Category: <span>Jonathan Fisher Sermons</span>

Published March 30, 2026 by

Jonathan Fisher: Prayer

Sermon #9

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Petition is that part of divine worship, which most particularly claims the name of prayer. — In this we call to view our many both temporal and spiritual wants and ask of God a supply. For this we have great encouragement in the word of God, (Ex. 34:6) both from his nature, and his promises; from his nature, because he hath proclaimed himself the Lord, the Lord God, (Ezek. 36:26) merciful and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth.

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This appears to be another sermon which Jonathan Fisher judged a success, since he preached it nine times to the cosmopolitan audiences around Boston , as well as the more rustic folks encountered on his circuit to the Eastern Frontier in Bluehill, downeast in the District of Maine.… Read the rest

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Published March 21, 2026 by

Jonathan Fisher: Free Grace

Sermon #6

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There is something in this text very humiliating to the self-righteous, but glorious and soul reviving to the repenting burdened sinner. The self-righteous person is always disposed to claim a title to salvation of his own merit; to claim it in part as a debt due to him for his supposed good works. But by this text we are plainly assured that salvation is wholly an unmerited favor. There is here no room left, but for the deepest humility. Salvation, however glorious a thing, however earnestly we may desire it, is what we never can procure of ourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Published March 18, 2026 by

Jonathan Fisher: Conscious Guilt.

Sermon #5

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The keen sensations of pain we have from the effects of material sin, causes the idea of being in the midst of it to strike us with a degree of horror; of being conscious of a pain we are immediately alarmed with the fear of punishment; from the scripture representation of future punishment; we fear that it may be fire; the idea strikes us with such terror as disturbs our peace; to avoid this we seek some gentler name which may serve the present [???] our minds, and give us a little peace. We agree to call it guilt of conscience for conscious guilt, though often very severe, is not commonly in this life so intolerable as burning.

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Published March 14, 2026 by

Jonathan Fisher: The first Things

Sermon #3

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God is not the cause of evil or sin. It is true he is the cause of those beings who are the cause of evil, and by not creating them he had have prevented it. But this does not make him properly the cause of evil, but only a permitter of it: to suppose the Deity to be the absolute cause of evil; that evil takes place, as such, through his immediate influence would be blasphemous. But this we may suppose: namely that any plan, like that of the goal ensures the sum of happiness in the universe, notwithstanding all misery it may produce worthy to be put in execution.

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Published January 31, 2026 by

Fathers of an Extensive Country: The Lives and Ministries of Daniel Merrill and Jonathan Fisher

Fathers of an Extensive Country
Fathers of an Extensive Country: The Lives and Ministries of Daniel Merrill & Jonathan Fisher

A few years ago, Ryan Rindells and I decided to write a book about the complicated friendship between Reverend Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine and his neighbor, Reverend Daniel Merrill of Sedgwick. In the book, you will find this quote from a contemporary, Ebeneezer Price, in a letter to Fisher:

We are, also in a sense, tho young, the Fathers of an extensive Country – our Faithfulness, & setting a pious example, will effect [sic] the present, & doubtless generations to come.[1]

Here is our synopsis of the book:

A narrative lens can illustrate and illuminate a historical period’s unique significance.

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