American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Fundamental Laws of West New Jersey (1676): <CHAPTER 16: That no men, nor number of men upon earth, hath power or authority to rule over men's consciences in religious matters, therefore it is consented, agreed and ordained, that no person or persons whatsoever within the said Province, at any time...shall be any ways...called in question, or in the least punished or hurt, either in person, estate, or privilege, for the sake of his opinion, judgment, faith or worship towards God in matters of religion. But that all and every such person, and persons may from time to time, and at...

Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676) issued by the Governing Council of Charlestown, Massachusetts: <The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgments he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; reserving many of...

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,...