 | Garry Wills - 2007 - 646 Seiten
...laxness in the clergy, loss of some citizens' services, and political manipulation of the one church. [f] that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers,...modes of thinking as the only true and infallible [ones], and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions... | |
 | James H. Hutson - 2007
...Religious Freedom (1777), railed against "legislators and rulers" for interfering in religious affairs and "setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking...infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them" on people of other faiths. The potency of these "old-fashioned" views of church and state should not,... | |
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Almighty power to do ; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others... 
