Are you a patriot?
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"We are not exciting rebellion. Opposition, nay, open, avowed resistance by arms against usurpation and lawless violence, is not rebellion by the law of God or the land."
John Adams
As was typical of election sermons, Rev. West's election sermon was published by the Massachusetts Assembly and widely distributed throughout the Colonies. Copies of it were even sent to King George III and the British Parliament to serve as a remonstrance against their tyrannies. Samual West was, thusly, marked out as a member of the "Black Regiment" by King George and a bounty put on his head.
http://hushmoney.org/SamuelWest_RightToRebel.htm
The revolution started in the pulpit! Mayhew's published sermon.
John Adams called Rev. Mayhew "the morning gun of the Revolution." Adams also dubbed him a "transcendent genius." Robert Treat Paine called Dr. Mayhew, "The Father of Civil and Religious Liberty in Massachusetts and America."
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tc/My%20Documents/Old%20My%20Docs/Constitutionalhistory/UnlimitedSubmission_Mayhew2.htm
No King But Jesus!
On the evening of April 18, 1775 John Adams and John Hancock met at the home of the local militia leader – and "coincidentally" Pastor of a Lexington, Mass. church – Jonas Clark...
http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/rkba/no_king.htm
John Adams
As was typical of election sermons, Rev. West's election sermon was published by the Massachusetts Assembly and widely distributed throughout the Colonies. Copies of it were even sent to King George III and the British Parliament to serve as a remonstrance against their tyrannies. Samual West was, thusly, marked out as a member of the "Black Regiment" by King George and a bounty put on his head.
http://hushmoney.org/SamuelWest_RightToRebel.htm
The revolution started in the pulpit! Mayhew's published sermon.
John Adams called Rev. Mayhew "the morning gun of the Revolution." Adams also dubbed him a "transcendent genius." Robert Treat Paine called Dr. Mayhew, "The Father of Civil and Religious Liberty in Massachusetts and America."
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tc/My%20Documents/Old%20My%20Docs/Constitutionalhistory/UnlimitedSubmission_Mayhew2.htm
No King But Jesus!
On the evening of April 18, 1775 John Adams and John Hancock met at the home of the local militia leader – and "coincidentally" Pastor of a Lexington, Mass. church – Jonas Clark...
http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/rkba/no_king.htm