Getting Right Back to Where America Started From

 The Biblical moral law is built into the Constitution of the United States (regarding this, see the book: Commander-in-Chief [...] The Rule of Law Under God (Belcher Foundation, 2008). The notion of human supremacy (manifested in the political realm by the legal philosophy of legal positivism) goes against what God says in His Word about the transcendent nature of His own supremacy (ultimate authority); therefore, during the founding era of Puritan America, the Coopers–both father William (1694-1743) and son Samuel (1725-1783)–were against the notion of ultimate human supremacy, as well. (See particularly: William Cooper, The Honours of Christ Demanded of the Magistrate (1740), preached near the conclusion of Governor Jonathan Belcher’s administrations of the twin colonies of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which at that time were governed by one governor.)...

 The governor’s assessment of Samuel’s outstanding abilities indeed proved to be correct. About 30 years after this, in 1780, Dr. Samuel Cooper preached a commentary on Christian constitutionalism in America, in honor of the Massachusetts state constitution. His discourse restated the basis for the Christian foundation of Early America: the state’s (and hence the nation’s) obligation to follow God’s Law, the principles of which formed the background for the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Samuel’s father, William Cooper, in his classic sermon The Honours of Christ Demanded of the Magistrate (1740), had earlier explained that American law and society were obligated to follow Biblical law in all its political and legal dealings. Note especially Dr. Samuel Cooper’s allusion to Joshua’s ancient monument in honor of God’s law and sovereignty–a monument, in other words, to acknowledge the sovereignty of God–and reflect on the comparison between that and modern-day Ten Commandments monuments that honor and acknowledge the same. Note also that Samuel’s discourse was preached in the presence of his friend Governor John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence–and reflect upon what this implies: the implication being, of course, that Hancock, as well as other founders, probably viewed monuments of the Decalogue and other acknowledgments of God’s sovereignty to be unexceptional, certainly accepted. (Moses, Israel, and God’s law were specifically mentioned in Dr. Cooper’s discourse.)

  Dr. Cooper also invoked the necessity of public Christianity for the maintenance of republican society and its freedom. Freedom is dependent upon the principles of Christianity (which are the principles of Biblical law) being implemented and manifested in a polity. Free consent in a republican government flourishes where the Christian worldview is encouraged and promoted, and vice versa. Note that Dr. Cooper’s sermon was preached at the beginning of Massachusetts’ statehood. It provides further evidence that the founders of America modeled the United States after the ancient republic of Israel. (In that regard, read also: Samuel Langdon, The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States (1788).)

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