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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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CONVENTICLE, n. [L.]
A small assembly or gathering; esp., a
secret assembly.
They are commanded to abstain from all
conventicles of men whatsoever. An assembly for religious worship;
esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of
persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by
Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those
assembled were heretics or schismatics.
The first Christians could never have had recourse
to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to
them by the violence of persecution. A sort of men who . . . attend its [the curch of
England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a
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