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and delegate to the Continental Congress

In a Sermon Preached before the University of Cambridge

The Children's Monthly Missionary Newspaper

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is one of the most important rights activists of the 19th century

1791 JOHN WITHERSPOON &c. The American Preacher; First Collection of American Pulpit Sermons Post-Revolutionary War Illustrated and delegate to the ContinentalThe "American Preacher" represented the first major attempt at distinguishing the pulpit of the "United States" after the revolution. Many sermons had been published, but the present, which would ultimately include four volumes, presented a systematic attempt at articulating the Gospel in the new democratic republic. Quite scarce. The present includes, fittingly, John Witherspoon's "Ministerial Character and Duty" as the first sermon, clearly