American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

James Logan (October 20, 1674-October 31, 1751) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1731-39, and private Secretary of William Penn. He stated: <Remember thou art by profession a Christian; that is, one who art called after the immaculate Lamb of God, who, by offering Himself a sacrifice for thee, atoned for thy sins....Rouse with the more simple servants of nature, and borrowing one hour from the sleep of sluggards, spend it in thy chamber in dressing thy soul with prayer and meditation, reading the Scriptures.... Remember that the same enemy that caused thy first parents to forfeit...

Grant to Sir George Carteret (July 29, 1674) by His Royal Highness to Lords Proprietors: <Charles the Second, by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Domini, one thousand six hundred seventy-four... Whereas his Majesty...grant unto his said Royal Highness James Duke of York...all that part of the main land of New England... Now...his Royal Highness James Duke of York...hath granted...all that tract of land adjacent to New England, and lying and being to the westward of Long Island and Manhattan Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea,...

Isaac Watts (July 17, 1674-November 25, 1748) was an English dissenting theologian, poet and hymn writer. He composed over 600 hymns, many of which are still sung. His work, Isaac Watts' Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 1707, was chosen, along with the Bible, as a principal textbook to teach reading in the public schools of the District of Columbia by President Thomas Jefferson, who chaired the school board and authored the city's first plan of education. In his Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 1707, Isaac Watts wrote the carol, "Joy to the World": <Joy to the World, the Lord is come,...

New Jersey Declaration (December 6, 1672) of the True Intent of Lord's Proprietors and Explanation of Concessions to Adventurers and Planters of New Caesarea-New Jersey: <2. As to the 8th article, it shall be in the power of the Governor and Council, to constitute and appoint such ministers and Preachers as shall be nominated and chosen by the several corporations, without the General Assembly and to establish their maintenance, giving liberty besides any person or persons to keep and maintain what Preachers or ministers they please.> 1672NJ001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to...

Charter of Carolina (March 1, 1669): <ARTICLE 95. No man shall be permitted to be a freeman of Carolina, or to have any estate or habitation within it, that doth not acknowledge God, and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshipped. ARTICLE 96. It shall belong to the parliament to take care for the building of Churches, and the public maintenance of Divines, to be employed in the exercise of religion, according to the Church of England; which being the only true and orthodox and the national religion of all the King's dominions, is so also of Carolina;...