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The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men
The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men
The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men
The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men
The dominion of Providence over the passions of men, a sermon. Repr
The Works of John Witherspoon; Containing Essays, Sermons, and C. , on Important Subjects ... Together with His Lectures on Moral Philosophy Eloquence And
Author: John Witherspoon
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781230441740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON XXII. THE DOMINION OF PROVIDENCE OVER THE PASSIONS OF MEN. Preached at Princeton, on the 17th of May 1776, being the General Fast appointed by the Congress through the United Colonies. Dedicated to the Honourable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq- President of the Congress of the United States of America. To which is added, An Address to the Natives of Scotland residing in America. Psal. lxxvi. 10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee; the retnainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. THERE is not a greater evidence, either of the reality or the power of religion, than a firm belief of God's univerfal presence, and a constant attention to the influence and operation of his providence. It is by this means that the Christian may be faid, in the emphatical Scripture language, " to walk with God, and to endure as seeing him who is invisible." The doctrine of divine providence is very sull and. complete in the facred oracles. It extends not only to things which we may think of great moment, and therefore worthy of notice, but to things the most indifferent and inconsiderable: " Are not two sparrows fold for a farthing, '" fays our Lord, " and one of them falleth not to the ground without your heavenly Father;" nay, " the very hairs of your head are all numbered." It extends not only to things benesicial and falutary, or to the direction and assistance of those who are the servants of the living God, but to things seemingly most hurtsul and destructive, and to persons the most refractory and disobedient. He overrules all his creatures, and all their actions. Thus we are told, that " sire, hail, snow, vapour, and stormy wind, sulsil his word," ia the course of nature; and even so the most impetuous and disorderly passions of men that are under no...
Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805
Author: Ellis Sandoz
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780865971790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon
Author: Kevin DeYoung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-05
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1000044955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. In contrast to the arguments made by other historians, it shows that there was considerable continuity of thought between Witherspoon’s Scottish ministry and the second half of his career as one of America’s Founding Fathers. The book argues that Witherspoon cannot be properly understood until he is seen as not only engaged with the Enlightenment, but also firmly grounded in the Calvinist tradition of High to Late Orthodoxy, embedded in the transatlantic Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century, and frustrated by the state of religion in the Scottish Kirk. Alongside the titles of pastor, president, educator, philosopher, should be a new category: John Witherspoon as Reformed apologist. This is a fresh re-examination of the intellectual formation of one of Scotland’s most important churchman from the eighteenth century and one of America’s most influential early figures. The volume will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious History, American Religion, Reformed Theology and Calvinism, as well as Scottish and American history more generally.
The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Author: John Fea
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0812206398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more—to improve himself in a revolutionary world that was making upward mobility possible. While Fithian is best known for the diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at Nomini Hall, the Virginia plantation of Robert Carter, this first full biography moves beyond his experience in the Old Dominion to examine his inner life, his experience in the early American backcountry, his love affair with Elizabeth Beatty, and his role as a Revolutionary War chaplain. From the villages of New Jersey, Fithian was able to participate indirectly in the eighteenth-century republic of letters—a transatlantic intellectual community sustained through sociability, print, and the pursuit of mutual improvement. The republic of letters was above all else a rational republic, with little tolerance for those unable to rid themselves of parochial passions. Participation required a commitment to self-improvement that demanded a belief in the Enlightenment values of human potential and social progress. Although Fithian was deeply committed to these values, he constantly struggled to reconcile his quest for a cosmopolitan life with his love of home. As John Fea argues, it was the people, the religious culture, and the very landscape of his "native sod" that continued to hold Fithian's affections and enabled him to live a life worthy of a man of letters.
