Statue of John Witherspoon at Princeton University
Photo credit: Max VT (CC-By-NC-SA 2.0)
Statue of John Witherspoon at Princeton University Photo credit: Max VT (CC-By-NC-SA 2.0)
Statue of John Witherspoon at Princeton University
Photo credit: Max VT (CC-By-NC-SA 2.0)

John Witherspoon was a Presbyterian minister, President of what became Princeton University, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He believed there were four ā€œtruths of the everlasting gospel.ā€ They were, in his words, ā€œthe lost state of man by nature; salvation by the free grace of God; justification by the imputed righteousness of Christ; and sanctification by the effectual operation of the Holy Spirit.ā€ For Witherspoon, these truths were not only vital to the Christian faith, but they were necessary to the very foundation of a nation. L. Gordon Tait wrote that Witherspoon believed that ā€œreligion was the bedrock of a strong, virtuous, nation,ā€ and that Witherspoon was ā€œin the mainstream of early American political thought.ā€ What on earth happened to us?

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