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What Did The Founding Fathers Say?
May 23, 2022

What did Zephaniah Swift have to say?

Religion, when fairly considered in its genuine simplicity and uncorrupted state, is the source of endless rapture and delight.

Jesus Christ has in the clearest manner inculcated those duties which are productive of the highest moral felicity and consistent with all the innocent enjoyments, to which we are impelled by the dictates of nature. Religion, when fairly considered in its genuine simplicity and uncorrupted state, is the source of endless rapture and delight.

U. S. CONGRESSMAN; DIPLOMAT; JUDGE; AUTHOR OF AMERICA’S FIRST LEGAL TEXT (1795)

Source: Zephaniah Swift, The Correspondent (Windham: John Byrne, 1793), p. 135.

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