Roger
Sherman
1721-
1793 — Helped draft the Declaration of Independence
. . .Signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution . . .
Member of Continental Congress (1774-81) . . . Helped to draw up the Articles
of Confederation (1783-84) . . .One of the strongest proponents of the new Constitution
. . . Prominent in Connecticut colonial and state politics . . . Mayor of New
Haven . . . Treasurer of Yale College . . . US Senator (1791-93) . . . US Representative
(1789-91).
He
wrote this personal creed that was adopted by his church:
“I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons,
the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
are a revelation from God and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify
and enjoy Him, for the first man’s sin and as they all became sinners in consequence
of his first transgression, are liable to all the miseries of this life, to death
and to the pains of hell forever. I believe that God did send his own Son to become
man, die in the room instead of sinners and thus to lay a foundation for the offer
of pardon and salvation to all mankind, that at the end of this world there will
be a resurrection of the dead and a final judgment of all mankind when the righteous
shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the judge and admitted to everlasting life
and glory and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment.” —
Lewis Henry Boutell, The Life of Roger Sherman
(Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1896), pp. 272-273.[10.42]