The "boast of antiquity": Pulpit politics across the Atlantic archipelago during the revolution of 1688

Church History

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 618-649

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12. Edward [Wetenhall], The Way to Peace and Publick Safety. As it was Delivered in Sermon In Christs Church in the City of Cork, and elsewhere: in the heat of the late Rebellions of Argile and Monmouth (Dublin, 1686), 8
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23. Goldie, "The Revolution of 1689 and the Structure of Political Argument: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography of Pamphlets on the Allegiance Controversy," Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 83 (1980): 473-562, esp. 524-62.
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27. Christopher Hill, "The Norman Yoke," in Puritanism and Revolution (London: Secker & Warburg, 1958)
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29. See also, Janelle Greenberg, The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution: St. Edward's "Laws" in Early Modern Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
30. C. C. Weston, "England: ancient constitution and common law," in The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700, ed. J. H. Burns and Mark Goldie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 374-411.
31. Colin Kidd, "Protestantism, Constitutionalism and British Identity Under the Later Stuarts," in British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707, ed. Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Roberts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), esp. 328, 323
32. idem, British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), passim, esp. 102-71
33. Jim Smyth, "'Like Amphibious Animals': Irish Protestants, Ancient Britons, 1691-1707," Historical Journal 36, no. 4 (1993): 785-797
34. Robin Briggs, "From the German Forests to Civil Society: The Frankish Myth and the Ancient Constitution in France," in Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas, ed. Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.), 231-249
35. James S. Hart and Richard J. Ross, "The Ancient Constitution in the Old World and the New," in The World of John Winthrop: Essays on England and New England, 1588. -1649, ed. Francis J. Bremer and Lynn A. Botelho (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006), esp. 245.
36. Murray G. H. Pittock, Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 (New York: St. Martin's, 1997), 7
37. Ronald Dixon, "The Long Gallery at Holyrood," Notes and Queries 9th ser., 10 (November 8, 1902): 366
38. Ruth A. Guilding, "The De Wet Apostle paintings in the chapel at Glamis Castle," Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 116 (1986): 433
39. T. D. Kendrick, British Antiquity (Methuen, 1950), 65-66., 84-85
40. George Mackenzie, A Defence of the Antiquity of the Royal-Line of Scotland (1685), esp. 190 mispag.
41. idem, The Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland Farther Cleared and Defended, Against the Exceptions lately offer'd by Dr. Stillingfleet, In his Vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph (London, 1686).
42. The Addres [sic] of the University of St. Andrews to the King (London, 1689), 12.
43. A Short historical Account Concerning the Succession to the Crown of Scotland, and the Estates disposing of it, upon Occasion, as they thought fit (London, 1689), 1.
44. George Buchanan, The History of Scotland (London, 1690), 94-95, 97.
45. Raphael Samuel, "British Dimensions: Four Nations' History," History Workshop Journal 40 (1995): xi
46. David Armitage, "Greater Britain: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?," American Historical Review 104, no. 2 (1999): 427
47. J. G. A. Pocock, "British history: a plea for a new subject," Journal of Modern History 47, no. 4 (1975): 603
48. Tim Harris, "In Search of a British History of Political Thought," in British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500. -1800, ed. David Armitage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 89-108.
49. Daniel Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500-1730 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), passim, esp. 9-10
50. The Uses of History in Early Modern England, also published as Huntington Library Quarterly 68, no. 1-2 (2005).
51. Craig Rose, England in the 1690s: Revolution, Religion and War (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 154.
52. John Kenyon, Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party, 1689-1720 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 20
53. Mark Goldie, "The Political Thought of the Anglican Revolution," in The Revolutions of 1688, ed. Robert Beddard (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991), 102-136.
54. See Newton E. Key, "The Localism of the County Feast in Late-Stuart Political Culture," Huntington Library Quarterly 58, no. 2 (1996): esp. 226.
55. Canaries, Rome's Additions to Christianity, {[a]3v}
56. Tony Claydon, "The Sermon, the 'public sphere' and the political culture of late seventeenth-century England," in The English Sermon Revised, 208, 211, 213, 217-218
57. Rosemary Dixon, "Sermons in Print, 1660-1700," in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, esp. 463
58. [John Vesey,] A Sermon Preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland, In and about the City of London, at St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside, Octob. 23. 1689 (London, 1689), 31
59. [Charles Leslie,] Remarks on Some Late Sermons; And in Particular On Dr. Sherlock's Sermon at the Temple, Decemb. 30. 1694, 2nd ed. (London, 1695), 1., 12
60. [Pierre Allix], Reflections upon the opinions of some modern divines concerning the nature of government in general, and that of England in particular (London, 1689)
61. Utrum Horum; Or, God's Ways of Disposing of Kingdoms: and Some Clergy-men's Ways of Disposing of Them (London, 1691).
