1249
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1990), p. 198
1250
Bloch, Visionary Republic, pp. 81–88
1251
Timothy Dwight, A Valedictory Address to the Young Gentlemen Who Commenced Bachelors of Arts, July 27 1776 (New Haven, Conn., 1776), p. 14
1252
Lovejoy, Religious Enthusiasm in the New World, p. 226
1253
Ibid.
1254
Thomas Paine, Common Sense and the Crisis (New York, 1975), p. 59
1255
Bloch, Visionary Republic, p. 55
1256
Ibid., pp. 60–63
1257
Ibid., pp. 29, 31
1258
Edwin S. Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation (San Francisco, 1987), p. 38
1259
Madison to William Bradford, 1 April 1774, in William T. Hutchinson and William M. E. Rachal, eds, The Papers of James Madison (Chicago, 1962), 1, pp. 212–13