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Jonathan Mayhew
1720–1766
Jonathan Mayhew. West Church, Boston. His 1750 sermon on Romans 13 — arguing that civil disobedience to tyranny is a Christian duty — was the most politically influential sermon of the pre-revolutionary era. Samuel Adams called him 'a transcendent genius.'
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