Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730–1805. Группа авторов

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      © 1998 by Liberty Fund, Inc.

      This eBook edition published in 2013.

      eBook ISBNs:

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      To the Pulpit, the Puritan Pulpit, we owe the moral force which won our independence.

      John Wingate Thornton

      This principle, that a whole nation has a right to do whatever it pleases, cannot in any sense whatever be admitted as true. The eternal and immutable laws of justice and morality are paramount to all human legislation. The violation of those laws is certainly within the power of a nation, but it is not among the rights of nations.

      John Quincy Adams

      Contents

      Volume 1

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Note to the 1998 Edition

Editor’s Note

Bibliographic Note

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 PROTESTANTS [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

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 ADDRESS [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]

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