Cooper, Samuel:

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A SERMON PREACHED IN THE AUDIENCE OF HIS HONOUR SPENCER PHIPS, ESQ; LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF; THE HONOURABLE HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL; AND THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF ... Election sermon preached by Congregational minister Samuel Cooper (1725-83), pastor of the Brattle Street Church in Boston from 1747 to until the year of his death. A staunch defender of American rights and liberties, Cooper was an ardent whig who later became a leading voice in the American Revolution. John Adams counted Cooper among "the most conspicuous, the most ardent and influential" figures in the "Revival of American Principles and Feelings" in the years leading up to the American Revolution. Cooper's Brattle Street congregation would come to include such Revolutionary leaders as John Hancock, James Bowdoin, and Joseph Warren. In the present election sermon of 1756, Cooper describes the qualities to be hoped for in a political leader. Only the "wise and pious, the loyal and disinterested patriot," Cooper insists, should be entrusted with public office. Such leaders, he believes, are needed now more than ever. "Were the British affairs either in Europe or America, ever brought to a more important crisis," he asks, referring to the French and Indian War. "Are not our religion, and liberties, every valuable right and enjoyment which heaven has indulged to us, threatned by a powerful invader?" Anticipating his later opposition to the political tyranny of Great Britain, Coop

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