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MEET REV. JOHN WISE
You know that Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence but do you know the man who inspired the foundational concepts of freedom in the Declaration?
Meet Rev. John Wise (1652-1725), one of the six most influential persons in shaping American beliefs that led to independence. Wise was a clergyman in Massachusetts in the late 1600s and early 1700s. He was an “impressive preacher and a forceful writer.”
A Wallbuilders article states, “In 1772, leading patriots reprinted two of Wise’s works (which were distributed by Sons of Liberty, along with others) to reintroduce core Biblical principles of government to the thinking citizens of that day. The first printing sold so fast that a second reprint was quickly issued, and many of the points made by Wise in that work subsequently appeared four years later in the language of the Declaration of Independence.
As historian Benjamin Franklin Morris affirmed in 1864:
[S]ome of the most glittering sentences in the immortal Declaration of Independence are almost literal quotations from this [1772 reprinted] essay of John Wise….It was used as a political text-book in the great struggle for freedom.”
A Baptist Press article states, “What Wise said was so forward-thinking and so appropriate to the time leading up to the Revolution that when his books were reprinted in 1772, they quickly sold out and were reprinted again.” In these works, Wise demonstrated from the Bible that:
— God created all men equal and every man must be acknowledged by the state as equal to every man.
— The end of all good government is to promote the happiness of all and the good of every man in all his rights: his life, liberty, estate, honor, etc.
— The consent of the governed is the only legitimate basis for government.
— Taxation without representation is tyranny.
“What is significant is that many of Wise’s Bible-based concepts and some of the phrasing was picked up by leading patriots and is even found in our Declaration of Independence.” Although Wise died in 50 years before the revolution, his words inspired America’s founding document.
Decades later in 1926 when President Calvin Coolidge delivered a speech on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he similarly acknowledged:
[T]hese thoughts [in the Declaration] can very largely be traced back to what John Wise was writing in 1710. He said, “Every man must be acknowledged equal to every man.” Again, “The end of all good government is to cultivate humanity and promote the happiness of all and the good of every man in all his rights, his life, liberty, estate, honor, and so forth”….His works were reprinted in 1772 and have been declared to have been nothing less than a textbook of liberty for our Revolutionary fathers.
And that ladies and gentlemen is why America became great. Because God’s word inspired the men who wrote our founding documents. Look at this verse:
“When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
when the wicked rule, the people groan.” - Proverbs 29:2
Christian ministers like Wise and scores of others, greatly inspired the Founders through their sermons, writings and bold witness to the truth of God’s word.
I love America, but you and I have to admit, that we’ve seen a moral decline in Americans in recent years. Politicians don’t have any answers. Well, I suggest that they do what our Founders did — Listen to Bible-believing preachers, then do what the Bible says. It worked for the signers of the Declaration.
Our second President John Adams said, “It (July 4th) ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. "It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”
‘We the People’ now have a two-tiered criminal justice system, because there is a brand new DNC/GOP (RINO) with an old ‘New Green Deal’ crony in the White House. This is from decades of professional politician’s progression of corrupt elitists’ crony ruling-class. Their divisive hyper-bipartisanship, open our border’s to human-trafficking and child grooming’s institutional establishment of WOKE emotional connection with children under the age of consent, and the children's families, to lower the child's inhibitions with the objective of sexual and gender-affirming psychoeducational medical treatment for legitimizing misdiagnosing transgender kids without parental consent that would morally be considered child abuse activities.
These are the most significant WOKE pushing manmade gases by MSM propagandist-pundit drivers of, what I have termed the ‘GreenWhiteHouse climate changes’ from the most corrupt foreign observers of the tyrannous identity politics since the mid-20th century.
The massive evil indicators in this chapter of American history are characterized by the emissions of the major GreenWhiteHouse and China-led infrastructure project. It aims to stretch their Belt and Road Initiative. Their climate changing gases are resulting from human-trafficking invading activities and the concentrations of the fecal stench of these gases’ matter to, the financing of deep state corruption and corrosiveness of the Washingtonian atmosphere. How quickly- MSM emissions overtake the two-tier criminal justice cover-ups are due to concentrations that have self-induced radically violent self-defeating changes over time.
This Panmobocratic-Economic-Statism promotes the view that, the Big-state has a major, necessary and an illegitimate role in directing the major aspects of the economy. Big-governments do this both directly through state-owned enterprises and economic planning mandates of individual sources of production, or indirectly through economic interventionism and macro-economic regulation &/or repeated pandemic COVID-19 mandates of new mass-hysterical demands of vaccine-boosters, responsible for millions of deaths worldwide between 2020 & 2023. This was all predicted and a pre-meditated act of domestic terrorism.
Do not be to surprise when you witness that the persistence of tyranny, over a long time can therefore always have a backfire lasting conservative affect, on both present and future increasing numbers of American’s patriotism for many generations.
Maybe this should be sent to AOC and her power squad because they have no clue this information exists, or they just overlook it for their own agendas. Gary thank you for this, it is great.