 | Christopher J. W. Allen - 1997 - 226 pages
...Brougham, who, in his speech on law reform on 7 February 1828, had urged that any person who believed in the existence of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments should be able to give evidence in civil and criminal proceedings.62 The development of... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge - 1891 - 1166 pages
...statement, on page 119, that by a regulation of this Grand Lodge the candidate must declare his belief in the " existence of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments." That regulation was long since repealed, as the last item of it was entirely sectarian.... | |
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The examination of this subject requires that it should be stript of all those accessory topics which adhere to it in the common opinion of men. The existence of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, are totally foreign to the subject. 
