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Samuel Wolcott
Samuel Wolcott was an eighteenth-century American clergyman whose theological contributions reflected the intellectual currents of colonial New England Congregationalism. His Election Sermon, delivered during a period of significant religious and political ferment, exemplifies the genre's role in articulating connections between divine providence, civic virtue, and the emerging American political order. Wolcott's work represents the transitional theological landscape between Puritan orthodoxy and the rationalist influences that would shape early American religious thought.
From The Election Sermon
REV. SAMUEL WOLCOTT’S ELECTION SERMON. 18S3. V’ t A SERMON, DELIVERED BEFORE is (fedlmcj deorge <§0utteII, GOVERNOR, HIS HONOR HENRY W. CUSHMAN, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, €\ n 3innnralile Cmraril, AND THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS, THE ANNUAL ELECTION, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5, 1853. By SAMUEL WOLCOTT, [pastor of the congregational church in belchertown. BOSTON: WHITE & POTTER, PRINTERS TO THE STATE. 1853. ://archive.org/details/sermondeliveredbOOwolc 2oo LOt 2xS COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. In Senate, January 7, 1853. Ordered, That Messrs. Walker, Brewster, and Crocker be a com¬ mittee to present the thanks of the Senate to the Rev. Samuel Wolcott, for the sermon delivered by him on Wednesday last, before the Executive and the two branches of the Legislature of the Commonwealth, and re¬ quest a copy of the same for publication. CHARLES CALHOUN, Clerk. • . • ' SERMON. Revelation, xi : 17. WE GIVE THEE THANKS, 0 LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO ART, AND WAST, AND…
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