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In addition, by authorizing the publication of sermons delivered on such special occasions, and through their tight control of the press in early New England, colonial elites attempted to reinforce the spoken word’s emphasis on order, public piety, and social hierarchy. While not necessarily “representative” (most sermons in early New England were preached on Sundays, and dealt with issues of personal salvation and spiritual discipline), occasional sermons played a vital role at the moment the people were choosing their leaders, or collectively exhorted God to show mercy on them in times of strife or uncertainty.
35 What made these founders so worthy of imitation? Why did jeremiads try so hard to “create an image of earliest New England radiant with qualities of the primitive”? For second-generation Jeremiahs, New England’s founders had envisioned, created, and presided over a society that acknowledged its covenant with God in all aspects of its social life. In these early days, the jeremiad went, New England society had walked rightly with God. Speakers often explicitly compared New England’s founders to Biblical heroes, and especially those of the Hebrew Scriptures: As for .
Which sins, more specifically, or what sorts of sinning, lay at the root of New England decline? When we descend further into the specifics of how New England Jeremiahs described the sins they saw all around them, we encounter a list that will become more and more familiar as this book proceeds: worldliness, profanity, covetousness, swearing, luxury, apostasy, libertinism, Sabbath-breaking, sensuality, drunkenness, and hypocrisy were often rolled together into a potent rhetorical mixture that decried the fallen nature of New England society.