Religious Toleration single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 Religious Toleration
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An essay on the separation of church from state. The writer ends the essay praising the Church Act 1836 instituted by the New South Wales governor Sir Richard Bourke. 'By this act, religion was separated from government, and all denominations of Christians were placed upon an equality ... Religion, we should look upon as an institution which was formed for our spiritual and eternal, political government as one formed for our temporal and transient, prosperity. ... No government can be considered perfect, unless the subjects be permitted to work out their salvation in the manner which their conscience directs them to adopt.' The essay ends with a prayer 'May the Almighty ... so decree that this country may never experience the horrors produced by religious tyranny and injustice.'

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