Gunning
Bedford, Jr.
1747-1812 —
Member of local Delaware Legislature . . . Attorney General of Delaware .
. . Delegate to Continental Congress and Federal Constitutional Convention . .
. Signer of the Constitution . . . Advocate of States Rights.
Tim
LaHaye: Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt,
Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 148-149:
"He
attended Princeton University, where he and James Madison shared a room. While
there he studied under the formative influence of John Witherspoon, one of the
nations premier theologians and legal scholars."[41]
Being a delegate from the State of Delaware, he would have complied with the requirements for office stipulated by that State’s Constitution, which included:
"Article 22: Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust… shall… make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: 'I, ____, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.'" — Constitution of the State of Delaware. Church of the Holy Trinity v. US 457, 469-470 (1892). M. E. Bradford, A Worthy Company (NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982), p. x. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 23.[41]
Gunning
Bedford, Exerpt from Funeral Oration Upon
the Death of General Washington (Wilmington: James Wilson, 1800), p. 18:
"Now to the triune God, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be ascribed
all honor and dominion, forevermore"[12]