Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805

by Sandoz, Ellis

• ISBN13: 9780865971790
• ISBN10: 086597179X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Liberty Fund

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.Ellis Sandoz is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute at Louisiana State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Editor's Note to the 1998 Edition	xxv
Editor's Note	xxvii
Bibliographic Note	xxxiii
Chronology 1688-1773	3	(366)
Government the Pillar of the Earth [1730]	7	(18)
Benjamin Colman
Nineveh's Repentance and Deliverance [1740]	25	(26)
Joseph Sewall
The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants [1744]	51	(68)
Elisha Williams
Britain's Mercies, and Britain's Duties [1746]	119	(18)
George Whitefield
Civil Magistrates Must Be Just, Ruling in the Fear of God [1747]	137	(42)
Charles Chauncy
The Mediatorial Kingdom and Glories of Jesus Christ [1756]	179	(28)
Samuel Davies
The Presence of God with his People [1760]	207	(24)
Samuel Dunbar
The Snare Broken [1766]	231	(34)
Jonathan Mayhew
An Humble Enquiry [1769]	265	(36)
John Joachim Zubly
An Oration Upon the Beauties of Liberty [1773]	301	(26)
John Allen
An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty [1773]	327	(42)
Isaac Backus
Chronology 1774-1781	369	(314)
Scriptural Instructions to Civil Rulers [1774]	373	(36)
Samuel Sherwood
A Calm Address to Our American Colonies [1775]	409	(12)
John Wesley
A Constitutional Answer to Wesley's Calm Address [1775]	421	(18)
Anonymous
America's Appeal to the Impartial World [1775]	439	(54)
Moses Mather
The Church's Flight in to the Wilderness [1776]	493	(36)
Samuel Sherwood
The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men [1776]	529	(30)
John Witherspoon
The Bible and the Sword [1776]	559	(20)
John Fletcher
God Arising and Pleading his People's Cause [1777]	579	(28)
Abraham Keteltas
Divine Judgments Upon Tyrants [1778]	607	(20)
Jacob Cushing
A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution [1780]	627	(30)
Samuel Cooper
A Sermon Preached at Lexington on the 19th of April [1781]	657	(26)
Henry Cumings
Chronology 1782-1788	683	(4)
A Dialogue Between the Devil, and George III, Tyrant of Britain [1782]	687	(24)
Anonymous
Defensive Arms Vindicated [1783]
A Moderate Whig [Stephen Case?]	711	(60)
A Sermon Preached on a Day of Thanksgiving [1784]	771	(8)
George Duffield
A Sermon on Occasion of the Commencement of the New-Hampshire Constitution [1784]	789	(26)
Samuel McClintock
A Sermon Preached Before a Convention of the Episcopal Church [1784]	815	(20)
William Smith
The Dangers of our National Prosperity; and the Way to Avoid Them [1785]	835	(30)
Samuel Wales
A Sermon on a Day Appointed for Publick Thanksgiving [1787]	865	(18)
Joseph Lathrop
The Dignity of Man [1787]	883	(26)
Nathanael Emmons
The Principles of Civil Union and Happiness Considered and Recommended [1787]	909	(32)
Elizur Goodrich
The Republic of the Israelites and Example to the American States [1788]	941	(28)
Samuel Langdon
A Century Sermon on the Glorious Revolution [1788]	969
Elhanan Winchester