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    The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842.
    The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842.
    The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842.
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    The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842.

    By Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett

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    The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842.

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      The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. - Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett

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      Title: The Religion of Politics

      A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis,

      Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The

      Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts,

      At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842.

      Author: Ezra S. Gannett

      Release Date: March 3, 2010 [EBook #31490]

      Language: English

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      THE RELIGION OF POLITICS.

      A

      SERMON

      DELIVERED BEFORE

      HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN DAVIS, GOVERNOR,

      HIS HONOR GEORGE HULL, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,

      THE HONORABLE COUNCIL,

      AND

      THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS,

      AT THE ANNUAL ELECTION,

      JANUARY 5, 1842.

      BY EZRA S. GANNETT,

      Junior Pastor of the Federal St. Church in Boston.

      Boston:

      DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, PRINTERS TO THE STATE.

      1842.

      Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

      HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Jan. 6, 1842.

      Ordered, That Messrs Duggan, of Quincy,

      Greele, of Boston, and

      Read, of Pawtucket,

      be a Committee to present the thanks of the House to the Rev. Ezra S. Gannett, for the able and eloquent Discourse, delivered by him yesterday, before the Government of the Commonwealth, and to request a copy thereof for publication.

      L. S. CUSHING, Clerk

      SERMON.

      1 Corinthians, x. 31.

      WHETHER YE EAT OR DRINK, OR WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD.

      The solemnities of this occasion belong to a Christian people. By them religion is solicited to throw her protection and authority around the institutions of the State. The citizen and the magistrate recognise their common relation to a higher Power than the functionary or the State, and in such recognition exchange the pledge of a mutual fidelity. The custom which this day renews comes to us from the founders of the Commonwealth—men of strong faith and religious hearts, who erected their political fabric as a temple in which to worship God, and inscribed over its front the name of the one Master whom they honored, even Christ. The place to which our legislators and rulers have come upon entering on their official duties is the house of prayer and Christian instruction. Every thing that distinguishes the occasion seems to point out the course of remark in which he who addresses this audience should invite his hearers to follow him. The relation of religion to politics—the religion of political life—is the subject to which he is unequivocally directed; and of which it is my purpose to treat, at such length only as the limits of the occasion will allow, but with such plainness of speech as should alone be used before freemen by one as free as they when speaking on their common duties.

      There is however what may be called a political side to this subject, on which it would be improper for me to introduce any remarks at this time. The bare mention of religion and politics in connexion alarms some minds, who fear lest the liberties of the people be invaded by zealous religionists, or the public affairs of the time be handled by honest or ambitious preachers—in either case wandering beyond their appropriate limits. Let me at the outset disclaim all intention of touching questions to which a temporary interest only can belong, or of assailing the order of our civil state. It is higher ground which I hope to occupy as I examine the religious aspects of citizenship. When I speak of the religion of political life, I mean that religion should control men in the exercise of

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