Religion and the law

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The series Religion and the law represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in Biddle Law Library- University of Pennsylvania Law School.

"Law, freedom, truth, and faith in God" are preserved : statutes of Massachusetts General Court, in 300 years, present truth of history "not darkened by prejudice or colored by passion, not brightened by eulogy or softened by partiality"-- struggle to develop criminal code-- courageous departure from principles of English land law-- four legislative periods : tercentenary oration
"Uncle Tom's story of his life" : an autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom") from 1789-1876
'Can there be a church without a Bishop?' : controversy between Rev. Drs. Wainwright and Potts (the former of the Protestant Episcopal, the latter of the Presbyterian Church,) growing out of the incidental assertion of the former that 'There cannot be a church without a bishop
A "Bunker Hill" contest, A.D. 1826 : between the "Holy Alliance" for the establishment of hierarchy, and ecclesiasitcal domination over the human mind, on the one side; and the asserters of free inquiry, Bible religion, Christian freedom and civil liberty on the other : The Rev. Charles Finney, "home missionary," and high priest of the expeditions of the alliance in the interior of New-York; head quarters, County of Oneida
A Catholic case against segregation
A Catholic dictionary : containing some account of the doctrine, discipline, rites, ceremonies, councils, and religious orders of the Catholic Church
A Catholic runs for President : the campaign of 1928
A Christian imperative : our contribution to world order
A Christian in politics, Luther W. Youngdahl : a story of a Christian's faith at work in a modern world
A Muslim archipelago : Islam and politics in Southeast Asia
A Quaker experiment in government : history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania, 1682-1783
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations undertaken in American and Canadian universities, 1940-1962, on religion and politics
A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people call'd Quakers : in the Exchequer, Ecclesiastical, and other courts, for demands recoverable by the acts made in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of King William the Third, for the more easie recovery of tithes, church-rates, &c.
A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers : in which their fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline, are plainly declared : with a summary relation of the former dispensatios of God in the world, by way of introduction
A brief disquisition of the law of nature : according to the principles and method laid down in the Reverend Dr. Cumberland's (now Lord Bishop of Peterborough's) Latin treatise on that subject. : as also his confutations of Mr. Hobb's principles, put into another method
A brief examination of Scripture testimony on the institution of slavery : in an essay, first published in the Religious Herald, and republished by request : with remarks on a letter of Elder Galusha, of New York, to Dr. R. Fuller, of South Carolina
A brief statement of the rise and progress of the testimony of the Religious Society of Friends, against slavery and the slave trade
A calendar of cases of witchcraft in Scotland, 1510-1727
A careful and strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame
A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages : including the sacred writings ; fathers, doctors of the church, schoolmen, and ecclesiastical historians, to the death of Boniface VIII A.D. 1303 ; Jewish and rabbinical commentators ; works of the reformers, and of more recent divines, ascetical, dogmatical, polemical and exegetical ; liturgies, rituals, and liturgical literature ; councils, synods, and confessions of faith ; monastic history and rule ; canon and ecclesiastical law ; church polity and discipline ; Hebrew and Syriac literature ; etc. etc
A civil correction of a sawcy impudent pamphlet, lately published, entitled, A brief account of the designs which the Papists have had against the Earl of Shaftsbury, &c
A code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits : from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language
A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A. D. 1536 to 1784
A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A. D. 1536, to 1784
A collection of acts and records of Parliament : with reports of cases, argued and determined in the courts of law and equity, respecting tithes
A collection of acts of Parliament, and clauses of acts of Parliament, relative to those Protestant dissenters who are usually called by the name of Quakers, from the year 1688
A collection of all the Ecclesiastical laws, canons, answers, or rescripts : with other memorials concerning the government, discipline and worship of the Church of England, from its first foundation to the Conquest, that have hitherto been publish'd in the Latin and Saxonic tongues : and of all the canons and constitutions ecclesiastical, made since the Conquest and before the Reformation, in any national council, or in the provincial synods of Canterbury and York, that have hitherto been publish'd in the Latin tongue
A collection of articles, injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances and constitutions ecclesiastical : with other publick records of the Church of England, chiefly in the times of K. Edward VI., Q. Elizabeth, K. James, & K. Charles I : published to vindicate the Church of England, and to promote uniformity and peace in the same
A collection of decrees by the Court of Exchequer in tithe-causes : from the usurpation to the present time
A collection of state-papers : relative to the first acknowledgment of the sovereignty of the United States of America, and the reception of their minister plenipotentiary by their high mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands : to which is prefixed, the political character of John Adams, Ambassador Plenipotentiary from the States of North America, to their high mightinesses the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands
A collection of the essays on the subject of episcopacy, which originally appeared in the Albany centinel
A collection of the judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in ecclesiastical cases relating to doctrine and discipline : with a preface by the Lord Bishop of London, and an historical introduction
A collection of the laws and canons of the Church of England : from its first foundation to the conquest, and from the conquest to the reign of King Henry VIII
