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Lyman Beecher
Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) was a prominent American Presbyterian minister and theologian whose evangelical preaching and theological writings significantly shaped nineteenth-century Protestant thought and social reform movements. A leading figure in the Second Great Awakening, Beecher advocated for a modified Calvinist theology that emphasized human agency in salvation, as exemplified in works such as A Sermon Addressed to the Legislature of Connecticut, and he championed numerous moral causes including temperance and antislavery activism. His influential ministry and prolific output established him as a central voice in American religious life during the antebellum period, while his descendants, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, extended his theological and reformist legacy into subsequent generations.
From A Sermon Addressed to the Legislature of Connecticut
REV. DR. BEECHER'S SERMON, ADDRESSED TO THE LEGISLATURE OF CONNECTICUT; THX DAT Or TU BY LYMAN BEECHER, D. D. -HAVHN : ?t?BLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LSISLATf &K. I. Bunce, Printer, a 182$. Ala General Assembly of the Slate of Connecticut, holden at New-Haven in said Stale, on the f.rsl Wednesday of May, in the year of our lard one thousand eight hundred and twenty six PESOLVED, That the Hon Samuel Chimh, end Monis Woodruff, be difert-'.d to vviit on the Rev. LYMAN BEEOHciR, and preseut him the trunks of t!e Gen ml A-?eiubl'. for the Scr-nun delivered by him this day, and request a copy of the same, (hat it n y be printed. A true Copy of Record, Examined by THOMAS DAY, Secretary* REVELATION xxi. 5. "And He that sat upon the throne said Behold, Imake all thingi new." HE history of the world is the history of…
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