And more and more this realization is being substantiated, buttressed, and fortified by resurrected treatises such as the one by Ashbel Green, D.D., the former pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.
Every fourth grader knows that.
Or, at least they used to. But something else was going on across town in that same city of Philadelphia where Ashbel Green would later be preaching. The theological lifeline to the Law of God for the societies of men would be surreptitiously severed, with the full blessing of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. In this manner, quietly, oh so quietly, one of the most influential colonial denominations, in which Ashbel Green was a minister, would now fling open the floodgates which had heretofore prevented Enlightenment humanism from taking over civil government. Yes, the Church said, Christ is still King of nations . . .