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John Witherspoon

Born: 1723
Died: 1794

Scottish Presbyterian minister who became president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1768, served in the Continental Congress and was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence.

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The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men1776

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The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men

Witherspoon's sermon preached at Princeton on 17 May 1776, the fast day appointed by Congress, on God's overruling of human passions for his glory, with his Address to the Natives of Scotland residing in America; this Glasgow reprint adds a hostile loyalist preface and notes.

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