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Title Political sermons of the American founding era, 1730-1805 / edited by Ellis Sandoz
Edition 2nd ed
Published Indianapolis, IN : Liberty Fund, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (1734 pages))
Series Online library of liberty.
Contents Chronology 1688-1773 -- 1 Government the pillar of the earth [1730] / Benjamin Colman -- 2 Nineveh's repentance and deliverance [1740] / Joseph Sewall -- 3 The essential rights and liberties of protest-ants [1744] / Elisha Williams -- 4 Britain's mercies, and Britain's duties [1746] / George Whitefield -- 5 Civil magistrates must be just, ruling in the fear of God [1747] / Charles Chauncy -- 6 The mediatorial kingdom and glories of Jesus Christ [1756] / Samuel Davies -- 7 The presence of God with his people [1760] / Samuel Dunbar -- 8 The snare broken [1766] / Jonathan Mayhew -- 9 An humble enquiry [1769] / John Joachim Zubly -- 10 An oration upon the beauties of liberty [1773] / John Allen -- 11 An appeal to the public for religious liberty [1773] / Isaac Backus -- Chronology 1774-1781 369 -- 12 Scriptural instructions to civil rulers [1774] / Samuel Sherwood -- 13 A calm address to our American colonies [1775] / John Wesley -- 14 A Constitutional answer to Wesley's calm ad-dress [1775] / Anonymous -- 15 America's appeal to the impartial world [1775] / Moses Mather -- 16 The Church's flight into the wilderness [1776] / Samuel Sherwood -- 17 The dominion of providence over the passions of men [1776] / John Witherspoon -- 18 The Bible and the sword [1776] / John Fletcher -- 19 God arising and pleading his people's cause [1777] / Abraham Keteltas -- 20 Divine judgments upon tyrants [1778] / Jacob Cushing -- 21 A sermon on the day of the commencement of the Constitution [1780] / Samuel Cooper -- 22 A sermon preached at Lexington on the 19th of April [1781] / Henry Cumings -- Chronology 1782-1788 -- 23 A dialogue between the Devil, and George III, Ty-rant of Britain [1782] / Anonymous -- 24 Defensive arms vindicated [1783] / A Moderate Whig [Stephen Case?] -- 25 A sermon preached on a day of Thanksgiving [1784] / George Duffield -- 26 A sermon on occasion of the commencement of the New?Hampshire Constitution [1784] / Samuel McClintock
27 A sermon preached before a convention of the Episcopal Church [1784] / William Smith -- 28 The dangers of our national prosperity; and the way to avoid them [1785] / Samuel Wales -- 29 A sermon on a day appointed for publick Thanks-Giving [1787] / Joseph Lathrop -- 30 The dignity of man [1787] / Nathanael Emmons -- 31 The principles of Civil Union and happiness considered and recommended [1787] / Elizur Goodrich -- 32 The Republic of the Israelites an example to the American States [1788] / Samuel Langdon -- 33 A century sermon on the glorious revolution [1788] / Elhanan Winchester 969 Chronology 1789-1794 -- 34 A discourse on the love of our country [1790] / Richard Price -- 35 The African slave trade [1791] / James Dana -- 36 A sermon delivered at the annual election [1791] / Israel Evans -- 37 The rights of conscience inalienable [1791] / John Leland -- 38 A sermon for the day of general election [1792] / David Tappan -- 39 A sermon preached before the artillery company [1793] / Peter Thacher -- 40 A sermon on the anniversary of the Independence of America [1793] / Samuel Miller -- 41 An oration in commemoration of the Independence of the United States of America [1793] / Enos Hitchcock -- 42 The necessity of the belief of Christianity [1794] Jonathan Edwards, Jr. -- 43 The wonderful works of God are to be remembered [1794] / David Osgood -- 44 The revolution in France [1794] / Noah Webster -- Chronology 1795-1805 -- 45 / Manifestations of the beneficence of divine providence towards America [1795] / Bishop James Madison -- 46 Sermon before the General Court of New Hampshire at the Annual Election [1797] / Stephen Peabody -- 47 A discourse, delivered at the Roman Catholic Church in Boston [1798] / John Thayer -- 48 The duty of Americans, at the present crisis [1798] / Timothy Dwight -- 49 A sermon occasioned by the death of Washington [1800] / Henry Holcombe -- 50 On the evils of a weak government [1800] / John Smalley
51 The voice of warning to Christians [1800] / John Mitchell Mason -- 52 A solemn address to Christians and patriots [1800] / Tunis Wortman -- 53 Overcoming evil with good [1801] / Stanley Griswold -- 54 An oration in commemoration of the anniversary of American Independence [1802] / William Emerson -- 55 A sermon, on the second coming of Christ 1805 / John Hargrove
Summary The early political culture of the American republic was deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers. Indeed, it was often through the political sermon--the "pulpit of the American Revolution"--That the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. And yet the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans is largely neglected. This has created a blind spot regarding the fundamental acts of the American founding. Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this volume are unique to America, both in kind and in significance. This volume thus fills an important need if the American founding period is to be adequately understood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Sermons, American.
Christianity and politics -- United States -- Sermons
Christianity and politics.
Politics and government
Sermons, American.
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- Sermons
Subject United States.
Genre/Form Sermons
Form Electronic book
Author Sandoz, Ellis, 1931-
ISBN 9781614878599
1614878595