Tyranny moves men into action–a great example is of the story of  two Reverends.  One was the signer to the Bill of Rights.
First we must start with the story of his brother John Peter Muhlenberg.  Rev. John Peter Muhlenberg (there is a statue in honor of him at the Capitol)  told his Woodstock, Virginia congregation on Sunday January 21, 1776, “a time to preach and a time to pray. But there is also a time to fight and that time has now come.” He faced a …

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The Founding Fathers (many were pastors):
Sermons Preached during the Founding Era

Vindication of the Government of New England Churches (1717), John Wise; republished 1772
Government the Pillar of the Earth (1730), Benjamin Colman
Nineveh’s Repentence and Deliverance (1740), Joseph Sewall
The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants (1744), Elisha Williams
Britain’s Mercies, and Britain’s Duties (1746), George Whitefield
Civil Magistrates Must be Just, Ruling in the Fear of God (1746), Charles Chauncy
The Presence of Great God in the Assembly of Political Rulers (1746), John Barnard
A Discourse …

II Kings 6:16-17
“Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.”
And the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
These Had Signifanct Influence on this nation’s founding fathers:
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Classic Philosophers and Poets, Most of the founding fathers in America were thorougly familiar with these …

“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,

” ‘though seeing, they may not see;
though hearing, they may not understand.’
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.  Luke 8:10-11
Eighteenth Century Sources of American History
Early American Imprints, edited by Charles Evans. This is a full-text collection (more than 2 million pages) of every book that was available in the American Colonies from 1630-1800. …

II Kings 6:16
“Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Seventeenth Century Sources which influenced our Founders
Colonial Documents, Precursors to the U.S. Constitution http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Lutz0397/ColonialOrigins/0013_Bk.html
Colonial Maps http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html
Charters of all the Colonies http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm
Original Dictionaries of the 16th & 17th Centuries, six bilingual dictionaries — John Palsgrave (1530; English-French), Sir Thomas Elyot (1538; Latin- English), William Thomas (1550; Italian-English), Thomas Thomas (1587; Latin-English), John Florio (1598; Italian-English), and Randle Cotgrave (1611; French-English) — these give pairs of French, Italian, and Latin dictionaries, each pair …

Fifteenth Century Sources of Influence on the Founding Fathers
The Gutenberg Bible
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/homepage.html
Malleus Maleficarum, Directions for witch hunting (1486)

Journal,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
Christopher Columbus, (1492). This document begins with Columbus’ statement that the reason why Isabella sponsored his voyage was for the sake of going to India to convert
Khan to Roman Catholicism.

Epistola De Insulis Nuper Inventis, http://www.usm.maine.edu/%7Emaps/columbus/translation.html
Christopher Columbus (1493)

Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, Christopher Columbus (1494) http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/columlet.html
Prince Henry VII’s Commission to John Cabot (1497) Cabot was the first Englishman to discover New England. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/cabot01.htm
Sixteenth Century Influence The Prince, Machiavelli (1513) Practical advice …