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Heman Ball
Heman Ball was an eighteenth-century American clergyman whose Election Sermon exemplified the Puritan intellectual tradition's engagement with political theology and the relationship between divine providence and civil governance. His work reflects the transitional period in New England religious thought, as ministers navigated the tensions between traditional Calvinist doctrine and emerging concepts of republican virtue during the early American republic. Ball's contributions to the sermon literature of his era illuminate the theological foundations upon which colonial and early American political discourse was constructed.
From Election Sermon
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