Isaac Backus quotes
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“God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government.”
-- Isaac BackusSource : Isaac Backus (1773). “An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty Against the Oppressions of the Present Day”, p.9
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“Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?”
-- Isaac BackusSource : Isaac Backus (1773). “An appeal to the public for religious liberty against the oppressions of the present day”, p.19
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“When church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.”
-- Isaac Backus
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