1844 THOMAS JEFFERSON & PRESBYTERIANS. Jefferson Warns Against Christian Nationalism.

A rather scarce little work in which Justus E. Moore warns of the inbred theological tendency in some forms of Presbyterianism, i.e. a rather open, theologically moored, willingness to embrace the use of political / governmental power to legislate a Christian theocratic government. This was resident in ultra-conservative strands of the Presbyterians in the Westminster Assembly. Roger Williams was already accusing them of a Presbyterial Popery in 1643.

The issue again surfaced at various points in the 18th and 19th century, especially in New England, where Presbyterian strongholds attempted to legislate not just Christianity, but Presbyterian ordination as the only legitimate ordination, etc. We are seeing certain folks in the Reformed Presbyterian tradition taking this posture and position again today, i.e. the Doug Wilson and the Moscow folks, etc., Everything old is new again I guess.

Moore, Justus E. The Warning of Thomas Jefferson; or, A Brief Exposition of the Dangers to be Apprehended to Our Civil and Religious Liberties from Presbyterianism. Philadelphia. Wm. J. Cunningham. 1844. 35pp.

A good, clean original pamphlet, removed from a larger sammelband at some point; complete as issued. Textually clean and quite rare on the market.