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Eliphalet Williams
Eliphalet Williams was an eighteenth-century Connecticut clergyman whose sermon before the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut exemplifies the intersection of religious authority and civil governance in colonial New England. His published sermon demonstrates the significant role that ministerial voices played in shaping political discourse and moral instruction during the formative period of American colonial society. Williams's work reflects the theological concerns and rhetorical strategies characteristic of the Great Awakening era and its aftermath in Connecticut.
From A Sermon Preached in the Audience of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut at Hartford
on On One PREACHED IN THR Aubrzwer or THE * NERAL ASSEMBLY Or THE Cotony o we FI co NNE ET ICUT, 4 Ar HARTFORD, ON THE DAY or THEIR ? | ANNIVERSARY | ELECTION, By 22 ies, Meh we nabe, of a Chee: in ORD: Printed by GaEEN & Warson, at the HEART | and Crown, near the GKLAT-BRIDOE. Asembly of 2 Governor and Company of the ©. Colony of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, A. D. 1769. QRDERED, That Milliam = Pitkin, jun. Esq; and Col. Jobs Pitkin,return the Thanks of this Assembly to the Rev. ELIPHALET WILLIAM sõ, for his Sermon, delivered before this Assembly, on the Eleventh Inst. and desire a Copy thereof, that It. Po He] _— aN 4 2 | PROVERBS, vu. 15. 2 5 me Kings reign, and Prin- 7 ces decree Justice. e an high wor hich…
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