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39. See Richard Watson, Theological Institutes: Or a View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and Institutions of Christianity (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1857), 32.
40. John Locke, The Works of John Locke, vol. 7 (London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1722), “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians” (originally published in 1705), 25–75; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians” (originally published in 1706), 77–202; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians” (originally published in 1706), 203–270; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans” (originally published in 1707), 271–427; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians” (originally published in 1707), 429–495.
41. John Locke, A Common Place-Book to the Holy Bible: or, the Scripture’s Sufficiency Practically Demonstrated (London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1697).
42. John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures (London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1695).
43. John Locke, A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward’s Reflections (London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1695), repr. in The Works of John Locke, vol. 6 (London: C. Baldwin, 1824), 159–190.
44. John Locke, A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity (London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1697), repr. in The Works of John Locke, vol. 6 (London: C. Baldwin, 1824), 191–424.
45. John Adams, The Works of John Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856), 10:311, 4:82–83, 1:53–54; Benjamin Franklin, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. William B. Willcox (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 17:6, 4:107,; Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895), 5:173, 11:222; Thomas Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York: G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1905), 12:307; Benjamin Rush, The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush, ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1947), 78; Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations, vol. 1, (Philadelphia: T. & G. Palmer, 1805), 402; Ibid., 2:19; John Quincy Adams, The Jubilee of the Constitution (New York: Samuel Colman, 1839), 40–41; James Wilson, The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, ed. Bird Wilson, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Lorenzo Press, 1804), 67–68.
46. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1689), passim.
47. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol.2 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893), 93–94; emphasis added.
48. Ibid., 11:115.
49. Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 6 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), 432.
50. Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Charles T. Cullen, vol. 23 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 271.
51. John Witherspoon, The Works of John Witherspoon, vol. 3 (Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1800), 42.
52. Williston Walker, John Calvin: The Organiser of Reformed Protestantism: 1509– 1564 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906), 363.
53. Walker, John Calvin, 367.
54. Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scibner’s Sons, 1929), s.v. “Gideon Blackburn.” See also Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (Washington, DC: Gales and Seaton, 1851), 7th Cong., 1602; Dorothy C. Bass, “Gideon Blackburn’s Mission to the Cherokees: Christianization and Civilization,” Journal of Presbyterian History (Fall 1974), 209–210.
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58. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Columbia Historical Society, 1895), 122–123.
59. Ibid., 127.
60. Samuel Yorke, History of the Public Schools of Washington City, D.C. (Washington, DC: Gill & Witherow, 1876), 1–6; William Benning Webb, John Wooldrige, and Harvey W. Crew, Centennial History of the City of Washington, D. C. (Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1892), 484–486.
61. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 8 (Washington, DC: Columbia Historical Society, 1905), 62.
62. Samuel Knox, Essay on the Best System of Liberal Education (Baltimore: Warner and Hanna, 1799), 78–79.
63. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 19:365–366.
64. Ibid., 367.
65. Leonard Levy, Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989), 8.
66. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Taylor & Maury, 1853), 69–70.
67. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 1:71.
68. Thomas Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 2 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904), 434.
69. Jefferson, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 15: 405–406.
70. Ibid., 19:415.
71. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,” The University of Virginia, August 4, 1818, accessed October 24, 2011, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1.
72. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 19:415–416.
73. Ibid., 449–450; emphasis added.
74. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,” The University of Virginia, August 4, 1818, accessed October 25, 2011, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1.
75. Thomas Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 12 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905), 272.
76. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,” The University of Virginia, August 4, 1818, accessed October 25, 2011, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1.
77. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 19:414.
78. Ibid.
79. William Henry Foote, Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1855), 325.
80. See Jefferson’s articles expressing his strong support in his own Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine, such as that in (January 1818) vol. 1, 548; Philip Alexander Bruce, History of the University of Virginia, 1819–1919 vol. 1 (New York: The MacMillian Company, 1920), 204; See also Robert P. Davis et al., Virginia Presbyterians in American Life: Hanover Presbytery 1755–1980 (Richmond: Hanover Presbytery, 1892), 66, 72.