A collection of the laws in favours of the Reformation in Scotland, in three parts : to all which is subjoined an index of the principal contents of these collections : the whole making up a genuine history of the legal establishment of religion in Scotland, from the Reformation (1560) to the present year 1749 : and wherein care is taken to distinguish the laws which were rescinded, from the laws that were never declared to be so
A collection of the most remarkable trials of persons for high-treason, murder, rapes, heresy, bigamy, burglary, and other crimes and misdemeanors
A collection of the reports of cases, the statutes, and ecclesiastical laws, relating to tithes : with a copious analytical index
A collection of the state papers of John Thurloe, Esq., secretary, first, to the Council of State, and afterwards to the two Protectors, Oliver and Richard Cromwell : in seven volumes, containing authentic memorials of the English affairs from the year 1638, to the Restoration of King Charles II : published from the originals, formerly in the library of John Lord Somers, Lord High Chancellor of England, and since in that of Sir Joseph Jekyll, Knt. late Master of the Rolls : including also a considerable number of original letters and papers, communicated by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury from the library at Lambeth, the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburn, and other hands : the whole digested into an exact order of time, to which is prefixed, The life of Mr. Thurloe, with a complete index to each volume
A commentary on canon 1125 : together with a history of the legislation contained in the canon
A commentary on the new Code of canon law
A companion for the festivals and fasts of the Church of England : with collects and prayers for each solemnity
A companion for the prisoner : being a selection of sermons, exhortations, and other religious instructions, compiled for the use of imprisoned offenders
A comparative history of religions
A comparative study of the Christian constitution of states and the constitution of the Philippine commonwealth
A comparative study of the constitution "Apostolicae sedis" and the "Codex juris canonici"
A comparative study of the councils of Baltimore and the code of canon law
A comparative view of the constitutions of Great Britain and the United States of America : in six lectures
A compend of history, from the earliest times : comprehending a general view of the present state of the world, with respect to civilization, religion, and government; and a brief dissertation on the importance of historical knowledge
A compendious view of the ecclesiastical law of Ireland : being the substance of a course of lectures read in the University of Dublin
A compendium of Christian antiquities : being a brief view of the orders, rites, laws and customs of the ancient church in the early ages
A compendium of ecclesiastical history
A compendium of occult laws : the selection, arrangement and application of the most important of occult laws taught by the masters of initiation of the great secret schools of the past and present--Hermetic, Rosicrucian, alchemic and Æth priesthood, and the practice of the laws in the development of the fourfold nature of man in attaining success and mastership on all planes of activity
A compendium of the Canon Law for the use of the clergy and theological students of the clergy of the Church in Scotland : commonly called the Scottish Episcopal Church
A complete history of Connecticut, civil and ecclesiastical : from the emigration of its first planters, from England, in the year 1630, to the year 1764 ; and to the close of the Indian wars
A complete history of Connecticut, civil and ecclesiastical, from the emigration of its first planters from England, in MDCXXX, to MDCCXIII, Vol. I
A complete index of the Summa theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas
A complete synopsis of the great pew case : James Johnston (plaintiff), appellant and the minister and trustees of St. Andrew's Church, Montreal (defendants) respondents : from the institution to the final decree of the Supremem Court of Canada
A concise view of the doctrine and practice of the ecclesiastical courts in Doctors' Commons on various points relative to the subject of marriage and divorce
A concise view of the doctrine and practice of the ecclesiastical courts in Doctors' Commons, on various points relative to the subject of marriage and divorce
A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for sorcery in 1324
A correct report of the examination of Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, minister of the Methodist Church in Bristol, R.I., who was charged with the murder of Sarah M. Cornell
A critical history of Sunday legislation from 321 to 1888 A.D.
A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures : to which are subjoined, a short account of the lives of the Evangelists, and other pieces : illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts
A declaration of legal faith
A defence of "our fathers" and of the original organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church against the Rev. Alexander M'Caine and others : with historical and critical notices of early American methodism
A defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament : wherein are considered all the objections against this kind of proof, advanced in a late Discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion
A defence of Her Majesty's title to the crown, and a justification of her entring into a war with France and Spain : as it was deliver'd in a sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford on the 10th day of June, 1702 : being fast appointed for imploring a blessing on Her Majesty and allies engaged in the present war
A defence of southern slavery, against the attacks of Henry Clay and Alex'r. Campbell : in which much of the false philanthropy and mawkish sentimeetalism of the abolitionists is met and refuted : in which it is moreover shown that the association of the white and black races in the relation of master and slave is the appointed order of God, as set forth in the Bible, and constitutes the best social condition of both races, and the only true principle of republicanism
A defence of the Christian religion, and of the religious instruction of the young : delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, February 10, 1844, in the case of Stephen Girard's will
A defence of the ladies, and others, against the bishop of Maryland, and his aids
A dictionary of American and English law : with definitions of the technical terms of the canon and civil laws : also, containing a full collection of Latin maxims, and citations of upwards of forty thousand reported cases in which words and phrases have been judicially defined or construed
A dictionary of canon law
A dictionary of ecclesiastical terms : being a history and explanation of certain terms used in architecture, ecclesiology, liturgiology, music, ritual, cathedral constitution, etc.
