The Great Awakening P17

Sermons preached and printed during the First Great Awakening helped produce Biblical thinking on numerous issues, including the civil liberties, the necessity of resisting tyrannical rulers, limited government, equal rights, the evil of slavery, and much else. Sermon titles from that period affirm the relevance of Biblical truth to all areas of life. A few of the many sermons addressing political topics included:

Civil Magistrates Must be Just, Ruling in the Fear of God (1747), by Charles Chauncey.

Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers (1750), by Jonathan Mayhew.

Religion and Patriotism, the Constituents of a Good Soldier (1755) by Samuel Davies.

The Advice of Joab to the Host of Israel Going Forth to War (1759), by Thaddeus MacCarty

An Oration upon the Beauties of Liberty (1773), by John Allen.

Scriptural Instructions to Civil Rulers (1774), by Samuel Sherwood.

Jesus Christ the True King (1778), by Peter Powers. (This sermon during the War for Independence resulted in the political cry, “No king but King Jesus!”

Content sourced from The American Story, The Beginnings by Dave Barton & Tim Barton