United States Founding Ministers

Matthias Burnet

Quotes

Accountability

1. "Finally, ye ... whose high prerogative it is to ... invest with office and authority or to withhold them and in whose power it is to save or destroy your country, consider well the important trust ... which God ... [has] put into your hands. To God and posterity your are accountable for them. ... Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you - United States Founding Minister, Matthias Burnet, "An Election Sermon, Preached at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary Election, May 12, 1803", (Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1803), pp. 26-27