A dictionary of religious knowledge, for popular and professional use : comprising full information on biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects : with several hundred maps and illustrations
A digest of Methodist law : or, Helps in the administration of the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church
A digest of laws and decisions, ecclesiastical and civil, relating to the constitution, practice, and affairs of the Church of Scotland : with explanatory notes and forms of procedure
A digested index of the reports of the Supreme Court, and the Court for the Correction of Errors, in the state of New-York : including Coleman's cases, Caines's cases, 2 vols., Caines's reports, 3 vols., Johnson's cases, 3 vols., Johnson's reports, 18 vols., and the 1st part of the 19th vol., Anthon's nisi prius
A discourse, delivered at Hallowell, April 25th, 1799, being the day appointed by the chief magistrate of the United States, for a national fast
A dissertation on servitude : embracing an examination of the Scripture doctrines on the subject, and an inquiry into the character and relations of slavery
A dissertation on the civil government of the Hebrews : in which the true designs, and nature of their government are explained : the justice, wisdom and goodness of the Mosaical constitutions, are vindicated: in particular, from some late, unfair and false representations of them in the Moral philosopher
A dissertation on the law of nature, the law of nations, and the civil law in general : together with some observations on the Roman civil law in particular : to which is added, by way of appendix, a curious catalogue of books, very useful to the students of these several laws, together with the canon law
A few thoughts
A full account of the trial of Simon M. Landis, M.D. : for uttering and publishing a book entitled "Secrets of generation"
A full report of the case of Mastin v. Escott, clerk, for refusing to bury an infant baptized by a Wesleyan minister : containing all the arguments on both sides and the judgment delivered by the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Jenner, in the Arches Court of Canterbury, May 8th, 1841 : with an appendix of documents
A full report of the trial and conviction of the Reverend Washington Van Zandt : of the Episcopal Church, Rochester, N.Y., for the seduction of Miss Sophia Murdock (sixteen years of age), a member of his church : to which is added the speech of Hon. Mark H. Sibley, of Canandaigua, for the defence, of Henry R. Selden of Clarkson, and Judge Sampson of Rochester, for the prosecution together with Judge Dayton's charge, of Lockport, to the jury
A further account of the tryals of the New-England witches : with the observations of a person who was upon the place several days when the suspected witches were first taken into examination : to which is added, Cases of conscience concerning witchcrafts and evil spirits personating men
A general ecclesiastical history : from the nativity of our blessed Saviour to the first establishment of Christianity by humane laws, under the emperour Constantine the Great, containing the space of about 313 years, with so much of the Jewish and Roman history as is necessary and convenient to illustrate the work : to which is added, a large chronological table of all the Roman and ecclesiastical affairs, included in the same period of time
A glance at the Italian Inquisition : a sketch of Pietro Carnesecchi : his trial before the supreme court of the papal inquisition in Rome, and his martyrdom in 1566
A glossary of ecclesiastical terms : containing brief explanations of words used in dogmatic theology; liturgiology; ecclesiastical chronology and law; gothic architecture; Christian antiquities and symbolism; conventual arrangements; Greek hierology; and medieval Latin works : together with some account of mystical titles of our Lord; emblems of saints; sources of hymns; religious orders; heresies and sects; ecclesiastical customs and dignities; church books, funiture, ornaments and work; sacred offices and vestments; Catholic ceremonial; and miscellaneous ecclesiastical subjects
A guide to the encyclicals of the Roman pontiffs from Leo XIII to the present day (1878-1937)
A guide to the study of the Christian religion
A handbook of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church : giving its history and constitution, 1785-1874
A history of American Christianity
A history of King's Chapel, in Boston : the first Episcopal church in New England : comprising notices of the introduction of Episcopacy into the northern colonies
A history of modern liberty
A history of political theories : ancient and mediæval
A history of political theories, [2], From Luther to Montesquieu
A history of political thought in the sixteenth century
A history of the Christian Councils : from the original documents
A history of the Christian church
A history of the Jesuits ; : to which is prefixed A reply to Mr. Dallas's defence of that order
A history of the Pocasset tragedy : with the three sermons preached in New Bedford
A history of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America
A history of the legal incorporation of Catholic Church property in the United States (1784-1932)
A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths, of the primitive as well as the Protestant martyrs, from the commencement of Christianity to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added an account of the Inquisition : the Bartholomew massacre : the massacre in France, and general persecution under Louis XIV : the massacres of the Irish rebellion in the year 1641 : and the recent persecutions of Protestants in the south of France
A history of the reformation, in England and Ireland : in a series of letters
A history of the religion of Judaism : 500 to 200 B.C.
