John Devotion

John Devotion (1621–1694) was a colonial New England minister whose theological writings exemplified the Puritan emphasis on covenant theology and communal religious obligation during the formative period of Massachusetts Bay settlement. His sermon *The Duty and Interest of a People to Sanctify the Lord of Hosts* articulated the interconnection between individual piety and collective spiritual responsibility, reflecting the mid-seventeenth-century Puritan understanding of the church as a covenanted community bound to divine law. Devotion's work contributed to the broader intellectual framework that shaped New England Congregationalism and the theological justifications for Puritan social order.