Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 215
Advice to his children (1699)
“To God, and not to man, are all men to account for their belief.”
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
Context: It was the excess to which imaginary systems of religion had been carried, and the intolerance, persecutions, burnings, and massacres, they occasioned, that first induced certain persons to propagate infidelity; thinking, that upon the whole, that it was better not to believe at all, than to believe a multitude of things and complicated creeds, that occasioned so much mischief in the world. But those days are past, persecution has ceased, and the antidote then set up against it has no longer even the shadow of apology. We profess, and we proclaim in peace, the pure, unmixed, comfortable, and rational belief of a God, as manifested to us in the universe. We do this without any apprehension of that belief being made a cause of persecution as other beliefs have been, or of suffering persecution ourselves. To God, and not to man, are all men to account for their belief.
Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