A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom
A juridical dissertation concerning the scripture doctrine of marriage contracts, and the marriages of cousin-germans : illustrated from the canon, civil, and statute-law, wherein also the foundation and exercise of ecclesiastical authority are examined : occasioned by some late proceedings in Doctors-Commons
A law dictionary containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern : and including the principal terms of international, constitutional, ecclesiastical and commercial law, and medical jurisprudence, with a collection of legal maxims, numerous select titles from the Roman modern civil, Scotch, French, Spanish, and Mexican law, and other foreign systems, and a table of abbreviations
A law grammar, or, An introduction to the theory and practice of English jurisprudence
A layman's apology, for the appointment of clerical chaplains by the legislature of the state of New York : in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Herttell, member of Assembly for the City of New-York, 1833
A letter from the Lady Creswell to Madam C. the midwife, on the publishing her late vindication, &c. : also, A whip for impudence, or, A lashing repartee to the snarling midwifes matchless rogue, being an answer to the rayling libel
A letter to Sir John Nicholl, official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, &c. : on his late decision in the ecclesiastical court, against a clergyman, for refusing to bury the child of a dissenter : with a preface most humbly addressed to the most reverend and right reverend the archbishops and bishops of the Church of England
A letter to the bishop of London : containing a charge of fornication against Edward, Lord Thurlow, Lord High Chancellor of England : with his Lordship's de bene esse defense
A lexicon of St. Thomas Aquinas based on the Summa theologica and selected passages of his other works
A manual of the law applicable to corporations generally : including, also, general rules of law peculiar to banks, railroads, religious societies, municipal bodies, and voluntary associations, as determined by the leading courts of England and the United States
A manual of the law specially affecting Catholics
A martyr to the truth : a sermon in commemoration of the death of Rev. Charles T. Torrey, in the Maryland penitentiary, May 9, 1845 : delivered at Fisherville, and also in the Baptist meeting-house in Concord, May 31, 1846
A memorial representing the present case of the church in Mary-land with relation to its establishment by law : printed about 1700
A narrative of facts which led to the presentment of the Rt. Rev. Benj. T. Onderdonk, bishop of New-York
A narrative of the depositions of Robert Jenison Esq. : with other material evidences, plainly proving that Mr. William Ireland, lately executed for high treason, was in London the nineteenth of August, 1678, notwithstanding his confident denial thereof both at his tryal and execution
A narrative of the life and experience of François Pepin, who was for more than 40 years a member of the Papal Church : embracing an account of his conversion, trials & persecutions, in turning to the pure religion of the Bible : addressed particularly to his brethren of the Romish Church
A narrative of the proceedings and tryal of Mr. Francis Johnson, a Franciscan, at Worcester last summer-assizes, Anno Dom. 1679
A narrative of the proceedings of the religious society of the people called Quakers in Philadelphia against John Evans : to which is added, a report of the evidence delivered on the trial of the case of John Evans versus Ellis Yarnall and others : with an appendix
A narrative, being a true relation of what discourse passed between Dr. Hawkins and Edward Fitz-Harys, Esq., late prisoner in the Tower : with the manner of taking his confession
A new ecclesiastical history of the sixteenth century : containing an impartial account of the reformation of religion, and other ecclesiastical affairs : especially the rise and progress of the doctrines of Luther, Calvin, Zuinglius, &c. : together with the lives and writings of the ecclesiastical authors, who flourished in that time
A new history of the Holy Bible : from the beginning of the world to the establishment of Christianity : with answers to most of the controverted questions, dissertations upon the most remarkable passages, and a connection of profane history all along : to which are added, notes explaining difficult texts, rectifying mistranslations, and reconciling seeming contradictions : the whole illustrated with proper maps and sculptures
A new pandect of Roman civil law, as anciently established in that new empire ; and now received and practised in most European nations : with many useful observations thereon ; shewing, wherein that law differs from the municipal laws of Great-Britain, from the canon law in general, and from that part of it now in use here with us in England. Whereunto is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a preliminary discourse, touching the rise and progress of the civil law, from the most early times of the Roman empire: wherein is also comprized a particular account of the books themselves containing this law, the names of the authors and compilers of them, the several editions, and the best commentators thereon
A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable, and to reduce the truth to its original purity
A new treatise on the law concerning tithes : containing all the statutes, adjudged cases, resolutions and judgments relative thereto, under the following heads
A papal chamberlain : the personal chronicle of Francis Augustus MacNutt
A pastoral letter, on the religious instruction of the slaves of members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of South-Carolina : prepared at the request of the convention of the churches of the diocese : to which is appended a table of scripture lessons, prepared in conformity with the resolution of the convention
A plan for giving the gospel to our servants : a sermon preached in several of the Protestant Episcopal churches, in Charleston, on Sundays in February, 1848
A plea for religious liberty and the rights of conscience : an argument delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, April 28, 1886, in three cases of Lorenzo Snow, plaintiff in error, v. the United States, on writs of error to the Supreme Court of Utah Territory