81. John Holt Rice, ed., The Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine, vol. 1 (Richmond: William W. Gray, 1818), 548.
82. Alexander Garrett, “Outline of Cornerstone Ceremonies,” The University of Virginia, October 6, 1817, accessed October 25, 2011, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Jef1Gri.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=47&division=div1.
83. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,” The University of Virginia, August 4, 1818, accessed October 25, 2011, http://etext.vi
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84. Henry S. Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 3 (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858), 467–468.
85. Ibid., 467.
86. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 11:413.
87. Ibid., 19:367.
88. Ibid., 19:389.
89. Roy Honeywell, The Educational Work of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 16 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931), 92.
90. Thomas Jefferson, “Report to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund,” The Avalon Project, October 7, 1822, accessed October 25, 2011, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jeffrep3.asp.
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92. James Madison, The Writings of James Madison, ed. Gaillard Hunt, vol. 9 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910), 203–207.
93. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 16:19.
94. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,” The University of Virginia, August 4, 1818, accessed October 25, 2011, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1. See also Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 19:394, 411–412, 449–450.
95. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb, 19:449–450.
96. Ibid., 449–450.
97. Advertisement for the University of Virginia, printing a copy of a letter from the Rev. Mr. Tuston, the chaplain of the University of Virginia to Richard Duffield, Esq, originally printed in the Charlestown Free Press, repr. in The Globe, vol. 7 (Washington, DC: September 8, 1837), 2.
98. University of Virginia Advertisement The Globe, vol. 13 (Washington, DC: August 2, 1843.), no. 42, 2.
99. James Madison, “The Papers of James Madison,” Library of Congress, May 1, 1828, accessed October 25, 2011, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mjm&fileName=22/mjm22.db&recNum=379&itemLink=D?mjm:13:./temp/~ammem_LjNU.
100. Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, eds. Adrienne Koch and Williams Peden (New York: Random House, Inc., 1944), 697.
101. Frank Mead, ed., Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1965), 50.
102. Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 2 (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830), 216.
103. Ibid., 1:286.
104. Ibid., 1:287.
105. Steve Sheppard, ed., The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources (Pasadena: Salem Press Inc., 1999), Part I, Section A, 156.
106. Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Randolph, 2:215.
107. Ibid, 216.
108. See Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion (Boston: L. K. Washburn, 1906), 197; Jim Walker, “Thomas Jefferson,” No Beliefs, accessed July 15, 2011, http://nobeliefs.com/jefferson.htm; Robin Morigan, “Fighting Words for a Secular America,” Ms. Magazine, accessed July 18, 2011, http://www.msmagazine.com/fall2004/fightingwords.asp; Gary Leupp, “On Jefferson, Diderot and the Political Use of God,” The China Rose, accessed July 18, 2011, http://chinarose.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/denis-diderot-humanist-avant-lettrist-philosopher-polymath/; and many others.
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110. Elias Boudinot, The Age of Revelation, or the Age of Reason Shewn to be an Age of Infidelity (Philadelphia: Asbury Dickins, 1801), iii–iv.
111. Ibid., vi.
112. John Witherspoon, Lectures on Moral Philosophy (Philadelphia: Williams W. Woodward, 1822), 5, 38.
113. Ezra Stiles, The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor; A Sermon, at the Anniversary Election, May 8th, 1783 (New Haven: Thomas & Samuel Green, 1783), 56.
114. Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 4 (Charlottesville: F. Carr & Co., 1829), 363–365.
115. Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Randolph, vol. 4, 363–365.
116. Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 2 (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830) 216–218.
117. See Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832); City of Charleston v Benjamin, 2 Strob. 508 (Sup. Ct. S.C. 1846); etc.
118. Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), s.v. “Evangelist.”
