
BRITAIN’S MERCIES & BRITAIN’S DUTY!
GEORGE WHITEFIELD INTERRWINES THE CHURCH AND NATION LIKE NO OTHER PREACHER, SO SUCCINCTLY & ACCURATE, CAN SO PREACH. IT IS BEAUTIFUL TO LISTEN TO.
LET US THINK ABOUT AMERICA AS HE PREACHES FOR THE MOST PART TO BRITAIN AND APPLY HIS PRINCIPLES TO AMERICA.
THE QUESTION IS, OUT OF THE OVER 18,000 SERMONS HE PREACHED TO OUR 13 COLONIES, HOW IS IT, THAT THIS IS THE ONLY SERMON AVAILABLE THAT HE INTERTWINES CHURCH AND STATE, NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. COULD IT BE THAT THOSE WHO SUPPORT SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE HAVE KEPT THESE MOST LIKELY POWERFUL GEORGE WHITEFIELD’S SERMONS FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO KEEP SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE ALIVE?
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS CERTAINLY BELIEVED THAT THE CHURCH IS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO THE STATE.
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. Samuel Adams
Man will either be governed by the Bible or the bayonet. John Adams
We have staked the future of our civilization and all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and everyone of us to govern ourselves; to control ourselves; to sustain ourselves according to the 10 Commandments of God.
JAMES MADISON
SO LET US A TAKE A COUPLE OF EXCERPTS, TO GIVE US A TASTE, AND THEN LET US GET STARTED WITH THE SERMON.
“This to me does not seem to be one of the most unfavorable circumstances which have attended this mighty deliverance; nor do I think you will look upon it as a circumstance altogether unworthy your observation. Had this cockatrice indeed been crushed in the egg, and the young Pretender driven back upon his first arrival, it would undoubtedly have been a great blessing. But not so great as that for which you lately assembled to give God thanks; for then his Majesty would not have had so good an opportunity of knowing his enemies, or trying his friends. The British subjects would in a manner have lost the fairest occasion that ever offered to express their loyalty and gratitude to the rightful sovereign. France would not have been so greatly humbled; nor such an effectual stop have been put, as we trust there now is, to any such further Popish plot, to rob us of all that is near and dear to us. “Out of the eater therefore hath come forth meat, and out of the strong hath come forth sweetness.”
The Pretender's eldest son is suffered not only to land in the North-West Highlands in Scotland, but in a little while he becomes a great band. This for a time is not believed, but treated as a thing altogether incredible. The friends of the government in those parts, not for want of loyalty, but of sufficient authority to take up arms, could not resist him. He is permitted to pass on with his terrible banditti, and, like the comet that was lately seen, spreads his baleful influences all around him. …
But now the Almighty interposes. Hitherto he was to go, and no further. Here were his malicious designs to be staid. His troops of s sudden are driven back…
This time, manner, and instruments of this victory, deserves our notice. It was on a general fast-day, when the clergy and good people of Scotland were lamenting the disloyalty of their persidious countrymen, and, like Moses, lifting up their hands, that Amalek might not prevail. The victory was total and decisive. Little blood was spilt on the side of the Royalists. And, to crown all, Duke William, his Majesty's youngest son, has the honor of first driving back, and then defeating the rebel-army. A prince, who in his infancy and youth, gave early proofs of an uncommon bravery and nobleness of mind; a prince, whose courage has increased with his years. Who returned wounded from the battle of Dettingen, behaved with surprising bravery ….