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George Leonard
George Leonard was an eighteenth-century American clergyman whose Election Sermon exemplified the Puritan intellectual tradition's engagement with political theology and the relationship between religious covenant and civil governance. His work reflects the transitional period in New England thought when ministers sought to reconcile Reformed theology with emerging concepts of democratic representation and popular sovereignty. Leonard's sermon contributions to the election day discourse demonstrate the enduring influence of ecclesiastical authority in shaping early American political ideology.
From Election Sermon
SERMON DELIVERED ON THE DAY OF GENERAL ELECTION, | _ AT MONTPELIER, OCTOBER 12, A. D. 1820, BEFORE THE HONORABLE LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT. —o— BY GEORGE LEONARD, A. M. Rector of St. Paul's Church, Windsor, Vt. and Trinity Church, Cornish, N. H. —_— PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THD GENERAL ASSEMBLY. tt IS WINDSOR, Vt. PRINTED FOR THE STATE....BY IDE & ALDRICH. OCTOBER, 1820. ELECTION SERMON. These all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying, That there i: another king’, one Jesus. Tur apostle Paul, in company with Silas, on his _ first apostolic journey, about the year fifty of the Chris. tian era, came to Thessalonica, the capital of Macc. _ donia. Here he preached in the synagogues of the Jews on three successive sabbath-days, “reasoning with them out of the scriptures; opening and alledgin:: that Christ must needs have suffered and risen agail from the dead: and that…
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