{"id":15580,"date":"2016-08-18T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/marylandtoleration-act-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:32:46","slug":"marylandtoleration-act-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/marylandtoleration-act-of\/","title":{"rendered":"MARYLAND,\nTOLERATION ACT OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (April 21, 1649), transformed the Colony of Maryland, which was founded initially as a refuge for persecuted Catholics, into a region that gave Christians of all denominations religious liberty: <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Be it therefore \u2026 enacted \u2026 that no person or persons whatsoever within this province \u2026 professing to believe in Jesus Christ shall \u2026 from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested (or disapproved of) \u2026 in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof.&#65279;363&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The form of oath prescribed in Governor Stone\u2019s time avouched:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I do further swear that I will not myself, nor any other person, directly or indirectly, trouble, molest, or discountenance any person whatever, in the said province, professing to believe in Jesus Christ.&#65279;364&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Colony of Maryland required the every governor annually take an oath that they would not:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>By themselves, or indirectly, to trouble, molest, or discountenance any person professing to believe in Jesus Christ, for or in respect of religion; and if any such were so molested, to protect the person molested, and punish the offender.&#65279;365&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 21, 1649), transformed the Colony of Maryland, which was founded initially as a refuge for persecuted Catholics, into a region that gave Christians of all denominations religious liberty: Be it therefore \u2026 enacted \u2026 that no person or persons whatsoever within this province \u2026 professing to believe in Jesus Christ shall \u2026 from henceforth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/marylandtoleration-act-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MARYLAND,<br \/>\nTOLERATION ACT OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}