Declaration of Independence Signers

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of GodIf customers can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. Clearly list and describe the services you offer. Also, be sure to showcase a premium service.

Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington D. C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XIII, p. 292-294. In a letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813.

The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe [Proverbs 18:10]. Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.

Letters of Delegates to Congress: August 16, 1776-December 31, 1776, Paul H. Smith, editor (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1979), Vol. 5, pp. 669-670, Samuel Adams to Elizabeth Adams on December 26, 1776.

Called on the people of New Hampshire . . .
to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.Are your customers raving about you on social media? Share their great stories to help turn potential customers into loyal ones.

 Josiah Bartlett, Proclamation for a Day of Fasting and Prayer, March 17, 1792

A devoted church member, Braxton was a vestryman, and sometimes served as a representative of his church in statewide conventions. 

Roberts, Peter, God and Country, Religious Views of the Founding Fathers, Presidents and Vice Presidents, Web, 18 Aug 2018

Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of 89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year of independence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776, which I originally subscribed on the 2d day of August of the same year and of which I am now the last surviving signer.

Lewis A. Leonard, Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton (New York: Moffit, Yard & Co, 1918), pp. 256-257.

The Christian religion is the  established religion by our form of government and all denominations are  placed on an equal footing and equally entitled to protection in their  religious liberty.

Runkel vs. Winemiller et       al.        4 H. & McHenry

GENERAL COURT, OCTOBER TERM, 1799.

Runkel vs. Winemiller et al.

Written Opinion, Maryland Supreme Ct

Episcopalian, Congregationalist

There—for your entertainment & amusement, will pass before you in Review the rise and fall of succeeding Empires, from the birth of time to the present period—there you will at leisure Review the various Stages, and shifting scenes of the last glorious Revolution, in which you, Sir, with your compatriot Army, have reaped the Laurels of the well-fought Field, and returned triumphant with the plaudit of a gazing World. there, you will enjoy the pleasing satisfaction of viewing, as the fruit of your services in those “anxious days and nights” spent in conflicting War, an Empire rising with unrivalled dignity—And there—not confined to the present sphere, your contemplations will expand, and look forward to the brighter scenes of Eternity, and anticipate that future glory which the “pure and benign light of Revelation” most perfective of human Virtue, has taught you so firmly to realize—and there—will you, greatly perfect in those virtues which “were the characteristic of the divine author of our blessed Religion, & in humble imitation of whom,” you will ripen for that seat of immortal felicity, to which, when satisfied with life, may you be raptured by an Escort of Guardian Angels. I have the honor to be with all imaginable respect

Lyman Hall: letter to George Washington, 15 August 1783

On April 15, 1775, four days before the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” 

“In circumstances dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that, whilst every prudent Measure should be taken to ward off the impending Judgements.. 

“All confidence must be withheld from the Means we use; and reposed only on that GOD who rules in the Armies of Heaven, and without whose Blessing the best human Counsels are but Foolishness–and all created Power Vanity. 

“It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it…that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access–and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone…. 

“RESOLVED, That it be, and hereby is recommended to the good People of this Colony of all Denominations, that THURSDAY the Eleventh Day of May next be set apart as a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer…to confess the sins…to implore the Forgiveness of all our Transgression…and a blessing on the Husbandry, Manufactures, and other lawful Employments of this People; and especially that the union of the American Colonies in Defense of their Rights (for hitherto we desire to thank Almighty GOD) may be preserved and confirmed….And that AMERICA may soon behold a gracious Interposition of Heaven.”By Order of the [Massachusetts] Provincial Congress, John Hancock, President.”

John Hancock, Apr 15,1775, Massachusetts Provincial Congress declaring a Day of public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Proclamation of John Hancock from Concord (rom an original in the Evans collectioin, #14220, by the American Antiquarian Society, David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 1991) pp. 102-103.  William Lincoln, ed., The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, 1774-1775 (Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1838), pp. 114-145

Episcopalian

[T]hanks be given unto Almighty God therefore, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die and after that the judgment [Hebrews 9:27] . . . principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner . . . to receive the same again at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God.

