Often when our country's origins are discussed the argument is made that we were founded on some kind of secular humanist or theistic philosophy.
The New England Confederation of May 19, 1643 said that the bond among its signers was the desire to "...advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace."
Read more here:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/art1613.asp
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The New England Confederation (1643)
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Pulling up documents from more than 125 years prior to the country's founding?
Not sure what your point with this one is.
Their point . . . history is vital to our survival as a nation. Look what Lincoln said 220 years later: Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
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