The Christian nation acknowledges God as the author of nations in general and as the providential author of their particular nation. Such nations are indeed set apart or holy in relation to non-Christian nations, though not by divine national election or new principles but because the nation has brought itself, by grace, under God as nations ought to do by nature. Becoming or maintaining itself as a Christian nation, in an explicit sense, is an act of national will. An implicit Christian nation is an unfaithful nation, one that lacks the will to explicitly place itself under God, to conceive
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