"There was a hope confidentially cherished, about A. D. 1780, that there might be a State church throughout the United States, and this expectation was specially cherished by Episcopalians and Congregationalists. John Adams believed in leaving the matter to the States, each State

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The persecutions which the Baptists endured, as shown in the preceding chapter, have been recorded in no spirit of unkindness, but for the two-fold purpose of showing the dangers attending a union of church and State, and the price which they have paid to secure for themselves

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For the great crime of writing this book he faced more suffering in Protestant England than many under Romanism. Leighton was jailed for over 10 years, before his hearing this was in an open cell where he was rained and snowed on. This resulted in him being so sick that he could

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"Not long ago we weighed with our selves, that the Liberty and Freedom of Religion ought not in any cause to be prohibited; but that free leave ought to be given to every man, to do therein, according to his will and minde." - A copy of the Imperial Constitution of Constantinus

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I. First, may it please your Honours to take notice, that the calling of the hierarchy, their dependent offices and ceremonies, whereby they subsist, are all unlawful and Antichristian.

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And concerning the worship of God; there is but one lawgiver, which is able to save and destroy, James 4:12; which is Jesus Christ, who hath given laws and rules sufficient in His word for His worship; and for any to make more, were to charge Christ with want of wisdom, or

Matt Walsh from 8 months ago has some choice words for Matt Walsh of today. I mean, come on! Leftists want you dead and you're piling on about people on your side who took leftist money! Past Matt has no time for you now, today Matt. Past Matt thinks today Matt is irrelevant!

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Christ's sacred sceptre fifty years had sway'd The Scots, without rent, schism, or heresy. No relic there of that foul beast display 'd, Whose numeral name is with three sixes made — But England, govern 'd fifty years and three By Prelates, swarms with heresies and schisms; The

Repent of your wicked ways, trash peddler.

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"How can the liberty of a loyal subject, and the unjust restraint of the same consist together? How can the disclaiming of sovereign power, and the embracing and obeying of it stand together? How can the subscription to the articles of religion, which only concern the true

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"This may be a good caveat to all Christian Princes, not to fasten their crowns, nor to fix their tents by the cords of the Prelates' counsels; for it is remarkable, and observed by sundry, that never a King counselled, nor State swayed by them, could stand or continue long in