A plea for the West
A political catechism, or, certain questions concerning the government of this land, answered in His Majesties own words, taken out of his Answer to the 19 propositions, pag. 17, 18, 19, 20. of the first edition; with some brief observations thereupon : published for the more compleat setling of consciences; particularly of those that have made the late protestation, to maintain the power and priviledges of Parliament, when they shall herein see the Kings owne interpretation what that power and priviledges are
A popular and practical introduction to law studies : and to every department of the legal profession, civil, criminal, and ecclesiastical : with an account of the state of the law in Ireland and Scotland, and occasional illustrations from American law
A popular history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics
A practical arrangement of ecclesiastical law
A practical commentary on the code of canon law
A practical treatise of the law of marriage and divorce : containing also the mode of proceeding on divorces in the ecclesiastical courts and in Parliament; the right to the custody of children, voluntary separation between husband and wife; the husband's liability to wife's debts; and the conflict between the laws of England and Scotland respecting divorce and legitimacy
A practical treatise of the law of mortmain, and charitable uses and trusts : with an appendix of statutes and forms
A practical treatise on ecclesiastical and civil dilapidations, re-instatements, waste, &c. : with an appendix containing cases decided, precedents of notices to repair, examples of valuations, surveys, estimates, &c.
A practical treatise on the law of charities
A practical treatise on the law relating to the church and clergy
A practical treatise on the law relating to the church and clergy
A practical treatise on the law relating to the church and clergy
A relation of the conference between William Laud, late Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite : by the command of King James, of ever-blessed memory : with an answer to such exceptions as A.C. takes against it
A relation of the state of religion : and with what hopes and pollicies it hath beene framed, and is maintained in the severall states of these westerne parts of the world
A report by the select vestry of the church to the rector of the parish : with appendices, containing opinions of Canadian counsel and evidence of the chief cathedral authorities in England, relative to ecclesiastical law and usage in England and Canada
A report of the case of Wilson v. Daly : argued and determined in the Consistorial Court of Dublin, in the year 1842
A report of the case of the Right Rev. R. D. Hampden, D. D., Lord Bishop elect of Hereford : in Hereford Cathedral, the ecclesiastical courts, and the Queen's Bench
A report of the proceedings in the mock trial of an information, exhibited ex-officio by the King's Attorney General against William Tunbridge : for publication of a book called "Palmer's Principles of nature", as an alleged blasphemous libel upon the Christian religion, and the holy scriptures of the Jews and Christians, before a packed jury and Lord Chief Justice Abbott, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Monday, the 20th of January : to which is added the whole of the suppressed part of the defendant's defence, and the proceedings in the court at Westminster on receiving its sentence, on Thursday the sixth of February, 1823
A report of the proceedings in the mock trial of an information, exhibited ex-officio by the King's Attorney General against William Tunbridge : for publication of a book called "Palmer's Principles of nature", as an alleged blasphemous libel upon the Christian religion, and the holy scriptures of the Jews and Christians, before a packed jury and Lord Chief Justice Abbott, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Monday, the 20th of January : to which is added the whole of the suppressed part of the defendant's defence, and the proceedings in the court at Westminster on receiving its sentence, on Thursday the sixth of February, 1823
A report of the trial of the Rev. Theodore Clapp : before the Mississippi Presbytery, at their sessions in May and December 1832
A report of the trial on an action for damages, brought by the Reverend Charles Massy against the most noble, the Marquis of Headfort, for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife : damages laid at £40,000
A respectful examination of the judgment delivered Dec. 11, 1809 by the Right Hon. Sir J. Nicholl, Knt. LL.D., official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, against the Rev. John Wight Wickes, for refusing to bury an infant child, which had been baptized by a dissenting minister : in a letter to Sir John Nicholl
A restatement of rabbinic civil law
A review
A review of "The Review" of the late controversy between the Rev. Isaac Leeser and the Philadelphia Congregation, Mickve Israel
A review of Rev. Doctor Lord's sermon on the higher law, bin its application to the Fugitive slave bill
A review of the Rev. Moses Stuart's pamphlet on slavery, entitled Conscience and the Constitution
A review of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Geo. Reynolds vs. the United States
A review of the reports, evidence, and arguments, as presented in the case of Trinity Church, to the Legislature of New-York, 1857
A scriptural, ecclesiastical, and historical view of slavery : from the days of the patriarch Abraham, to the nineteenth century
A seasonable discourse, wherein is examined what is lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government : especially in the case of a king deserting his kingdoms: and how far a man may lawfully conform to the powers and commands of those, who with various successes hold kingdoms : whether it be lawful, I. In paying taxes. II. In personal service. III. In taking oaths. IV. In giving himself up to a final allegiance : as also, whether the nature of war be inconsistent with the nature of the Christian religion
A secular view of religion in the state, and the Bible in the public schools
A series of discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connexion with the modern astronomy
