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Isaac Terry

1689–1744

An early 18th-century Anglican clergyman, he is remembered for sermons that mix religious teaching with the political tensions of his time. His surviving works offer a small but vivid glimpse of church life in Canterbury and the moral concerns he brought to the pulpit.

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The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3

The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3

by Isaac Terry

About the author

Isaac Terry was an English clergyman born in 1689 and died in 1744. Sources from surviving editions of his work identify him as Isaac Terry, M.A., late of Christ Church, Oxford, and as the late Rector of the united parishes of St. Mary Bredman and St. Andrew in Canterbury.

He is best known through printed sermons, especially The Religious and Loyal Subject's Duty Considered, a sermon preached in Canterbury Cathedral on January 30, 1722/3 and published at the request of the prebendaries present. Another posthumous volume, Sixteen Sermons upon Select Subjects (1746), suggests the range of his preaching, from religious knowledge and charity to the qualities of a good magistrate.

Although little biographical detail seems to survive online, Terry's work still reflects the world he wrote for: learned, church-centered, and closely tied to public life. For modern listeners, his writing offers a window into how faith, duty, and politics were understood in early Georgian England.