Principle#1: GOD'S PRINCIPLE OF INDIVIDUALITY
Statement: "Everything in God's universe is revelational of God's infinity, God's diversity, God's individuality. God creates distinct individualities. God maintains the identity and individuality of everything which He created."
Principle#2: THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
Statement: He knows not how to rule a kingdom, that cannot manage a Province; nor can he wield a Province, that cannot order a City; nor he order a City, that knows not how to regulate a Village; nor he a Village, that cannot guide a Family; nor can that man Govern well a family that knows not how to Govern himselfe; neither can any Govern himselfe unlesse his reason be Lord, Will and Appetite her Vassals: nor can Reason rule unlesse herselfe be ruled by God, and (wholly) be obedient to Him." ~ Hugo Grotius, 1654
Principle#3: AMERICA'S HERITAGE OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER
Statement: "The divine power of the gospel revealed itself to the heathen in the lives of Christians, which shoed forth the virtues of Him who had called them out of darkness into his marvelous light, and enabled them to walk as the children of God, in the midst of a perverse generation, among whom they shone as lights in the world!...The whole life of the Christian, from the beginning to the end, is a conflict with the world and the powers of darkness, a conflict within and without..." ~ "Memorials of a Christian Life" Neander, 1852
Principle#4: CONSCIENCE IS THE MOST SACRED OF ALL PROPERTY
Statement: For men being the Workmanship of One Omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker: All the Servants of one Sovereign Master, sent into the World by his Order, and about his Business, they are his Property, whose Workmanship they are made to last during his, not one anothers Pleasure." ~ "Of Civil Government" John Locke, 1689
Principle#5: THE CHRISTIAN FORM OF OUR GOVERNMENT
Statement: "As men we have God for our King, and are under the Law of Reason: as Christians, we have Jesus the Messiah for our King, and are under the Law reveal'd by him in the Gospel..." ~ "The Reasonableness of Christianity" John Locke, 1695
Principle#6: HOW THE SEED OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IS PLANTED
Statement: "The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations, to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree that for such a government to be sustained by many years, the principles of truth and righteousness, taught in the Holy Scriptures, must be practiced. The rulers must govern in the fear of God, and the people obey the laws." ~ Emma Willard, 1843
Principle#7: THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL UNION
Statement: "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ..." ~ Ephesians 4:13
these principles along with the 'Chain of Christianity' will be the underlying foundation of our studies...2nd of course to the Bible. once s* and i are able to put together our 'Chain of Christianity Timeline' i will post pics of it here...
