Election Sermon, by Rev. Timothy Stone, Hartford CT, 1792
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, REV. TIMOTHY STONE
ELECTION SERMON, MAY 10TH, 1792
A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, ESQ. L.L.D. GOVERNOR, AND THE HONORABLE...
John Leland: Religious Liberty Promotes Greatest Revival of True Religion
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS: JOHN LELAND
1791
Divines generally inform us that there is such a time to come (called the Latter-Day Glory) when...
John Woolman’s Ministry: Learning to Suppress ‘My’ Will
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, JOHN WOOLMAN
From an inward purifying, and steadfast abiding under it springs a lively operative desire for the good of others. All...
Jonathan Shipley’s Speech—1774
Background of the American Revolution
Following the Boston Tea Party, Dr. Jonathan Shipley—Bishop of St. Asaph—writes a speech intended for the debate in the House...
Thomas Jefferson Testimonial for Reverend Charles Clay
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA, THOMAS JEFFERSON
15 August 1779
The reverend Charles Clay has been many years rector of this parish, and has been particularly...
Elisha Williams: The Great End of Civil Government
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS
Elisha Williams, 1744
I shall first, briefly consider the Origin and End of Civil Government.
First, as to the origin—–Reason...
Civil Magistrates Must Be Just, Ruling in the Fear of God
Called Unto Liberty, Founding Era Sermons, Charles Chauncy
Charles Chauncy (1705–1787). The most influential clergyman in the Boston of his time and—apart from Jonathan Edwards...
Overcoming Evil With Good—By Stanley Griswold
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS, STANLEY GRISWOLD, 1801
A Yale graduate in 1786 and Congregational clergyman at New Milford, Connecticut, Griswold led a checkered...
Jonathan Swift—Essay upon the Art of Political Lying
Commentary
In 1710, Jonathan Swift writes an essay for The Examiner.
Besides, as the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has his believers;...
Joseph Sewall: Nineveh’s Repentance and Deliverance
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS
A SERMON Preach'd before His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOUR The HONOURABLE COUNCIL AND Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay...
Joseph Sewall: Nineveh's Repentance and Deliverance
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS
A SERMON Preach'd before His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOUR The HONOURABLE COUNCIL AND Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay...
Abraham Williams: An Election Sermon
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS, ABRAHAM WILLIAMS
Boston 1762
Independent and audacious enough while a student at Harvard to be known in some ministerial groups...
Jonathan Dickinson on God and Atheism
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS
BOSTON, 1741
Born in Hatfield, Massachusetts on April 22, 1688, Jonathan Dickinson studied theology at the Collegiate School of Connecticut...
Moses Mather On Free Agency
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS, MOSES MATHER
1775
Free agency, or a rational existence, with its powers and faculties, and freedom of enjoying and exercising...
Jacob Cushing: The Workings of Divine Providence
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS
APRIL 1778
... That there is a God, “is the prime foundation of all religion.” We should therefore employ our...
Calamities, Trials, Justice Meant for Good – John Witherspoon
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS: JOHN WITHERSPOON
1776
The wrath of man praiseth God, as it is the instrument in his hand for bringing sinners...
Isaac Backus: Five Reasons Religious Taxes Are Wrong
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, ISAAC BACKUS
1773
In civil states the power of the whole collective body is vested in a few hands, that they may with...
The American Vine: A Sermon—Jacob Duché
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS
July 20, 1775
Preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, before the Honourable Continental Congress, July 20, 1775. Being the Day Recommended by...
John Tucker: An Election Sermon
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS: JOHN TUCKER
Boston 1771
Editor's Note
English colonists in America began living under local government based upon the consent of the...
Moses Mather: America’s Appeal to the Impartial World
Called Unto Liberty, Moses Mather: 1775, Founding Era Sermons
Moses Mather (1719–1806). Born in Lyme, Connecticut, into a famous New England family of divines, Mather...