62. Michael Jephson, A Sermon Preached at St. Patrick's Church Dublin, On the 23th [sic] of October 1690 (Dublin, 1690)
63. Tenison, A Sermon Preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland.
64. T. C. Barnard, "The Uses of 23 October 1641 and Irish Protestant Celebrations," English Historical Review 106 (1991): 895.
65. For example, David Williamson, A Sermon Preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, June 9. th 1695 (Edinburgh, 1695), [2].
66. Bruce Lenman, "Providence, Liberty, and Prosperity: An Aspect of English Thought in the Era of the Glorious Revolution," in The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-1689, ed. Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), 136
67. Harris, "In Search of a British History of Political Thought," 89
68. Jane H. Ohlmeyer, "The 'Old' British Histories?," Historical Journal 50, no. 2 (2007): 503.
69. Francis J. Bremer, "Mather, Increase (1639-1723)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18322.
70. See also Smyth, "'Like Amphibious Animals,'" 790.
71. David L. Wykes, "Williams, Daniel (c.1643-1716)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29491
72. Daniel Williams, The Protestants Deliverance from the Irish Rebellion Begun October 23. 1641. Being a Thanksgiving-Sermon, Preached the 23d of October, 1689 (London, 1690), A2.
73. See Claydon, "The Sermon, the 'public sphere,'" 223.
74. Gilbert Burnet, A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons, On the 31st of January, 1688. (London and Boston, 1689)
75. Walker, A Sermon Being an Incouragement for Protestants, or a Happy Prospect of Glorious Success ⋯: Occasionally on the Protestants Victory over the French and Irish Papists Before London-Derry (London and Edinburgh, 1689)
76. see Newton E. Key, "The Political Culture and Political Rhetoric of County Feasts and Feast Sermons, 1654-1714," Journal of British Studies 33, no. 3 (1994): esp. 241-247.
77. Goldie, "The Revolution of 1689 and the Structure of Political Argument," 485
78. What follows is an analysis of sermons listed in Key, "Bibliography of Occasional or State Sermons ⋯ 1685-1711"
79. Sampson Letsome, The Preacher's Assistant, in Two Parts (London, 1753), part I
80. Ronald E. McFarland, "The Response to Grace: Seventeenth-Century Sermons and the Idea of Thanksgiving," Church History 44, no. 2 (1975): 199-203.
81. Gerald M. Straka, Anglican Reaction to the Revolution of 1688 (Madison, 1962), ch. 6
82. Tony Claydon, William III and the Godly Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 229. and passim
83. Warren Johnston, "Preaching, National Salvation, Victories, and Thanksgivings: 1689. -1800," The Oxford Handbook of the Modern British Sermon, ch. 16.
84. Tony Claydon, "The Sermon Culture of the Glorious Revolution: Williamite Preaching and Jacobite Anti-Preaching, 1685-1702," in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, 481. -487
85. [Gilbert Burnet,] A Sermon Preached before the House of Peers in the Abbey of Westminster, On the 5th. of November, 1689 (London, 1689), 2
86. Simon Patrick, A Sermon Preached At St. Paul's Covent Garden On the Day of Thanksgiving Jan. XXXI. 1688 (London, 1689.), 1
87. Johnston, "Preaching, National Salvation"
88. Matthijs Wieldraaijer, "Good Government and Providential Delivery: Legitimations of the 1672 and 1688 Orangist Revolutions in Dutch Sermons," Dutch Crossing 34, no. 1 (2010): 42-58, esp. 50.
89. See also, Gilbert Burnet, A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons, On the 31st of January, 1688. Being the Thanksgiving-day For the Deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power, By His Highness the Prince of Orange's Means (London, 1689), 3, 30.
90. George Ashe, A Sermon Preached in Trinity-College Chappell Before the University of Dublin, January the 9th. 1693/4 ([Dublin?], 1694), 6
91. John Tillotson, A Sermon Preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel, On the 31th of January, 1688 (London, 1689), 2, 18-19.
