REBELLION TO TYRANNY IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD
April 17- The Bible and the Founding
I. Four roles the Bible played in the American Revolution
A. To forge militant patriotism
B. To support republicanism
C. To teach character
D. To support the ideal of sacrifice
II. The appeal to the Reformed doctrine of resistance to tyranny
A. Remembering the English Civil War
B. Patrick Henry’s “treason” speech
C. Ben Franklin coins a phrase
III. Two resistance sermons
A. Jonathan Mayhew, 1750, Romans 13:1-7
B. John Witherspoon, 1776, Psalm 76:10