American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New England Synod of Churches (September 30, 1648) defined the nature of civil government, the function of civil magistrates and the duties of citizens: <I. God, Supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, and for his own glory and the public good; and to this end hath armed them with the power of the sword for the defense and encouragement of them that do well, and for the punishment of evil-doers. II. It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of magistrate when called thereunto. In...

Massachusetts Bay Colony Cambridge Platform (1648) recorded in the Plymouth Colony Records IX, 1663, listed the proposal of William Vassall and others: <1. CHAP: XVII: Of The Civil Magistrates power in Matters Ecclesiastical...It is lawfull, profitable, & necessary for christians to gather themselves into Church estate, and therein to exercise all the ordinances of Christ according unto the word,..because the Apostles & Christians in their time did frequently thus practise, when the Magistrates being all of them Jewish or pagan, & mostly persecuting enemies, would give no countenance or consent to such matters. 2. Church-government stands in no opposition to civil...

Connecticut Colony (1647) passed the School Law of Connecticut, similar to the Old Deluder Satan Law passed in the Colony of Massachusetts, 1642. This law helped to prevent illiteracy, as well as the abuse of power over a population ignorant of Scriptures, as had been the case in Europe. The law stated: <It being one chiefe project of that old deluder, Sathan, to keepe men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former time, and that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers in church and Commonwealth.... It is therefore ordered by this Court...that every township...

Virginia House of Burgesses (November 3, 1647) ordinances of Jamestown: <Upon divers information presented to this Assembly against several ministers for their neglects and refractory refusing after warning given them to read common prayer or Divine service upon the Sabbath days contrary to the cannons of the Church and acts of parliament therein established, for future remedy hereof: Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Burgesses of this Grand Assembly, That all ministers...upon every Sabbath day read such prayers as are appointed and prescribed unto them by the said book of common prayer, And be it further enacted as a...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (July 1, 1646-November 14, 1716) was a German mathematician and philosopher. Leibniz made contributions in a vast array of subjects, including: politics, law, ethics, theology, history, philosophy, philology and poetry. Leibniz made major contributions to physics and technology, and is credited, along with Sir Isaac Newton, with the inventing of infinitesimal calculus. According to Leibniz's notebooks, a breakthrough occurred on November 11, 1675, when he employed integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of a function y=?(x). Leibniz introduced several notations which continue to be used, such as the integral sign of...