WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON, signer of the US Constitution::
Quoted in a speech:
You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have by the favor of Providence, and the attention of friends, received a public education , the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country…
Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these ever be present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.
………Remember, too, that you are the redeemed of the Lord, that you are bought with a price, even at the inestimable price of the precious blood of the Son of God. Adore Jehovah, therefore as your God and your Judge. Love fear and serve Him as your Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. Acquaint yourselves with Him in his word and holy ordinances.
ROGER SHERMAN:
The only founding father to sign all four major founding documents
I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance equal in power and glory.
That the scriptures of the old and new testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him.
GEORGE READ:
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, signer of the constitution, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. Known as “the Father of Delaware,” G. Read wrote “the first edition of her laws” and the Constitution of the state of Delaware. The requirements , stated in the state’s Constitution, necessary for holding office include:
‘ DELAWARE 1776. Article XXII. Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust….shall…make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: “I_____, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration. :”
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
“From the day of the Declaration….they [the American people] were bound by the laws of God. Which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as rules of their conduct.”
A quote out of a speech in 1838, “ Sir, I might go through the whole of the sacred history of the Jews to the advent of our Saviour……….
Even at 77 years old, JQAdams says this: “The bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and it discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Saviour of the world.
And in an article he writes this:
There are two prayers that I love to say--the first is the Lord’s Prayer, and because the Lord taught it; and the other is what seems to be a child’s prayer: “Now I lay me down to sleep,” and I love to say that because it suits me. I have been repeating it every night for many years past, and I say it yet, and I expect to say it my last night on earth if I am conscious. But I have added a few words more to the prayer so as to express my trust in Christ, and also to acknowledge what I ask, for I ask as a favor, and not because I deserve it. This is it:
“Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take;
For Jesus’ sake. Amen.”
JACOB BROOM
Signer of the constitution of the US, banker , farmer, merchant, surveyor. In the Official Papers of Delaware, written in 1909 he was described as such: ….as an accepted fact that the “foundation of all permanent prosperity is a right regard for the Divine Being”, it is proper to say that Jacob Broom was a God fearing man.
As a delegate from the state of Delaware, he would have complied with the requirements for office as stipulated by his state’s constitution, which included the oath to God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Ghost. (Article XXII)
In a letter to his son written in 1794: Do not be so flattered as to relax in your application; do not forget to be a Christian. I have said much to you on this head, and I hope an indelible impression is made.
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