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The Magistrate's Religious Authority
A Sermon from Christopher Cartwright (1602-1658)
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Timon Cline

April 2024

For Chase Davis
Edward Leigh on the Fifth Commandment Magistrate
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March 2024

Befriending the Shakespeare of Divines
Jeremy Taylor on True and Brave Friendship
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April 2023

One Project for Christian America: Join or Die
William Penn and Protestant Nationalism
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February 2023

Matthew Hale (1609-1676): A “Devout Christian” & “Sincere Protestant”
As with most posts at Specula Principum, the purpose of what follows lies elsewhere in larger (intended) projects (that may or may not ever be…
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Sorry, Baptists. I may have spoken too soon.
A faithful reader named Erik commented on my last piece about Noah Alden with the following: “although he was chair of the committee to revise Article…
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Noah Alden (1725-1797): Based Baptist
I give my Baptist brethren a hard time. It’s mostly in good fun. This is, in part, because I once counted myself among them. Sacramental convictions…
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January 2023

Rights Natural, Relative, and Social
“It appears… that there is a closer coincidence between those rights which have been denominated natural, civil, and political, than writers on law and…
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The Meaning of the First Amendment
Guelzo v. Story
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From Whence Government?
Origins and Ends, from Aquinas to Otis
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A Dangerous Method
Justice David Brewer's Christian Nation
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"As men and Protestant Christians"
The Suffolk Resolves, Samuel Adams, and American Protestantism
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