subject: Channels of Reconciliation by David Barton [print this page] The Congress desirous to have individuals of all ranks and degrees duly impressed with a solemn sense of God's superintending providence, and of their duty devoutly to depend on His aid and direction do earnestly advise a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that we may possibly with united hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of existence, and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain His pardon and forgiveness.
With all channels of reconciliation exhausted, on July 2, 1776, Congress approved in principle a separation from Good The uk. Two days later, July 4, 1776, Congress authorized the Declaration of Freedom. At this stage, it was signed only by John Hancock, President of Congress, and Charles Thomson, it's Secretary.
The fifty-six leaders who authorized the separation from Fantastic The uk realized that their struggle against the much superior British military could not be won solely via their personal efforts. Therefore, in their Declaration of Independence they openly acknowledged the Source of aid on whom they would rely: "the laws of nature and of nature's God"; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"; "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Planet, for the rectitude of our intentions." Then, in the last line of that document, individuals Patriots announced: For the assistance of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to every single other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. The Declaration of Independence was in fact a dual declaration: a Declaration of Freedom from The uk and a Declaration of Dependence on God.
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David Barton is the proprietor and President of WallBuilders, a state pro-loved ones organization that presents America's forgotten background and heroes, with the focus on our moral, spiritual and constitutional heritage.