A sermon addressed to the Second Presbyterian congregation in Albany, March 4, 1838, the Sabbath after intelligence was received that the Hon. Jonathan Cilley, member of Congress from Maine, had been shot in a duel with the Hon. William J. Graves, member from Kentucky
A sermon at the funeral of Sr. Edmund-Bury Godfrey, one of His Majesties justices of the peace, who was barbarously murthered : preached on Thursday the last day of Octob. 1678 in the parish-church of St. Martin in the Fields
A sermon delivered at Great-Falls, N.H., Aug. 9, 1835, on the subject of abolishing capital punishment
A sermon delivered before the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts : at the annual election, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1864
A sermon on the death of the Hon. William Paterson, Esq., L.L.D. : one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, who died on the ninth of September, eighteen hundred and six, in the sixty- first year of his age : preached in the Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on the twenty-first day of September
A sermon preached before His Excellency John Hancock, Esq, governour, the Honourable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, October 25, 1780 : being the day of the commencement of the constitution, and inauguration of the new government
A sermon preached in the chapel of St. Peter's Church, New-York, on Thursday, the 10th of December 1835 : being a day appointed by authority as a day of public Thanksgiving
A sermon preached on the day of the National Fast, January 4th, A.D. 1861, in St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
A sermon upon the subject of slavery
A sermon, preached before the Massachusetts Missionary Society, at their annual meeting in Boston, May 26, 1807
A short account of the authorities in law, upon which judgement was given in Sir Edw. Hales his case
A short compendium of the catechism for the Indians : with the approbation of the Rt. Rev. Frederic Baraga, Bishop of Saut Sainte Marie, 1864
A short history of the Salem village witchcraft trials : illustrated by a verbatim report of the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe : a memorial of her
A social history of ancient Ireland : treating of the government, military system, and law ; religion, learning, and art ; trades, industries, and commerce ; manners, customs, and domestic life, of the ancient Irish people
A statement of facts and circumstances connected with the recent trial of the Bishop of New-York
A study of the relationship between law and Christian morals in the English and American legal systems
A summary of facts in relation to the late treaty with the Seneca Indians : together with a portion of the President's message, transmitting to the Senate the amended treaty and of the report of the Massachusetts Committee
A summary of the Roman civil law : illustrated by commentaries on and parallels from the Mosaic, Canon, Mohammedan, English and foreign law : with an appendix, map, and general index
A summary of the Roman civil law : illustrated by commentaries on and parallels from the Mosaic, Canon, Mohammedan, English and foreign law : with an appendix, map, and general index
A summary of the law and practice in the ecclesiastical courts
A system of English ecclesiastical law : extracted from the Codex juris ecclasiastici anglicani of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London
A system of English ecclesiastical law : extracted from the Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London
A temperance address delivered before the Concord Temperance Society, in the First Baptist Church, Fast Day, April 8, 1858
A text-book of popery : comprising a brief history of the Council of Trent, a translation of its doctrinal decrees, and copious extracts from the catechism published by its authority : with notes and illustrations : to which is added, in an appendix, the doctrinal decrees, and canons of the Council of Trent, in Latin, as published at Rome, anno Domini 1564 : the whole intended to furnish a correct and complete view of the theological system of popery
A ticking time bomb : counterterrorism lessons from the U.S. government's failure to prevent the Fort Hood Attack : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, February 15, 2011
A treatise of church-lands & tithes : in two parts : containing an historical account of ecclesiastical revenues, churches, church-yards, church-offices, benefices, glebes, manses, patronage, monachism, religious, and some military-orders, with a particular history of tithes; and a clear and full discussion of points of right and controversy, relating to these matters; and shewing how far the Scots and canon laws do agree, and differ. A distinct explanation of actions before the commission, concerning ministers stipends, tithes, erecting or transplanting churches, and the inlarging or restricting parishes. And of actions about ministers stipends, tithes, &c. falling under the cognisance of the Lords of Session
A treatise of testaments and last wills : compiled out of the laws ecclesiastical, civil, and canon : as also out of the common law, customs, and statutes of this realm
A treatise of testaments and last wills : compiled out of the laws ecclesiastical, civil, and canon, as also out of the common law, customs and statutes of this realm. The whole digested into seven parts
A treatise of the law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank notes, and checks : compiled out of the laws ecclesiastical, civil, and canon : as also out of the common law, customs, and statutes of this realm
A treatise of the laws of nature
A treatise on Sunday laws : the Sabbath--the Lord's Day, its history and observance, civil and criminal
A treatise on contemporary religious jurisprudence
A treatise on heresy, as cognizable by the spiritual courts : and an examination of the statute 9th and 10th of William IIId. c.32, entitled, "An act for the more effectual suppressing of blasphemy and profaneness, in denying by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking, the divine original of the scriptures, or the doctrine of the Holy Trinity"
A treatise on religious toleration : occasioned by the execution of the unfortunate John Calas, unjustly condemned and broken upon the wheel at Toulouse, for the supposed murder of his own son
