If Thou Wouldst Be Happy, Bring Thy

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom. Friendship Loves A Free Air, And Will Not Be Penned Up In Straight And Narrow Enclosures. It Will Speak Freely, And Act So Too; And Take Nothing Ill Where No Ill Is Meant; Nay, Where It Is, 'twill Easily Forgive, And Forget Too, Upon Small Acknowledgments.

Did We Believe A Final Reckoning And Judgment; Or Did We Think Enough Of What We Do Believe, We Would Allow More Love In Religion Than We Do; Since Religion It Self Is Nothing Else But Love To God And Man. Love Is Indeed Heaven Upon Earth; Since Heaven Above Would Not Be Heaven Without It: For Where There Is Not Love; There Is Fear: But Perfect Love Casts Out Fear. Love Is Above All; And When It Prevails In Us All, We Shall All Be Lovely, And In Love With God And One With Another.

We Are Too Careless Of Posterity; Not Considering That As They Are, So The Next Generation Will Be.

There Is A Troublesome Humor Some Men Have, That If They May Not Lead, They Will Not Follow; But Had Rather A Thing Were Never Done, Than Not Done Their Own Way, Tho' Other Ways Very Desirable.

That All Persons Living In This Province, Who Confess And Acknowledge The One Almighty And Eternal God, To Be The Creator, Upholder And Ruler Of The World; And That Hold Themselves Obliged In Conscience To Live Peaceably And Justly In Civil Society, Shall, In No Ways, Be Molested Or Prejudiced For Their Religious Persuasion, Or Practice, In Manners Of Faith And Worship, Nor Shall They Be Compelled, At Any Time, To Frequent Or Maintain Any Religious Worship, Place Or Ministry Whatever.