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Chester Wright
Chester Wright was an eighteenth-century American clergyman whose Election Sermon exemplifies the theological and political discourse of the Revolutionary era, particularly the intersection of Calvinist doctrine with emerging concepts of civic virtue and democratic governance. His sermonic work reflects the intellectual currents of New England Protestantism during a period of significant social upheaval, contributing to the broader conversation about religious authority and civil responsibility that characterized the founding generation. Wright's theological contributions, preserved in his published sermons, remain significant for understanding how colonial ministers negotiated between traditional Reformed theology and the ideological demands of American independence.
From Election Sermon
SERMON, PREACHED OW THB DAY OF GENERAL ELECTION, At Montpelier, O&. 11, 1810, BEFORE | THE HONORABLE LEGISLATURE } ar VERMONT. ( BY CHESTER WRIGHT, A. M. PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, IN MONTPELIER, PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATURE; RANDOLPH, (VERMONT) PRINTED BY SERENO WRIGHT. Anon Betis Le ieee Sete) at SESS a pee}, as a = SERMON. Psaum wxxxix. 15. blessed is the people that know the joyful found. HAT is the chief good, or in what confists the happiness of man, was a fubjeé& of anxious inquiry among the philofophers of ancient times, Some placed it in the gratification of fenfual desires : others in an uinfeelin indifference to pleafure and pain : others in abstraétion from fensible objects, and a mind devoted to contemplation. But, amidst this diversity of opinions, none of their lessons were found efficacious to reform a world, involved in the ruins of…
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