Political Sermons From The Past: The Essential Rights And Liberties Of Protestants by Elisha Williams

The great grandson of several New England families (John Cotton’s among them), Elisha Williams (1694–1755) graduated from Harvard in 1711. After a brief career of teaching and tutoring in 1722 he became the pastor of a congregational church in Wethersfield, Connecticut, prior to serving as the Yale rector from 1726–39. Continue reading →

Gillespie Against Theonomy

43. Yet the civil power and the ecclesiastical ought not by any means to be confounded and mixed together: both powers are indeed from God, and ordained for his glory and both to be guided by his word, and both are comprehended . . . Continue reading →