plz hurry its a test
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free and that all attempts to influence it by . . . punishments . . . or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion. Who is the “Holy author of our religion” discussed in the passage?

God

Jefferson

the Founding Fathers

the Constitution