From his last will and testament, attested April 16, 1779.

Were I to suffer in the cause of American liberty, should I not be translated immediately to heaven as Enoch was of old?

Joseph Hewes: letter to James Iredell, October 31, 1774

Anglican and called a devout Christian

Thursday, the 18th of December next, for the solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of their Divine Benefactor; and that, together with their sincere acknowledgements and offerings, they may join the penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance.

Richard Henry Lee. Journals of Congress, Volume III, pp 467-468. Stephen Abbott Northrop, DD., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, OR; American Heritage Ministries, 1987; Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge Bulverde, TX: p 279-280

Episcopalian

Livingston endowed a chair in Divinity at Yale.

Episcopalian

In the case Respublica v. John Roberts,79 John Roberts was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of treason. Chief Justice McKean then told him:

You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it be¬hooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world: it behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your past conduct; to repent of your evil deeds; to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins; to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer, and thereby to avoid those regions of sorrow – those doleful shades where peace and rest can never dwell, where even hope cannot enter. It behooves you to seek the [fellowship], advice, and prayers of pious and good men; to be [persistent] at the Throne of Grace, and to learn the way that leadeth to happiness. May you, reflecting upon these things, and pursuing the will of the great Father of light and life, be received into [the] company and society of angels and archangels and the spirits of just men made perfect; and may you be qualified to enter into the joys of Heaven – joys unspeakable and full of glory!

William B. Reed, Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847), Vol. II, pp. 36-37.

 I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the  Author of my existence, in full belief of His Providential goodness and  His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through  whom I hope for never ending happiness in a future state 

From the Last Will & Testament of Robert Treat Paine, attested May 11, 1814. 

 I believe the Bible to be the written word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners 

 Robert Treat Paine, The Papers of Robert Treat Paine, Stephen T.  Riley and Edward W. Hanson, editors (Boston: Massachusetts Historical  Society, 1992), Vol. I, p. 49, Robert Treat Paine’s Confession of Faith,  1749. 

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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Episcopalian

Episcopalian

Episcopalian

 By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all  moral subjects… It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever  has been published 

Benjamin Rush, Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, editor (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951), Vol. II, p. 936, to John Adams, January 23, 1807. 

 Duty to God, to ourselves, to Posterity, enforced by the cries of  slaughtered Innocents, have urged us to take up Arms in our Defense.  Such a day as this was never before known, either to us or to our  fathers. 

 Matthew Thornton: letter to the inhabitants of the Colony of New Hampshire – June 2, 1775 

Anglican

Congregationalist

 “I thought it was my duty to make the observations, in this behalf,  which I did, and to bear my testimony for God; and that it was also my  duty to say the Constitution, with this, and some other faults of  another kind, was yet too wise and too necessary to be rejected.” 

The Founders’ Constitution
Volume 4, Article 6, Clause 3, Document 21
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a6_3s21.html
The University of Chicago Press

Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. Essays on the Constitution of the United States, Published during Its Discussion by the People, 1787–1788. Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1892.

 Man, fearfully and wonderfully made, is the workmanship of his all  perfect Creator: A State; useful and valuable as the contrivance is, is  the inferior contrivance of man; and from his native dignity derives all  its acquired importance.  

 Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dallas) 419 (1793), at 455. 

 It is very evident that both the prophets in the Old Testament and the  apostles in the New are at great pains to give us a view of the glory  and dignity of the person of Christ. With what magnificent titles is He  adorned! What glorious attributes are ascribed to him!… All these  conspire to teach us that He is truly and properly God – God over all,  blessed forever!

  John Witherspoon, The Works of John Witherspoon (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. V, p. 267, Sermon 15, “The Absolute Necessity of Salvation Through Christ,” January 2, 1758.