages
...denomination to another shall ever be established by law. AMENDMENT AS PROPOSED IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1820. As the happiness of a people and the good order and...generally diffused through a community, but by the public worship of God; and as the public worship of God will be best promoted by recognizing the unalienable... | |
 | Andrew Reed - United States - 1835 - 554 pages
...denomination to another shall ever be established by law. AMENDMENT AS PROPOSED IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1820. As the happiness of a people and the good order and...generally diffused through a community, but by the public worship of God; and as the public worship of God will be best promoted by recognizing the unalienable... | |
 | Andrew Reed, James Matheson - Church buildings - 1835 - 380 pages
...denomination to another shall ever be established by law. AMENDMENT AS PROPOSED IS MASSACHUSETTS IN 1830. As the happiness of a people, and the good order and...religion, and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diifused through a community but by the public worship of God ; and as the public worship of God will... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 516 pages
...sentiments, provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship. As the happiness of a people, and the good order and...generally diffused through a community but by the institutions of the public worship of God, and of public institutions in piety, religion, and morality;... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...for ever full 1 VI. The L<UP on Religion. THE LAW AS IT WAS IN MASSACHUSETTS. As the happiness of the people, and the good order and preservation of civil...piety, religion, and morality; and as these cannot oe generally diffused through a community but by the institution of the public worship of God, and... | |
 | Benjamin Dole - Free thought - 1838 - 52 pages
...The Bill of Rights says — " As the happiness ef a people, and the good order and preservation of a civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion...promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their... | |
 | Henry Whiting Warner, Theodore Frelinghuysen - Religion and state - 1838 - 222 pages
...New-Hampshire. Massachusetts went still further, the constitution of 1780 holding this language : " that as the happiness of a people, and the good order and...institution of the public worship of God, and of public instruction in piety, religion, and morality : therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure... | |
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III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship... 
