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Isaac Terry

1689–1744

An Anglican clergyman and early 18th-century preacher, he is best known for a published sermon delivered at Canterbury that reflects the religious and political tensions of his time. His surviving work offers a glimpse into how questions of loyalty, monarchy, and faith were argued from the pulpit in Georgian England.

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The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution

The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution

by Isaac Terry

About the author

Isaac Terry was an English clergyman who lived from 1689 to 1744. He is known today mainly through The Religious and Loyal Subject's Duty Considered, a sermon preached in Canterbury on January 30, 1722/23 and later preserved in print.

That sermon centers on obedience, religion, and loyalty to the crown, showing how closely politics and preaching could be linked in early 18th-century Britain. Read now, it stands as a historical document as much as a religious one, capturing the anxieties that still surrounded rebellion, government, and public order a generation after the Glorious Revolution.

Little biographical detail was easy to confirm from readily available sources, so his published sermon remains the clearest window into his life and work. For listeners interested in older religious writing, Terry's work offers a compact example of the moral and political language of his age.