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Wisdom Quotes from founding father and New York Supreme Court Justice, James Kent The Bible also unfolds the origin and deep foundations of depravity and guilt, and the means and hopes of salvation through the mediation of our Redeemer. Its doctrines, its discoveries, its codes of morals, and its means of grace are not only overwhelming evidence of its Divine origin, but they confound the pretensions of all other systems by showing the narrow range of and the feeble efforts of human reason, even when under the sway of the most exalted understanding, and enlightened by the accumulated treasures of science and learning. James Kent, Supreme Court Justice of New York in the founding generation ...whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government... James Kent, New York Supreme Court case Such offenses have always been considered independent of any religious establishment or the rights of the Church. They are treated as affecting the essential interests of civil society... Quote from James Kent, New York Supreme Court case We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those imposters [other religions]... James Kent, New York Supreme Court case |
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