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2152. DEITY, Liberty and the.—

We * * * most solemnly, before God and the
world declare that, * * * the arms we
have been compelled to assume we will use
with perseverance, exerting to their utmost
energies all those powers which our Creator
hath given us, to preserve that liberty which
He committed to us in sacred deposit * * *.—
Declaration on Taking up Arms. Ford ed., i, 476.
(July. 1775)