Old John Witherspoon, the only cleric to sign the Declaration of Independence, had this to say: “It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.”
John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, taught that fear of God alone delivers us from fear of man.
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