92. Cotton Mather, The Wonderful Works of God Commemorated. Praises Bespoke for the God of Heaven In a Thanksgiving Sermon; Delivered on Decemb. 19. 1689 (Boston, 1690), t.p.
93. Wetenhall, Sermon Preached Octob. 23, 1692, 15
94. S. J. Connolly, "The Glorious Revolution in Irish Protestant political thinking," in Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, ed. Connolly (Dublin: Four Courts, 2000), 32.
95. See also, The Speech Of the Right Reverend Anthony [Dopping] Bishop of Meath, when the Clergy waited on His Majesty at His Camp nigh Dublin, July 7, 1690 (repr. Edinburgh, 1690), 2
96. John Stearne, King David's Case Apply'd to King James and King William; in a Sermon Preach'd at Christ-Church, Dublin, on the Fifth of November, 1691 (Dublin, 1691), 4.
97. Sherlock, The Case of the Allegiance, 10.
98. Tim Harris, "Incompatible Revolutions?: The Established Church and the Revolutions of 1688. -1689 in Ireland, England and Scotland," in The Stuart kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century: Awkward Neighbours, ed. Allan I. Macinnes and Jane H. Ohlmeyer (Dublin: Four Courts, 2002), 219, 223
99. Clare Jackson, Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690: Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2003), 201
100. J. I. McGuire, "The Church of Ireland and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688," in Studies in Irish History presented to R. D. Edwards, ed. A. Cosgrove and D. McCartney (Dublin: University College, 1979), 143
101. Richard Claridge, Looking-Glass for Religious Princes: or, the Character and Work of Josiah, Delivered in a Sermon upon 2 Kings XXIII. XXV (London, 1691), 3.
102. See Mark Goldie, "Edmund Bohun and Ius Gentium in the Revolution Debate, 1689-1693," Historical Journal 20, no. 3 (1977): 569-586
103. Clare Jackson, "Revolution Principles, Ius Naturae and Ius Gentium in early Enlightenment Scotland: the contribution of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen (c. 1660-1726)," in Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Contexts and Strategies in the Early Enlightenment), ed. Tim Hochstrasser and Peter Schröder (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003.), 107-140.
104. King, State of the Protestants of Ireland, 1-2.
105. Goldie, "Edmund Bohun and Ius Gentium," 576.
106. Tenison, A Sermon Preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland in the city of London, 14.
107. John Finglas, A Sermon Preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Patrick's Dublin, on the 5th of November, 1690 before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland (Dublin, 1690), 3.
108. Compare Gilbert [Burnet,] A Sermon Preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, on Christmas-Day, 1689 (London, 1690), 21
109. John Vesey, A sermon Preached Before His Excellency the Ld. Lieutenant and the Two Houses of Parliament, in Christ's-Church, Dublin ⋯ : On Sunday, October 16. 1692 (London, 1692), 4-5
110. or Webster, A Sermon Preached ⋯ the 2d of Octob. 1694, 3.
111. For example, [Burnet,] A Sermon Preached ⋯ on Christmas-Day, 1689, 22 (on Suetonius, Tacitus, and Pliny)
112. th Day of October, 1690, 2nd ed. (London, 1690), 11-13 (Augustus, Dioclesian, Maximian, Constantine)
113. [Simon Patrick,] A Sermon Preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall April XVI. 1690 (London, 1690), 26 (Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians).
114. Simon Patrick, A Sermon Preached At St. Paul's Covent Garden On the Day of Thanksgiving Jan. XXXI. 1688 (London, 1689), 35
115. John Tillotson, A Sermon Preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel, On the 31th of January, 1688. Being the Day Appointed for A Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God For having made His Highness The Prince of Orange The Glorious Instrument of the Great Deliverance of This Kingdom from Popery & Arbitrary Power (London, 1689), 18.
116. John Spalding, A Sermon Preached before His Grace, George Earl of Melvil, Their Majesties High Commissioner, and The Nobility, Barons, and Burrows, Members of the High Court of Parliament. In the Parliament-House, upon Sunday, May 11. 1690 (Edinburgh, 1690), 18.
117. See also, Mackqueen[e], The magistrat's dignity, duty, & danger set forth in a sermon preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, on the anniversary day of the election of the magistrats [about April 5, 1689] (London, 1693), 14, 17
118. Meldrum, A Sermon concerning Zeal for Religion, Consistent with Moderation. Preached at Edenburgh On Sunday the 27th of April, 1690 (Edinburgh, 1690), 8-9.
