{"id":15806,"date":"2016-08-18T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/delawarestate-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:34:23","slug":"delawarestate-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/delawarestate-of\/","title":{"rendered":"DELAWARE,\nSTATE OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (December 7, 1787), was the 1st State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Delaware, adopted 1776, stated:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Article XXII. Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust \u2026 shall \u2026 make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: \u201cI, ________, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration.\u201d(until 1792)&#65279;1900&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Constitution of the State of Delaware, adopted 1831, stated:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>It is the duty of all men frequently to assemble together for the public worship of the Author of the Universe; and piety and morality, on which the prosperity of communities depends, are thereby promoted. \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>No power shall or ought to be invested in or assumed by any magistrate that shall in any case interfere with \u2026 the free exercise of religious, , worship.&#65279;1901&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Constitution of the State of Delaware, adopted 1897, stated:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Preamble. Through Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences.&#65279;1902&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Article I, Section 1. It is the duty of all men frequently to assemble together for the public worship of Almighty God; and piety and morality, on which the prosperity of communities depends, are hereby promoted.&#65279;1903&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(December 7, 1787), was the 1st State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Delaware, adopted 1776, stated: Article XXII. Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust \u2026 shall \u2026 make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: \u201cI, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/delawarestate-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DELAWARE,<br \/>\nSTATE OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}