A treatise on the law of Scotland respecting tithes and the stipends of the parochial clergy : with an appendix containing various illustrative documents, not before published
A treatise on the law of guarantees and of principal & surety
A treatise on the law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States
A treatise on the legal aspects of Christian Science
A treatise on the nature and constitution of the Christian Church : wherein are set forth the form of its government, the extent of its powers, and the limits of our obedience
A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt his Grace James Duke of Ormond and the Right Honor. Arthur Earl of Anglesey Late Lord of the Privy-Seal : before the King and council and the said Earls letter of the second of August to His Majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now Lord Bishop of Winchester's to the said Earl, of the means to keep out popery and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof and to secure both the Church of England and the Presbiterian party
A true, sincere and modest defence of English Catholics that suffer for their faith both at home and abroad, against a false, seditious and slanderous libel, entitled: "The execution of justice in England" : wherein is declared how unjustly the Protestants do charge Catholics with treason; how untruly they deny their persecution of religion; and how deceitfully they seek to abuse strangers about the cause, greatness and manner of their sufferings, with divers other matters pertaining to this purpose
A tryal of witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the County of Suffolk, on the tenth day of March, 1664, before Sir Matthew Hale Kt., then Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer
A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law : and wherein the practice of them is streitned, and may be releeved within this land
A view of the economy of the church of God as it existed primitively, under the Abrahamic dispensation and the Sinai law : and as it is perpetuated under the more luminous dispensation of the gospel : particularly in regard to the covenants
A vindication of a book, intituled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people called Quakers, &c. : presented to the members of both Houses of Parliament : in answer to a late examination thereof, in defence of the clergy of the diocese of York
A vindication of a book, intituled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people called Quakers, &c. lately presented to the members of both Houses of Parliament : shewing the fallacy and injustice of the calculations and remarks in a late book call'd An examination, &c., the evasions and disingenuity of the clergy of the diocese of London in their answers and reflections, and the falsehoods and inconsistency of the intelligences by them published : to which are added, Remarks on the Poor vicar's plea, with Bishop Burnet's description of the ecclesiastical courts
A vindication of publick justice and of private character against the attacks of a "Council of Ministers" of the "Methodist Episcopal Church"
A vital encounter : Christianity and communism
Aaron's rod blossoming : or, The divine ordinance of church government vindicated : so as the present Erastian controversy concerning the distinction of civil and ecclesiastical government, excommunication and suspension, is fully debated and discussed, from the Holy Scripture, from the Jewish and Christian antiquities, from the consent of later writers, from the true nature and rights of magistry, and from the groundlessness of the chief objections made against the Presbyterial government, in point of a domineering arbitrary unlimited power
Abaddon's steam engine, calumny, delineated : being an attempt to stop its deleterious results on society, the church, and state : called bitterness, Eph. iv. 31. : compared by Adam Clarke, L.L.D. to Hiera Picra, or the Holy Bitter, a medicine of the last century, compounded of a variety of drastic, acrid drugs, and ardent spirits, administered in a great variety of cases, which produced immense evil : to which is subjoined, the infernal triumvirate, oppression, depression, and extortion
Account of the trial of William Penn, for speaking to an assembly of 300 persons, in Gracechurch Street, London : in which the disgraceful proceedings of the bench, and the manly and independent conduct of the jury, are exhibited : the former deserving the detestation, and the latter the admiration of mankind
Acts and proceedings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America, in the year, 1800
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1638-1842
Address before the New York State Assembly Committee on Public Health : in the discussion of the Bell Bill (Christian Science Bill) prohibiting the practice of medicine by unlicensed practitioners
Address of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America, to all the churches of Jesus Christ throughout the earth : adopted unanimously at the organization of the General Assembly in Augusta, Ga., December 1861
Address of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, held in the city of New-York, in the sixth month, 1852, to the professors of Christianity in the United States, on the subject of slavery
Address on capital punishment : an address of the Representatives of the Religious Society of Friends for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
Administrative legislation in the new Code of canon law : Lib. III., Can. 1154-1551
Administrative recourse : a commentary with historical notes
Adverse possession, prescription and limitation of actions : The canonical "praescriptio": a commentary on Canon 1508
Advocate of peace and Christian patriot
Aeneas Siluius de prauis mulieribus : epitaphia clarorum virorum & alia multa
Aequitas canonica : eine Studie aus dem kanonischen Recht
After forty years : encyclical letter of His Holiness Pius XI, in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the encyclical "Rerum novarum" (The new conditions)