119. Mather, The Wonderful Works of God Commemorated, t.p.
120. P. Nora, "Between history and memory: Les lieux de mémoire," Representations 26 (1989): 7-25.
121. David Williamson, A Sermon Preached before his Grace the King's Commissioner, And the Three Estates of Parliament, June the 15th. 1690 (Edinburgh, 1690), 13.
122. See also Jephson, A Sermon Preached at St. Patrick's Church Dublin, 8
123. John Stearne, A Sermon To bring to Remembrance God's Wonderful Mercies at the Boyn; Preach'd On the Second Day of July, 1699., At St. Nicholas within, Dublin (Dublin, 1699), 10.
124. An Account of the Pretended Prince of Wales, and Other Grievanses [sic], That occasioned the Nobilities Inviting and the Prince of Orange's Coming into England (London, 1688), 5
125. Mark Knights, "Faults on Both Sides: The Conspiracies of Party Politics under the Later Stuarts," in Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe, ed. Barry Coward and Julian Swann (Aldershot, U. K.: Ashgate, 2004), 153-172.
126. [Lloyd,] A Sermon Preached before Their Majesties At Whitehall, On the Fifth day of November, 1689 (London, 1689), 22-23
127. Tony Claydon, Europe and the Making of England, 1660-1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 74.
128. [Leslie,] Remarks on Some Late Sermons, 3, 5, 14.
129. Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009), 403-442.
130. Stephen K. Roberts, "The Sermon in Early Modern Wales: Context and Content," in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, 303-323.
131. Francis Carswell, England's Restoration parallel'd in Judah's: or, the Primitive Judge and Counsellor. In a Sermon before the Honourable Judge at Abington Assizes, for the County of Berks, Aug. 6. 1689 (London, 1689), 29
132. S[i]mon Patrick, A Sermon Preached At St. Paul's Covent-Garden, On the First Sunday in Lent; Being A Second Part of the Sermon Preached before the Prince of Orange (London, 1689.), 17.
133. [Lloyd,] A Sermon Preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, March the Twelfth, 1689/90. Being The Fast-Day (London, 1690), 12-13, 19.
134. [Tillotson,] A Sermon Preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel, On the 31th of January, 1688 (London, 1689), 18-19
135. Tillotson's May 29, 1693 sermon, in The Works Of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, 3rd ed. (London, 1722), 1:214, quoted in Pincus, 1688, 417.
136. Sherlock, A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, 12-13, 19.
137. James Canaries, A Sermon Preacht at Selkirk Upon the 29th of May, 1685 (Edinburgh, 1685), 15., 6.
138. Mackqueene, Gods Interest in the King set forth in a sermon, 8-9, 29.
139. Printed in The Addres [sic] of the University of St. Andrews, 19-20.
140. James Canaries, A Sermon Preached at Edinburgh, In the East-Church of St. Giles, upon the 30. th of January, 1689 (Edinburgh, 1689), 50-51.
141. Alasdair Raffe, "Episcopalian Polemic, the London Printing Press and Anglo-Scottish Divergence in the 1690s," Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 26, 1/2 (2006): 23-41
142. G. D. Henderson, Religious Life in XVII-Century Scotland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937.), ch. 9
143. Crawford Gribben, "Preaching the Scottish Reformation, 1560-1707," in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, 271-286.
144. "Declaration of the Scottish Convention of the Estates," http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Claim-of-Right
145. An Address Sign'd by the greatest part of the Members of Parliament of Scotland, And Deliver'd to His Majesty At Hampton-Court, the 15th day of October, 1689 (London, [1689]), 6
146. Harris, Revolution, 402-407
147. Rose, England in the 1690s, 209-210
148. Tim Harris, "The People, the Law, and the Constitution in Scotland and England: A Comparative Approach to the Glorious Revolution," Journal of British Studies 38, no. 1 (1999): 28-58, esp. 34
149. Alasdair J. N. Raffe, "Religious Controversy and Scottish Society, c.1679-1714" (Ph.D. diss., University of Edinburgh, 2007), http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3455, esp. 43, 110-115.
150. A Continuation of the Proceedings of the Convention of the Estates in Scotland, no. 2 (March 18-19, 1689), 14
151. Clare Jackson, "Mackenzie, Sir George, of Rosehaugh (1636/1638-1691)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17579.