119. The Encyclopedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, and General Information, vol. 3 (New York: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1910), 878, s.v. “Bible”; Brooke Foss Westcott, A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament (London: Macmillan and Co., 1866), 390–391; and Edward Reuss, History of the Canon of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Church, trans. David Hunter (Edinburgh: James Gemmell, 1884), 205–206.
120. Mark A. Beliles, “Religion and Republicanism in Jefferson’s Virginia” (PhD diss., Whitefield Theological Seminary, 1993), 102–103.
121. Robert M. Healey, Jefferson on Religion in Public Education (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1970), 27.
122. Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 2 (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830), 216.
LIE # 3: THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE HIS OWN BIBLE AND EDITED OUT THE THINGS HE DIDN’T AGREE WITH
1. Craig Cabaniss, Bob Kauflin, Dave Harvey, and Jeff Purswell, Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World, ed. C. J. Mahaney (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2008), 15.
2. Robert S. Alley, “The Real Jefferson on Religion,” secularhumanism.org, accessed February 8, 2011, http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/alley_18_4.html.
3. Jim Walker, “Thomas Jefferson on Christianity & Religion,” nobeliefs.com, accessed May 23, 2011, http://www.nobeliefs.com/jefferson.htm.
4. Don Landis, “Jonah and the Great Fish,” Answers in Genesis, September 5, 2006, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n1/great-fish.
5. See Steve Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (New York: Random House, 2008), 72; Stephen J. Nichols, Jesus; Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2008), 55; Rev. Peter Edward Lanzillotta, “Insights from Jefferson’s Bible,” interfaithservicesofthelowcountry.com, June 28, 2010, accessed October 25, 2011, http://interfaithservicesofthelowcountry.com/for-july-4th-insights-into-jeffersons-bible/; George H. Shriver and Bill J. Leonard, eds, Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), 238; Daniel G. Reid, ed., Dictionary of Christianity in America, (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990), 590, sv “Thomas Jefferson”; Winford Claiborne, “Revised Version of Christianity,” gosepelhour.net, accessed February 8, 2011, http://www.gospelhour.net/2211.html; Mark A. Noll, George M. Marsden, and Nathan O. Hatch, The Search for Christian America (Colorado Springs: Helmers & Howard, 1989), 75; “An Interview with Mikey Weinstein of Military Religious Freedom Foundation,” Pagan + Politics, February 26, 2010, accessed October 25, 2011, http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=360240177811; and more.
6. Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 4 (Charlottesville: F. Carr, and Co., 1829), 4:23, 4:228, 2: 48–50; Thomas Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 2 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904), 253–254; Thomas Jefferson, The Writ
ings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 14 (Washington, DC: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), 71–73.
7. William Maxwell, A Memoir of the Rev. John H. Rice (Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1835), 127.
8. Ellen Coolidge, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Sarah N. Randolph (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871), 345.
9. Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, vol. 6 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1981), 122.
10. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 9 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904), 485–488. See also Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 6:123.
11. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 14 (Washington, DC: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), 81.
12. “Subscribers’ Names.” in The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha; Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations, Diligently Compared and Revised, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: John Thomason & Abraham Small, 1798).
13. See “Framed Bible Pages,” Houston Baptist University, accessed December 2, 2010, http://www.hbu.edu/hbu/Framed_Bible_pages_.asp?SnID=2; “Thomas Jefferson and the Bible: Publications He Owned,” Thomas Jefferson Foundation, January 2007, accessed October 25, 2011, http://www.monticello.org/library/exhibits/images/biblepublications.pdf.
14. “Subscribers’ Names” in The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha; Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations, Diligently Compared and Revised, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: John Thomason & Abraham Small, 1798). This lists President John Adams, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, Declaration signers John Hancock and Samuel Chase, Constitution signers Gunning Bedford, George Read, James Wilson, John Dickinson, Jared Ingersoll, Thomas Mifflin, and Alexander Hamilton, Constitutional Convention delegate John Lansing, Chief Justice and author of the Federalist Papers John Jay, and Revolutionary General and Secretary of State Timothy Pickering.