Airline fares for ministers : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session on H.R. 295 and H.R. 2017, bills to amend section 403 (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 so as to permit the granting of free or reduced-rate transportation to ministers of religion : H.R. 4657, a bill to amend section 403 (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 so as to permit air carriers and foreign air carriers to grant free or reduced-rate transportation to ministers of religion : H.R. 9367, a bill to amend section 403 (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 to permit the granting of reduced-rate transportation to ministers of religion : H.R. 9592, a bill to amend section 403 (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 so as to permit air carriers and foreign air carriers, subject to certain conditions, to grant reduced-rate transportation to ministers of religion, April 20, 1956
All God's children : what your schools can do for them
All in the family? : Islam, women and human rights : Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, March 3rd and 4th, 2006
All things in Christ : encyclicals and selected documents of Saint Pius X
Almighty God created the races : Christianity, interracial marriage, & American law
Alms-gathering by religious : an historical conspectus and commentary
Altars according to the Code of canon law
Amendments to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, oversight hearing on the need for amendments to the Religious Freedom Act, November 12, 1992, Los Angeles, CA
American Catholic opinion in the slavery controversy
American Indian Religious Freedom Act : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session on effectiveness of P.L. 95-346--the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (AIRFA), Part 1, Hearing held in Washington, DC, February 23, 1993
American Indian Religious Freedom Act : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session on effectiveness of P.L. 95-346--the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (AIRFA), Part 2, Hearing held in Washington, DC, March 16, 1993
American Indian Religious Freedom Act [of 1978] and amendments of 1994 : a legislative history of public law nos. 95-341 and 103-344
American Indian Religious Freedom Act amendments of 1994 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session on H.R. 4155, to provide for the management of federal lands in a manner that does not undermine or frustrate traditional Native American religions or religious practices : H.R. 4230, to amend the American Indian Religious Freedom Act to provide for the traditional use of peyote by Indians for religious purposes, and for other purposes, hearing held in Washington, DC, June 10, 1994
American Indian Religious Freedom Act report : P.L. 95-341
American Indian religious freedom : hearings before the United States Senate, Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session on S.J. Res. 102, American Indian religious freedom, February 24 and 27, 1978
American Presbyterianism : its origin and early history : together with an appendix of letters and documents, many of which have recently been discovered
American charities
American churches and the Negro : an historical study from early slave days to the present
American civil church law
American comments on European questions, international and religious
American ecclesiastical law : the law of religious societies, church government and creeds, disturbing religious meetings, and the law of burial grounds in the United States : with practical forms
American education and religion : the problem of religion in the schools
American foreign policy : realists and idealists: a Catholic interpretation
American law of charities
American liberty and natural law
American public diplomacy and Islam : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, February 27, 2003
American slavery, and the means of its removal : a sermon, preached in the First Congregational Church, Braintree, April 4, 1844
American state papers bearing on Sunday legislation
American state papers bearing on Sunday legislation
American state papers on freedom in religion
An Act to Extend by 3 Years the Authorization of the EB-5 Regional Center Program, the E-Verify Program, the Special Immigrant Nonminister Religious Worker Program, and the Conrad State 30 J-1 Visa Waiver Program
An account of the constitutional English polity of congregational courts : and more particularly of the great annual court of the people, called the view of frankpledge, wherein the whole body of the nation was arranged into regular divisions of tithings, hundreds, &c. : the happy effects of that excellent institution, in preventing robberies, riots, &c. whereby, in law, it was justly deemed "summa et maxima securitas. - That it would be equally beneficial to all other nations and countries, as well under monarchical as republican establishments; and that, to the English nation in particular, it would afford an effectual means of reforming the corruption of parliaments by rendering the representation of the people perfectly equal, in exact numerical proportion, to the total number of householders throughout the whole realm : intended as an appendix to several tracts on national defence, &c.
An act concerning religious and other incorporations
An address to the people called Methodists : concerning the evil of encouraging slavery
An analysis and summary of Old Testament history and the laws of Moses : with a connection between the Old and New Testaments
An analysis of ecclesiastical history : from the birth of Christ to the Council of Nice, A.D. 325 : with questions, and examination papers, especially intended for candidates for the B.A. degree, the voluntary theological, those preparing for holy orders, and for divinity students in general
An apology for the Bible : in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Paine, author of a book entitled, the Age of reason, part the second, being an investigation of true and of fabulous theology
An apology for the true Christian divinity : being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers
An apology of the Church of England
An appeal from the sentence of the Bishop of New York : in behalf of his diocese : founded on the facts and improbabilities appearing on both sides in the late trial
An appeal to common sense and the Constitution, in behalf of the unlimited freedom of public discussion : occasioned by the late trial of Rev. Abner Kneeland, for blasphemy
An appeal to professing Christians respecting the attitude of the church in regard to war

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