152. J[ames] C[lark], A Sermon Preached at the Kirk of Auldhamstocks, September the 28, 1690 (Edinburgh, 1690), 7-8
153. John Spalding, A Sermon Preached before His Grace, George Earl of Melvil, Their Majesties High Commissioner, and The Nobility, Barons, and Burrows, Members of the High Court of Parliament. In the Parliament-House, upon Sunday, May 11. 1690 (Edinburgh, 1690), 20-21
154. John Spalding, A Sermon Before His Grace John Earl of Tullibardine, His Majesties High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland: The Nobility, and Members of the Honourable Court of Parliament then present in the High-Church of Edinburgh. The 13 of September, 1696 (Edinburgh, 1696), 3
155. Williamson, A Sermon Preached ⋯ June the 15th. 1690, 3, 5
156. Gilbert Rule, A Sermon Preached before His Grace the Kings commissioner, And the Three Estates of Parliament, May the 25th. 1690 (Edinburgh, 1690), 13.
157. Bruce P. Lenman, "The poverty of political theory in the Scottish Revolution of 1688-1690," in The Revolution of 1688-1689, ed. by Lois G. Schwoerer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.), 244-245.
158. Williamson, A Sermon Preached ⋯ June the 15th. 1690, 22-24.
159. A Vindication Of the present Great Revolution in England: In Five Letters Pass'd betwixt James Welwood, M.D. and Mr. John March, Vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne (London, 1689), 5 (February 11), 21 (February 19, 1688/9).
160. See, for example, Meldrum, A Sermon concerning Zeal for Religion, 13
161. Williamson, A Sermon Preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, June 9th 1695, 24-25.
162. see [Thomas Morer, John Sage, and Alexander Monro], An Account of the Present Persecution of the Church of Scotland in several letters (London, 1690)
163. and, surprisingly, [Charles Leslie,] An Answer to a Book, Intituled, The State of the Protestants in Ireland Under the Late King James's Government (London, 1692), "to the Reader," np.
164. Jackson, Restoration Scotland, 197n.
165. Wetenhall, A Sermon Preached Octob. 23, 1692, 2, 12
166. Tenison, A Sermon Preach'd ⋯ Octob. 23., 1690, 21-22.
167. See also, Walker, A Sermon Being an Incouragement for Protestants, 8
168. Raymond Gillespie, "Temple's fate: reading The Irish Rebellion in late seventeenth-century Ireland," in British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland, ed. Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005), 324-325
169. King, Europe's Deliverance from France and Slavery, A4v
170. Edward Walkington, A sermon preached Octob. 23, 1692 in St. Andrews Church, Dublin, before the House of Commons (Dublin, 1692), 12.
171. John Vesey, archbishop of Tuam, A Sermon Preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland, In and about the City of London, at St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside, Octob. 23. 1689 (London, 1689), 30., 16 (mentions Pope Urban, Paris)
172. Richard Tenison, A Sermon Preach'd ⋯ Octob. 23, 1690 (London, 1691), 17 (mentions Mary, Paris, Alba).
173. Jacqueline Hill, "Popery and Protestantism, Civil and Religious Liberty: The Disputed Lessons of Irish History, 1690. -1812," Past & Present 118 (1988): 100
174. Harris, "Incompatible Revolutions?," 221-223.
175. Finglas, A Sermon Preached ⋯ the 5th of November, 1690, 6-7, 9-10.
176. Travers, A Sermon Preached in St. Andrew's Church Dublin. Before the Honourable the House of Commons, the Twenty Third of October, 1698 (Dublin, 1698), 5.
177. [King,] The State of the Protestants of Ireland, 31, 115
178. [Wetenhall,] The Case of the Irish Protestants, 6.
179. Keith Thomas, The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England (London: University of London, 1984), 2-3.
180. Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), 82
181. Hart and Ross, "The Ancient Constitution," 237-289
182. Reid, The Ancient Constitution, passim.
183. and Samuel Lee, The great day of judgment by Boston in New-England, 2nd ed. (London, 1692), was preached before the Assizes, October 7, 1687.
184. Benjamin Lewis Price, Nursing Fathers: American Colonists' conception of English Protestant Kingship, 1688-1776 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 1999), 66, 71
185. Richard R. Johnson, "The Revolution of 1688-9 in the American Colonies," in The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its world impact, ed. Jonathan I. Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 234
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