(November 25, 1758–April 1, 1843), was an American politician and diplomat. He served as a U.S. Representative; U.S. Senator; Secretary of War, 1813; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1806–10; U.S Minister to France, 1804–06; and a U.S. Military General. He published the works: Notices of the War of 1812; and Memoirs of Montgomery and Wayne, in Sparks’ American Biographies. John Armstrong stated:
Nor is this spiritual and moral disease to be healed by a better education, a few external, transient thoughts.
It requires the hand of the great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ, by His Holy Spirit, and belief of the truth renewing the state of the mind and disposition of the heart as well, thereby leading the soul from a sense of fear of the wrath of God, the penalty of this broken law, and helpless in itself, to flee to the merits of Jesus, that only refuge or foundation which God hath laid in His Church, and who was made sin for us (that is, a sin-offering), that all “believers be made the righteousness of God by Him.”1539