Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

the words comprise a “famous motto of Christian Irenics” that would have been familiar to Protestants throughout the British Empire: IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS. IN NON NECESSARIIS LIBERTAS. IN UTRISQUE CHARITAS, or “In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity.”