{"id":2603746,"date":"2026-05-17T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-founders-likely-built-the-most-famous-phrase-in-the-declaration-of-independence-from-a-christian-sermon\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:14:10","slug":"the-founders-likely-built-the-most-famous-phrase-in-the-declaration-of-independence-from-a-christian-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-founders-likely-built-the-most-famous-phrase-in-the-declaration-of-independence-from-a-christian-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founders Likely Built the Most Famous Phrase in the Declaration of Independence from a Christian Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-founders-likely-built-the-most-famous-phrase-in-the-declaration-of-independence-from-a-christian-sermon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2603746&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text claims that prominent lines in the Declaration of Independence-especially ideas like \u201call men are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-the-inequality-of-equity\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: The Inequality of \u2018Equity\u2019\">created equal<\/a>,\u201d rights given by a Creator, no taxation without representation, and government based on the consent of the governed-may have reflected phrasing from sermons preached in the early 1700s. It specifically highlights Christian preacher John wise of Ipswich, Massachusetts, saying that two sermons he delivered were later reprinted (including by Boston\u2019s Sons of Liberty in 1772) and argued they helped influence the Declaration\u2019s wording. The passage also cites interpretations of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s draft and writings to support the idea that the Declaration did not introduce entirely new principles but drew on widely circulating arguments and \u201ccommon sense\u201d of the era, including sentiments expressed through political writings and classical thinkers. it notes that the declaration references God multiple times and points to contemporary legal thought (via William Blackstone) and earlier religious foundations to claim the document grounded law and rights in divine authority.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The famous second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence likely drew its phrasing from a sermon delivered in the early 1700s.<\/p>\n<p>Tim and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/america-reads-bible-celebrities-take-part-dc-event-250th-celebration-continuous-scripture-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Barton<\/a>, the president and founder of Wallbuilders, respectively, explained the connection in a video posted by Allen Jackson, pastor of World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The Bartons spoke at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UhCIvegx4us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a> there last month, addressing the subject, \u201cDoes the Church Belong in Politics?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim Barton held up a book that he said contained two sermons delivered in the early 1700s by <a href=\"https:\/\/historicipswich.net\/2024\/06\/14\/john-wise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Wise<\/a>, a Christian preacher from Ipswich, just north of Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one of these two sermons, John Wise, and I quote, says, \u2018All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-be-like-the-hippies\/\" title=\"Don\u2019t Be Like the Hippies\">inalienable rights<\/a>.\u2019 That\u2019s in the Declaration,\u201d Barton explained.<\/p>\n<p>Wise\u2019s sermons also addressed the issue of no taxation without representation, and just government coming from the consent of the governed. These ideas are found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/declaration-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Declaration of Independence<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Barton noted that the sermons were reprinted by Boston\u2019s Sons of Liberty in 1772, just a few short years before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-usa-rededication-god-event-dc-will-occur-date-continental-congress-took-similar-action-1776\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continental Congress<\/a> declared the independence of the United States from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey decided that if we were going to get everybody on the same page, there was this pastor years ago who preached these great sermons. We should reprint those sermons and have them so Americans can reach them because that would help them understand what we\u2019re thinking and where we\u2019re coming from,\u201d Barton said.<\/p>\n<p>David Barton noted that the Sons of Liberty was a group that included Declaration signers Samuel Adams and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/milestone-documents\/declaration-of-independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hancock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hancock was the president of the Continental Congress, and his signature appears most prominently on the document.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I bet you didn\u2019t realize the most well-known phrases from our founding documents came right from a sermon circulated in the 1700s. Well, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidBartonWB?\">@DavidBartonWB<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimDavidBarton?\">@TimDavidBarton<\/a>, now we know. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PKIix0cmbI\">pic.twitter.com\/PKIix0cmbI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allen Jackson (@allenjacksonmin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allenjacksonmin\/status\/2052451706621820946?\">May 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Samuel Adams\u2019 cousin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-adams-accurately-predicted-independence-day-celebrated-got-date-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Adams<\/a>, was on the drafting committee for the Declaration with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, as well as two others who do not appear to have made any edits to the document.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Historic Ipswich <a href=\"https:\/\/historicipswich.net\/2024\/06\/14\/john-wise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, Wise said in one of his sermons delivered around 1700, \u201cThe first human subject and original of civil power is the people\u2026 and when they are free, they may set up what species of government they please. The end of all good government is to cultivate humanity and promote the happiness of all, and the good of every man in all his rights, his life, liberty, estate, honor, etc., without injury or abuse done to any.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu\/declaration-of-independence\/original-rough-draught\/#Tabs-P1%7C2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original draft<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/five-challenging-times-presidents-appealed-declaration-independence-inspire-americans-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Declaration of Independence<\/a> by Thomas Jefferson read, \u201cWe hold these truths to be sacred &#038; undeniable; that all men are created equal &#038; independant, that from that equal creation they <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >derive rights inherent &#038; inalienable<\/a>, among which are the preservation of life, &#038; liberty, &#038; the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About a year before his death on July 4, 1826, Jefferson <a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Jefferson\/98-01-02-5212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> to Henry Lee, a fellow Virginian, that the purpose of the Declaration was \u201cnot to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerms so plain and firm, as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independant stand we\u2026 compelled to take, neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll it\u2019s authority rests then on the harmonising sentiments of the day, whether expressed, in conversations, in letters, printed essays or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney etc.,\u201d Jefferson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His letter would appear to confirm the Bartons\u2019 argument that the Declaration was not based on new thought and could well have included phrasing from John Wise\u2019s sermons in the document\u2019s second paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that the Declaration refers to God four times, including in its very first paragraph, \u201cthe Laws of Nature and of Nature\u2019s God,\u201d which were used to justify the United States\u2019 separation from Britain.<\/p>\n<p>In my book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/THESE-TRUTHS-Randall-Norman-DeSoto\/dp\/1604772689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Hold These Truths<\/a>,\u201d I explain that the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/the-constitution\/historic-document-library\/detail\/william-blackstonecommentaries-on-the-laws-of-england-1765-69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-tim-kaine-mocks-founding-belief-in-the-declaration-ties-it-to-sharia-law\/\" title=\"Dem Senator Tim Kaine Mocks Founding Belief in the ..., Ties It to Sharia Law\">preeminent law book<\/a><\/a> at the time of the founding, William Blackstone\u2019s \u201cCommentaries on the Laws of England,\u201d expounds on the meaning of the two sources of law referenced in the Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon these two foundations, the law of nature [established by God and observable in creation] and the law of revelation [found in the Bible, directly revealed by God, including the Ten Commandments], depend all human laws; 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