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• May 13, 2012 “God repeatedly asserts His authority over the nations and warns the apostate State of judgment (Ps.9:17; Isa.60:12). He blesses the nations that own Him (Ps.33:12) and breaks in pieces the nations that reject Him. This is the whole tenor of Scripture. Christ is the ‘King of kings and Lord of lords.’ His mediatorial dominion is a fact, whether the world recognizes it or not.”

• March 13, 2012 “Since that day the two denominations have been known as the “Old Light” and “New Light,” because the one adheres strenuously to the distinctive principles of the Church as they had always been held, and the other abandoned them in 1833.”

• March 13, 2012 “Since the adoption of the Constitution in 1789, the members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church have maintained a constant testimony against these evils. They have refused to serve in any office which implies an approbation of the Constitution, or which is placed under the direction of an immoral law.”

• March 8, 2012 “The moral strength of the Church depends upon purity of doctrine and not upon the mass of individuals.”

• March 7, 2012 “While the colonists had a right and just reason to declare their independence of Great Britain in 1776, they had not a right nor a just reason for declaring their independence of the God of battles in 1789. The Declaration of Independence was right, but the Constitution of the United States was wrong.”

• March 6, 2012 “The Constitution is radically and wilfully defective in that it does not recognize the existence of God, the supremacy of Christ the King of Nations, and the Word of God as the supreme law.”

• February 21, 2012 “The imperfection of human government is in nothing more manifest than in the fact that it never can exercise mercy except at the expense of justice…But in the gospel, the justice and integrity of God are as completely vindicated as in the punishment of the transgressor. Whilst the sinner escapes the penalty, the law of God is more firmly established than before.”

• February 16, 2012 “The mediatorial dominion is of the same extent with the absolute dominion that belongs to God as Creator. This was given to Christ as his mediatorial dominion, without reserve or limitation. In virtue of this, he rules in heaven, in earth, and in hell, over all created existence.”

• January 20, 2012 “His answer was, that unless some Christians would begin singly to practise their exact duty, and thus set the proper example, the reform would never be begun; that his responsibility was to see to it that he, at least, was not particeps criminis; and that whether others would co-operate, was their concern, not his.”

• January 7, 2012 “In this world of sin the spirit of heroic self-sacrifice is the essential condition of national greatness and happiness. The only sure wealth of the State is in cultured, heroic men, who intelligently know their duty and are calmly prepared to sacrifice all else, including life, to maintain the right.”

• January 7, 2012 “But the principles of truth and righteousness are as eternal as their divine legislator. These must be upheld under all dynasties and forms. Here, in one word, is the safe pole-star for the “New South”; let them adopt the scriptural politics, assured that they will ever be as true and just under any new regime as under the one that has passed away…”

• January 6, 2012 “…Our fathers valued liberty, but the liberty for which they contended was each person’s privilege to do those things and those only to which God’s law and Providence gave him a moral right.”

• January 4, 2012 “…in the endeavor to save the liberties transmitted by our fathers, we did what we could. And in proof of this justifying plea, we can point to the forms prematurely bent, and the heads whitened by fatigue and camp diseases, to the empty sleeves, and wooden legs, and to the Confederate graves so thickly strewn over the land.”

• January 1, 2012 “Under all our trials therefore, we must be careful, that no present apparent failure weaken our assurance of the ultimate success of faithful and diligent perseverance.”

• October 30, 2011 “The many conversions in camp, the prayer-meetings in soldiers’ tents, of which we have heard, and the letters we have seen breathing emotions of piety that have been awaked by the exposures and sufferings of the army, induce us to believe that this war will lead many a soul to the Cross that might otherwise have perished in impenitency.”

• October 5, 2011 “O how many can be looking their faces in a glass all the morning, but their eyes begin to be sore, when they look upon a Bible! Heathens die in the want of scripture, and these in the contempt of it.”

• September 22, 2011 “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.”

• September 6, 2011 “Satan with ease puts fallacies upon us by his golden baits, and then he leads us and leaves us in a fool’s paradise.”

• August 24, 2011 “I might admit also that the fates of the Don and of myself have been somewhat similar in at least one respect. If I am not mistaken he encountered a windmill or two. I am not sure but I have done the same.”

• July 27, 2011 “…there is no charity in flattering unconverted people, by abstaining from any mention of their vices, or in applying smooth epithets to damnable sins.”

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