The National Prayer Minute

The Morning Gun of the Revolution Notes

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Here’s a link if you’d like to read thru Mayhew’s sermon.  It’s fairly long, a bit laborious to read thru due to the old English language, but the logic of his argumentation is strong and clear.  Scroll down the page a bit to the sermon:
http://hushmoney.org/UnlimitedSubmission_Mayhew.htm

Concerning Mayhew’s sermon on Romans 13, John Adams wrote “It was read by everybody; celebrated by friends, and abused by enemies… It spread an universal alarm against the authority of Parliament. It excited a general and just apprehension, that bishops, and dioceses, and churches, and priests, and tithes, were to be imposed on us by Parliament.”

It was often said that Mayhew’s sermon was the spark which ignited the American Revolution.