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Governor Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757):
Database of information and materials about, and selected proclamations of,
Governor Jonathan Belcher, a dedicated Christian leader who was the royal
colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey, and the
founder of Princeton University at Princeton, New Jersey
Documents and Information Concerning America's Christian Heritage:
"November
Thanksgiving Thursday": Origins of Fourth Thursday of November as
Thanksgiving Day (includes Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Day of
Thanksgiving (1749))
Samuel Cheever, God's Sovereign Government Among the Nations Asserted (1712)
America Was Founded on God's Law and Christianity: About Puritan Founders of
America (Thomas Prince, The People of New England (1730))
Thomas
Foxcroft, Observations Historical and Practical on the Rise and Primitive State
of New England (1730) (excerpts)
Dr. Benjamin Colman, Government the Pillar of the Earth (1730)
Dr. Benjamin Colman, A
Dissertation on the Image of God, Wherein Man Was Created (1736) (PDF)
Dr. Benjamin Colman, Christ Standing for an Ensign of the People
(1738)
John Barnard, The Throne Established by Righteousness (1734) (PDF)
Jonathan Edwards, A Thorough
Knowledge of Divine Truth (1739)
[The
Great Awakening View of Enlightenment]
Jonathan
Edwards' Great Awakening View of Religious Secularism, as Contrasted with
Christianity
The
Right Use of Reason: Jonathan Edwards' Great Awakening View, as Contrasted with
Religious Secularism
A Godly Chief
Justice: A Biography of John Stoddard (Jonathan Edwards, God's Awful Judgment in
the Breaking and Withering of the Strong Rods of a Community (1748))
Abraham Taylor, The Insufficiency of Natural
Religion (1755)
Caleb Smith, Diligence in the Work of God and
Activity During Life (1758) [Biography of President Aaron Burr of Princeton College]
William
Cooper, The Honors of Christ Demanded of the Magistrate (1740)
Biographies
of William Cooper and His Son Samuel Cooper (includes William Cooper's Preface
to Jonathan Edwards' Work The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of
God which describes the Great Awakening)
John Webb, The Government of Christ
(1738)
Samuel Willard, The
Character of a Good Ruler (1694)
Samuel Cooke, The
True Principles of Civil Government (1770)
Samuel
Langdon, Government Corrupted by Vice (1775)
Samuel Langdon, The
Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States (1788)
John Joachim
Zubly, The Law of Liberty (1775)
Samuel West,
[Natural Law: The True Principles of Government] (1776)
Abraham Keteltas, God Arising and Pleading His People's Cause (1777) (PDF)
Samuel
Stillman, The Duty of Magistrates (1779)
Dr. Samuel Cooper, Sermon on the Commencement of the Constitution (1780) (PDF)
Ezra Stiles, The
United States Elevated to Glory and Honor (1783)
Timothy Dwight, The
True Means of Establishing Public Happiness (1795)
Elias Boudinot, The Age
of Revelation (1801)
Justice Joseph Story on Church
and State and the Federal Bill of Rights (1833)
Justice Joseph
Story on Common Law Origins of the United States Constitution (1833)
Justice
Joseph Story on Rules of Constitutional Interpretation (1833)
Foreshadowing
the American Revolution: Edward Holyoke States That the Form of Government
Originates from the People --- But That Theory Only Works If the People Have
Integrity and Religion
Jesus Is the Light of the World
-- about
the Great Awakening
Watchman, What of the Night?
(Reflections on the Implications of the Birth of Christ for World History)
Don't Hide God in a Closet:
Religious
Secularism and Public Acknowledgment of God in the
21st Century
Acknowledging the Almighty
The
Supremacy of God's Moral Law
A
Good Ruler in the Emerging Trilateral Center --
discussion of the "good ruler" concept
The Role of Princeton College
Graduates in Founding "Princeton Daughter Colleges"
Information About Vice President
Aaron Burr: His Duel with Alexander Hamilton and His Expedition to the
West
Constitution, Law, and Politics in
United States v. Aaron Burr
Good Cheer Chronicles -- the Belcher
Foundation's on-line Christian commentaries
Historical Biographies --
historical biographies about persons who played significant roles in
American or world history
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