1865 SAMUEL T. SPEAR. The Punishment for Treason. God Commands Capital Punishment for Traitors. Manuscript The Place of God's Manifested

The Place of God's Manifested Presence Sacred and Holy

George Brown

A very nice sammelband assembalge

Mary’s church

though no extant example can be located

1865 SAMUEL T. SPEAR. The Punishment for Treason. God Commands Capital Punishment for Traitors. Manuscript The Place of God's ManifestedA fascinating sermon by Samuel Thayer Spear, preached just 9 days after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, in which Spear argues that, while the Church is a Gospel community, the Government is a justice community, divinely ordered by God to punish wrongdoers. He urges in no uncertain terms that a Government of Christians would demand capital punishment be imposed no just on Lee and Davis, but on a whole host of leaders and perpetrators in