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      POLITICAL SERMONS OF THE AMERICAN FOUNDING ERA 1730–1805

      This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

      The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as a design element in Liberty Fund books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

      © 1998 by Liberty Fund, Inc.

      This eBook edition published in 2013.

      eBook ISBNs:

       Kindle 978-1-61487-018-0

       E-PUB 978-1-61487-136-1

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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

       Benjamin Colman

       Joseph Sewall

       Elisha Williams

       George Whitefield

       Charles Chauncy

       Samuel Davies

       Samuel Dunbar

       Jonathan Mayhew

       John Joachim Zubly

       John Allen

       Isaac Backus

       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]

       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

      

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