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The “Boast of Antiquity”: Pulpit Politics Across the Atlantic Archipelago during the Revolution of 1688

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2014

Abstract

John Locke and many others noted the vibrant political commentary emanating from the pulpit during the Glorious Revolution. Preachers from the full confessional spectrum in England, and especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the colonies, used occasional or state sermons to explain contemporary upheavals from the perspective of God's law, Natural law, and Civil law. Most surprising is the latter, clerical reference to civil history and ancient origins, which preachers used to answer contemporary questions of conquest and allegiance. Clergy revisited the origins and constitutional roots of the Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Scots, and Irish, and deployed histories of legendary kings and imaginary conquests to explain and justify the revolutionary events of 1688–1692. Sermons of this revolutionary era focused as much on civil as on sacred history, and sought their true origins in antiquity and the mists of myth. Episcopalian preachers, whether Church of Ireland, Scottish Episcopalian, or Church of England, seem to have been especially inspired by thanksgiving or fast days memorialized in the liturgical calendar to ponder the meaning of a deep historical narrative. Scots, Irish, and Massachusetts clergy claimed their respective immemorialism, as much as the English did theirs. But, as they re-stated competing Britannic constitutions and origin myths explicitly, they exposed imperial rifts and contradictions within the seemingly united claim of antiquity. By the beginning of the next reign and century, state sermons depended more upon reason and less upon a historicized mythic antiquity.

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60 [Lloyd,] A Sermon Preached before Their Majesties At Whitehall, On the Fifth day of November, 1689 (London, 1689), 22–23; Gilbert Burnet, A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons, 14–15; Claydon, Tony, Europe and the Making of England, 1660–1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 74Google Scholar.

61 [Leslie,] Remarks on Some Late Sermons, 3, 5, 14. Employment based on ODNB and title-page information. Those who became the Williamite episcopacy are analyzed in Pincus, Steve, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009), 403442Google Scholar.

62 My sample of forty-one English sermons includes the three sermons Goldie, “The Revolution of 1689,” lists among the pamphlets of the allegiance controversy. There are no printed sermons from Welsh clergy in this period, except those of the English-born bishop of St. Asaph, William Lloyd, who may be considered an English court preacher. Stephen K. Roberts, “The Sermon in Early Modern Wales: Context and Content,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, 303–323.

63 Quote is from Carswell, Francis, England's Restoration parallel'd in Judah's: or, the Primitive Judge and Counsellor. In a Sermon before the Honourable Judge at Abington Assizes, for the County of Berks, Aug. 6. 1689 (London, 1689), 29Google Scholar, which does adumbrate specific continental crises over the entire seventeenth century.

64 Patrick, S[i]mon, A Sermon Preached At St. Paul's Covent-Garden, On the First Sunday in Lent; Being A Second Part of the Sermon Preached before the Prince of Orange (London, 1689), 17Google Scholar. Other sermons refer briefly to solely one event of England's history in the past century: Wake (June 5, 1689, history of papal schisms), Patrick (April 16, 1690, the Civil Wars), Burnet (November 26, 1691, 1588 repeated in 1688), and Sherlock (January 30, 1692, Charles I and 1649).

65 [Lloyd,]A Sermon Preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, March the Twelfth, 1689/90. Being The Fast-Day (London, 1690), 1213Google Scholar, 19.

66 [Tillotson,]A Sermon Preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel, On the 31th of January, 1688 (London, 1689), 1819Google Scholar; Tillotson's May 29, 1693 sermon, in The Works Of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, 3rd ed. (London, 1722)Google Scholar, 1:214, quoted in Pincus, 1688, 417.

67 Sherlock, A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, 12–13, 19.

68 Canaries, James, A Sermon Preacht at Selkirk Upon the 29th of May, 1685 (Edinburgh, 1685)Google Scholar, 15, 6.

69 Mackqueene, Gods Interest in the King set forth in a sermon, 8–9, 29.

70 Printed in The Addres [sic] of the University of St. Andrews, 19–20.

71 The Addres [sic] of the University of St. Andrews, 18.

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