“We, the people of these Confederate States, distinctly acknowledge our responsibility to God, and the supremacy of His Son, Jesus Christ, as King of kings and Lord of lords; and hereby ordain that no law shall be passed by the Congress of these Confederate States inconsistent with the will of God, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures.”

“…But, gentlemen, we are constrained, in candour, to say that, in our humble judgment, the Constitution [of the Confederate States of America], admirable as it is in other respects, still labours under one capital defect. It is not distinctively Christian. It is not bigotry, but love to our country, and an earnest, ardent desire to [...]

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“Satan with ease puts fallacies upon us by his golden baits, and then he leads us and leaves us in a fool’s paradise.”

“To present the bait and hide the hook; to present the golden cup, and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul by yielding to sin, and by hiding from the soul the wrath and the misery that will certainly follow the committing of [...]

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