1777 JOHN DEVOTION. Rare Revolutionary War Sermon with the First Song Ever Published on the Fight for Liberty! Autograph of Several Passages of Scripture

of Several Passages of Scripture

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1777 JOHN DEVOTION. Rare Revolutionary War Sermon with the First Song Ever Published on the Fight for Liberty! Autograph of Several Passages of ScriptureAn exceptional piece of Americana in terms of content, condition, scarcity, and its historic place in the origins of the American Revolutionary War. John Devotion [1730 1802] was minister of Third Church at Saybrook, close friend of Ezra Stiles, and provocateur of the American Revolution. Charles P. Hanson notes in his Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of Religious Liberty in New England, that Devotion was a particular purist in his zeal for the