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The on FOUNDERS RELIGION A Book of uotations Q (cid:2) This page intentionally left blank The on FOUNDERS RELIGION A Book of uotations Q (cid:2) JAMES H. HUTSON, Editor PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright © 2005 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12033-1 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-691-12033-1 (cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The founders on religion : a book of quotations / [compiled by] James H. Hutson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12033-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-691-12033-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Religion—Quotations, maxims, etc. 2. Statesmen—United States— Quotations. I. Hutson, James H. PN6084.R3F68 2005 200—dc22 2005015974 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Palatino with Bauer Bodoni Display Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ pupress.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents (cid:2) Preface ix Founding Generation Members Quoted in This Volume xxi ANote on the Texts xxv The Quotations Addiction 1 Afterlife 5 Age 12 America 15 American Revolution 17 Animals 19 Atheism 20 Bible: Value of 23 Bible: Accuracy of the Text 26 Bible: Exegesis of 31 Bible: Old Testament 33 Bible: Revision of 36 Calvinism 38 Catholicism 40 Catholicism: Jesuits 44 Chaplains 46 Children 48 Christianity 55 Christianity: Christian Nation 59 Church and State 60 Clergy 66 vi Contents Communion 70 Conscience: see Liberty of Conscience 70 Consolation 70 Constitution of the United States 76 Creeds 79 Crime and Punishment 82 Death 84 Deism 86 Divorce 87 Ecumenicism 90 Education 94 Episcopalians 96 Faith 99 Fast and Thanksgiving Days 100 God 103 Grief 111 Hell 115 Indians: see Native Americans 116 Islam 116 Jesus 121 Jews 126 Law 132 Liberty of Conscience 134 Marriage 138 Millennium 140 Miracles 141 Missionary and Bible Societies 142 Morality 146 Native Americans 149 New England 154 Contents vii Oaths 154 Patriotism 156 Paul, the Apostle 157 Persecution 158 Plato 161 The Poor 163 Prayer 163 Presbyterians 171 Proclamations: see Fast and Thanksgiving Days 172 Profanity 172 Prophecy 173 Providence 176 Quakers 183 Reason 186 Religion, Freedom of: see Liberty of Conscience 189 Religion: Propensity of Humans for 189 Religion: Social Utility of 190 Republicanism 194 Rights 196 Sabbath 198 Sin 200 Slavery 206 Trinity 215 Unitarianism 220 Universalism 221 Virgin Mary 223 War 224 Women 230 Suggestions for Further Reading 235 This page intentionally left blank Preface (cid:2) In recent years “quote books” about religion and the Found- ing Fathers have appeared with regularity. Since they have not been published by the mainstream press, they have es- caped the notice of most scholars and a considerable sector of the reading public. The quote books have been compiled by pious citizens with conservative religious views who are distressed by what they see as the pernicious secularization of American life, caused in their view by an unremitting and illegitimate campaign to banish Christianity from all areas of the public arena as well as from the writing and teaching of American history. The perceived purging of Christianity from the history of the Founding Period has seemed to the evangeli- cal and conservative religious community to be particularly unconscionable, because its members consider that the re- markable success of this country’s republican experiment in government, launched in 1776 and constitutionalized in 1787, can be attributed in large measure to the religious con- victions of the Founders. They believe that, if these convic- tions can be revived and restored as guiding principles in American public life, the nation can be healed of the host of social ills that afflict it. What better way to prove that the Founders were grounded in and instructed by Christian principles than by calling the most important of them to the witness stand and letting them testify in their own words to the importance of Christianity in their lives? All quote book compilers employ this strategy, invariably focusing on Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, and a handful of lesser luminar- ies, culling statements from their writings that attest to the

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