 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...professed the Christian religion, and should by writing, printing or preaching deny the Holy Trinity or the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures to be of divine authority, should be disqualified for holding any office for the first offence, and for the second be rendered... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1050 pages
...Act of Toleration by an act of 1688. An act of 1697-1698, commonly called the Blasphemy Act, enacts that if any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, should by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, deny any one of the Persons of the Holy... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1052 pages
...Act of Toleration by an act of 1688. An act of 1607-1698, commonly called the Blasphemy Act, enacts that if any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, should by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, deny any one of the Persons of the Holy... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1056 pages
...Act of Toleration by an act of 1688. An act of 1697-1698, commonly called the Blasphemy Act, enacts that if any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, should by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, deny any one of the Persons of the Holy... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1066 pages
...Act of Toleration by an act of 1688. An act of 1697-1698, commonly called the Blasphemy Act, enacts that if any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, should by writing, preaching, teachingor advised speaking, deny any one of the Persons of the Holy... | |
 | Sir William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1910 - 1274 pages
...(Ruffhead)), entitled 'an Act for the more effectual suppressing of blasphemy and pro fancness ') enacts, that if any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religum, shall, by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking, [deny any one of the Persons in... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - Free thought - 1913 - 270 pages
...Christianity is "parcel of the laws of England." (3) The statute of 1698 enacts that if any person educated in the Christian religion "shall by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking deny any one of the persons in the Holy Trinity to be God, or shall assert or maintain there are more gods... | |
 | William Blackstone - English law - 1916 - 1380 pages
...all moral obligation. To this end it was enaeted by statute 9 & 10 W. IIl, c. 32 (Blasphemy, 1697), that if any person educated in. or having made profession...deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Seriptures to be of divine authority. he shall upon the first offense be rendered ineapable to hold... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 834 pages
...Catholic Church and became a Protestant. The statute 9 and 10 of William III, cap. xxxii, provides that if any person educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion shall deny it to he true, he shall be rendered incapable of holding any office for the first offense, and... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1922 - 960 pages
...Christianity is 'parcel of the laws of England.' (3) The statute of 1698 enacts that if any person educated in the Christian religion 'shall by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking deny any one of the persons in the Holy Trinity to be God, or shall assert or maintain there are more gods... | |
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God, (r) or should assert or maintain there are more gods than one, or should deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures to be of divine authority... 
