★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
Laws have hitherto <add>been</add> continued, is for <gap/> — we alone therefore will be cruel <add>severe</add> —<lb/> | Laws have hitherto <add>been</add> continued, is for <gap/> — we alone therefore will be cruel <add>severe</add> —<lb/> | ||
In all this time not a hand has <sic>offer'd</sic> to take up the rod — <del>and</del> <add>we</add> therefore <del>we</del> will invite <add>continue to</add><lb/> | In all this time not a hand has <sic>offer'd</sic> to take up the rod — <del>and</del> <add>we</add> therefore <del>we</del> will invite <add>continue to</add><lb/> | ||
it.</p> | it.</p> | ||
<p>It is not to be dissembled that were <add>mere</add> Religion alone concerned, and Political constitution<lb/> | |||
apart, a Christian who sets a <gap/> value of <add>upon</add> the rights of Conscience,<lb/> | |||
a <sic>Mahometan</sic> Government would be more eligible + <note>+ Without any hollow pretensions to the <unclear>peril</unclear> <add>the dominating</add> of Xtianity, (as if sworn <add><del><gap/></del> Courtly</add> Xtianity were synonymous to meekness) without the parade of Crocodile Humility, <add>compassion</add> it fosters with a magnanimity worthy a ......... a religion which it depicts as Idolatry and despises <add><gap/></add> as Superstition</note></p> | |||
PENAL LAWS RELIGIOUS.
Want of Notoriety why one cause why the Religious Penal Laws are not executed
General aversion to intolerance another —
Examples of Russia, Holland, Prussia, Pensylvania — In other Colonies should go to Catherine for instruction
From the time of the first opening this Code of Legislation for Carolina to the present
moment has there been a single incident to give a sanction to the fears of mischief
resulting to result from Toleration? Has there in Pensylvania?
Argument from the refusal of the Americans to receive a Bishop, founded in grouted in this action
of vicarious punishment, the bane of Morality. dictated by vengeance. — What has lately posed sums
not very well calculated to conquer that indisposition aversion — if any thing can, it justifies it.
Christians who set a sincere value upon the rights of Conscience
I wonder no friendly monitor from within arose to seal the life of those who urged the
neglect of these Laws as a reason for their continuance. If neither the example (but why only the example) of two ornaments of the Law than which no must look for brighter, if authority be the guide, nor - - if reason — if experience — if example —
The Sense of the whole nation manifested by the uninterrupted sleep in which these
Laws have hitherto been continued, is for — we alone therefore will be cruel severe —
In all this time not a hand has offer'd to take up the rod — and we therefore we will invite continue to
it.
It is not to be dissembled that were mere Religion alone concerned, and Political constitution
apart, a Christian who sets a value of upon the rights of Conscience,
a Mahometan Government would be more eligible + + Without any hollow pretensions to the peril the dominating of Xtianity, (as if sworn Courtly Xtianity were synonymous to meekness) without the parade of Crocodile Humility, compassion it fosters with a magnanimity worthy a ......... a religion which it depicts as Idolatry and despises as Superstition
|
Identifier: | JB/096/325/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
096 |
legislation |
||
|
325 |
penal laws religious |
||
|
001 |
|||
|
text sheet |
1 |
||
|
recto |
|||
|
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]] |
||
|
31329 |
|||
