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The Weight of Testimony
and ends.
Let me be good, and the
government cannot be bad.... That, therefore/
which makes a good constitution must keep
it namely men ofwisdom and virtue.... Whereas
the glory of Almighty God and the good of
mankind is the reason and end ofgovernment,
therefore/ government in itself is a venerable
ordinance ofGod.
-- William Penn, 1718
No Man may put off
the Law ofGod.
The Way ofGodis no ill Way.
My Joy is in God all the Day.
A badMan is a Foe to God.
-- New Guide to the English
Tongue, an 18th
ce~tury
reader
I couldsay a thousand things to yo[4 ifI had
leisure. I could dwell on the importance ofpiety
and religion of industry and frugality, or
prudence/ economy, regularity and even
Government, all ofwhich are essential to the well
being ofa family. But I have not time. I cannot
however help repeating piety, because I think it
indispensable. Religion in a family is.. at once its
brightest ornament and its best security.
.
-- Samuel Adams, 1771,
advice to future son-in-law
· Leviticus 25: 10
Proclaim Liberty through all
the land and to all the inhabitants thereof.
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--Liberty Bell, 1752
The rights of the Colonists as Christians
...
maybe best understoodbyreading andcarefully
studying the institution of the great Law Giver
andheadofthe christian church/ which are to be
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