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Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730–1805

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.

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

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]